Straw



Straw was a stalk of threshed grain, used as bedding and food for animals, for thatching, and for weaving or braiding, into baskets.

After using the slang term needle in a haystack, Miles O'Brien had an idea how to find the metal in the straw by using a magnet. 

Rumpelstiltskin, a fictional character from an ancient Earth fairy tale, could spin straw into gold, and agreed to do so for a young maiden in exchange for her firstborn son. 

In 2267, Dr. Leonard McCoy stated that straw would taste better than the meat that Trelane offered. 

When Kathryn Janeway asked a holographic  what he imagined his life would be like if he were a sparrow, he replied that he would make his home in a tree, in the branch of an elm and would hunt insects for food, straw for his nest and in the springtime he would sing for a companion.