/r/sonicshowerthoughts
This sub has gone dark in support of the protest. It's usually thoughts you might have taking a much needed sonic shower aboard a USS Federation ship.
A subreddit for you to share all those thoughts, ideas, or philosophical questions that race through your head when in the sonic shower, which will be invented around 2270.
Showerthought is a loose term that applies to any thought you might have while carrying out a routine task like sonic showering, piloting a shuttlecraft, or daydreaming in the holodeck.
Rules:
Non-sonicshowerthoughts will (generally) be removed.
Please be respectful of others submissions, if you disagree - explain why in the comments. Rudeness is unacceptable.
Posts about a certain hedgehog will be removed by the sonic shower. You may be interested in this, this, or this.
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Klingons probably keep skunks as pets because they love the dank smell.
"A Warriors Musk"
18:52 UTC
The officers can play so many different roles on the ship because their jobs are super automated, and all they have to do for a lot of tasks is punch the right buttons and delegate things to the ship's computer
Hence why Worf can be both chief of security/head of ops, why Geordi can do R&D while also being chief engineer, why they can all command the station and the Defiant and lead large-scale military operations at the same time... etc.
01:57 UTC
I went to Sickbay for neck pain and the doctor gave me a musical instrument from my planet which he said would help lower my heart rate
Why did he have a Vulcan lute lying around? Does he have a musical instrument from everyone's home just in case they need it? Is he even a real doctor? Can I get a second opinion?
04:44 UTC
Dreamed that I saw a DS9 episode where Julian was advised that putting a stone axehead under his pillow would stop nightmares
02:21 UTC
DS9 Runabouts look like tiny baby Battlestar Galacticas
I can't unsee it
11:00 UTC
Section 31 is a lot creepier when they use normal Starfleet uniforms and ships instead of obviously evil ones.
16:42 UTC
Does Quark's name literally refer to the sub-atomic particle, or is it just a phonetic coincidence?
18:33 UTC
If the Starfleet Academy show includes a ship, it should be the USS Beverly Hills, NCC-90210
19:36 UTC
It's a good thing Khan didn't have any physics nerds in his crew
"The Klingons have a saying: 'Revenge is a dish best served cold.' It is very cold... in space..."
(pushes up glasses) "Actually, sir, that's not true. It doesn't really make sense to say that space is either 'hot' or 'cold'. There isn't enough particle density to provide a meaningful temperature reading. In fact, by some measures you could even say that space is very hot!"
"Joaquim, please show Barney to the airlock."
"Sorry! Sorry, sir. Back to work on the ol' photon emitters! Glory to the Superior Intellect!"
18:23 UTC
Why don’t they put grav plating in the Jeffries tubes?
All the ops staff is crawling around on their hands and knees on top of metal grating. They must have the most calloused knees this side of a Vulcan love slave.
With grav plating they could just slide down the maintenance tubes without any problem quickly and efficiently.
03:47 UTC
After Odo joined with the Great Link, shouldn't he have learned to make his face more realistic?
23:27 UTC
Humanizing character trait, by captain
Kirk: Likes the ladies
Picard: Hates PITA kids
Sisko: Likes to cook
Janeway: Likes coffee
Archer: Likes dogs
Burnham: Likes feelings
Pike: Likes to cook
Freeman: Hates her PITA kid
Dal: Is a PITA kid
23:04 UTC
Why don't they use physical weapons against the Borg?
Like when they board the ship and the crew is trying to fight them off. OH NO, they adapted to our phaser frequencies. Why don't they go the Klingon route and use melee weapons? Seems far more effective. Or use kinetic weapons like Picard did in the holodeck in First Contact. Or on Starships, equip them with some 24th century kinetic weapons. Surely they would be capable of firing a few hundred kilogram projectile at near light speeds. That would bore a hole through a cube so large they could fly through it. If it didn't blow the whole cube apart.
02:20 UTC
It's generally assumed the M/AM reaction is only used for warp speeds, but what about ...
So, like the title says, generally it's claimed that the M/AM warp core is power just for the warp coils to generate the warp field. It's been stated in canon that impulse engines are powered by fusion reactors, and that other systems are also powered by these systems. Given the ship has bussard collectors, I can totally see them having several fusion generators that the cosmic hydrogen gasses get directed to to use some form of futuristic Fusion.
That all collapses though when it comes to replicators and transporters. The energy requirements to replicate something is so high, I can't see a fusion reactor or multiple reactors providing enough juice.
My new headcanon is only the impulse engines run off fusion reactors, this is so the ship can still ferry itself around when the warp engine is off with life support and other functions running off the massive battery power the ship has. When the Warp Core is working, that's what powers the ship and recharges the batteries.
01:53 UTC
Someone has tried to domesticate a Moopsy at least once.
I bet it went as well as you'd expect.
11:53 UTC
Considering the genetic compatibility of humanoid species, it shouldn't be a surprise to learn that Xindi Aquatics and Terran cetaceans are also compatible.
Granted, size and air requirements would be an issue.
00:26 UTC
If TNG had aired a couple decades later, holodeck programs would have been called holodeck apps instead
17:17 UTC
What is everybody in engineering doing while Geordi is playing on the holodeck in "Booby Trap"?
Just as a reminder, the Enterprise is stuck in a trap that disabled their warp & impulse drives, radiation is slowly working away at the shields and will kill the crew once they're disabled as well.
and the chief Engineer disappeared to the holodeck. what's everybody doing in engineering?? do they have any idea where Geordi is? from an ensign's pov, the chief engineer ditched and no one has a plan.
14:51 UTC
Is the Federation really a utopia if its socially acceptable for everyone to take/make speakerphone calls in public all the time?
21:36 UTC
Should I buy Sonic Mania or Superstars ?
Sonic super stars is 35 dollars for 3 days from now, and sonic mania is 20 dollars rn. Which one should I get?
12:45 UTC
The Changeling is the quintessential TOS episode
01:42 UTC
If Neelix and Phlox ever met they'd probably talk each others' ears off for hours.
00:51 UTC
First Contact is about Picard's greatest nemesis. Insurrection is about a first contact. Nemesis is about an insurrection
22:39 UTC
Barin Troi
What ever happened to Deanna Troi's little brother.
06:27 UTC
When a Trill looks in the mirror, they know if their previous selves would find them attractive.
04:59 UTC
All the "windows" we see on the exterior of a Starfleet vessel are fake just to misinform the enemies about number of decks and interiors.
11:13 UTC
It must suck for the junior officers to be kicked out of their seats every time something interesting happens
Whenever something interesting or dangerous starts happening, the senior officers come back and take their stations- basically kicking the junior officers off the bridge.
Like damn, how they supposed to learn. I’d be annoyed af with someone telling me to leave as soon as shit gets interesting. No, I was here when we got sucked into the event horizon. You weren’t. I get to do the fun stuff. Go back to bed, sir.
12:02 UTC
In the TNG episode with the Space Irish, how does the leader's daughter have access to modern cosmetics?
She's wearing, like, porn star amounts of makeup.
11:38 UTC
A raktajino is just just a cappuccino made of raktaj
Marketing invention by Klingon Starbucks
00:05 UTC
Someone should edit “The Trouble with Tribbles” to include all the scenes with DS9 personnel from “Trials and Tribble-ations”
23:47 UTC