Scotty doesn't understand the future

So ....... why does the engineer behind me have a banana hairclip over his eyes?

Oh crap, i have an "um actually" for that too...
Dr Pulaski offered to clone him some new eyes, but they wouldn't have the details or range that the visor does. As a Chief Engineer, I'd keep the extra visual spectrum, dude can see heat!
- One of my favorite scenes from First Contact is when Barclay brings him a copper coil to look over and he literally eyeballs it going "yeah this'll do" because his eyes can see the micro fractures and imperfections in the material, something even Data can't do. I'd be pissed if someone told me they were taking that away from me!
- I'd imagine it's sort of like how a lot of people prefer to wear glasses even if they're a good candidate for laser eye surgery. Personally I like how my glasses protect my eyes from debris and radiation, and I like wearing them.

Um AcTuAlY, they drink it on starships so they can "shake off" the effects

I'm a blast at parties...

This actually makes a lot of sense. Don't want the first place everyone runs in a red alert to be sick bay for some Sober Ups
Mate a party with conversations like that would fucking go off, wouldn't even need synthehol.
A further umm actually, couldn’t they just make future tech that could make you sober and kill hangovers also in an instant when required?
eyup. came to say this as well.

I've always wondered where weed fits into this techno-utopian future. There's never any mention of anything even analogous to it. Stoners don't just stop existing when warp drive starts to.

"I'm going to turn on my 'personal relaxation light'..." ~ Captain Jean-Luc Picard
- Earl Grey Hot ..... code word specific to Picard's voice for tea made with a touch of 24th century gange, psychedelics and sedatives
  Anyone else who makes him Earl Grey tea is just regular tea
TNG would sometimes show "poor" colonists that needed to be saved, but by in large, they never dealt with the seedier parts of humanity. The original series did have couple of episodes that fleetingly showed the more seedy parts of humanity. So I would assume the stoners where still there.
And you can't ever discount the idea that weed might have simply fallen out of favor due to different and "better" options as humans contacted other species.
- Yeah, I was going to say, sir this is a military vessel.
Episode "The Game"
- Was that the DARE episode?
Pot does get mentioned in passing in season 3 of Picard, but very briefly and it felt weird.

Would you rather have to replace a liver or consume something that won’t force you to get a new liver?

How delicious is option B?
New liver pweeeaaaaase
I'd rather keep my delicious bourbon and let them clone me as many livers as I need.
- Which bourbon?
Grandma always said "if you're going to drink, drink. Don't mess around!"
Grandma, just like Scotty, always knew best.......
- I regret every drink that is killing me liver, but I would do it all again if I had the chance.........

With all the medical advances, you'd think there would be a significant number of really old people. Yes Picard wanted to grow old naturally. But I would think many would choose to look 25 forever.

McCoy made it to like 125 years old. You just don't typically see geriatrics on starships.
- Yes but he looked 125 and died at 125. I'm saying with the medical tech they've shown, many Federation Citizens would look 25 years old no matter how old and live virtually forever.

I thought the whole point of synthehol was it wasn't as intoxicating, addictive, or as damaging on the cells as normal alcohol

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Synthehol

I thought it was that it didn't give you a hangover?
- I always assumed that in case of red alert, you drink some antidote and you undrunk yourself in 30 seconds

Bevaleh

It's the rowdiness.

Scotty's going to give it all it's got.

Weirdly synthehol is much harder on the liver compared to alcohol.