• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    Riker’s toilet would be placed right in the middle of a room … so that he could walk up to it, swing his leg over and sit down

    The Riker Maneuver

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    And here’s me about two hours away from my copy of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual to debunk this obvious joke with a picture of all the architectural diagrams where it calls out places where one might find a head, including, IIRC, the Ready Room, of which I imagine Riker probably avails himself on the regular.

    Why yes, I am fun at parties…

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    I mean, they have a transporter right? Couldn’t they just beam waste into a holding container or out into space? In discovery they say they recycle everything so maybe it just gets beamed to Kieko’s Arboretum lol.

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      The whole idea of Replicators and Transporters is that they have some technology which can efficiently convert matter and energy, so it’s possible that they use some sort of reverse-replicator to process waste.

      You also never see what they do with the glass cups the replicators create when someone asks for a drink…

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        I think in DS9 they sometimes put the leftovers back into the replicator for de-replication but they’re Cardassian so they might work differently.

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          Janeway tells Chakotay to un-replicate the watch he made her for her birthday during the Year of Hell, because the energy can be used for something more useful, so they can definitely reclaim things

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      By the 32nd Century, it is confirmed canon that human waste is directly reused for food replicators. “It’s pretty good for shit.” - Admiral Vance

      It’s less clear whether that’s true for earlier eras or not, but the existence of “matter recyclers” sure implies it.

      But all this still doesn’t address the matter of where people poop on a starship.

      Surely the bridge crew all have their own freshers, but what about the lower decks? Do they have communal restrooms? What about accomodations for different species needs? Is there a diplomatic lounge with a wide variety of bathrooms available? When they have guests from a different species they’re not familiar with, is there an ensign whose job it is to research that culture’s bathroom customs and ensure they have the appropriate facilities replicated and constructed? Is there maybe a small holodeck reserved for this purpose? These questions need answers.

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    Poor Riker. Always running looking for a bathroom but never looking around him.

    There was a bathroom on the bridge. Granted, it was originally a conference room but they repurposed it into a bathroom during the run of the show.

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      The more you know!

      https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bathroom

      The head was visible in a few episodes, but while the doorway was initially labeled “CONFERENCE” in “Gambit, Part II”, it was relabelled “HEAD” by “Emergence”. In addition, in episodes throughout the seventh season, multiple crew members can be seen simultaneously entering the bridge via the head. It is unclear how many toilets are available for use in the head on the main bridge.

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        I think the best part is that the really clear picture of it saying Head is from the interactive TNG Tech Manual which was narrated by Frakes. I love the idea that Frakes knew exactly where the bathroom was but Riker kept running around screaming to the transporter room for a “Number Ones number two emergency”.

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    My headcanon is that in public / guest quarters the toilet stalls contain miniature holodeck emitters so that they can instantly change to accommodate the customs / biology of any species. Even assuming that, say, Klingons excrete waste from the same places that humans do, they might prefer to do so while dangling from a bar in the ceiling or something else torturous like that, and find the use of a regular sitting toilet unclean or dishonorable.

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      new headcanon: klingons actually have extremely prim and proper toilet habits, to pee standing or leave without washing your hands is immediately punishable by dishonorable death. They WILL NOT do number 2 without confirmed access to a bidet.

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      “You can’t prove it’s me.”

      “Did you know that when you lose your sight your other senses become heightened? I can tell it’s you, and I’m telling you you need to go to sickbay.”

      “I’m telling you it wasn’t me, Geordi!”

      “The last one had a note scrawled on the wall next to it which said ‘FIRST OFFICER’S LOG’.”

      “That’s pretty funny, right?”

      “I’m putting in for a transfer.”