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(written from a production point of view)
In a deleted scene from the script for the Star Trek: The Next Generation second season episode "Time Squared", moose, a large mammal closely related to deer and elk that was native to Earth's Alaska, was referenced by William T. Riker as one of the primary ingredients for his Alaskan stew. According to Riker, he found that the USS Enterprise-D computer could not accurate replicate moose meat for an authentic stew, and that the meat the computer fabricated came somewhere in between the venison from a musk ox and Kobe beef.