In SNW 2x09 Subspace Rhapsody, the opening song includes the following lyrics:
We can confirm thereāre no injuries
Just the daily Mundane
A headache, a splinter
A left ankle sprain
Which leaves the question, how did that splinter happen? And how is that particular minor ailment common enough to be considered a ādaily mundaneā?
Most splinters today come from rough or unfinished wooden objects, which I would expect to be quite rare on a starship. Other materials (plastics, metals) can create splinters which could plausibly impale somebody in a superficial way, but by and large those materials shouldnāt be splintering outside of catastrophic failures, which again should be quite rare.
Does the enterprise have some particularly lackadaisical hobbyist woodworkers on staff? How else could this have happened?
āOh, good Lord, didnāt anybody here build ships in bottles when they were boys?ā
Possibly from handling artifacts, cargo, etc? Maybe the replicators of the era leave some rough edges (literally)?
I was going to say maybe an away mission, but now Iām wondering if the transporter wouldnāt just filter it out when beaming back?
I imagine itās programmed to not do that in case it accidentally removes an impaled artery and the subject bleeds out.
Space pallets.
They probably a tree-species crewmember onboard.
Yes, I imagine metal and glass splinters would happen, but we routinely get hair-splinters (something about how a sock holds it, skin flexes, and body weight). So yeah, sounds plausible to me even with so little as āwearing socksā.
Yeah, I think hair splinters is plausible. I didnāt even know this was a thing until I started to grow out my beard and tugged on it like a wise old sage but ended up breaking the tip off and getting is stuck in my thumbā¦a few timesā¦you think Iād learn to stop doing thatā¦
I forget, do the replicators produce utensils to go with the food or is there like a reusable set somewhere? If the former, maybe some dish or another comes with wooden chopsticks or such out of tradition? Or perhaps some species or another might have a diet that includes wood in some way and they can accidentally leave splinters around like crumbs or something.
I was going to point out crew might just prefer to use chopsticks normally, but then I remembered that my wooden chopsticks are lacquered and wouldnāt produce splinters. But I guess the replicator could make chopsticks for traditional asian dishes even if the refrectory has reusable cutlery, just like Japanese restaurants provide disposable chopsticks to white people
When you control panels regular explode with rocks flying all over the place ā¦ Iām pretty sure splinters can be common as well
Itās always Sally from hydroponics.
They have hand-made objects and can replicate wood. Tho this made me wonderā¦ If the holodeckās safety protocols are working as intended, could Sisko end up getting a splinter from his holographic wooden baseball bat? š¤
Cable stranding is a common way to get a metal splinter, but they already established that copper cables are not used on a ship (which I find just unrealistic, you canāt just wirelessly power and transmit everysingle thing on a ship).
Power is distributed by the EPS grid. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/EPS_grid
Iām not only talking about electrical power, communication is also a form of power transmission over distance, they established thay for communication they donāt āconstrain the signals in the wire, so they can be blocked from outsideā, so Iād gueds they transmit everything wirelessly, including inter-person communication, diagnostics and commands to engines, which is crazy
A flake of chipped paint could become a splinter
I was about to make the joke āThey get splinters very well, thank youā but then I realized what community this is, so I wonāt make the joke.
