Sonic Shower Thought: Someone has probably used holodeck technology to feel like they're pooping at home.

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 pts · 2y (13 replies)

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

CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y (12 replies)

Can’t you get it to clean itself?

darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 2y (7 replies)

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 pts · 2y (6 replies)

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 pts · 2y (5 replies)

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

CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y (4 replies)

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 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Time would go so much slower without something to do

Case@lemmynsfw.com · 5 pts · 2y

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 pts · 2y

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 pts · 2y

Lol agreed!

SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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 pts · 2y

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.

CileTheSane@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

echodot@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 2y

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

jayrhacker@kbin.social · 13 pts · 2y

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

loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com · 12 pts · 2y

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 pts · 2y (5 replies)

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

netburnr@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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

DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 2y

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

darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y

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

ikapoz@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

metaStatic@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y

What are you keeping in the buffer doc?

TeaHands@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

I hate how right you are.

bouh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

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

Here4CatPics@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (4 replies)

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

digger@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

Here4CatPics@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Blumpkin?

Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

Here4CatPics@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

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