There are some basic things in life that I don’t think will be changed anytime in the near future. So get your official star trek technical manuals that I know everyone has and tell me how people are supposed to go to the bathroom in the future.
Also, why don’t people ever have to wait for the turbolift–it’s always right there no matter what floor deck they are on.
See, there are these three seashells…
The guys just take a leak right into the transporter beam, which whisks the pee pee into space.
“Chief O’Brien, my back teeth are floating!”
“Aye aye, Captain!”
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That’s why in the opening creidts the Enterprise is going so fast - they’re looking for a starbase with a rest room!
The original series “blueprints” included heads. (Gotta say “heads” - it’s a ship)
I always wondered if the transporter also transported the contents of the person’s colon and bladder as well. Why not beam down to the planet fresh?
“Excuse me Cap’t, before we look for Dilithium, I’m going to have to take a big fat dump behind this tree.” Imagine how many red shirts would get killed as they went off alone on a strange planet to find privacy.
And as long as the transporter is removing waste, why not also remove fat? And what about bad germs and bacteria and viruses? And how about the results of aging?
As long as you are breaking down and totally rebuilding the body, everybody should look like 7 of 9 for their whole lives.
Revtim - Even the guys? Ew.
I recall Jonathan Frakes doing a special toward the close of ST:TNG showing off a lot of the hidden details of the show. One was where the bathrooms were: a map schematic of the Enterprise shows only one set of men’s and women’s rooms, located (IIRC) near the junction of the saucer and the plow-shaped rest of the ship. ST is full of this sort of thing, though you can’t see it. I do know there’s a “Tom Servo’s Used Robots” on the DS9 Promenade.
In MAD’s “Star Blecch” spoof, the men’s appeared to be right off the bridge.
I’ve always wondered about the lifts, myself. In one book Kirk is riding in one and catches McCoy saying, “Who’s holding up the damn elevator? Oh, it’s you.” Another detail is whether non-humanoid species can use our facilities. And do Spock’s pointed ears indicate a pointed glans?
I need coffee.
Actually, I think it does. I remember some discussion on ST:V about the viral filters in the transporters. That and the fact that nobody is obese on that ship leads me to believe that you may have something there.
Ookla the Mok had the same question…
Why just Star Trek? The only television show I know of where people ever went to the bathroom was “All in the Family”.
Maybe not on Voyger, but did you see Scottie and Uhura in the Star Trek movies. Of course, the Enterprise on TOS had more problems with the transporter than on the other series; maybe the liposuction module was perfected after the Star Trek movies and before ST:V.
How do people go to the bathroom on Star Trek?
Easy, they waited until there was a break in the filming and walked off the set to where there was a convenient urinal or toliet. Geez.
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Don’t forget, Dr. Kate Pulaski was cured of a super-fast aging disease when the transporter was used to correct a DNA defect.
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And this was so long ago that I’ve forgotten where I saw it, but:
*graffiti on the wall of the women’s room on the *Enterprise:
“Where no man has gone before…”
::flees::
I think it would be cool if number 1 and number 2 (Or solid & liquid waste, if you prefer. Interesting though, maybe Picard’s nickname for Riker is a subtle joke) were stored as raw material for the replicators. That way you have TRUE recycling. You could have an episode where one of the crewmen walks up to somebody while he’s eating and asks “Hey, how’s that sandwich taste? It was my Feces yesterday!”
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwww!!!
I had a similar thought. Their suits had a micro-chip replicator that turns wastes into uniforms. That also explains why their uniforms usually look like they
are brand new.
But I’m reminded of an old riddle that may be appropriate here (and absoloutely nowhere else, I might add):
Q: What do the Starship Enterprise and a piece of toilet paper have in common when they're circling Uranus?
A: They're both searching for Klingons!Babylon-5 had scenes in restrooms. There was even a scene where you get a glimpse (Just before the door closed) of an alien facility on the station.
Actually I think people just refuse to believe that there could possibly be a fat person in the star trek utopia of the future. Everyone will be skinny and wear tight polyester blend clothes. Nobody will have physical deformity, acne, and darn it, everyone in the whole universe will learn proper English!
Another thing that bugs me is that the ships are almost always on the same plane. The “up” on one ship is always the “up” on another ship–they are always level. I think in reality ships would not always fly around on the same horizontal plane. They would be facing all sorts of directions.
BAHAHAHAHA! That’s better than the “Ass Pennies” sketch on Upright Citizen’s Brigage/
My BF told me this is what really happened, and how they got their food. Of course, I believed him, because I know next to nothing about Star Trek.
Is he pulling my leg…?