Sounds like a great way to get your internal organs beamed out of you. Safer to just give everyone a bucket to poop in, then beam the feces away.
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CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 11 months agoSince there’s only one bathroom, I’ve been assuming that engineering just teleports all the bodily waste out of the crew and directly into the replicators’ matter feeds, Hogwarts-style. Saves time, keeps the crew light and active, keeps the transport operators sharp while between planets.
samus12345@lemmy.world 11 months ago
jaybone@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There’s only one bathroom?
CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think that this is canonically untrue, that Federation vessels have multiple bathrooms or “heads” in military jargon, including personal ones attached to officer quarters.
However, Memory Alpha does corroborate the version I remember, which is Frakes talking on some behind the scenes special about how there’s only one bathroom on the entire Enterprise-D. Scroll down a bit to the “Background” section. memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bathroom
(And if you’re surprised there’s a MA page for just this topic, I am too, and probably shouldn’t be.)
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Makes sense … but once you teleport a portion of content out of the body, doesn’t that leave a void that has to be filled … leaving room for gas to form? After a big meal and the transporter team beams out that big holiday log out of you, I’d expect to hear a few guys and gals rip some big ones an hour or two after.
lemmyman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I imagine something like colonal cavitation. Little sonic booms of intestine collapsing on itself. Probably not healthy
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 11 months ago
That’s what the transporter officer does the 99% of the time when they’re not sending people on away missions.