TNG Ponder This...

[Plecostomus]

Ok a quasi-game/serious quesion answer thread. This thread is for those important questions that have no canon answer yet bug the back of your mind...


For example:

Does the "Old Farmer's Almanac -- Klingon Homeworld Edition" have a chart detailing which days are good days to die and which days are not?

Let 'er rip!

 

[Bones2]

So is there a cure for baldness in the future or not?

 

[tharpdevenport]

Or a cure for overweight people, like ... Scotty?

 

[Bones2]

There can't be, with the way Riker ended up.

 

[Red Ranger]

^Or considering the Pakleds, Klingon Chancellor Kempec, and the fat Ferengi arms dealer in Unification, Pt. II.

Was the Genesis project completely abandoned, as terraformers still took decades to remake planets?

Red Ranger

 

[RyuRoots]

Did Livingston (Picard's fish) survive the Ent-D's crash in Generations? Seriously, I've always wondered (and hoped so)

 

[Farrens]

Picard's fish had a name?!?

 

[Gil T.Azell]

Or a cure for overweight people, like ... Scotty?

or the overweight Admirals though-out the series

 

[Cuhl]

Did Livingston (Picard's fish) survive the Ent-D's crash in Generations? Seriously, I've always wondered (and hoped so)

According to Memory Alpha, "writer Ronald D. Moore suggested that Livingston was eaten by Data's cat Spot after the crash." (But that quote is marked "citation needed.")

They also say that Livingston is seen on the Enterprise-E, so it seems that he survived.

Frankly, I was always hoping that he would turn out to be a holographic fish. I mean, does a starship captain have time to feed the fish, change the water, etc? And if he ever got tired of him, pfft! he could dial up a different fish, just like that.

 

[Christopher]

Frankly, I was always hoping that he would turn out to be a holographic fish. I mean, does a starship captain have time to feed the fish, change the water, etc?

That's what enlisted crew are for. Although we hardly saw any enlisted crew in TNG, which doesn't make sense, since they should outnumber officers.

Here's one to ponder: Who cleaned the floors and the walls? Who kept the windows and consoles clean and shiny? Did they have enlisted personnel cleaning things after all? Were there robots that came out of the walls at night? Were the surfaces nanotechnologically self-cleaning? Was there a cleaning transporter that locked onto dirt, dust, and oil and beamed it away?

 

[Canuck69]

I do remember Riker telling the hot chick in "Up The Long Ladder" that the ship cleans itself. He didn't say how though. I just remember her hilarious line of "well good for the bloody ship."

 

[Christopher]

Which seems to suggest some sort of robots, but robotics seemed to be at such a rudimentary level in the Federation aside from "breakthroughs" like Data and the exocomps.

 

[JB2005]

^ Maybe it was tied into the replicators/transporters, dirt/grime was beamed up then reused in the replicators...

 

[Yeoman Randi]

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Here's one to ponder: Who cleaned the floors and the walls? Who kept the windows and consoles clean and shiny? Did they have enlisted personnel cleaning things after all? Were there robots that came out of the walls at night? Were the surfaces nanotechnologically self-cleaning? Was there a cleaning transporter that locked onto dirt, dust, and oil and beamed it away?

There were bartenders/waiters in Ten-Forward that weren't enlisted, so there could have been a cleaning crew....right?

Jeez, we aren't too anal, are we? (I am anyway).

 

[sbk1234]

Did Starfleet officers have to sign waivers before they were allowed to bring their civilian and under age families on board?

 

[Data Holmes]

Is starfleet a military or not?

 

[Deckerd]

Why did nobody watch visual media for entertainment?

 

[Christopher]

Did Starfleet officers have to sign waivers before they were allowed to bring their civilian and under age families on board?

Not all the civilians were family members of Starfleet personnel. The original idea behind the Enterprise-D, which was largely forgotten later on, was that it was a research vessel, essentially a sort of university village in space, with a large complement of civilian scientists on board.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Here's one to ponder: Who cleaned the floors and the walls? Who kept the windows and consoles clean and shiny? Did they have enlisted personnel cleaning things after all? Were there robots that came out of the walls at night? Were the surfaces nanotechnologically self-cleaning? Was there a cleaning transporter that locked onto dirt, dust, and oil and beamed it away?

Colm Meaney used to tell a story about that very subject. He said that when filming "The Wounded", in the scene where he and Keiko eat his "special meal", that a piece of food dropped on the table and he just picked it up and plopped it into his mouth. Supposedly, when Berman saw the dailies, he ordered the scene reshot. Meaney then asked why. Berman told him because the ship is "self-cleaning".

 

[BolianAuthor]

Frankly, I was always hoping that he would turn out to be a holographic fish. I mean, does a starship captain have time to feed the fish, change the water, etc?

That's what enlisted crew are for. Although we hardly saw any enlisted crew in TNG, which doesn't make sense, since they should outnumber officers.

Here's one to ponder: Who cleaned the floors and the walls? Who kept the windows and consoles clean and shiny? Did they have enlisted personnel cleaning things after all? Were there robots that came out of the walls at night? Were the surfaces nanotechnologically self-cleaning? Was there a cleaning transporter that locked onto dirt, dust, and oil and beamed it away?

In the episode "Up The Long Ladder", Riker told Brenna that "the ship will clean itself", which would hint that a lot of stuff is automated... but aye, I tend to think background Ensigns or something tended to most of that stuff.