Tallax couldn't possibly have been part of the Dominion.

[Guy Gardener]

Neelix says that Seven of Nine's HoloQuarter's carpet would look better as a Tulaberry Blue.

Hmm?

The Ferengi brokered tulaberry wine contracts with the dominion half way through season two DS9. Voyager began between season 2 and 3 of DS9.

It's possible that Ferengi flooded the AQ market and the beverage was available from Voyagers replicator database... But to make the transformative leap from liquor to interior decorating pallet in less than 6 months before Voyager was lost and then weevel into the Hedgehogs vernacular?

If Tula berries are (also) native to the DQ, then exactly how far does the the Domions reach extend?

 

[Anwar]

Maybe it's the other way around, Tulaberry blue started out on Talax and made it's way to the Gamma Quadrant and Alpha Quadrant from the Delta Quadrant.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Some Tallaxian folke/space hero version of Johnny Appleseed?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Maybe it was just a translation/coincidence. It's not entirely impossible that two cultures came up, on their own, with a food item that is translated into Federation Standard English as something that sounds like "tula".

Hell, in HHGTTG, every sentient species in the universe has a drink called 'gin and tonic.'

 

[Timewalker]

Neelix says that Seven of Nine's HoloQuarter's carpet would look better as a Tulaberry Blue.

Hmm?

The Ferengi brokered tulaberry wine contracts with the dominion half way through season two DS9. Voyager began between season 2 and 3 of DS9.

It's possible that Ferengi flooded the AQ market and the beverage was available from Voyagers replicator database... But to make the transformative leap from liquor to interior decorating pallet in less than 6 months before Voyager was lost and then weevel into the Hedgehogs vernacular?

If Tula berries are (also) native to the DQ, then exactly how far does the the Domions reach extend?

Considering how fast some fads and ideas can spread around our world in the present day (and enter the language in various ways), it's entirely possible that it could happen that fast in Star Trek. And Neelix had an eye for color (perhaps not in his own clothing choices, granted), so maybe he just liked that shade of blue.

 

[Guy Gardener]

And in Babylon 5, every sentient species has the dish sweedish meatballs.

Was Neelix still using the Universal Translator?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Was Neelix still using the Universal Translator?

Probably. AFAIK, the UT is part of the standard Starfleet communicator, and Neelix had one.

 

[Guy Gardener]

You have to wonder then how he faked being a Ferengi so well in Fair Trade if he was speaking Talaxian?

 

[Lynx]

We could always assume that since the Talaxians were a species who travelled a lot, probably as a result of the planet becoming a Hakoonian colony, the Talaxians may have encountered The Dominion at some point. Then maybe the Talaxians bought Tulaberry wine from the Dominion as a part of some trade.

As for Neelix speaking Ferengi in "Fair Trade, well he must ahve had a Starfleet communicator on him somewhere. Or maybe it was the B&B device, the little microchip which every Starfleet member has operated in his/her brain and which purpose is to translate if and when the communicator isn't available who helped Neelix to speak Ferengi.

 

[Guy Gardener]

What about the Vadwaar? They might have kept Talaxian servants or slaves, but they certainly had the roaming range to have contact with both the dominion (i think they've been in power for 12 thousand years. I have no idea where I got that number from.) and Tallax.

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

Uh, simple answer, guys. This was, what, season seven? How long has he been with Voyager? Surely he's looked through the color pallette or the wine list so he knows what color tulaberry wine is...

 

[Guy Gardener]

Uh, simple answer, guys. This was, what, season seven? How long has he been with Voyager? Surely he's looked through the color pallette or the wine list so he knows what color tulaberry wine is...

So you're saying he's a drunk?

And that's why Kes left him?

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

Seven years stuck on Voyager? I'd turn to the bottle for some relief myself!

Though I was thinking more like someone had ordered it off a wine list or something at one of the celebrations he was always putting together.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Coke wanted to continue sales to the Nazis during the second world war.

What's the big deal they said?

Business isn't politics.

Hell, Business isn't even morality.

But in the vacuum, the Germans invented Fanta.

I like Fanta.

Does that make me a Nazi sympathizer?

Would the Ferengi still have been able to sell Dominion Tullaberry Wine in federation space after the destruction of the Odyssey and the lead up and heightening aggressions to the Dominon War?

Tulla berry wine could have been as illegal as Romulan Ale once was.

Illegal booze is sexy.

Way sexier than the hooch they allow you to drink.

But it's unlikely security would allow Tullaberry Wine to be produced by replicators if there was an embargo.

By the way... Fuck synthehol.