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[Star Trek] If I ask a replicator for "Earl Grey" without specifying type of beverage or temperature, what will it give me?
gpt
You would get hot earl grey tea as that is the default.  When Picard started out on star ships, replicators were a bit more limited and the orders had to be placed that way.  Nowadays it's usually not the case, but it's a habit for him.  It doesn't help that in cases where there isn't a default (soup that can be served either hot or chilled) the computer does require the temperature adjective, so he's never broken the habit.  It is possible that at some point, he programmed "hot" to be a different temperature than the default so the tea you got wouldn't be the same.  He may well at some point have changed other things too, so with your order you'd still get hot Earl Gray tea, it just wouldn't be as good.