What happened to Chekov's phaser and communicator in ST:IV?

[Xerxes1979]

Has any explanation ever been offered?

They were either left in the interegation room or on his person when he fell.


Do you believe that a remote beamout or temporal police correction was involved? If beaming lost gadgets was easy why the nervous ending to "A Piece of the Action" after McCoy's screwup?

 

[SeerSGB]

I'll go with a Voyager concept: Later day 20th cellphone and wireless communications revolution was a result of that one communicator being reversed engineered and slowly leaked onto the commercial market.

Honestly, I don't think it's ever been covered any where-- not that I can recall.

 

[Michael]

Well, the scene made it pretty clear that the interrogator considered Chekov to be some kind of retard. And since his phaser didn't work they probably just assumed he was a lunatic and threw away the phaser and communicator.

 

[Xerxes1979]

Well, the scene made it pretty clear that the interrogator considered Chekov to be some kind of retard. And since his phaser didn't work they probably just assumed he was a lunatic and threw away the phaser and communicator.

That seems rather cavalier of the officers of the faux U.S.S. Enterprise. Since the security breach was still very real, and possibly involving damage to the the reactor one must assume there would have been a full investigation if only to cover everybody's ass.

 

[Butters]

They turned up in one of the Eugenics War novels with Gary Seven, but can't really remember. Area 51 I think.

 

[KottenFutz]

I've always held the notion that these things are left open ended (perhaps after the fact) for the possibility of a future Star Trek production (book, film, series or otherwise) to use as a plot device for another story somewhere down the line. They come up a lot, and are sometimes capitalized upon.

 

[David cgc]

They turned up in one of the Eugenics War novels with Gary Seven, but can't really remember. Area 51 I think.

Yep. They were sent to 51 to be analyzed, and Gary Seven snuck in and liberated them to make sure there wasn't any messy alteration of history.

 

[Candlelight]

They turned up in one of the Eugenics War novels with Gary Seven, but can't really remember. Area 51 I think.

Yep. They were sent to 51 to be analyzed, and Gary Seven snuck in and liberated them to make sure there wasn't any messy alteration of history.

"Why? How do we know he didn't invent the thing...?"

 

[Ronald Held]

I assume they were thrown away and perhaps recovered by Gary Seven.

 

[Timo]

Supposedly, the Trek version of the US military had very real contact with space aliens and their futuristic technologies all through the 20th century. Or at least we saw them rummage through Quark's warpship in 1947, and several other alien species have displayed an interest in worlds akin to old Earth. Plus much of Henry Starling's stuff must have ended up in government hands eventually.

Probably possession of a damaged phaser and a communicator wouldn't mean much of a leap in Earth technology, or in Earth knowledge of alien species, not in the Trek version of the 20th century. Such things would end up on primitive worlds every forthnight anyway, far too often for any sort of interstellar police to bother. They'd simply be considered normal occurrences in the development of an average Star Trek culture.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Xerxes1979]

Probably possession of a damaged phaser and a communicator wouldn't mean much of a leap in Earth technology, or in Earth knowledge of alien species, not in the Trek version of the 20th century. Such things would end up on primitive worlds every forthnight anyway, far too often for any sort of interstellar police to bother. They'd simply be considered normal occurrences in the development of an average Star Trek culture.

Timo Saloniemi

Where is my 60 watts of directed energy goodness! Future tech has all sorts of military and industrial applications. Spock's jailhouse device could lead to big advances in things like welding. Also was the communicator broken or was it a combination of the radiation and or power loss at Scotty's end? Even a little juice would be enough to demonstrate the existence of subspace radio waves.

 

[Greg Cox]

They turned up in one of the Eugenics War novels with Gary Seven, but can't really remember. Area 51 I think.

Thanks for remembering that! I believe that bit was in Volume One . . . .

 

[LeadHead]

If Chekov hadn't been recued from the hospital in a daring and mysterious way, I would expect that his equipment would have been put in some evidence locker, never to be looked at again. Since he was, it was probably anaylzed but the investigation led nowhere.

 

[Daneel]

They ended up in the same place as Kirk's disappearing pizza.

 

[Valin]

The devices were developed into cellphones and lasik surgery.

 

[SeerSGB]

The answer is obvious: They were sent to Stargate Command

That, or Henry Starling used his contacts in the Govt. and added them to his collection of future tech.

 

[Blackmm]

Probably possession of a damaged phaser and a communicator wouldn't mean much of a leap in Earth technology, or in Earth knowledge of alien species, not in the Trek version of the 20th century. Such things would end up on primitive worlds every forthnight anyway, far too often for any sort of interstellar police to bother. They'd simply be considered normal occurrences in the development of an average Star Trek culture.

Timo Saloniemi

Where is my 60 watts of directed energy goodness! Future tech has all sorts of military and industrial applications. Spock's jailhouse device could lead to big advances in things like welding. Also was the communicator broken or was it a combination of the radiation and or power loss at Scotty's end? Even a little juice would be enough to demonstrate the existence of subspace radio waves.

Ugh, hairry bairchest Spock.

 

[Xerxes1979]

They ended up in the same place as Kirk's disappearing pizza.

The septic tank of the bird-of-prey?

 

[Sky]

Ugh, hairry bairchest Spock.

You misspelled . HTH!

 

[Subspace]

Could he have kept them in his coat pocket ?
Haven't seen the movie in a while so I don't know what he done with them.