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submitted 11 months 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 41 points 11 months ago

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

[-] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Can’t you get it to clean itself?

[-] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 31 points 11 months 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 13 points 11 months 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 15 points 11 months ago

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

[-] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

Time would go so much slower without something to do

[-] Case@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

Lol agreed!

[-] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[-] jayrhacker@kbin.social 15 points 11 months ago

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

[-] loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[-] netburnr@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

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

[-] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

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

[-] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

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

[-] ikapoz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

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

[-] metaStatic@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

What are you keeping in the buffer doc?

[-] TeaHands@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I hate how right you are.

[-] Here4CatPics@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] digger@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Here4CatPics@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago
[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Here4CatPics@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

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