tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251252.post8237841728279206563..comments2020-01-15T03:13:02.227-06:00Comments on ST-v-SW.Net: The Blog: Synthehol, F*** Yeah!Guardianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01284444370958467313noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251252.post-86773430021019553032009-12-30T05:31:54.096-06:002009-12-30T05:31:54.096-06:00&quot;[Synthehol] is an alcohol substitute now bei...&quot;[Synthehol] is an alcohol substitute now being served aboard starships. It simulates the appearance, taste and smell of alcohol, but the intoxicating effects can be easily dismissed.&quot;<br /><br />That&#39;s not a failure to intoxicate, but merely intoxication that can be &quot;easily dismissed&quot; in some manner. I&#39;ve always viewed that to mean a ready antidote or natural adrenal-release nullification (e.g. red alert adrenaline kick) or somehow being able to &#39;walk it off&#39;. <br /><br />One could also presume based on the phrasing that a drinker can simply choose to ignore the effect somehow, but that always seemed unsatisfying to me, since it seemed as if getting drunk would require too much conscious effort.<br /><br />The antidote theory is supported by &quot;Timeless&quot;[VOY], when the Doc suggests a hypo to Seven of Nine to counteract the synthehol in her bloodstream. However, Seven&#39;s unusual susceptibility to synthehol is a Borg-specific problem, as confirmed in &quot;Body and Soul&quot;, though &quot;Someone to Watch Over Me&quot; suggests that Borg nanoprobes can be used to defeat synthehol as well.<br /><br />&quot;Someone to Watch Over Me&quot; also suggests there are natural enzymes that break down synthehol in most species. But, this may have little to do with respect to the intoxicating effects . . . after all, our bodies can process alcohol, but that doesn&#39;t make it any less fun/stupid.<br /><br />So I choose to believe it&#39;ll get you drunk like alcohol but you can walk it off or snap out of it with adrenaline, or if necessary a hypo can fix you up if you&#39;re in the bottle way too deep.G2khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04784914528396175700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12251252.post-59308072070859729922009-12-30T04:39:07.555-06:002009-12-30T04:39:07.555-06:00I personally have always wondered how Seven of Nin...I personally have always wondered how Seven of Nine managed to get drunk on synthehol at one stage (can&#39;t remember the episode) when Data specifically said that synthehol did not cause intoxication in Relics...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com