I always thought the tricom transporter function was just a control device for physical transporters.
The Tricom Badge
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I think it is, but with an increased range from older ones. Though I don't think there's actual dialogue about it. Time for a tech manual!
I thought they had actually shrunk transporter mechanics right into the badge after nearly 1000 years. It made sense. Data used a comm badge sized transporter in nemesis. So I would expect a bigger advancement.
I take a rather dim view of most 32nd-century technology, 'cos it's so magical and can fix everything. But I admit I do love the tricom badge.
I am curious, though, is ALL transporting done via this badge? Or is there still such a thing as an actual transporter? Meaning, a physical device? Would transporter CHIEFS, as such, have any usefulness to 32nd-century Starfleet?
I should imagine that a person like Nils Pitcairn would be extremely distressed and saddened if he found himself in a future like this. He would probably assume that society had no need for him and thus he is obsolete.
And I'm also wondering what happened to Discovery's own transporter personnel? What would THEY think about a Starfleet which had no more need for them?
I mean, if nothing else, people who don't have tricom badges would need a way to be transported. And there's cargo as well.
Edit: Since the use of a tricom badge is dependent on hand & fist gestures, I wonder how a species without limbs like this would operate one..
I somewhat agree. It's probably the thing I hated most about them going to the 32nd century. Making the tech so advanced takes away a lot of story potential.
I wish they would have just escaped to around the time of Picard. Would have made a bit more sense.
But the tech lineage is a complete mess in Star Trek now. The Berman era did a decent job of keeping it straight but then Disco kinda messed it up with Discovery Season 1 and then tried to retcon it (ie. Holographic communication)
There's a balance, and for most of the last 3 years they've done a good job with it. We really wouldn't understand much of the technology at all that we were seeing if they extrapolated that far into the future. So the very tempered one we're getting works just fine.
Still not convinced based on total energy needed.
I think it's also realistic to show them retooling, reverse engineering, rebuilding, updating some past tech at a fast pace. The Pathway Drive might be one such technology.It seems to me that the Burn is a pretty good explanation for why things aren’t advanced as some people think they should be. Perhaps they’ve even regressed a little.
Even though they may have regressed some, banned other things, any space drive would still be a pretty high level of advancement for any species to build off of.
Oh I totally agree with you and I have no problem with the technology advancement level in the 32nd century. I was just chipping in my two cents and offering a plausible explanation for people who are bothered
The replica badge you can purchase has quite a bit of heft to it. One can easily imagine all the electronics stuffed inside to make it work. 
Except for the speed of transport I'm not really impressed with the transporter tech after nearly a millennium.
Of course.
Of course.
Right. They shouldn't need a ship any longer to transport. The transporter should be the badge itself and connected via mind link. They went forward 930 years not 200. Data already had a working model of a transport badge connected to the enterprise transporter in nemesis. So not impressed with the STD version.
Because tech always continues to grow and never, ever, hits bumps in the road.Of course.
Maybe every populated planet has a space constellation of transporters?
Transporter routers/switches/hubs/nodes.
Yeah, I noticed that too. So it would seem there still ARE physical transporters.
And where you have transporters, of course you'd need transporter chiefs.
So the tricom badge hasn't made them obsolete! All is not lost!
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Only mostly lost.
We're all transporter chiefs now buddy.Yeah, I noticed that too. So it would seem there still ARE physical transporters.
And where you have transporters, of course you'd need transporter chiefs.
So the tricom badge hasn't made them obsolete! All is not lost!
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