I was going to point out crew might just prefer to use chopsticks normally, but then I remembered that my wooden chopsticks are lacquered and wouldn’t produce splinters. But I guess the replicator could make chopsticks for traditional asian dishes even if the refrectory has reusable cutlery, just like Japanese restaurants provide disposable chopsticks to white people

Power is distributed by the EPS grid. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/EPS_grid

The son scammed her. He told her she needed to disinfect peripherals. The tech is just allowing that to happen and charging a not listening to the tech fee.