Authors - how do you find all these little nuggets?
- Thread starter Laura Cynthia Chambers
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I do remember - in Battlestations, I think - Piper has to request permission to leave the bridge to use the toilet. Obviously we don't follow her...
By Googling it on your phone?
Ooohh. The "sucker" way.
I really have no idea what I just saw here...
Everybody complains about The Final Frontier, but I think it's the only place we ever saw a Starfleet toilet.
You're welcome.
Personal example, my own "helping people with research" project; I've been compiling an index of references in the Planescape tabletop setting for a few years now, partially for my own games, partially for any other Planescape DMs out there.
^ No worries, I assumed based on context it had something to do with helping people with research. If I had any familiarity with Planescape (or, you know, had actually heard of it before just now) then it probably would have looked like more than the random collection of words, letters and numbers that my mind interpreted it as. 
I've always figured, based on FJS's general plans, that the bowling alley doubles as the ship's theatre (as seen in "The Conscience of the King"). There's spectator seating, and there's enough space for a stage.
The ship's swimming pool also appears in Uhura's Song. When the Sivaoan delegation is on board, enroute Eeiauo, to cure the epidemic of what had become known as The Long Death, but ultimately turned out to be nothing more serious than "noisy baby."
(I've always wondered if Ms. Kagan named "ADF Syndrome" after Alan Dean Foster. Unfortunately, at this point, we'd need a seance to ask her. RIP, Ms. Kagan.)
The ship's swimming pool also appears in Uhura's Song. When the Sivaoan delegation is on board, enroute Eeiauo, to cure the epidemic of what had become known as The Long Death, but ultimately turned out to be nothing more serious than "noisy baby."
(I've always wondered if Ms. Kagan named "ADF Syndrome" after Alan Dean Foster. Unfortunately, at this point, we'd need a seance to ask her. RIP, Ms. Kagan.)
I'm sure someone could create an entire story that takes place in/surrounding the bathroom.
Just because you *can* do a thing does not mean that you *should* do that thing.
Captain's log . . . .
It doesn't have to be gross. Could be a place of refuge.
I mean the episode doesn't have to be crude. It could simply be a bathroom standing in for any other place characters have had to hole up while waiting some trouble out.
But then why make it the bathroom? If you want a good plot there has to be a reason why they're in the bathroom.
Not that I've got any idea about what that reason could be, but that's why we pay the writers
Not that I've got any idea about what that reason could be, but that's why we pay the writers
In-universe, because it's barricadable/clean/access to water/soundproof/air filtered. In reality, the challenge of building the set/describing it?
Neither of those is really a challenge; it's a bathroom. We've seen them before in Trek, they're not really big mysteries, or complicated sets to construct.
But fun to add details like accessible to non-Humanoid aliens fixtures, color schemes, in-joke signage...
Ooh from a story point of view - it would be neat to have it that the crew have to barricade in one of the non-humanoid bathrooms for a particular reason specific to that non-humanoid race. But no more details because Story Idea!
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