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Tricorder screens

Push The Button said:
Spock usually had the screen facing away from him too while 'scanning', very odd.
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Perhaps the primary readout is the wibbly noise it makes, and Spock's ears do the work.

50 years later, I'm just glad it doesn't look like they're staring at their phones on an alien world!
 
Medical tricorder screens

Original fx:
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/3x10hd/platosstepchildrenhd0990.jpg
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CBS Digital remastered fx:
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/3x10hd/platosstepchildrenhd0991.jpg

http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/3x10hd/platosstepchildrenhd0992.jpg

http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/3x10hd/platosstepchildrenhd0993.jpg
platosstepchildrenhd0993.jpg
 
The only thing I can rationalize is that Spock is looking at his display upside-down...maybe has his tricorder set to display that way (though a brain that can work out complex equations might not need to bother).
 
spockboy said:
THIS is what you want I think.
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I am not what you would call a big TOS fan. But even I want one like that.
 
Kor said:
Meh to the remastered version. Meh, I say.
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It depends on your frame of mind. Sometimes I watch in Vintage Nostalgia mode, almost pretending that it's 1966 and the show is wildly futuristic. That's the time for original fx and re-capturing my childhood. But other times I watch in Today's Context mode, and I want the show spiffed up with jazzy new fx.
 
Kor said:
Meh to the remastered version. Meh, I say.

Kor
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Amen to that Scotty...I mean Kor.


spockboy said:
THIS is what you want I think.
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:)Spockboy
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Ohh, pretty pictures. But can it actually scan stuff? It's not "working" unless it can actually do what is shown/mentioned on screen.
 
uniderth said:
Amen to that Scotty...I mean Kor.




Ohh, pretty pictures. But can it actually scan stuff? It's not "working" unless it can actually do what is shown/mentioned on screen.
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There was a ridiculously expensive, more tng styled but otherwise original Tricorder that had various sensors in released about twenty years ago. Now we have smart phone apps.
 
jaime said:
There was a ridiculously expensive, more tng styled but otherwise original Tricorder that had various sensors in released about twenty years ago. Now we have smart phone apps.
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Can a smart phone app scan the DNA of a person standing twenty feet away? I thought not. :D
 
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