Donny's Refit Enterprise Interiors (Version 2.0)
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Wow. That would've looked retro in 1964.
On the other hand, it would have been "bleeding edge" tech for either the Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers matinee serials.
I know this is pretty much everyone's least favorite communicator, but here's the TWOK communicator:
Those bright red lights appear to be ideally designed to give away the landing party's nighttime position on less-than-hospitable worlds.
The nice part is that antenna panel doubles as an emergency cheese grater.I know this is pretty much everyone's least favorite communicator, but here's the TWOK communicator:
Hey, I like this one! Great work!
It's just a shame that these and the other early-movie artifacts aren't revisited much, are they?
Part of the reason why I love your work Donny, it's all attention to the early movie stuff that gets passed up by the rest of main trek. They'll rebuild the D bridge or fans reconstruct the TOS sets, but... little love for the movies. Bleht.
Given that the Enterprise was sent out on a training cruise with manual-load torpedoes, and by the next film the Commander of Starfleet said it was time to scrap the old girl, it's likely they weren't sending her out with the most up-to-date equipment.
Great modelling but wow is that a chunky box!I know this is pretty much everyone's least favorite communicator, but here's the TWOK communicator:
I have to ask - did you also include the little button on the back that Shatner presses to activate the light?
This is actually quite a good explanationGiven that the Enterprise was sent out on a training cruise with manual-load torpedoes, and by the next film the Commander of Starfleet said it was time to scrap the old girl, it's likely they weren't sending her out with the most up-to-date equipment.
I also got to thinking about the communicators from The Cage and WNMHGB which have a similarly limited number of controls. Perhaps the TWOK communicators are the "rugged" versions of those?
These could for applications requiring a stronger signal to cut through major obstructions or other interference. Kirk likely anticipates that they might have to beam down into the underground tunnels of Regula, and knowing how Khan had previously jammed communications, wanted to ensure that they wouldn’t be stranded just because they couldn’t get any reception.
With tech that advanced, presumably it's what's on the inside the counts, and the outside appearance is mainly a matter of aesthetics. I'd assume that those communicators were designed by someone on a seriously retro kick. It's the Starfleet equivalent of that rotary cell phone.
How did Kirk know there were underground tunnels before they beamed over to the Regula station?
"If Stage Two was completed, it was underground — she said it was going to be underground."How did Kirk know there were underground tunnels before they beamed over to the Regula station?
"Suppose they went nowhere."
"Then this'll be your big chance to get away from it all."
How did Kirk know there were underground tunnels before they beamed over to the Regula station?
I think @urbandefault is pointing out that Kirk hadn't really put it together that they'd beamed underground until after the party beamed over to Regula, with heavy-duty communicators already in tow.
My head-canon is stating that, in this time period, the more rugged, heavy-duty grade equipment can be elected to be used when immediate threat is presumed, such as beaming over to a scientific research laboratory that's developing what could be used as a doomsday weapon being sought after by a genetically engineered superhuman tyrant bent on revenge that just attacked your ship....
OR....the Enterprise, being a trainee vessel, was outfitted with some less fancy equipment, like surplus Type 3 communicators. And the Phaser IV units were still being used, just as the Phaser IIB units were being stocked onto ships, and we can assume that Enterprise received a shipment of them somewhere between the end of TWOK and the beginning of TSFS (explaining their appearance in the hands of security guards outside of Spock's quarters in the beginning of that movie)?
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Yes, exactly. Thanks.
