In SNW 2x09 Subspace Rhapsody, the opening song includes the following lyrics:
We can confirm there’re 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 “daily mundane”?
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 shouldn’t 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?
I was going to say maybe an away mission, but now I’m wondering if the transporter wouldn’t just filter it out when beaming back?
I imagine it’s programmed to not do that in case it accidentally removes an impaled artery and the subject bleeds out.
Space pallets.
Possibly from handling artifacts, cargo, etc? Maybe the replicators of the era leave some rough edges (literally)?
It’s always Sally from hydroponics.
They probably a tree-species crewmember onboard.
When you control panels regular explode with rocks flying all over the place … I’m pretty sure splinters can be common as well
Plants? The later galaxy-class starships had arboretums.
Someone could also get a splinter if they did woodworking or whittling as a hobby.
Or the subspace field massaged it for meter, similar to how it synchronised the crew, or made Ortegas refer to herself in the third person.
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 can’t 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
I’m not only talking about electrical power, communication is also a form of power transmission over distance, they established thay for communication they don’t “constrain the signals in the wire, so they can be blocked from outside”, so I’d gueds they transmit everything wirelessly, including inter-person communication, diagnostics and commands to engines, which is crazy
I was about to make the joke “They get splinters very well, thank you” but then I realized what community this is, so I won’t make the joke.
