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Tags: <star-trek><uss-enterprise>
Title: Αre there bathrooms on the Enterprise?
Question: I know that it's a weird question, but I haven't seen a single bathroom on the Enterprise, not even on blueprints.  Do they exist?

Answers:
sents: text: Yes, of course there are.
text: The need to excrete waste matter was not genetically engineered out of humans (and other Federation member species) by the 23rd century.
text: There are next to no explicit references in the shows, though the Enterprise-D has a door labelled "HEAD" on the Bridge, and there were verbal references in Voyager to such rooms.
text: In DS9, Bashir stated that it was "best not to think too much" about how waste extraction worked.
text: Rom worked on the station's waste extraction facilities more than once.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1167/Lightness Races in Orbit
score: 35
sents: text: Memory alpha mentions a toilet in the Star Trek brig (prison cell): http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Brig especially in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
text: There is a whole separate toilet entry in Memory Alpha
text: however the toilet in the brig in Star Trek V remains as far as I know, the only visible representation of a potty on the series.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/26522/RoboKaren
score: 19
sents: text: William Riker shows us exactly where the only bathroom on the enterprise is in Journey's End
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2871/corsiKa
score: 10
sents: text: This was addressed in my favourite Star Trek:
text: Enterprise episode, Breaking The Ice.
text: The chief engineer of the Enterprise is asked by some Earth schoolchildren
text: how the toilets on the Enterprise work.
text: He tells them that all biological waste on the ship is recycled into other materials and used to make items such as replacement uniform boots.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/74377/Robyn
score: 7
sents: text: Of course Starships have toilets, and blueprints explicitly show and detail them.
text: U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D
text: The blueprints from Rick Sternback display toilets on various decks, here is a sample of Decks 1 (the Bridge) and 2.
text: You can see a "head" on Deck 1, and on the Officers' quarters on Deck 2.
text: Enterprise NX-01
text: The Enterprise NX-01 blueprints also show toilets, i.e. the room labeled as 18 on Deck A: Miranda Class
text: The blueprints of the Miranda Class also show "heads" on various decks:
text: These are just some examples.
text: More blueprints can be seen at Cygnus X-1 .
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/83101/Sekhemty
score: 5
sents: text: Jonathan Frakes hosted a Star Trek top 10 shows at the end of ST:TNG , and said that the Enterprise had only one bathroom - and he pointed to a schematic screen of the ship, and to the room.
text: He wasn't joking.
text: That was the only bathroom identified on the ship.
text: I don't recall if it was the bridge area or not.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/85085/user85085
score: 0

Summary of the answers:
Yes, there are toilets on the ship.  For example, Enterprise-D has a door labelled "HEAD" on the Bridge and the Enterprise NX-01  blueprints  also show toilets. The blueprints of the Miranda Class also show "heads" on various decks.
There are bathrooms on the Enterprise, most notably the Enterprise NX-01, as per Sternbach’s blueprints. Moreover, the episode Breaking the Ice reveals that there is a bathroom on board the Enterprise and there are references to bathrooms in both Voyager and on Memory Alpha.