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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A trope of science fiction, if aliens (or humans in the future) bathe at all, you can bet that they will use something completely different from soap and water. This is usually not because of any Bizarre Alien Biology, but rather just something to show more advanced technology and/or how different the aliens or future humans are. It can also, depending on how sensitive the Moral Guardians are being, have the secondary advantage of letting characters have a shower without showing skin. Note that this can be Fridge Logic when you realize that since water is recycled on spaceships and stations, there is no reason they can't spend the additional energy and equipment to have as much pure water as they want. If they don't clean the dirty water (and urine, etc.), they still have to store it (or throw it into space). It makes more sense to clean it and reuse it. Humans actually "make" water (oxygen plus glucose equals carbon dioxide and water). Although if you do allow water showers you probably have to provide more water storage space. Of course, depending on the level of technology (or how grimy your setting is), you can justify this by having the recycling process be time-consuming compared to how quickly you would use the water by washing everything with it. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Examples: |
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Rocketship Voyager: Captain Janeway is late for a dinner appointment with Space Commander Chakotay, so she steps into a refresher that lathers, rinses, massages and dries her body, zaps her with bacteria-killing radiation, then lowers a dome over her head that applies makeup, and shampoos and restyles her hair from the Bun of Steel in only a few minutes. | |
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Star Trek: Enterprise shows that 22nd century Earth ships still have conventional showers. This is actually serving the Rule of Cool in one scene, in which the artificial gravity fails just while Captain Archer is taking a shower, and all the water drops start hovering in the air. | |
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In Alien Dice Lexx is used to sonic showers and synthetic foods, having lived in space most of his life. He allows himself to indulge in a real shower at Chel's house. | |
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Tank Girl. The title character takes a shower with what appears to be dust falling on her. | |
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Oblivion. The bottom level of the Sky Tower includes a swimming pool with a transparent bottom underneath it, thousands of feet above the ground. Clearly fear of heights was not a concern. | |
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In the Vorkosigan Saga sonic showers, toothbrushes, and other cleaning devices are frequently mentioned. Though they're not as good as "real" showers — in Komarr, Ekaterin comments that you can't clean a baby's bottom in one! | |
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AKB0048: The Katyusha has what looks like futuristic pod showers for the girls to refresh themselves after a hard day of practice, but then it turns out they A) dispense water just like regular showers and B) are all broken and spew out rust until you screw around with the handles a bit. Apparently plumbing maintenance isn't high on Tsubasa's budget list. | |
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Forbidden World. Two women share a shower that appears to consist of flashes of orange light, but perhaps they just didn't want to distract the audience from the T&A. Earlier one of the women is shown taking a steam bath, naked except for a pair of sunglasses. | |
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The Girl from Tomorrow has a "shower" in the year 3000 that consists of a band of light running up the body. It even removes 20th-century permanent hair dye because it is recognized as dirt. | |
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The Tardisian Well Sonic Shower in The Sims 3: Into the Future. | |
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The Enterprise has sonic showers (Lieutenant Ilia's robot form appears in one). | |
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Boojumverse. In "Boojum", the female captain of the Lavinia Whateley is bathing nude amidst her reveling Space Pirates. Black Alice is envious, as she hasn't even seen a bathtub in seven years. | |
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Star Trek: Star Trek: The Next Generation and the series that follow it chronologically usually have the Federation using sonic showers. While generally playing this trope straight, bathtubs do crop up from time to time aboard the Enterprise-D+, usually when Deanna Troi is involved. Star Trek: Voyager averted this in the pilot episode, with Neelix taking a soap and water bath (though there was a plot reason — to shown the abundance of water Voyager had). Janeway also has a bath in her quarters as a Captain's privilege. Later it is subverted with an alien race whose strict rules call for purified water to be used. Fridge Logic ensues once you realize just how bad water is at cleaning if the contaminants don't happen to be water-soluble or are dangerous microorganisms. The rest of the time it is played straight with sonic showers. One is eventually shown on-screen being used by B'Elanna Torres (though for some reason it has a Video Phone inside. Maybe Starfleet was hoping more hot robot babes would turn up in them?) Star Trek: Enterprise shows that 22nd century Earth ships still have conventional showers. This is actually serving the Rule of Cool in one scene, in which the artificial gravity fails just while Captain Archer is taking a shower, and all the water drops start hovering in the air. |
