Beverages American ✦ Inspired by: Star Trek

Warp Core Breach

Several rums, raspberry liqueur, blue curaçao and fruit punch make a large-format Star Trek-inspired cocktail. The colour says warp plasma; the ingredient list says make responsible decisions.

Warp Core Breach

What It Is

Several rums, raspberry liqueur, blue curaçao and fruit punch make a large-format Star Trek-inspired cocktail. The colour says warp plasma; the ingredient list says make responsible decisions.

Origin

A Star Trek-inspired fan cocktail built to look like something Chief Engineer La Forge would prefer stayed inside the ship.

Fun Fact

Dry ice is solid carbon dioxide at about −78.5°C. Direct contact can cause severe cold burns and swallowing a piece is dangerous.

Prep
8 min
Cook
—
Total
8 min
Servings
8 small cocktails
(2 if company's coming and you're only pretending to like them)
Difficulty
easy
Gluten-Free Dairy-Free Nut-Free
Diet
Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Nut-Free, Low-Carb
Away Mission
20 min walk
(or beam directly past it, if the transporter's working today)
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Ingredients

  • 4½ oz white rum
  • 3 oz lemon rum
  • 1½ oz dark rum
  • ½ oz spiced rum
  • ½ oz raspberry liqueur
  • ¾ oz overproof rum
  • ½ oz blue curaçao
  • 30 oz fruit punch

Steps

  1. Combine the rums, liqueurs and fruit punch in a punch bowl over regular ice.
  2. Stir and serve in small portions.
  3. For theatrical fog, do not place dry ice in a drinking glass. If used in a serving vessel, it must remain physically separated from drinkers and fully sublimate before any liquid containing it is consumed.

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Notes

The old version treated dry ice like garnish. Absolutely not. Space may be the final frontier; emergency gastroenterology does not need to be.

Nutrition Facts
Per 1 small cocktail
Calories 80
Burning this off: one beer-league hockey game, including the fighting.
% Daily Value*
Fat 0.0 g 0%
Saturated + Trans 0 g 0%
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 0 mg 0%
Carbohydrate 15.0 g
Fibre 0.5 g 2%
Sugars 12.0 g 12%
Protein 1.0 g
Potassium 260 mg 6%
Calcium 15 mg 1%
Iron 0.3 mg 2%
*5% or less is a little, 15% or more is a lot. Sodium levels calculated in a country with universal healthcare — and it's free, so don't worry about it too much.
A genuinely respectable nutrition profile. No red flags here — go ahead and feel a little smug about it.

Substitutions

Use equivalent ingredients where needed for allergies or availability, but keep the main sweet/sour/salty/spicy balance intact. This is cooking, not a hostage negotiation.

Storage

Keep covered and chilled. Fresh-fruit or dairy drinks are best used within 1–2 days; fizzy drinks are happiest served the same day before the bubbles file for retirement.

Freezing

Freeze still fruit bases or concentrates if useful, but add carbonation after thawing. Dairy-heavy drinks are better made fresh.