I will never forget a set of fan-made Star Trek cargo shuttle blueprints which suggested that bodily waste was beamed straight from the occupant and dispersed into space.
Bathing/Grooming in the TOS-era
- Thread starter Donny
- Start date
They do seem to drink a lot of it.
Why couldn't what Sato was using go into her mouth?
.
.
McCoy was just a old fashion country doctor.
Last edited:
Gloves in 2266
No gloves in 2267
Later that year:
MCCOY: I wish I knew whether that was good or bad. Initiate sterile field.
This guy (McCoy) could cure kidney failure with a pill and internal head injuries with a device that looked like a spanner so hey, I'd trust him! 
JB
JB
Janice Lester, actually. Not Nancy Crater.
Operating on Joe Tormolen, but that was "The Naked Time" - early on in the series. http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Surgical_gloves
As for Kirk's concealer, I imagine that if he hurt himself, had no time to get treated in sickbay and needed to speak with someone important on the viewscreen, he might send his yeoman for his makeup (or nip down to his quarters himself) Hide scars from enemy to hide signs of weakness, or from ally to spare them having to look at a fresh wound. Alternately, it probably contains an antiseptic agent too.
@Donny you might find this helpful: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Personal_care
Maybe he liked makeup. Heinlein was all over men using makeup. It is the 23rd century, after all. As Picard once said, “We have a more evolved sensibility.”
Seriously, though, you bring up some plausible explanations.
I seem to recall some mention of it in connection with Farnham's Freehold.I would suggest taking inspiration from literary science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s.
Unfortunately, it's been a while since I read any, so no specific examples come to mind right now.
Edit: A quick and dirty Google search of this kind of thing led me to Heinlein's concept of the "fresher" unit. I'm not sure when he first described it, though.
Thanks, @GNDN18! So apparently there were some advances in space medicine/sterilization in the early years of TOS...
Maybe the steri-field machine was broken that day (no doubt leading to some colourful language from McCoy!)
Well, Tormolen stabbed himself to death with a butter knife. A lot of things were working wonky that day.
Ultrasound can break up dirt particles - it's actually used to clean jewelry - and there ARE ultrasonic facial cleansers on the market right now, albeit they have a brush as well.
An important thing to consider is that the same forces that throw people and chairs around also work on toilets and sinks. Something like the Iota folding concept could visually address the problems of space poo.
https://www.treehugger.com/bathroom...toilet-gareth-humphreys-elliott-whiteley.html
As for the sink, we know what the faucet looks like from WNMHGB. We also know that faucet had no sink.
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x03hd-alt/wherenomanhasgonebeforehdalt0818.jpg
So to remain true to what was seen, you need a sinkless sink. Here you go:
http://www.contemporist.com/this-new-kitchen-design-has-a-disappearing-sink-you-need-to-see/
https://www.treehugger.com/bathroom...toilet-gareth-humphreys-elliott-whiteley.html
As for the sink, we know what the faucet looks like from WNMHGB. We also know that faucet had no sink.
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x03hd-alt/wherenomanhasgonebeforehdalt0818.jpg
So to remain true to what was seen, you need a sinkless sink. Here you go:
http://www.contemporist.com/this-new-kitchen-design-has-a-disappearing-sink-you-need-to-see/
Last edited:
That's no thing. I sliced open my thumb with a butter knife. Forty years later, I still have a subdermal scar I can feel. Enough force can put a piece of straw through a telephone pole. I don't think Tormolen accomplished an impossible feat.
Given how useful a tap & basin would be in Sickbay, I find this retractable sink design extremely convincing. Great find!
This thread reminded me of Swank, and this is what Google had for me:
I’m no design maven, but the algorithms for “1960s bathroom” leaned more towards angles, unlike the roundness I associated with the Enterprise:
If this appeared on camera, it would have been the lithium bypass circuits they burned out saving Mudd’s skin
I’m no design maven, but the algorithms for “1960s bathroom” leaned more towards angles, unlike the roundness I associated with the Enterprise:
If this appeared on camera, it would have been the lithium bypass circuits they burned out saving Mudd’s skin
So where does the water go? Some of it would rise back up to the top of the counter, creating a mess.
Matt Jefferies had a TON of angles in his TOS design work. Take a look at the transporter console, or the table in the briefing room, or those trapezoidal doors if you don't believe me.
Similar threads