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In DC alternate universe fic Course Corrections, Kara installs a "Kryptonian Refresher" in the Kent Farm's basement. Compared with it, Earth showers are a primitive mechanism. | |
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Most showers aboard the SeaQuest DSV are of the ionic kind (whatever that means). When a woman from the past appears and tries to take a shower aboard the sub, she turns it on. When no water comes out, she cranks up the dial, only for the woman in the next stall to come in and crank it back down, telling her to leave some ions for the rest of them. Apparently, officers can use water showers, but they're rationed. The woman lets the newcomer use one of her shower rations. The strange thing is, they're underwater, which means they should be able to get fresh water through desalination. Then again, with hundreds of crewmembers, it would probably be too much for any system, hence the rations. | |
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Stargate Universe has a sort of mist shower onboard the Destiny. | |
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Superman: One diagram of Superman's Fortress of Solitude showed a "shower" that consisted of a giant plasma torch intended to burn off his invulnerable body and suit of any dirt accumulated from his adventures. | |
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In Wicked, Elphaba sidesteps her water allergy by cleaning herself with mineral oil, poured over herself from a jug and then carefully scraped off. | |
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Pandora: Jax has a Shower Scene in her room in the first episode, with the shower spraying mist against her body. It also has a door made of Hard Light that shows her Sexy Silhouette as she showers. She still appears wet after and uses a regular Modesty Towel when getting out. | |
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In Transmetropolitan, it takes less than a second for a "Voice-Keyed Physical Cleaning Unit" to strip Spider Jerusalem of all of his plentiful body hair. Given that he Screams Like a Little Girl while it emits a blinding flash of light, it apparently does so with lasers. It also appears to have been permanent, as he is never again shown with a single strand of hair anywhere on his body. Not as crazy as it sounds — Laser hair removal was developed in The '90s. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager averted this in the pilot episode, with Neelix taking a soap and water bath (though there was a plot reason — to shown the abundance of water Voyager had). Janeway also has a bath in her quarters as a Captain's privilege. Later it is subverted with an alien race whose strict rules call for purified water to be used. Fridge Logic ensues once you realize just how bad water is at cleaning if the contaminants don't happen to be water-soluble or are dangerous microorganisms. The rest of the time it is played straight with sonic showers. One is eventually shown on-screen being used by B'Elanna Torres (though for some reason it has a Video Phone inside. Maybe Starfleet was hoping more hot robot babes would turn up in them?) | |
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In Priest-Kings of Gor, Cabot is in the realm of the Priest-Kings (the gods of the planet) and like all humans is required to shower several times a day because the Priest-Kings are Terrified of (Human) Germs. One time he fills his water bowl from the shower and discovers that that ain't water! | |
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Big Head Press regularly has "Clean-branes" appear in its sci-fi comics such as Timepeeper and Quantum Vibe — membranes of memory plastic that one simply steps through to strip all detritus from one's body, leaving the user not only clean as a whistle but bone-dry. In some cases it's implied to even work through and on clothes. | |
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Babylon 5: Water conservation is important on the station so only the executive suites and command quarters get showers with running water; everybody else has to make do with "vibe showers". When this first comes up, it's explicitly mentioned that the station does recycle water, but showers for everybody would be more than the system could cope with. Earth's space ships don't have water showers even in the command quarters; when Captain Sheridan is transferred to Babylon 5, he is seriously happy when he learns his quarters include "a real live honest-to-god shower with running water". The Minbari use a chemical that removes the outermost layer of skin; it symbolizes rebirth, at least to the Religious Caste. As you'd imagine, it does absolutely horrific things to hair, as Delenn discovers when she becomes a Half-Human Hybrid (as an ordinary Minbari, of course, she had no problem with this, since the Minbari have little or no hair). She ends up calling on Ivanova to teach her about hair curlers — and later, "odd cramps." |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation and the series that follow it chronologically usually have the Federation using sonic showers. | |
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