Was there a toilet on the Enterprise?
- Thread starter trilbymonkey
- Start date
They used the three seashells
SecondedThat's one of the funniest things I have ever seen!
Spock is always in control of his motions.
Spock is always in control of his motions.
Seriously, though, there had to have been toilets on a ship with at least 400 people. If not, there would have been a lot of problems.
I swear I could recall The Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manuel mentioning a "captain's head" in the ready room. I'll have to look at that again to see.
I also remember a toilet in Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise. I will have to locate the book, otherwise this will bug me...
After laughing at Captain Gandalf's excellent image, steevo's and Skai's posts prompted me to look through some technical manuals/blueprints and do a little scanning. While there are plenty of toilets shown all throughout the ships, the bridge is probably the main point of interest, so...
Here's a section of Franz Joseph's Technical Manual's TOS/TAS bridge (full version is here):
The exit is similar to what's shown in TAS, but those doors were a little further counter-clockwise and replaced the ESSM station. The ones shown here would be in the same position as the "winky-blink" panel to the left of the main viewscreen in TOS (maybe that panel opened?). Since the toilet is behind the right "winky-blink" panel, I don't want to know what those status lights indicate!
A section of the movie-era bridge from Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise (full version here):
You get to this toilet by entering the port turbolift which swings around, then walking through the security lobby and airlock. What a crappy security guard assignment: just sitting in your chair, watching bridge officers go back and forth to the can...
The ST:TNG Tech Manual mentions "the captain's ready room and head, the aft observation lounge, and the crew head adjoining the bridge itself" on page 31. The U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D Blueprints show these (full version here):
A much better arrangement than the earlier ones since there's a lot more space for everything.
Here's a section of Franz Joseph's Technical Manual's TOS/TAS bridge (full version is here):
The exit is similar to what's shown in TAS, but those doors were a little further counter-clockwise and replaced the ESSM station. The ones shown here would be in the same position as the "winky-blink" panel to the left of the main viewscreen in TOS (maybe that panel opened?). Since the toilet is behind the right "winky-blink" panel, I don't want to know what those status lights indicate!
A section of the movie-era bridge from Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise (full version here):
You get to this toilet by entering the port turbolift which swings around, then walking through the security lobby and airlock. What a crappy security guard assignment: just sitting in your chair, watching bridge officers go back and forth to the can...
The ST:TNG Tech Manual mentions "the captain's ready room and head, the aft observation lounge, and the crew head adjoining the bridge itself" on page 31. The U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D Blueprints show these (full version here):
A much better arrangement than the earlier ones since there's a lot more space for everything.
While we don't see the toilet, isn't Picard in the Captain's Head, in the opening of FIRST CONTACT, when he's splashing water on his face?
Yeah, its called waste extraction, it was part of the duty of crew men/women to man this vital station.. You never saw or even heard to toilet flushing, probably because in the 23/24th century they have different ways of dealing with human biological functions. When the sitcom "All in the Family" came out in 1970,71 they pushed the envelop by letting you hear Archie flushing the toilet, which was unheard of back in those days. So, yes, StarShip do have ways of letting the crew relieve themselfs...
You never saw or even heard to toilet flushing, probably because in the 23/24th century they have different ways of dealing with human biological functions. When the sitcom "All in the Family" came out in 1970,71 they pushed the envelop by letting you hear Archie flushing the toilet, which was unheard of back in those days. So, yes, StarShip do have ways of letting the crew relieve themselfs...
Tom Snyder addressed this very question in his late 1970's interview with the TOS cast. When asked about the Enterprise toilets, Walter Koenig offered "We didn't have toilets, but we did have phasers..." To which Snyder replied "We aim to please, so please aim, eh?"
Speaking of which....
BTW, thanks for the compliments, guys!
Edit : if anyone wants to caption this, feel free...
The Harry Mudd toilet tissue is too much!
Spock: "On Vulcan commodes, the hole is much, much smaller."
Uhura: "I'm not surprised, Mr. Spock."
I also remember a toilet in Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise. I will have to locate the book, otherwise this will bug me...
There was also a door directly across from the entrance to the briefing room on TNG that was labeled "head." I can't remember if it was actually there or if that was only in the tech manual. I also can't remember if you can ever see that door onscreen.
i remember an interview for trekkies in think. johnathon frakes said he was often asked this question and the answer was there were loos in all crew quarter wash areas that emerged at the push of a button and he pointed to one on the map of the enterprise D on a wall outside the turbolift near the bridge.i presume it's the same one that WendellM mentioned
Nope - that's why they had to limit missions to five years at a time.
