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> Space toilets are one of those things that are both critical and ignored in most depictions of space. Even in all the years of Star Trek they have "sonic show
by throwup238 2y ago
> Space toilets are one of those things that are both critical and ignored in most depictions of space. Even in all the years of Star Trek they have "sonic showers" , but never depict a toilet
Why would they? They have artificial gravity everywhere and iirc it’s never failed like every other piece of technology when the plot demands it. The toilets wouldn’t look any different, except maybe the ones to accommodate non-human species (THAT would be interesting). Star Trek elides a lot of things that would otherwise be boring because “post-nuclear war Utopia solved it.”
Evacuation is only interesting in zero-G. Although to be fair I don’t remember the expanse or most other hard scifi touching on the topic.
- 0_____0 2y agoThe novel versions of the Expanse do touch on human excreta at points. There's a mention of a urine collection device in a space suit at some point.
- duskwuff 2y agoThe TV series does too, indirectly. Look up the etymology of the expletive "felota".
- crazygringo 2y agoI suddenly realize, though, that I can't ever remember seeing a bathroom door anywhere on any USS Enterprise or similar. Like, wouldn't there be one tucked away in a back corner of the bridge, or a corner of a room or passage adjoining the bridge? Shouldn't we see a bathroom door, or at least the open entrance to a "bathroom corridor", as the characters do a walk-and-talk down the hallways? And then... regular TV shows show women putting on or taking off their makeup in the bathroom mirror, people having a conversation through the shower door, someone in a stall overhearing a conversation by the sink... has Star Trek ever shown that? What the heck does a bathroom look like on Star Trek? And the bathroom signage?
- smitelli 2y agoThe Battlestar Galactica reboot had a few scenes in the locker room/shower/toilet area. Pretty spartan, but probably familiar to anyone who served on a navy ship.
- p_ing 2y agoVisually, it's on the bridge of the Enterprise D [0][1]. Everyone else has to use a bucket [2]. [0] https://cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/star-trek-the-next-generation-enterprise-sheet-4.jpg https://cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/star-trek-the-n... [1] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bathroom https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bathroom [2] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Odo%27s_bucket https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Odo%27s_bucket
- crazygringo 2y agoSon of a gun, they did put one tucked away in a back corner on the bridge! Thanks. Not that it looked distinctive in any way, so you'd never notice: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bathroom?file=Head_door_ITM.jpg https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bathroom?file=Head_door... But I am honestly amazed they did it at all.
- xoxxala 2y agoThere is a bathroom door off the Enterprise-D bridge labeled HEAD. And the official deck plans have a second bathroom off of Picard’s ready room. But those are the only official ones.
- ttepasse 2y agoStar Trek has "sonic showers": https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Sonic_shower https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Sonic_shower And for other bathroom activities: One can imagine creative use of the transporter. Although: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIsauNJ392o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIsauNJ392o