The Trek Technology Cliche

[3D Master]

All USELESS to a landing party member. In fact, all those capabilities to a landing party member in their communicator, ENDANGERS the landing party. A landing party should not be writing reports, spreadsheets, updating his/her datebook, or be using calculator with his communicator, because using the communicator instantly at the right time can be the difference between life and death. You do not want them fiddling with tasks using the same device that can mean life or death.

Of course, landing parties will be doing everything their devices allow them to do when they're doing a job, just as you do everything your phone allows you to do while driving, right? Did you know your life is ENDANGERED because there's a calculator in your phone? Better throw it away!

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You obviously refuse to get it. Maybe I should qualify you with those that Abrams is pandering to with his bullshit.

The Tricorder is for recording things. It's not called the triCORDER for nothing.

Tell that to Spock every time he whips it out to scan for lifeforms.

Yeah, and every time he does so, his scans are recorded.

Again, only to morons would it seem primitive. Only a moron would not be able to realize that what is handy to a civilian will mean the death of a person going into potentially hostile territory.

And if Abrams starts pandering to morons, we can quit now. Star Trek was always intelligent stuff, not something that was made to entertain morons.

Yeah, the mini-skirts and go-go boots were for intellectual enlightenment.

Star Trek was many things for many people, not just what you (or I) got out of it.

Which is completely besides the point, but eh.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

This:

Again, only to morons would it seem primitive. Only a moron would not be able to realize that what is handy to a civilian will mean the death of a person going into potentially hostile territory.

And if Abrams starts pandering to morons, we can quit now. Star Trek was always intelligent stuff, not something that was made to entertain morons.

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You obviously refuse to get it. Maybe I should qualify you with those that Abrams is pandering to with his bullshit.

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[CoveTom]

He was saying that a device that just provides two-way talk capability would seem primitive to modern audiences, who would ask why the talk capability wasn't just integrated into that OTHER thing they've got strapped over their shoulder, the tricorder, and why in the future they have to juggle multiple devices when today you don't have to.

And this is precisely where I disagree with him. I don't think modern audiences will be comparing the communicators to their iPhones at all. Nor the tricorders for that matter. Because they're two totally different devices. Separated by a couple hundred years.

Maybe, just maybe, in the 23rd century, the technology that allows for such far-ranging communication capabilities as the communicator has and the technology that allows for such advanced scanning and recording capabilities as the tricorder has, are so different from anything we can envision today that they simply cannot easily be combined in one device. Maybe they're so totally different as to not be comparable to anything we have to do. And maybe, just maybe, that makes them more futuristic, not less.