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Uniforms in the new series
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But this is the future!!!!!! All you need is a shirt and trousers.
And machine guns instead of silly phasers!
They used sunglasses of a sort in Nemesis.
I Like the idea of having a communicator with a screen either as part of the tricorder or separate - badge communicators are very limited in functionality. There's no reason a more complete communicator couldn't be connected via 'bluetooth' to a comm-badge activator.
I also like the idea of personal force-fields in case there is a decompression. It'd be fairly simple to let people still get shot for drama by having a higher power phaser. I mean it works with stormtroopers.
I Like the idea of having a communicator with a screen either as part of the tricorder or separate - badge communicators are very limited in functionality. There's no reason a more complete communicator couldn't be connected via 'bluetooth' to a comm-badge activator.
I also like the idea of personal force-fields in case there is a decompression. It'd be fairly simple to let people still get shot for drama by having a higher power phaser. I mean it works with stormtroopers.
I've long been a fan of the idea of the tricorder being a 3-in-1 device (scanner/detector, portable computer (iPad or similar) and radio), as far as shared communication between the ship and members of the "away team" I'd imagine something like "conference calling" via earpieces to avoid "unfriendlies" hearing both sides of the calls, or even cranial and/or throat implants so that the "viewer" hears the call but "unfriendlies" would hear nothing.
Replace the radio bit with recorder (as in recording/downloading data) and you've got the standard tricorder.
Maybe, although IFAIK, tricorders aren't usually shown as having wireless data transmit/receive capacity (PADDs at least mostly seem to use a system similar to inductive charging) and I think given that smartphones and tablets come with an huge array of potential sensors (there's even a Japanese smartphone with dedicated radiation sensors, and several smartphone apps that claim to use the camera to do the same) that integrating the three devices is the minimum level of advancement that we need in the new series, especially if it's set post-Nemesis.
Well a walkie talkie with an earpiece can do that, in fact the trunked airwave system used by the UK emergency services is superior to the comm badge in nearly everything except size. Group channels, point to point communication, private earpieces, an emergency button which gives you open channel and broadcasts your location. A modern sci fi take on comms needs updating from the 80s idea.
In "Guardian of Forever," Spock used his tricorder to record data from the Guardian. In "That Which Survives," a tricorder was used to transmit a distress signal (a SOS is a basic form of transmitted communication). In "Contagion," a tricorder was destroyed because it had downloaded dangerous information. No wires in any of the occasions.
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The 3-in-1 device reminds me of the Omni-comp used in Robinson Crusoe On Mars.
I don't remember that.
Scanning the thread, I'm a bit bemused by the apparent fondness for armoured uniforms. How useful is armour, really, in a setting where any serious opposition you come up against has weapons that straight-up vaporize you? I can see maybe using armour in specific situations where you're expecting to come up against arrows or gunfire, but apart from that...
You don't see any other practical applications of armor?
I mean, armor can provide some protection against explosions and shrapnel, and we have seen armor variants, especially among Klingons that appear to be able to disperse or absorb phaser or energy blasts.
Explosions and shrapnel, sure, I guess? Except this is also a setting with all kinds of force fields available, including personal force fields, so I can't see why they wouldn't just go that route instead. Basically you'd need an extreme situation where force fields were non-functional Because Plot.
Dune buggy sceneI don't remember that.
Force fields can fail or be disabled.
I'd definitely love it if shoes could do that.
Sure, but how likely is that in practice*? Guns can misfire, but that doesn't mean SWAT teams carry broadswords around just in case.
(* I mean, yeah I've seen Star Trek shows, the answer is "whenever it's dramatically necessary." But the point is they're shown as a routine technology that's no likelier to fail than your average transporter or turbolift, both of which are portrayed as safe tech that people rely on routinely and reflexively.)
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Which is what happened to the transporter almost every show, so I don't see that as any different here.
And again, the shows have shown us a variety of aliens using melee weapons and wearing armor, but Starfleet can't because...?
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