I often see posts and comments referring to the adult Wraith not having an active digestive system. In “The Queen” Dr Keller states: “Your bodies already contain all the organs necessary to digest food.” While this suggests they aren’t used she does not say those organs no longer function. And both Shawn and Todd state the same line of : “...it may give me a moment's pleasure, but it will not sustain me.”
This to me suggests only that the Wraith do not receive any nutritional value from food sources after a certain age. Not that their bodies can not longer process the material. A human could try to live off of water or tea or some other very basic food element and it would not sustain them either. Their bodies would still process the elements of what they consumed, they just wouldn’t have any effect on their biological needs.
If in fact their digestive tract had shut down, Shawn would not be able to enjoy the “finer things” as the food he eats would simply remain in his non-functioning gut and rot. That doesn’t sound any more pleasant for a Wraith as it would for a human.
Then again, do hive ships have bathrooms? lol
This to me suggests only that the Wraith do not receive any nutritional value from food sources after a certain age. Not that their bodies can not longer process the material. A human could try to live off of water or tea or some other very basic food element and it would not sustain them either. Their bodies would still process the elements of what they consumed, they just wouldn’t have any effect on their biological needs.
If in fact their digestive tract had shut down, Shawn would not be able to enjoy the “finer things” as the food he eats would simply remain in his non-functioning gut and rot. That doesn’t sound any more pleasant for a Wraith as it would for a human.
Then again, do hive ships have bathrooms? lol
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