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Bookmark or Share- Which technologies depicted in the various Star Trek series over the ...News today at startrek.com The Wand Company have produced a "Fully Functional" Tricorder Designed to work just like the fantasy version imagineered in the 1960s, with more than a little help from some 21st century technology, a full-colour LCD displays information stored in the Tricorder along with dynamic data gathered by its sensors and audio ...
- star trek - Why is it called a tricorder? - Science Fiction & Fantasy ...The word "tricorder" is a portmanteau of "tri-" and "recorder", referring to the device's three default scanning functions: GEO (geological), MET (meteorological), and BIO (biological). I remember reading something similar in one of the early novels, but it was a long time ago.
- How do people carry things in Star Trek TNG?On away missions, I think Crusher put her tricorder "away" on occasion, and other than someone who will be operating a single instrument for the duration (so no need to put it down), personnel will general have several items, such as the ubiquitous tricorder, some geology tools, local currency if applicable, collected samples; not to mention ...
- star trek - Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack ExchangeI know Data tried to make Laforge laugh with his Mr. Tricorder parody in Star Trek: Generations Movie when he had this "emotion chip" Aside from this I only know the episode in TNG where Q loses his powers, being a simple human, and when returns to being omnipotent giving the Data the gift to laugh the very first time (as I recall).
- What do the humanoid classes in Star Trek mean?The tricorder scans humanoids and likely looks for closest matches. If the internal biology matches to what they have on record then they have an easier time understanding their biology in order to provide medical treatments, evolutionary patterns, etc. The federation is comprised of over 150 alien species...
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