I think it’s supposed to be that Vulcans are both by nature capable of more intense emotion and more intense rational control than humans. So you can think of it this way. A Vulcan can provide strong-emotion genes and strong-rationality genes, while a human can provide less-strong-emotion genes and less-strong-rationality genes. On this reading, then, Spock got either the strong-emotion gene from his dad and less-strong-rationality one from his mom, or perhaps simply both his mother’s genes. In the latter case, Spock is really like a human trying to be Vulcan-logical, while in the former case, he’s like a Vulcan with a rationality deficit.
Really? I guess it’s played as kind of a joke? Because it would be strange to think that fecal matter flushed on the Enterprise immediately goes out to space. I’d think there’d be more of a sort of “sewage” system in place.
Nor did they deal with how people throw-up, how they deal with zits, or any of a number of other mundane factors of life that would both annoy and gross us out. :rolleyes:
Well, if nothing else, Enterprise touched on this. Although DS9 had earlier made a groundbreaking bathroom reference (in the ep where Sisko and Jake fly a “solar sailship” from Bajor to Cardassia), Enterprise addressed the notion of waste recycling and air sickness.
Even zits, arguably, that time Tucker had a lifeform growing in his wrist and it bulged grossly.
My contribution: On Star Trek: Enterprise, there was this bit in between the opening credits of the first episode and the closing credits of the last episode…
Oh, c’mon. They’re so high tech that they beam the shit out of you. Bathrooms are unsanitary and laughably low tech.
Although the one thing I always thought was missing from the “Q gets turned into a Human” episode was a scene of him peeing his pants, because he didn’t know better and was unfamiliar with trained muscle control - ie, he’d never been potty trained.
Q: “I seem to have sprung a leak. What am I doing? Riker?!? Data? What’s going on here! Why am I leaking fluids? And what’s that smell?”
Crew: <snicker>
Riker (Snark): I’m surprised at you, Q. Human children learn to control their bladders at a very young age.
Q: That explains it. I was never a Human child. Can someone clean this up?
Actually I believe waste of all sorts went back to central holding tanks for use as raw material for the replicators. I don’t know if that was mentioned on any show or if I saw it somewhere else though.
I liked the original acoustic version of the theme. The overamped synthed-out replacement (which I believed coincided with the show’s name changing from Enterprise to Star Trek: Enterprise) was a severely horrible move.
Which was thoroughly contradicted at various points in the series (the 3-nacell Enterprise shown in the final episode is, according to the Tech Manual, impossible. But I’m willing to go with the Tech Manual on this, since the last season of TNG sucked, including the finale), so it should be taken with a grain of salt, but that’s pretty much the obvious thing to do.
