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Sonic showers would clean dirt from you, but you'd still stink. (yiffit.net)
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Was just thinking about this while taking a boring regular shower with water. A sonic shower just vibrates at high intensity to pulverize dirt and knock it from your body; but what about oils and lipids and all that other stuff that makes you stinky?

On a side note, I realized that the only time any dental care is brought up, it's with the ferengi. The race with quite possibly the worst teeth in the galaxy are the only ones seen using cleaning utensils on them.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Two things:

  1. Woah, I never really thought about it, but the not disrupting your perception of consciousness thing is huge. Not only do they have to replicate all of the electrons and neurochemicals in the right locations, but they also have to ensure that their motion continues in exactly the same way.
  2. If they’re able to do all of that, why the fuck does anyone ever leave a transporter dirty? They clearly already do some level of this with the bio-filters. Same with teeth, why don’t the transporters keep your teeth sparkly and your breath fresh?

Bonus points:

  • Are water-based showers a luxury? Surely you could just slap a replicator in there and not have to worry about plumbing.
  • Speaking of plumbing, I can’t recall seeing a toilet in Star Trek. Even if there are, they’d just have a matter decompiler in there, right?
  • So, why not just use the transporters to clear your bowels then? Can’t shit your pants on an away mission if you got cleared out on the beam down.
  • Like, why can’t you just roll out of bed, hop on the transporter pad, and show up to your classes at Starfleet Academy having had a Shower, a Shit and a Shave on the way!
[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The teleporter is already at the edge of their technological capabilities anyway, to the point they have to resort to some hacks to make it work.

ST PicardLike keeping "common biology" like common DNA sections in the transporter's firmware to not have to care about all individual aspects.

And this is even without accounting for malfunctions. Can you imagine eating the wrong vegetable and ending up tuvixed with poop?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

New Debate just dropped: Was Janeway right to murder Poovix?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

But it was a two for one special!