I always wanted the Star Trek communicators, and those are already here. 😉
I was never a big fan of the communicators, for the same reason that I’m not a big fan of cell phones: to be useful, they require that you talk to people, and I don’t like to talk to many people, or very often. Give me a tricorder any day.
Yeah, but just try getting beamed up from a dangerous planet with only a tricorder to talk to Scotty with!
Scotty is a genius engineer. Just rig the tricorder to toss a few anomalous electrons his way, he’ll figure out what you need and beam you up in the nick of time. If you don’t believe me, just watch any of the various Star Trek series, and you’ll see that really good engineers can do absolutely anything, and all within a half-hour or one-hour episode. With commercial breaks, even. 😉
(Motto used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“Seabees”) during World War II: “The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer.”)
Yes, but then the Tricorder would be a communicator-tricorder, much like my cell phone, which both talks to people, and has medical applications so I can keep up with my medication. 😉
Oh, you want a medical tricorder. Why didn’t you say so?
(Shades of “Caretaker,” the pilot episode of Star Trek: Voyager)
Hmm, I missed that one.
It was a scene in Voyager’s sickbay. Lots of dead and injured people lying on the floor as if thrown there violently, and visible damage to the room itself. Harry Kim and Tom Paris stumble in, another injured crewman held up between them.
KIM: Computer, initiate Emergency Medical Holographic Program.
(The DOCTOR materializes.)
DOCTOR: Please state the nature of the medical emergency.
KIM: Multiple percussive injuries.
DOCTOR: Status of your doctor?
KIM: He’s dead.
(The DOCTOR briefly examines the injured crewmember.)
DOCTOR: Point four cc’s of trianoline.
KIM: Trianoline?
PARIS: We lost our nurse too.
DOCTOR: How soon are replacement medical personnel expected?
KIM: That could be a problem. We’re pretty far away from replacements right now.
DOCTOR: Tricorder.
(KIM hands him a small device. The DOCTOR starts using it, then looks annoyed.)
DOCTOR: Medical tricorder.
(KIM hands him another device. The DOCTOR uses it to examine the injured crewmember.)
DOCTOR: A replacement must be requested as soon as possible. I am programmed only as a short-term emergency supplement to the medical team.
PARIS: Well, we may be stuck with you for a while, Doc.
DOCTOR: There’s no need for concern. I am capable of treating any injury or disease. No concussion. You’ll be fine. Clean him up.
I always wanted the Star Trek communicators, and those are already here. 😉
I was never a big fan of the communicators, for the same reason that I’m not a big fan of cell phones: to be useful, they require that you talk to people, and I don’t like to talk to many people, or very often. Give me a tricorder any day.
Yeah, but just try getting beamed up from a dangerous planet with only a tricorder to talk to Scotty with!
Scotty is a genius engineer. Just rig the tricorder to toss a few anomalous electrons his way, he’ll figure out what you need and beam you up in the nick of time. If you don’t believe me, just watch any of the various Star Trek series, and you’ll see that really good engineers can do absolutely anything, and all within a half-hour or one-hour episode. With commercial breaks, even. 😉
(Motto used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“Seabees”) during World War II: “The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer.”)
Yes, but then the Tricorder would be a communicator-tricorder, much like my cell phone, which both talks to people, and has medical applications so I can keep up with my medication. 😉
Oh, you want a medical tricorder. Why didn’t you say so?
(Shades of “Caretaker,” the pilot episode of Star Trek: Voyager)
Hmm, I missed that one.
It was a scene in Voyager’s sickbay. Lots of dead and injured people lying on the floor as if thrown there violently, and visible damage to the room itself. Harry Kim and Tom Paris stumble in, another injured crewman held up between them.
KIM: Computer, initiate Emergency Medical Holographic Program.
(The DOCTOR materializes.)
DOCTOR: Please state the nature of the medical emergency.
KIM: Multiple percussive injuries.
DOCTOR: Status of your doctor?
KIM: He’s dead.
(The DOCTOR briefly examines the injured crewmember.)
DOCTOR: Point four cc’s of trianoline.
KIM: Trianoline?
PARIS: We lost our nurse too.
DOCTOR: How soon are replacement medical personnel expected?
KIM: That could be a problem. We’re pretty far away from replacements right now.
DOCTOR: Tricorder.
(KIM hands him a small device. The DOCTOR starts using it, then looks annoyed.)
DOCTOR: Medical tricorder.
(KIM hands him another device. The DOCTOR uses it to examine the injured crewmember.)
DOCTOR: A replacement must be requested as soon as possible. I am programmed only as a short-term emergency supplement to the medical team.
PARIS: Well, we may be stuck with you for a while, Doc.
DOCTOR: There’s no need for concern. I am capable of treating any injury or disease. No concussion. You’ll be fine. Clean him up.
(The scene ends.)