Star Trek: 10 Starfleet Jobs You Won't Believe Exist

10. Holodeck Waste Extraction

Even in the 24th Century, there are still officers and non-commissioned assigned to waste extraction on starships and starbases. It is generally considered to be the worst assignment, with Chief Miles O'Brien using the threat of sending officers there as 'encouragement' to keep on top of their tasks.

Enrique Muniz was often to be found joking about O'Brien, calling him 'an old mountain man', with the Chief cheekily quipping that one more line like that and the man would be scrubbing the waste extraction system when they got back to the station.

Conversely, Rom was very proud of working on that system when he quit his job in Quark's bar and transferred to the engineering staff. He felt having a working waste extraction system was one of the most important features of a functioning station. Ensign Beckett Mariner on the other hand found no pride whatsoever in having to clean out the system. Particularly, in the episode Moist Vessel, having to scrub the holodeck's waste extraction system.

It honestly doesn't bear thinking about, what came out of those canisters.