Actually, truth be told, that one was suggested by Robert Woodhead of Animeigo, when he came to the studio for a visit. We poked it up to the producers in a tech memo.
Rick
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Tricorders & Communicators
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Actually, truth be told, that one was suggested by Robert Woodhead of Animeigo, when he came to the studio for a visit. We poked it up to the producers in a tech memo.
Rick
www.spacemodelsystems.com
There are a couple of ways to look at the features of communicators.
One, is that Starfleet wanted its personnel "in the field" to have a simple, easy-to-use audio communications device that would be extremely easy to maintain or even build "in the field" ("Patterns of Force"). One thing we must remember: these sophisticated multifunction toys we call "smart phones" are radio frequency devices that rely on human civilization's telecommunications infrastructure to "place a call". Try using even the slickest smartphone where there is no cell phone service. Communicators are subspace radios, meant to exchange signals between a ship and planet/base, even when the ship is at warp or still out in deep space ("Mudd's Women", "11001001", "Silicon Avatar"), which means their biggest asset must be POWER.
There's no reason a tricorder shouldn't be able to function as a communications device, but you don't want an important scan to be interrupted by an incoming call, do you?
One, is that Starfleet wanted its personnel "in the field" to have a simple, easy-to-use audio communications device that would be extremely easy to maintain or even build "in the field" ("Patterns of Force"). One thing we must remember: these sophisticated multifunction toys we call "smart phones" are radio frequency devices that rely on human civilization's telecommunications infrastructure to "place a call". Try using even the slickest smartphone where there is no cell phone service. Communicators are subspace radios, meant to exchange signals between a ship and planet/base, even when the ship is at warp or still out in deep space ("Mudd's Women", "11001001", "Silicon Avatar"), which means their biggest asset must be POWER.
There's no reason a tricorder shouldn't be able to function as a communications device, but you don't want an important scan to be interrupted by an incoming call, do you?
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