Sugar Sugar , known chemically as sucrose ( C H O ) , is a naturally - derived , white , crystalline food stuff most often used for sweetening other dessert s or beverages . Other forms of sugar include fructose , glucose , and lactose . Food applications . In 2151 , asked T ' Pol if she wanted a bite of his pecan pie to taste . She refused as the dessert was " mostly sugar . " Trip retorted that it " " may not be good for the body , but it sure is good for the soul . " " ( ) Marshmallow s were a Terran confection consisting mostly of sugar . They were used in many dessert s , including Rocky Road ice cream , and can be traditionally toasted over a camp fire . ( , ) Tango , a horse once owned by Christopher Pike , enjoyed eating sugar cubes . When the horse appeared as a part of an illusion generated by the Talosian s , during their attempt to forge a bond between Pike and Vina , Pike began to apologize to Tango for not having any sugar cubes , moments before discovering several cubes in his coat pocket . ( ) In 2347 , a seven - year - old Ro Laren was given a piece of sugar candy by a Cardassian who led her to a room where she found her father sitting inside . For the next two hours , she was forced to sit and watch as a Cardassian questioned and tortured her father until he died . ( ) While on the Caretaker ' s array in 2371 , crew members from the were offered lemonade and sugar cookie s . ( ) Application to beverages . The Earth beverage coffee was often sweetened with sugar . Keiko O ' Brien enjoyed her coffee with just cream and sugar , as did Kathryn Janeway , who took hers with two sugars . ( ; ) Miles O ' Brien enjoyed sugar in their coffee , often ordering his coffee " double strong , double sweet . " ( ; ) When Deanna Troi was getting to know Clara Sutter in 2368 over a cup of tea , Sutter said she liked her tea with one cube of sugar , while her imaginary friend Isabella liked her tea with two cubes . ( ) In 2370 , Quark tried to fix a racquetball match between Julian Bashir and Miles O ' Brien by attempting to drug the doctor with a herbal beverage consisting of water , sucrose , dextrose , general root extract , grain particulates , yeast , synthehol and the anesthetic hyvroxilated quint - ethyl metacetamin . Bashir was unamused . ( ) Metaphoric applications . Sugar was also used to coat pill s to enhance the palatability when swallowing the medication . After Doctor Leonard McCoy reported to Captain James T . Kirk that he had just witnessed and the White Rabbit on the Shore Leave Planet , Kirk took the report as " " a McCoy pill with a little mystery sugar coating . He wants to get me down there . Afraid I won ' t swallow it . " " ( ) When the main computer became possessed with the personality of a practical joker after emerging from an energy field in 2270 , it deliberately locked McCoy , Sulu , and Uhura in the recreation room as one of its jokes . Upon the discovery of this action , Captain Kirk demanded the computer to release the three ; the computer requested that Kirk not only say " please , " but to say , " " Pretty please with sugar on . " " ( ) The old Earth nursery rhyme entitled " What Are Little Boys Made Of ? " cited , " " Girls are made from sugar and spice and boys are made from snips and snail s . " " William T . Riker referred to the rhyme , in 2368 , during a discussion with the androgynous J ' naii Soren . Upon hearing the rhyme , Soren interpreted the words to mean that it " " makes it sound better to be female . " " Riker then clarified , " " It ' s an old - fashioned way of looking at the sexes , not to say that there ' s no real difference between them . " " ( )