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Sep. 20th, 2010 09:20 amI asked this question before, but I think it was buried in the post and so deserves its own airing:
What if Amelia Earhart and company had stayed aboard Voyager? In what way beyond custodial services could they have contributed to ship's operations? (THIS IS A SERIOUS QUESTION. AND IT IS TWO-PART. WHO CLEANS SHIT UP (have you ever seen a broom on an episode of Star Trek?) AND IF I ACCIDENTALLY GOT TRANSPORTED THROUGH THE SPACE TIME CONTINUUM INTO CHAKOTAY'S ARMS, HOWEVER COULD OUR EPIC LOVE SURVIVE THE FACT THAT I AM GOOD FOR NOTHING IN HIS WORLD BUT LEADING A BOOK CLUB AND SCRUBBING TOILETS?)
I refuse to believe that magic future technology cleans up all messes. There has to be a cleaning detail on a starship, even though we've never ever seen one in any Trek franchise that I can remember.
In my imagination, the way it works on Voyager is that the crewman in charge of custodial services survives but most of his crew is killed (it's a skeleton crew anyway; they don't expect to be gone long). What this means is that custodial services operates on a rotating basis; the one dude is always in charge, and then everybody else except the senior bridge crew (or possibly including the senior bridge crew) takes turns working shifts.
What do y'all think? How does custodial services work in the world of Star Trek? Is my imagination limited? Can reversing the polarity of the shield array really clean up all messes?
What if Amelia Earhart and company had stayed aboard Voyager? In what way beyond custodial services could they have contributed to ship's operations? (THIS IS A SERIOUS QUESTION. AND IT IS TWO-PART. WHO CLEANS SHIT UP (have you ever seen a broom on an episode of Star Trek?) AND IF I ACCIDENTALLY GOT TRANSPORTED THROUGH THE SPACE TIME CONTINUUM INTO CHAKOTAY'S ARMS, HOWEVER COULD OUR EPIC LOVE SURVIVE THE FACT THAT I AM GOOD FOR NOTHING IN HIS WORLD BUT LEADING A BOOK CLUB AND SCRUBBING TOILETS?)
I refuse to believe that magic future technology cleans up all messes. There has to be a cleaning detail on a starship, even though we've never ever seen one in any Trek franchise that I can remember.
In my imagination, the way it works on Voyager is that the crewman in charge of custodial services survives but most of his crew is killed (it's a skeleton crew anyway; they don't expect to be gone long). What this means is that custodial services operates on a rotating basis; the one dude is always in charge, and then everybody else except the senior bridge crew (or possibly including the senior bridge crew) takes turns working shifts.
What do y'all think? How does custodial services work in the world of Star Trek? Is my imagination limited? Can reversing the polarity of the shield array really clean up all messes?
