Why are there no Nuts / Bolts / Screws in Star Trek?

[scotpens]

KingDaniel wrote:

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There are plenty of nuts and bolts in the Enterprise's enineering section in the 2009 Star Trek movie . . .

That's because Engineering in the 2009 movie was a brewery. It was a freakin' BREWERY!!!

[sojourner]

^Explains why in TOS Scotty was always getting drunk. He had his own supply.

[King Daniel Into Darkness]

My Son the Vampire wrote:

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That's because Engineering in the 2009 movie was a brewery. It was a freakin' BREWERY!!!

Not sure if you noticed, but in The Next Generation, the warp core was a pot-bellied stove and there was a row of ATM machines in Geordi's office.

[M'Sharak]

KamenRiderBlade wrote:

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In all of the episodes that I've watched which consists of all of
TNG, DS9, VOY, & ENT, I've never seen a single screw, nut or bolt, even a rivet in the future.

If there were no bolts, then what was the intended purpose of Ben Finney's crescent wrench?

[Spock/Uhura Fan]

KamenRiderBlade wrote:

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In all of the episodes that I've watched which consists of all of
TNG, DS9, VOY, & ENT, I've never seen a single screw, nut or bolt, even a rivet in the future.

Somebody has to make the prototype of the item or part that gets mass replicated. How did they put all the items together in the first place?

Did they just weld or sodder everything together?

I'm assuming they must use something to hold all their tools, gadgets, pipes, etc together.

Any ideas from you fans?

I don't know if someone else has already mentioned this, but DS9 has an entire episode where Jake and Nog have some large shipment of some sort of bolts that they sell for land...

Update: Here we go. I found the episode. It was self-sealing stem bolts.

[Therin of Andor]

jayrath wrote:

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Do you find screws, nuts and bolts dramatically compelling?

They are riveting.

[Gotham Central]

I always assumed that they used a more advanced form of welding. They frequently mention "molecular bonding" and you see them use some sort of energy beam to bond things together (which usually leaves neither a scratch nor a divinding line).

[Captain Rob]

Don't forget the classic "magnatomic adhesion area". Which in real life was Velcro.

[jayrath]

I stand corrected! I just looked through all the TOS episodes and found, "Bolt in the Fold," "The Trouble with Rivets," "The Screw Manuever" and "Where no Nut Has Gone Before." There's also "Mudd's Welding" and "Amok Zippers."

[sojourner]

I think in the future all nuts and bolts are reserved for swingers parties.

[Captain Rob]

I don't know about nuts and bolts. But Captain James T Kirk had screws a plenty.

[Gary7]

Frankly, I'm more curious as to why there's an "L" in solder, since it isn't pronounced. It is with bolder, colder, folder, holder... Maybe they thought there would be too much confusion with "sod", a kind of soil. Yet, nobody worried about "lead" (the metal, versus the verb). The wonderfully illogical language called English, at your service.

[Tiberius]

Gary7 wrote:

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Frankly, I'm more curious as to why there's an "L" in solder, since it isn't pronounced. It is with bolder, colder, folder, holder... Maybe they thought there would be too much confusion with "sod", a kind of soil. Yet, nobody worried about "lead" (the metal, versus the verb). The wonderfully illogical language called English, at your service.

I pronounce the L...

SOLL-DA

[Nerys Myk]

Gary7 wrote:

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Frankly, I'm more curious as to why there's an "L" in solder, since it isn't pronounced. It is with bolder, colder, folder, holder... Maybe they thought there would be too much confusion with "sod", a kind of soil. Yet, nobody worried about "lead" (the metal, versus the verb). The wonderfully illogical language called English, at your service.

It is derived from Latin and from the same roots as solid.

[Gary Mitchell]

In the future, its all Vulcan Velcro®.