Admiral Patrick[Shitty Daystrom] Have we ever seen a 23rd century toilet, and how would it function?
personThere’s a c/replicatorpissers where … I don’t have to explain.
Flying SquidHard to fit your butt in that little niche though.
gregorumWe saw one in Star Trek V when Kirk, Spock, and bones are put in the brig of the enterprise – a. Kirk pushes a button and it slides out and he sits on it. But the lid is down, and thankfully, he doesn’t use it. It kind of looks like a normal toilet. That’s all we know. 
Yeah, I did see that on Memory Alpha, which I assumed were basically option 1 as described above. That’s why I was asking about 24th century ones since we have even less to go on. I did confuse 2300’s and 23rd century, so I had to go back and fix the post 🤦♂️
God, that must have been so embarrassing.
So, what about Klingons? Do they use TP, or just live up to their name?
Asking the real questions here. Going to say yes to TP but they don’t wash their hands.
Perhaps surprisingly, bidets. Like, full-on Japanese style with heated water and deoderizers and whatnot.
It is a surprise only to you, human.
A warrior must go to battle… fresh!
To be fair (and pedantic) that is a 23rd century toilet.
I commented before OP edited his title and post. Originally, he was asking about a 23rd century toilet.
Yep, that’s on me. I confused 2300’s with 23rd century and had to go back and fix that.
I think they just shit on the transporter pad and beam it into space. I’m pretty sure OBrien transports poop places as a joke.
ummthatguyBetween Keiko, the demands of an engineer, and being the resident poop transporter, it’s hard to blame him for going mad with power.
IninewCrowKnowing how they use transporters to move items around all over the place, including small items onto the surface of a planet … I’m now imagining the entire crew just pissing and shitting everywhere and anywhere on the ship and then just calling O’Brien to get rid of the mess.
InfynisThe wizard approach
👍Maximum Derek👍Replicators aren’t energy-to-matter (or vise-versa), they’re matter-to-energy-to-matter. They pull from stocks of base molecules and convert them into food (or whatever) form using stored patterns. According to MA:
Federation replicators often recycled waste produced by living beings – including fecal material – to provide the raw material for replicators. Such material was deconstructed down to the atomic level, and then recombined as needed into foodstuffs and other products.
Meaning that you’re getting a literal shit sandwich for dinner. :-)
Good catch.
I guess that really wouldn’t change the overall operation as described above, just the specifics of what processes happen when you “flush”.
The thing that happens earlier is simple too. You shit where they place used plates back.
ivanafterallDo they still use the three shells in the 24th century?
You left out a reference.
Kirk sitting on the brig toilet in TMP.
The context of the scene makes it clear what he’s sitting on.
Heh, yeah. I screwed up and posted “23rd” century when I meant the late 2300’s (24th century) / TNG era. I had to update the post later to reflect that.
Oops, sorry. Missed the update.
Now I want to know why it can’t be used in spacedock (unless it’s exactly why I think)
You don’t want to know the kind of stuff that infests a spacedock that might come up that access port.
(Which is another good Shitty Daystrom question- how is everything in the Federation, tribbles being the rare exception, mostly pest free?)
That’s a good shout for any lurking SNW writers. Though I expect it’s already up on a proverbial whiteboard somewhere. A comic (or otherwise, but I’m sure they’d get a couple of jokes in, regardless) pest infestation plot seems right up their alley. Tribbles with a twist.
I have also not seen all of LD, so I don’t know, but if they do, they should also point out that almost every planet they go to is almost totally free of small flying creatures like bugs.
I mean sure, Risa killed them all off because they interfered with people’s vacations, but even the never before visited but almost exactly like Earth planets have no bugs.
Kirk sitting on the brig toilet in TMP.
Final Frontier, actually. Though I understand forgetting that film. I would prefer to.
In Discovery, Admiral Vance delivers a long monologue about how replicators work - that they’re basically eating shit and how good it tastes. I assume they used a similar system in the 24th century.
But on a more serious note, maybe they just go in the sonic shower. It would save space and possibly resources. If they don’t normally, is it an option at least?
Maybe they use the 3 seashells?
MinnesotaGoddamI’d say bidets, but I remember something about sonic showers. So I’ll go with sonic bidet.
I’ve always been a fan of the “It gets beamed out of them” theory. If the transporter malfunctions it’s completely possible to shit someone elses pants.
spittingimageI think O’Brien does a site-to-site transport into the ensigns’ quarters.
From TNG onwards we’ve seen a grand total of one toilet, and that was in Q-who
The borg stole it.