the dumb questions you were afraid to ask thread

[Brutal Strudel]

CoveTom said:

Brutal Strudel said:
Funny thing is, while this is the obvious explanation, you'll still find tons of people in the DS9 forum looking for another answer. People are fascinating and by fascinating I mean--

I accept the explanation as the intention of the scene. But it still strikes me as coming off unnatural. Regardless of their respective ranks, Riker and O'Brien had served together for years and, although certainly not the best of friends, were colleagues and at least good acquaintences who respected one another.

For Riker to come out of the blue with some cryptic remark about there being nothing to say and "I think you know why," and the O'Brien to just accept that and leave without questioning it in the slightest seems a bit... off. I just don't see that as being the way people would really behave. I would think O'Brien would be taken aback by Riker's comments, and make an attempt to inquire.

Something as simple as O'Brien saying "I... beg your pardon, sir?" and Riker replying "I have nothing further to say to you chief, you're dismissed" would make that scene play a whole lot more naturally to me.

It would have improved it, yes, but I can still buy it as is.

 

[STIntergalactic]

22 Stars said:
"If a Bolian and a Nausicaan leave Risa at Warp 10, and a Horta leaves Feringinar at Warp 2, what time would the cross paths in the Expanse?"

Once the Bolian and the Nausicaan hit warp 10, then their paths cross in the Expanse as soon as the Horta gets there. They'll also cross paths with every other ship in the universe instantly.

 

[sbk1234]

What's the PH balance of the soil on Vulcan?

 

[NathanielM]

If Spock has pointed ears, what does Scotty have.

Enginears!

 

[NathanielM]

HEY Where's the head at?

 

[sbk1234]

Why'd they ever get rid of the miniskirts, and why have we never seen more of Helen Noel?
Interpret that any way you want.

 

[Joanna McCoy-Kirk]

Is "The Trouble with Tribbles" no longer canon because of "Trials and Tribble-ations"? (The two do contradict each other in small ways.)

JL

 

[captcalhoun]

no, it's an alternate past

 

[tomalak301]

Doesn't anyone in Trek use the bathroom and where does all that stuff go? I guess I heard something that it gets recycled, but how exactly? Does that mean that if I were serving on the Enterprise or something like that, I would literally be eating shit?

Ok, so that was three questions, but I've always been curious about that, because going to the bathroom is still a bodily function, hopefully 200-300 years from now.

 

[Forbin]

tomalak301 said:
Doesn't anyone in Trek use the bathroom and where does all that stuff go?

Jimmy Doohan answered that question at a con once. he said "Ya yake a phaser, and go off into a corner, and ya be verrrry careful!"

 

[captcalhoun]

DS9 introduced 'waste extraction' to which the mind boggles.

ENT stated that they recycled it into the protein resequencers.

the TNGTM i believe suggests something similar, that the waste is dissolved into some kind of energy held in the replicator network and then reconstituted into replicated items as needed. so your new uniform would be partly made of last night's leftovers, someone's poop, a broken tricorder and dirty socks. likewise food.

 

[MetalPants]

Recycled poop, just the way Mom used to make. Yummy!

 

[Alyssa]

do Vulcans make movies?

 

[captcalhoun]

they do, but they're really dull and boring.


apart from Vulcan Love Slave of course...

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Here's my question:

Kira is a great hand to hand fighter.
We've seen this. So how did she get her ass kicked in Invasive Procedures by a pleasure planet girl. I mean Kira attacked first tried ti hit her twice maybe three times to no good effect. Then this girl just goes nuts hitting her about five or six times drilling her into the ground, but it looks to me like Kira was actually KOed by the second hit and hadnt had a chance to fall yet. How did this happen lol.

 

[TeutonicNights]

Cthulhu said:
Recycled poop, just the way Mom used to make. Yummy!

Chocolate Pretzels are the #1 snack on Enterprise

 

[Deckerd]

Here's my question, and it goes for most other Sci Fi series too. How come nobody watches TV?

 

[Ghel]

tomalak301 said:
Doesn't anyone in Trek use the bathroom and where does all that stuff go? I guess I heard something that it gets recycled, but how exactly? Does that mean that if I were serving on the Enterprise or something like that, I would literally be eating shit?

Ok, so that was three questions, but I've always been curious about that, because going to the bathroom is still a bodily function, hopefully 200-300 years from now.

I hate to break it to you guys, but I worked in wastewater for a number of years as a side job. That is pretty much what happens on earth too. You flush your poop, it ultimately disolves into the water and runs down hill until you reach the treatment plant. There, they mechanically extract any solids (such as tampons, rocks, toothbrushes, etc.) Ultimately, the poopwater gets stirred to keep it from going "septic" and is finally "treated" with radiation or chemicals (or even filtering it through a lagoon or wetland field) to remove any harmful bacteria. Once treated, the water goes right back into a local river or body of water, which is where your tapwater comes from.

Yummy!

 

[tomalak301]

^Really. I did not know that. That's kind of cool.

 

[Bill Morris]

The speed of light in what we call a vacuum (normal space in Trek terms) is c (1,079,252,848.8 km/h), a little less in air, about 2/3 or 3/4 that in thick media like water, glass, etc. and about 1/2 that through a diamond, but what about in Trekiverse subspace?