• Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.mlEnglish
    22·
    6 months ago

    I would be super dissapointed to learn that they figured out FTL travel and the ability to simply materialise food and all the other amazing technological feats but still hadn’t automated cleaning yet. I godamn hate cleaning.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    14·
    6 months ago

    And his needs are met. He’s got a place to live. He’s got replicators.

    I’d vacuum every damned deck if it gave me a place on a starship where all my needs were met.

    • DuffmanOfTheCosmos@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      100%. I have a nice cushy work from home desk job right now but I’ve also worked service jobs and manual labor jobs and I would absolutely jump at the chance for a job as janitorial staff on a starship exploring the galaxy for nothing more than accommodations and the amenities of replicators and holodecks aboard said starship exploring the galaxy. Space shitter clogged? I’m all over it for a chance to just be out there with my needs met.

  • x4740N@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    6 months ago

    Couldn’t they just clean the ship using the transporters and air filtration

      • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zipEnglish
        9·
        6 months ago

        Do a daily transporter sweep for dead organic material all over the ship to purge all those skin cells and hairs and other leftovers of our existing. No more vac

          • Olgratin_MagmatoeEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            Just avoid areas with life signs. Person in the room? Delay the transporter sweep for an hour and check again. Or alternatively just don’t clear dead skin cells/hair/dust within a 2ft radius of a given life sign, and do maybe 3 sweeps a day.

        • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          6 months ago

          And then someone forgets to reset the buffer after a difficult transport and then suddenly there’s 30 new Tuvixes.

    • Blaine@lemmy.mlEnglish
      9·
      6 months ago

      Thanks for reminding me of yet another reason why Star Trek: Discovery is not canon.

  • Olgratin_MagmatoeEnglish
    5·
    6 months ago

    Given that they have the ability to select pretty much whatever material they want with the transporters, I imagine it wouldn’t be too hard for them to do a once a day transport for all dust/debris particles directly into space, or some containment unit of their choosing. Same goes for pretty much any other cleaning task.

    • MarmaladeMermaid@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      It is mentioned in that one episode where they have a small village of “back to the land” type people staying in the cargo bay, along with their farm animals that they don’t have to keep sweeping up all the time, the bays will clean themselves. They just have to stop lighting cooking fires.

      • Olgratin_MagmatoeEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        That actually makes me think, would it theoretically be possible to automate ship repair with transporter technology? All the time they have ships coming in with giant chunks missing.

        If you are able to get a high resolution scan of the current state of the vessel, and have the plans to build it, couldn’t they set up a specialized transporter to transport the damaged bits away, and transition area that is destroyed, and then replace it with new parts as needed?

        Basically do some a similar repair method from Space Engineers, just fancier with transporters.

  • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 months ago

    Is that the Paramount set or is that Star Trek The Experience? A lot of the proportions seem off.

    • dejected_warp_coreEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      At the very least, the headrests are wrong and the carpet is the wrong color*. Probably the latter.

      (* maybe it looks “right” on those novelty VHS recordings you get at the end of the experience?)

  • talosEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    This reminds me of the old web series Space Janitors.