I was about to make the joke "They get splinters very well, thank you" but then I realized what community this is, so I won't make the joke.
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Cable stranding is a common way to get a metal splinter, but they already established that copper cables are not used on a ship (which I find just unrealistic, you can't just wirelessly power and transmit everysingle thing on a ship).
Power is distributed by the EPS grid. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/EPS_grid
I'm not only talking about electrical power, communication is also a form of power transmission over distance, they established thay for communication they don't "constrain the signals in the wire, so they can be blocked from outside", so I'd gueds they transmit everything wirelessly, including inter-person communication, diagnostics and commands to engines, which is crazy
“Oh, good Lord, didn't anybody here build ships in bottles when they were boys?”
Possibly from handling artifacts, cargo, etc? Maybe the replicators of the era leave some rough edges (literally)?
Space pallets.
They probably a tree-species crewmember onboard.
I was going to say maybe an away mission, but now I'm wondering if the transporter wouldn't just filter it out when beaming back?
I imagine it's programmed to not do that in case it accidentally removes an impaled artery and the subject bleeds out.
Yes, I imagine metal and glass splinters would happen, but we routinely get hair-splinters (something about how a sock holds it, skin flexes, and body weight). So yeah, sounds plausible to me even with so little as "wearing socks".
Yeah, I think hair splinters is plausible. I didn't even know this was a thing until I started to grow out my beard and tugged on it like a wise old sage but ended up breaking the tip off and getting is stuck in my thumb...a few times...you think I'd learn to stop doing that...
I forget, do the replicators produce utensils to go with the food or is there like a reusable set somewhere? If the former, maybe some dish or another comes with wooden chopsticks or such out of tradition? Or perhaps some species or another might have a diet that includes wood in some way and they can accidentally leave splinters around like crumbs or something.
I was going to point out crew might just prefer to use chopsticks normally, but then I remembered that my wooden chopsticks are lacquered and wouldn't produce splinters. But I guess the replicator could make chopsticks for traditional asian dishes even if the refrectory has reusable cutlery, just like Japanese restaurants provide disposable chopsticks to white people
It's always Sally from hydroponics.
When you control panels regular explode with rocks flying all over the place .... I'm pretty sure splinters can be common as well
They have hand-made objects and can replicate wood. Tho this made me wonder... If the holodeck's safety protocols are working as intended, could Sisko end up getting a splinter from his holographic wooden baseball bat? 🤔
A flake of chipped paint could become a splinter