Everyone helping assemble Dr. Galen’s progenitor flag.

Massive origin story for the damn galaxy, never once mentioned ever again.

They wanted an explanation about why all species are humanoid, mostly because makeup on an actor is cheaper than making unique species. the explanation sucked, no explanation could have worked.

That is like having a whole 3 part episode on why there are no toilets on any federation ships, or why there is sound in space, or why they don’t use seatbelts…

why there are no toilets on any federation ships

No way, half the time JLP says he’ll be in his ready room he means he’s heading to the porcelain captain’s chair to fire off some earl grey torpedoes.

In the future you can choose to deuce the traditional way or have it beamed directly out of your colon, and Picard loves his photon bombing rituals.

I’ve held that theory for years. that due to teleport tech, people no money need toilets, as urine and fecal matter gets teleported out.

And part of Starfleet training involves potty training, where they have to train on how urinate/defecate during away missions.

Do teleported urine and feces leave vacuum behind? Because that would mean massive cavitation bubbles in both the bladder and the rectum, immediately collapsing with a loud bang and a momentary increase in temperature over 100°C.

maybe instead of teleporting out the entire contents of a full rectum, you teleport a ml at a time, or basically teleport every tiny bit as it enters the rectum, same with the bladder.

Honestly, teleporter tech is criminally underused in that universe.

can you teleport out co2 from the alveoli and replace with oxygen instead of needing a respirator? imagine 99% of surgeries could be done with teleport tech instead of needing to cut anything.

fuck, maybe that is how Hypospray works, and how it can inject drugs into the bloodstream without hurting the skin or the clothes they are wearing.

There is also the transporter buffer, they can put a lot of stuff in the buffer, why not use it for storage? Or maybe a brig?

One of the Abrahams movie casually made spaceships obsolete by having teleporters that can reach across the galaxy.

And those are ideas that I came up in a couple minutes of thinking.