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Distant Origin

That must be why he has strained against getting a promotion all these years. Some might poo poo his strategies but why should he give a crap about that? He's got rations for brains!
 
Operations Officer is in part is the classic job of quartermaster.

Logically, it's Kim's job to allocate weekly replicator rations. (Yes, really.)

How the person from the power company checks your meter every three months to make sure that your estimated bill is spot on with your actual power consumption... Kim weighs everyone's shit.

Maybe he can do this from the comfort of his own room, on a PADD, or maybe he has to knock on everyone's door, be let in, and then he reads a gage on the side of their replicator that they have in no way, even the terrorist scum, fiddled with or rolled forward.

In a closed system, there would be diminishing returns, especially if for every new set of boots they make, they have to eat less, or defecate more to avoid a deficit in their diet... Neelix gives away free food. Neelix makes crew poo. Neelix can control the consistency and weight of the crap coming out of people. If this is a free market, Neelix would have a dab hand on his menu choices. If everything is a little soviet, then the Operations Officer would have a word with the kitchen rat about when he is expected to serve soup and when he is allowed to serve curried mutton to keep pace with power consumption vs. power surpluses on the ship.

Oh.

What about Seven of Nine?

She was there for almost 2 years before she had a bowel movement.
 
Oh.

She started eating almost immediately in Raven,

EMH: I'll need to study your neural scans further. In the meantime, your digestive system is fully functional. Now is as good a time as any for you to begin taking solid and liquid nutrients.
SEVEN: Oral consumption is inefficient.
EMH: And unnecessary if you're lucky enough to be a hologram. But your human physiology requires it. I'll draw up a list of nutritional requirements. Take it to Mister Neelix in the Mess Hall. I hesitate to inflict his cooking on you but it'll have to do.
I had thought it was much, much later.

I'm really not in command of as many facts as I used to be.
 
This is a real concern.

Look at the quote I supplied above.

For her first poop in 18 years, it would have been on the holodeck and she would have needed a slightly modified midwife hologram to coach her through the process, if she was sensible.
 
The Doctor would have volunteered his own personal service for that, I'm sure.

As the EMH was the surgeon who dug out her fallow poopshoot, he's way too complicit to be allowed in the room, without being risked becoming a murder victim.
 
Dinosaurs were even more stupid than birds and here this 4-footed grazing variety, that snacks on shrubs and belches methane is going to evolve into a space-faring race - whilst still in the Dinosaurian Age?!! This episode is rubbish. Trying to ca$h in on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, perhaps. Or maybe even Jurassic Park, however remotely ...

TMNT wasn't big at all when that episode aired.

It's a dumb episode that wasn't well written, but I have to ask. You've been a fan of Star Trek this long, you must have a highly evolved suspension of disbelief. But you can't suspend disbelief that dinosaurs became sentient? That's not even close to the most absurd thing that Star Trek asks you to accept.

The episode wasn't a cynical ploy to cash in on upright walking reptiles. It was a fun kitschy idea that was poorly executed.
 
No no, when 7 plugged herself into the Borg alcove there was always this 'cher-chink' noise, like she had just plugged herself into something. This was obviously the borg poop-chute.
 
The Borg don't eat solid food, so what little they poop is unlikely to be so solid that a sphincter would be unusable.

It's more likely that a new port would outright be created than a lengthy surgical renovation project was made of every bugger and his dog's anus.

Yes, their biological bits need nutrients beyond a regeneration alcove zapping them with magic science buzziness, but what if the digestive process could be jimmied to create useful waste?

Food juice goes in, bio-fuel comes out.
 
Or the Borg body has more efficient processes for nutrient extraction and storage.

We only think those are standard human mammary glands and hip bones. They are actually an internal variant of the stillsuits from Arrakis.
 
It's been clear for years that genitals can be anywhere.

Not only must there be regulation butflaps on these service-all-species-uniforms, but there must be numerous velcro(?) sealed flaps for whatever genital or sphincter port that they got going on more or less unique or common to their part of the quadrant.

Or I don't know.. people could take their uniforms OFF.

Maybe you envision Starfleet planning ahead for furtive liasons in little used hallways?

Thing is, Arex in The Animated Series had three legs, and he got supplied with three-legged pants.

Clearly in the Federation one size doesn't fit all.

It does make one wonder: do three-legged aliens have two buttcracks? And two buttholes? And two of everything else hanging in-between? :confused:

See, the technical guides waste perfectly good copy telling us the harmonic resonance of a warp field coil all the way down to the decimal point, but important stuff like this we're left in the dark about.
 
It's a dumb episode that wasn't well written, but I have to ask. You've been a fan of Star Trek this long, you must have a highly evolved suspension of disbelief. But you can't suspend disbelief that dinosaurs became sentient? That's not even close to the most absurd thing that Star Trek asks you to accept.

Heehee, I think every incarnation of Trek has more than a couple inherently silly concepts. TNG got evolution extremely wrong, Kirk fought giant amoebas and space hands, Quark and Rom visited Area 51, and Riker is supposedly a good trombone player. Space dinosaurs seem almost quaint in comparison.
 
Riker practices on his 'trombone' a lot, as I understand it. Particularly in holodeck 4.
 
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