Crazy Question Time

[Myasishchev]

By TNG's time period bathrooms were no longer needed. Waste material was beamed out of the body at regular intervals.

A truly awesome future.

Seriously, look at Geordi in First Contact, uncomprehending in the face of urination. Yes, perhaps the worst phrasing possible, but I'm sticking by it.

Problem is, when Cochrane asked if people still peed in the future, Geordi seemed to know what peeing was.

And Tom Paris knows what a car is, so what?

 

[buffyscrubs]

toilets were referenced in various deck plans, Several crewmembers do rush into that same doorway.

 

[nx1701g]

^ And the little alcove on the E-D where Picard would get his tea from in TNG was supposed to have a toilet nearby too.

 

[Forbin]

IIRC, Geordi didn't recognize "take a leak." Apparently that particular coloquialism didn't survive to the 24th century. "Pee" he understood fine.

 

[PhasersOnStun]

Have you ever seen Star Trek V?

The 'seat' Kirk sits on while in the brig is not a seat but is a toilet. If you look closely in the scene there is also a warning that says "Do not flush while in spacedock." or something to that effect.

I do remember that.

It took the Enterprise some 20 years to get a toilet...and even then, you have to be incarcerated to use it!

 

[SeattleMatt]

By TNG's time period bathrooms were no longer needed. Waste material was beamed out of the body at regular intervals.

Maybe they beam to the Abram's Dimension like in the new Family Guy episode?

 

[timothy1701]

We don't see many toilets in startrek, but I don't think there really there. In voyager, at one time B'lanna was in the bathroom, and they every angle of it...no toilet!!

 

[RandyS]

I also remember seeing a wall graphic explaining how to use a toilet in zero-g from TMP (I think).

They have instructions to use a john in zero gravity on a ship with artifical gravity??

 

[RandyS]

Problem is, when Cochrane asked if people still peed in the future, Geordi seemed to know what peeing was.

I can't help wondering if that diologue wasn't inserted into First Contact for the puprose of addressing this very question.

To me it just seemed like a cheap joke that the writers put in because it was a movie rather than TV, and they figured they could better get away with it.

 

[Triskelion]

In Data's Day, when Data comes home he picks up spot and asks the computer to run a fluidic sensor diagnostic.
The computer replies Diagnostic complete. All systems functioning within normal parameters.

So the cat didn't have to pee. Apparently it was something Data had to monitor. Perhaps command the computer to transport it out?

So the sensor-scans and auto-transport evacuation theory goes out the window.