It’s season two of a show and your podcast hosts are still talking about poop! If you thought Andrew and Dave were going to let up on the fecal funnies, well, you should know better by now. But really, they’re talking about matter and how the transporters and the more importantly replicators deal with it on the Enterprise:
Dave: Let’s explain this reconstituted shit thing. I know we’re expecting a lot from our listeners but not everyone understands the way that the – food system works and the transporters work on this ship.
Andrew: We have discussed before that they don’t actually have any waste aboard. Because what happens is it all gets obliterated and turned back into energy. We have speculated that when you take a dump on the Enterprise, it doesn’t go down some sort of plumbing system, it just gets energized – it becomes energy that then gets reconstituted because the food comes out of the replicator. What the replicator does is it takes energy and turns it into matter.
Dave as Picard: Earl Gray, hot! Light on feces!
Andrew: Riker explains this whole process in “Lonely Among Us” when he’s trying to talk to the Anticans about their food – This isn’t really meat, it’s as tasty as meat – it looks like meat but what it is, is reconstituted matter. And, where are they getting this reconstituted matter? It can only be from… their own feces. I don’t see where else they’d be getting it unless they stopped at the Matter Store or something.
Dave: It could be from anything.
Andrew: Like what?
Dave: I don’t know. I’ve been an advocate for the feces thing all along.
