Ok, so I'm not your typical woman who likes to spend hours in front of the mirror. Or what the media would have us believe is typical anyways. I think the whole hygiene thing takes up way too much time. On top of that with advancing age, comes new routines. Cream for the rosacea, nose spray for the nose, hairs to pluck from where you don't want them, on and on. So then as is typical, my mind wandered off on a tangent and I started thinking about science fiction and the Jetson's cleaner, dresser thingy and I thought about Star Trek and then BOOM it hit me.
If the transporter could be used to track DNA, like when Giordi got turned into that invisible animal thingy, and it had a biological filter to keep out viruses and bacteria, why couldn't it clean you too? And do your hair and put on makeup, keep the weight down and a whole slew of other things. After all wasn't the replicator technology an extension of the transporter technology? If that were true (and I get this is all make-believe) would it not have the ability to store clothing, distinguish dead skin cells from livlier ones, remove cancer cells, remove placque from your teeth, kill head lice (I have kids), cure genetic and a multitude of degenerative diseases and probably stop or slow aging. You could program it to reduce or remove free radicals. And finally, the touted panacea of cleansing your body of toxins, could truly be possible. Just program the computer to remove the chemical compounds you don't want.
I really think that at least the writers of Star Trek should pursue this idea on the make believe, but makes logical sense based on the provided premises, sort of way.
