Both B5 and DS9 had bars on station, but have and space stations have a fast food restaurant?
There a vending machine on the Mars base in For All Mankind.
I think the mess hall with a food replicator is as close as you’re going to find.
What do you think the function is of a fast food restaurant in a society with no money and instant food machines.
This is of course with Earth in mind. I have no doubt there are fast food places on Ferenginar.
Doctor who (2005) s01e07 - Kronkburgers on Satellite 5 in the opening scenes.
Was going to say with all of the episode of Dr. Who, it had to be in one of them.
The replimat on ds9?
The replimat?
ISS orbits at ~7.66km/s, so technically any pictured food up there can be considered fast food.
All food is fast food if your frame of reference is the galactic center
And we’re all orbiting the center of the Milky Way at 220km/s. Fast food for everyone!
I seem to remember a scene in Babylon 5 where Vir got sick eating at a place that sounded like a rebranded McDonalds. Londo was chastising him saying you know Centauri stomachs can’t handle fast food. I wish I had time to rewatch that show.
The Minbari fast food restaurant in brown sector named McBari’s with the golden head bone. S5E14
There are food kiosks on the Promenade on DS9.
There’s at least one instance on futurama where a space ship is flown through a drive-through that’s just out in the vacuum of space
Fishy Joe’s in “The problem with Popplers” iirc.
Pop a Poppler in your mouth,
When you come to Fishy Joe’s.
What they’re made of is a mystery,
Where they come from, no one knows.
You can pick 'em, you can lick 'em,
You can chew 'em, you can stick 'em,
And if you promise not to sue us,
You can shove one up your nose.
In Outer Worlds there’s a couple establishments aboard the groundbreaker that could potentially count as fast food by some definition.
The stand on the citadel in mass effect is maybe fast food-ish
I vaguely remember seeing some stands in the background of Babylon 5 that could potentially have been something like fast food, but I never got into Babylon 5 too much so I can’t say much about that, I just have some vague memories of some parts I’ve seen that looked like fast food wouldn’t be out of place.
Pretty much any time there’s a big space station with a city-like interior I assume there’s probably something like fast food somewhere on board, maybe even visible in the background somewhere, though I can’t really think of any particular examples or any time it was specifically highlighted
Not technically a Space Station, but there’s a whole Invader Zim episode on an entire planet being dedicated to fast food, Food Courtia iirc
I could ask Microsoft® Bing™ Copilot® (all rights reserved) to make you one.
The Expanse depicts a lot of local street food vendors on different space stations throughout the solar system
Came here to say this. Expanse hits the notes of “real people actually live on this ship/station” way more than any other sci-fi I’ve consumed. Fast food, bars, brothels, restrooms, storage and maintenance areas, all of these are specifically called out at most stations.
I noticed this too, The Expanse does that so well, really fleshing out what life would be like living as a grunt in The Belt. They had their own culture, their own sayings, their own food. Like any colony, it gave host to any number of establishments meant to provide a bit of comfort out in the inky black nothing. The shared suffering also gave them a sense of community, which is a powerful motivator when the far off motherland starts imposing increasingly burdensome levies… Makes you want to grab the closest thing and hurl it at them! 😉
WATCH THE EXPANSE
It’s amazing.
I would go farther and say read the books. The show is great, and the books are great too.
but have and space stations have a fast food restaurant?
So I guess we’re just ignoring that part then
Wall-E had people ordering liquid fast food on their iPads and having it immediately delivered by drone. So fast food on a space station, but not a conventional restaurant experience i guess.
