I just watched "Thirty Days" and wondered..

[Guy Gardener]

The Sherif in Eureka, his truck just got squashed by a giant wad of frozen shit which fell out of an airplane...

But exodus, poop in the 23rd century, and the 24th is not "dirty" or yucky for spacemen, it's a vital building block to almost everything they use given the degree unto which everything is recycled, that 60 percent of their clothing was ever so recently someone elses poop... Unless they're in denial?

 

[exodus]

Guy Gardener said:
The Sherif in Eureka, his truck just got squashed by a giant wad of frozen shit which fell out of an airplane...

But exodus, poop in the 23rd century, and the 24th is not "dirty" or yucky for spacemen, it's a vital building block to almost everything they use given the degree unto which everything is recycled, that 60 percent of their clothing was ever so recently someone elses poop... Unless they're in denial?

Yes, I know but there are things you sometimes rather not know. Like how the cow is killed in order for me to enjoy a good steak.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I don't think anyone has mentioned Zephram taking a "leak" in first contact.

 

[Odon]

Guy Gardener said:
But exodus, poop in the 23rd century, and the 24th is not "dirty" or yucky for spacemen, it's a vital building block to almost everything they use given the degree unto which everything is recycled, that 60 percent of their clothing was ever so recently someone elses poop...

No wonder Klaang in Broken Bow was complaining about "stinky boots"!

 

[Guy Gardener]

If shit is a valuable commodity, in particular regions of space at certain levels of technology... Remember how obsessed Neelix was with water in the pilot? Some mirror universe definition of the hedgehog could have been asking for Janeway in the beginning if she had any shit to spare, and they had to pay off the Kazon before the fire fight with huge vats of bowel release which Neelix then shot a hole in it and all the Kazon trying to catch the bulk of the body waste in little buckets.

Could have just as easily have been blood too.

 

[exodus]

Guy Gardener said:
If shit is a valuable commodity, in particular regions of space at certain levels of technology... Remember how obsessed Neelix was with water in the pilot? Some mirror universe definition of the hedgehog could have been asking for Janeway in the beginning if she had any shit to spare, and they had to pay off the Kazon before the fire fight with huge vats of bowel release which Neelix then shot a hole in it and all the Kazon trying to catch the bulk of the body waste in little buckets.

Could have just as easily have been blood too.

That's as nasty as it is funny.

 

[Odon]

The planet of no fertilizer...

 

[hawk200]

Trains have open toilets that go out unto the tracks.They do lock the johns when comimg into the station.
A word of advice. never fish under a railroad bridge.

 

[Timo]

Many spacecraft have had toilets that flush out into space, too. Nobody remember the Constellation Urion thing of the early Mercury flights, with frozen pee resulting in UFO sightings?

OTOH, many trains, ships and aircraft are now equipped with bilge systems that collect everything and every now and then pump it out to the sewers at the station. One would assume that a giant starship that plows the dark skies for five years at an end would have a self-contained waste management system rather than something that flushes to the outside.

As for Tom's cell, it's got a pretty "clean" look, without too many greeblies on the walls. Those never made any sense in the silly TNG cell set. Doesn't mean that there wouldn't be some built-in functionality to Tom's bunk, for example (self-cleaning sheets, a storage compartment and a toilet under the lid, etc.).

Timo Saloniemi

 

[exodus]

hawk200 said:
Trains have open toilets that go out unto the tracks.They do lock the johns when comimg into the station.
A word of advice. never fish under a railroad bridge.

Yeah, some people learned that lesson from Dave Matthews a few years ago.

 

[The Borg Queen]

Maybe people just go through a transporter cycle and let the biofilters do their thing...

 

[Luther Sloan]

Re: I just watched "Thirty Days" and wondered..

Yeah, that sounds great. They just beam the poop out of the prisoner while he or she is in the brig. You know, it's part of their punishment or whatever.

"Locking onto poop."

*Transporter hums*

"Make sure you calibrate the transporter properly this time."

"We don't want to beam out part of the intestinal track out into space again like we did the last time!"