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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Star Trek Voyager] The crew crashed a lot of shuttles over the years yet the ship never ran out of shuttles despite having no way to replace them, what gives?
gpt
Janeway lied. She told the crew that they couldn't replace what had been damaged not because it was literally true, but because she wanted to impress an atmosphere of careful restraint on the crew, especially since many of them weren't Starfleet. The fact is that by reducing replicator use through hydroponics to grow food, replicating shuttles piecemeal was possible. She had the replicators working full time to make torpedos and shuttlecraft. 

Half of the crew figured out that Janeway was lying, but no one dared publicly contradict her statement that they couldn't be replacing shuttles.