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I don't understand the wild interest some fans have in Star Trek toilets. It's not like we ever hear of how anybody relieves themselves in Star Wars, or the Lord of the Rings (though how those tree-dwelling elves solve that problem is anybody's guess). So why all the fan speculation about the toilets in Star Trek?
Because that's why people watch Trek-future toilets.
 
Well now I know, don't I?
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Toilet questions are timeless. I remember an old Beverly Cleary book about how a kindergarten class wanted to know how Mike Mulligan went to the bathroom while he was digging the courthouse cellar.
 
The transporter beams waste out every few hours.

It's quite ingenius!
I wonder what it must feel like to have a narrowly focused Transporter beam clean out your small intestines of all your human waste excrement until you have nothing left to pee or poo.

It does make escaping the Brig that much harder when you don't have a Toilet to work with.

Thanks 1001001, your idea of beaming out the Biological Excrement from a person is going into my Head Canon!

Speaking of not having Toilets, I always wondered where Barry Allen kept his toilets in his secret Meta Human Prison.

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Luckily Elseworlds gave us the answer.
 
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"The Vengeance Factor" is like TNG's "The Way to Eden". Instead of hippies, they had metalheads.

The Gatherers look like they should be on a 1989 album cover. They even have the perfect name.
 
That’s amazing
Now you've learned about IRL Ultra-Sonic Blades that cut better than traditional blades, all using Ultra-Sonic frequencies.

Remember those Electric ToothBrushes that enhance brushing / scrubbing via Ultra-Sonic vibrations, now you know about knives that cut better due to Ultra-Sonic vibration, but the issue is the power source and how to make it compact and carry lots of energy for long term repeated use while having a good ergonomic form factor.

That's always been a big issue.

Hell, they even make Vibro Potato Peelers. No joke, it peels like a champ.

Here's some random guy on TikTok making a Electric Samurai Sword.
 
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Until ENTERPRISE, the only person who truly had pockets was Beverly, since she wore her doctor's coat often.

Check out TNG episode 'The Mins's Eye'.
Geordi does have a pocket in his uniform where he keeps a phaser. I guess everyone might have pockets in their uniforms, not just Geordi?
 
Until ENTERPRISE, the only person who truly had pockets was Beverly, since she wore her doctor's coat often.

Coming in late for this discussion, but....
Check out TNG episode 'The Minds's Eye'.
Geordi does have a pocket in his uniform where he keeps a phaser.
I guess everyone might have pockets in their uniforms, not just Geordi?
 
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Those 'pockets' are specifically used for Type I phasers. (At least, we have never seen them used for anything else.) Real pockets can hold different things, like Beverly's coat or the ENT uniforms. That's what I meant by my statement before.
 
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