Há uma nota no "The Trouble With Tribbles" de David Gerrold (o livro, não o roteiro) abordando isso:
TEASER: INT. SHIP'S GALLEY--KIRK is talking to COOKIE, the ship's cook, and a colorful character he is...2
2 No, he isn't. The Enterprise doesn't have a ship's cook, only a mess officer to program the automatic machinery. (Source: Gene Coon) (Well, I didn't know...)
página 79 da quarta edição de novembro de 1974 do livro de bolso Ballantine Books.