Where are the toilets on the Star Ships? I have only ever heard once of someone requiring the bathroom and they were on earth, the movie 'First Contact'. So, have we given those visits or do they have bathrooms?
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I don't remember that, I'll have to put in the DVD later, well it shoews that we're still normal in the future.
I don't think we see a whole lot of toilets on any TV show unless one is specifically required for the story. I recall a few TNG episodes where we see Troi's bathroom, like the one where she devolves into a fish and has to live in the tub. And we've seen a few showers in VOY and ENT. I also remember seeing a wall graphic explaining how to use a toilet in zero-g from TMP (I think).
But you're right. I don't recall ever seeing an actual toilet.
But you're right. I don't recall ever seeing an actual toilet.
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.
A special commemorating TNG ending hosted by Frakes addressed the issue. Frakes says the Enterprise D had only one bathroom, and pointed it out on the schematic as somewhere in the stardrive section. If we accept this as canon, then that would suck for anyone stuck on the saucer during a seperation.
More canonical evidence of bathrooms, in TFF we see a toilet in the Enterprise's brig. In Voyager's Bride of Chaotica there is a referance to several restrooms being "offline," which is causing some difficulty for Bolian crewmembers. And there are various referances in DS9 to "waste extraction" which is apparentally just a weird way for saying bathroom.
More canonical evidence of bathrooms, in TFF we see a toilet in the Enterprise's brig. In Voyager's Bride of Chaotica there is a referance to several restrooms being "offline," which is causing some difficulty for Bolian crewmembers. And there are various referances in DS9 to "waste extraction" which is apparentally just a weird way for saying bathroom.
I can just picture Picard giving some primitive earthling from the past the talk, and saying "We have evolved beyond the need to excrete waste by striving to better ourselves..."
...and yet, nevertheless, all that Earl Gray does have to go somewhere.
...and yet, nevertheless, all that Earl Gray does have to go somewhere.
By TNG's time period bathrooms were no longer needed. Waste material was beamed out of the body at regular intervals.
There's an old joke about that that says when the waste is beamed out, the energy is transferred to the food replicators. And that's why everyone complains about replicated food being inferior to actual food.
A truly awesome future.By TNG's time period bathrooms were no longer needed. Waste material was beamed out of the body at regular intervals.
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.
A truly awesome future.By TNG's time period bathrooms were no longer needed. Waste material was beamed out of the body at regular intervals.
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.
I can't help wondering if that diologue wasn't inserted into First Contact for the puprose of addressing this very question.
It does bring up another strange issue. In some episode, I don't remember which, everyone rushes to evacuate the bridge. Several crewmembers do rush into that same doorway.
I guess if you gotta go, you gotta go!
A truly awesome future.By TNG's time period bathrooms were no longer needed. Waste material was beamed out of the body at regular intervals.
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.
I remember reading somewhere that this question has been asked many times and that Geordi's line in the movie was a bit of inside joke on the fact that toilets are never shown on Star Trek and fans have asked about it, so this isn't such a crazy or uncommon question.
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