Plastic
Plastic was a type of polymer used in the construction of objects.
The ancient art of making a splint, according to Katherine Pulaski, included components such as two flat pieces of plastic or wood, and a bandage to secure them to a fractured limb to immobilize it. (TNG: "Contagion")
While growing up on 22nd century Earth, young Jonathan Archer used to chase Danica Erickson around the backyard with a plastic laser pistol. (ENT: "Daedalus")
The skin of androids discovered on the planet Mudd during the mid-23rd century was covered with a self-renewing plastic over a skeleton of beryllium-titanium alloy. (TOS: "I, Mudd")
In the final revised draft of the script for TOS: "The Conscience of the King", a cup which Lieutenant Riley drinks milk out of in that episode was initially described as "a plastic container", but a later stage direction referred to it as a "milk glass". In the final version of the episode, the cup shatters off-screen with a sound effect suggesting it's not plastic but glass.
See also[]
- Dermaplastic garment
- Dermaplastic graft
- Geoplastics
- Plastaform
- Plastic surgeon
- Plasticized tritanium mesh