# An incredibly detailed cutaway drawing of Kirk's USS Enterprise (including some clever in-jokes) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** star-trek-paramount\ **Created:** [August 11, 2026, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-incredibly-detailed-cutaway-drawing-of-kirks-uss-enterprise-including-some-clever-in-jokes/1032290 "2026-08-11T02:35:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2026, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-incredibly-detailed-cutaway-drawing-of-kirks-uss-enterprise-including-some-clever-in-jokes/1032290/21 "2026-08-12T00:01:20Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > My dad served on a jeep flattop in the Atlantic and mentioned that. He said occasionally a jokester upstream would set a wad of paper in the trough and light it, to the annoyance of those downstream. Yep. In the early 60’s my friend’s father told us the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2026, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-incredibly-detailed-cutaway-drawing-of-kirks-uss-enterprise-including-some-clever-in-jokes/1032290/22 "2026-08-12T00:31:31Z")
I saw the video in the OP the other day because Adam Savage’s Tested channel is often recommended to me. It’s a mixture of weirdness and hopelessly nerdy. ---
**Author:** ![phs3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phs3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phs3)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2026, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-incredibly-detailed-cutaway-drawing-of-kirks-uss-enterprise-including-some-clever-in-jokes/1032290/23 "2026-08-12T03:10:15Z")
I had that too! No idea what happened to it. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2026, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-incredibly-detailed-cutaway-drawing-of-kirks-uss-enterprise-including-some-clever-in-jokes/1032290/24 "2026-08-12T14:19:51Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > That’s why naval toilets are called “heads.” Do you remember where the flush water came from? Hand pumps? Ram effect of dynamic water pressure under sail? Just curious. I assume the battleships I mentioned had a pump. And some low-level rating had to maintain the head plumbing. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2026, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-incredibly-detailed-cutaway-drawing-of-kirks-uss-enterprise-including-some-clever-in-jokes/1032290/25 "2026-08-12T14:31:17Z")
Speaking of which, wonder where are the head(s) in NCC 1701? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2026, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-incredibly-detailed-cutaway-drawing-of-kirks-uss-enterprise-including-some-clever-in-jokes/1032290/26 "2026-08-12T14:36:14Z")
Everywhere, just like now. Now maybe they don’t have literal plumbing running between decks\*, maybe they just use transporter tech (watch out for transporter malfunction-created evil poops!) but every cabin has one. The Franz Joseph blueprints even have a terlet off the bridge, because when ya gotta go, ya gotta go. (“Mr Chekov, that’s the third trip this hour. Is there a …problem?”) \*IMO Kirk-era starships have plumbing, and they reuse/recycle everything. Who knows what Picard-era ships do. They probably respect the autonomy of poop. 😉 eta: Now I’m thinking about alien waste disposal. Who knows what Klingon krap looks/smells like. Maybe it attacks plastic pipe. Do cat-like aliens need a litterbox? I’m reminded of Tom Selleck in Mr Baseball, and they asked him if he needed help in the toilet. He says “I know how to take a crap!” Then he gets a look at the Japanese hole in the floor thing, and goes “I need help taking a crap!” Starships could be like that. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2026, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-incredibly-detailed-cutaway-drawing-of-kirks-uss-enterprise-including-some-clever-in-jokes/1032290/27 "2026-08-12T19:56:09Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > …Given that, the video is a bit annoying. Adam’s never heard of Franz Joseph? And the guy mispronounced Babel? I can forgive not remembering Arrex. How do you feel about people who misspell his name? > [@Voyager](#): > > In “Tomorrow is Yesterday,” after they arrive in the past, I think Spock wonders if Mr. Scott was still with them, clearly wondering if the engineering hull had broken away… I always took that to be a more colloquial phrase, not necessarily suggesting that he was actually dead or lost as the ship broke up. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2026, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-incredibly-detailed-cutaway-drawing-of-kirks-uss-enterprise-including-some-clever-in-jokes/1032290/28 "2026-08-12T20:19:37Z")
Does the _Enterprise_ have a poop deck? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2026, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-incredibly-detailed-cutaway-drawing-of-kirks-uss-enterprise-including-some-clever-in-jokes/1032290/29 "2026-08-12T20:44:00Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > How do you feel about people who misspell his name? If such a person, and I doubt they exist, were to make a youtube video, expected to be watched by lots of people, did that, I would mock them mercilessly. And rightly so. On a message board? Only slight ribbing, a chastisement, maybe an upbraiding, and a warning to check before posting. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2026, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-incredibly-detailed-cutaway-drawing-of-kirks-uss-enterprise-including-some-clever-in-jokes/1032290/30 "2026-08-13T01:56:30Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Do you remember where the flush water came from? Hand pumps? Ram effect of dynamic water pressure under sail? Honestly, I don’t know, I just figured it was just a hole in a board, like in an outhouse. When I found that pic my thought was, “I never knew they had water sluicing a chute. I wonder where it comes from.” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2026, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-incredibly-detailed-cutaway-drawing-of-kirks-uss-enterprise-including-some-clever-in-jokes/1032290/31 "2026-08-13T02:04:45Z")
To be honest, when I heard as a kid that ships in the days of sail had toilets at the bow, I also assumed this was a hole leading directly to the ocean. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2026, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-incredibly-detailed-cutaway-drawing-of-kirks-uss-enterprise-including-some-clever-in-jokes/1032290/32 "2026-08-13T02:18:55Z")
That’s one of the Stephen Biesty books, right? My son had a couple of those, and someone taking a dump is pretty much in every scene IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2026, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-incredibly-detailed-cutaway-drawing-of-kirks-uss-enterprise-including-some-clever-in-jokes/1032290/33 "2026-08-14T02:44:27Z")
If you look carefully in the movie _Master and Commander,_ during a brief, low shot showing the bow of HMS _Surprise_, you can see a sailor sitting as he relieves himself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-incredibly-detailed-cutaway-drawing-of-kirks-uss-enterprise-including-some-clever-in-jokes/1032290.md?page=1)