Note: This is the official answer to the riddle: Potatoes Attack!
Greetings, friends! Truly, the answers you gave to the potatoes attack riddle prove that you really understood its spirit.
What had happened was this:
They were indeed on a combat mission. The problem wasn’t that the food was running out, but that there was no enemy detected in 10 parsecs range. The solution that the captain was hoping to hear from his first officer was to turn on the cloak detectors, since obviously the enemy was cloaked somewhere nearby. Hence the joke he made about playing target shooting with potatoes, which shows that the sense of humor was valued among the crew.
See you soon for another of my favorite riddles!
