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Day: June 7, 2015
When people say “it’s not classy for a lady to curse”
BITCH THIS LADY IS THE EPITOME OF CLASS
LOOK AT HER CURSE. LOOK AT IT.
.~ Practically perfect in every FUCKING way ~.
Always reblog Julie Andrews.
Mary Poppins is cussing someone out without even speaking
seduce me with ur history knowledge
vikings made their woman handle the finances because they thought math is witchcraft
During a military campaign, Vlad the Impaler, the basis for Dracula, once pulled his troops out of a major engagement in a valley at dusk so that the sun was in their enemies’ eyes. Once they were over the hill, they set loose a bunch of rabid bats who flew away from the sun (towards the enemy) and attacked them, leading to significant infection in their ranks, and Vlad’s eventual victory. Because of how the bats appeared from where Vlad’s soldiers appeared to be at dusk, myth stated that the soldiers turned into bats at night, which is where the “Dracula can change into a bat” thing came from.
Also, I specifically want to know about them for Starfleet ships, because Starfleet is made up of hundreds of different alien species.
I imagine that Deep Space 9 for example, being a Cardassian station, won’t actually account for many aliens at all. Toilets will be designed and placed suited to Cardassians. I have no idea how often or how little Cardassians need to go to the loo, but that’s what will inform their placement of public bathrooms.
If Bajorans have similar bathroom needs, that won’t be so bad, but if their bathroom needs are much different that’d be awful. And by the time the actual DS9 show happens, and all these different aliens go on that station for new commerce, that’s just going to be a nightmare.
But back over to Starfleet ships, they will be accounting for as many different aliens as they can in their ship designs. Some aliens (and some humans!) are going to need to go to the toilet like ALL the time, some aliens are barely ever going to need to go. All aliens probably need to go in different ways.
So basically, the people designing ships, it’s also their job to design a standard of living for the people on the ship – crew or guest. So it’s someone’s job to design public bathrooms, and lay them out considerately over the ship. It would have to be a very considered deliberate thing. And that’s what interests me a lot. Public planning stuff is interesting in general, but especially interesting on transportation. And even MORE interesting on space vessels.
Public bathrooms, in order to avoid accidents, discomfort, dissatisfaction, etc, need to be placed well and in the right amount. Starfleet must genuinely have this down to an art at this stage. Or even if they don’t, even if toilets on Starfleet ships are a joke among everyone in Starfleet because they’re just never right enough for everyone, imagine the colossal effort that must go into them.
Pretty sure you could make a coffee table book about loos on Starfleet vessels and actually fill it at this point.
Also I think I would genuinely be interested in that book.
Maybe I should make a zine about public toilets in Star Trek, and I’m not even joking.
The placement (where and how many) and the size of the bathrooms would probably be the most important parts. With replicators and transporters, depending on the person’s needs, the technology exists to simply beam/replicate/holodeck a ‘toilet’ suited to their species and then beam/disintegrate/recycle it away. Would certainly save on space. So, instead of one room with a billion different toilets, or some monstrosity of a combined toilet, all they’d have to do it figure out how big the biggest single toilet they’d need is, and design the room after that.
Hmm yes, I like that! I think they’d still need more than a single toilet in each bathroom – I mean taking into the account how many crew are aboard a ship, and how busy some areas of the ship are. I imagine in that case, that would probably also mean that some areas, like perhaps the bridge, only have one or two toilet spaces – because there’s a relatively small amount of crew there. But Ten Forward probably has like.. a whole complex of public toilets nearby, considering not only the normal foot traffic, but the diplomatic functions held there.
But yeah, as long as each space (I guess cubicle, or the Star Trek much-nicer-looking version of a cubicle) was large enough to account for the the biggest crewmember species, then it would likely be workable. I’m always a bit dubious about how much they can just replicate then recycle (probably because VOY is my original Trek, and resources are so scarce in that that they can’t just replicate and recycle all the time), but in TNG at least they’re pretty happy to do it all the time.
See, I’ve not seen much of Voyager yet, so I guess I’m not in the same mindset. But for the stalls/cubicles for each bathroom, they could have a setup where each bathroom as a few medium or average size cubicles, a couple small, and a couple large.
The women of the Ziegfeld Follies.
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