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submitted 2 years ago by digger@lemmy.ca to c/risa@startrek.website

I know people who only poop at home. I can't imagine being out in space for years. With holodeck technology... Someone is bound to have written a program that simulated their bathroom at home.

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[-] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 years ago

We didn’t need any more supporting data to cement “cleaning out the holodecks” as the worst job in starfleet

[-] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Can’t you get it to clean itself?

[-] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 years ago

It’s a job in Lower Decks which I think makes it canon.

That being said, it would be hilarious if holodecks can be self-cleaning but they still make ensigns do it anyway to “build character”

[-] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Maybe it’s the worst job because it’s really boring. You just go “Computer, run holodeck cleaning” and wait for it to finish?

[-] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 16 points 2 years ago

Scraping carbon off of slightly harder carbon using phasers. Apparently it's a manual job.

[-] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Yeah Star Trek is so silly about manual tasks. You’d think they’d have Phaser Roombas (Phoombas). Like it’s either get a crew member to do it or you end up with an evil AI and barely any in between.

[-] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Time would go so much slower without something to do

[-] Case@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 2 years ago

Slower? Sure, I'll grant you that.

However, there are some things in life I'd rather not do, even if it resulted in being bored out of my mind.

And I hate, hate, being bored.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Like it’s either get a crew member to do it or you end up with an evil AI and barely any in between.

Sometimes it's both.

[-] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Lol agreed!

[-] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

It’s a matter assembler disassembler. Should be perfect for it.

On the other hand people wear costumes to the holodeck so I’m not sure.

[-] D1G17AL@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I think that's more so they can be prepared to get into character before they go into the simulation. Less to do with the need for the costume.

[-] DroneRights@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Broccoli is in uniform during his holodeck fantasies because he doesn't make time to change

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

It's holograms and force fields, that's why if you take anything out of the holodeck it disappears.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago

Unless it's snow obviously. I suppose that might have been actually replicated.

[-] jayrhacker@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago

Man, cleaning out the bio filters was bad enough with all the porn…

[-] loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 2 years ago

Actually, I tend to think of this ship as home. But if it's Earth you're talking about, I try to get back whenever I can.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago

Someone has probably used transporter technology to Harry Potter their poop away

[-] netburnr@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Like before you even go to the bathroom. That would be super weird feeling.

[-] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

“O’Brien, set biofilters for feces and urine”

[-] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Have you ever had a gas bubble in your gut that shifted and now you feel fine?

[-] ikapoz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

A whole new spin on a “transporter buffer overflow”.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

What are you keeping in the buffer doc?

[-] TeaHands@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I hate how right you are.

[-] Here4CatPics@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Isn't that implied in a Lower Decks episode That people mainly use the holodeck for the bathroom

[-] digger@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

That all depends on what you're using the bathroom for.

[-] Here4CatPics@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 2 years ago

To jerk off. That's why it sucks to have to clean them.

[-] Here4CatPics@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Seeing as how the lower deckers have shared communal space at all times when off duty, I too, would want a nice private place to spank the space monkey

[-] bouh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

They have their appartement and family on the ship though. Isn't it their home at some point?

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