70 Things You Didn't Know About Technology In Star Trek 

Transporter Chief on the Cerritos: We beamed up Dr. T'ana. We have no idea if she is alive or dead until you observe her, Captain Freeman.

Yes, absolutely, and I hate how that detail just gets completely ignored by every later series. It was so much more interesting when each and every starship and starbase had its own individual insignia/service badge, and the Starfleet insignia on the breast of every officer's uniform was actually the service patch of _their individual ship or base_ with the unique _division_ insignia at the center (the star with an elongated top point for Command Division, the circle containing an oval for Sciences Division, and the curlicue for Operations Division.) But for some reason the Federation decided to just start using the _Enterprise_ Command Division insignia as the _combined emblem for _*_all of Starfleet,_* while at the same time _completely changing Starfleet uniforms every 8 years or so._ Just _why_ an immense, interstellar organization would ever decide to completely redesign its uniforms so Goddamn frequently is just _absolutely mind-boggling,_ and even with replicator technology it would still be a huge waste pf time and effort to keep needlessly redesigning the damn things. My personal explanation is that, in the Federation's Post-Scarcity civilization, there are _huge_ swaths of people who choose to devote their lives to the utterly useless "professions" of fashion and clothing design, and in order to keep these utterly useless people occupied with the _illusion_ of contributing to Starfleet and actually accomplishing something meaningful with their loves (without having to _actually_ get any kind of education or training at Starfleet Academy, and without exposing themselves in any kind of risk by _actually_ serving in Starfleet) Starfleet Command must have decided to humor them by running continuous "Design the Next Starfleet Uniform!" contests. I imagine it being a big, stupid, American Idol style show with a panel of inane celebrity judges, with models taking way too long to display every design, and full of endless run-off competitions... and that is why Starfleet keeps getting totally new uniforms every few years despite the confusion and stupidity that completely defeats the entire purpose of wearing uniforms in the first place (to give everyone in the organization a _uniform appearance._ If different people in the same organization are wearing _different_ "uniforms," _then they _*_aren't_*_ uniforms.)_ I could actually see _Lower Decks_ going with this idea.

Unfortunately this trend of new uniforms follows our current Military, every time a new General takes over a Branch they change the uniforms, sometimes small changes like headgear sometimes complete new uniforms.

Or every Star Trek is actually from another reality where that was always how the uniform looked?

I think it was explained that after the first five year mission, Starfleet adopted the Enterprise symbol fleetwide.

Ah yep.

I can't count..how many times I did that myself -& then carefully made sure few or no people saw it.

😂 Got the communicator sound wav file and set it to trigger when the phone flipped open. Used it on multiple flip phones up until my motorola Razr. The unintended consequence of also alerting me when the phone accidentally opened in my pocket prevented many butt dials.

Am trying to get the Red Alert sound into my phone.

Yep!

As you probably know, “beam me up, Scotty” was never actually said on screen. “Commander Riker, beam me aboard.” … “Ouch! Not funny, Number one!”

Must have the Ferengi upgrade.

My favorite: He's dead Jim. You grab his tricorder and I'll get his wallet.

I had one that read; there are few problems that cannot be solved by a suitable application of concentrated phaser fire.

I had one that said; there are few problems that cannot be solved by a suitable application of concentrated phaser fire.

The holodecks being incapable of creating anything dangerous is one of my favorites, especially since the holodeck malfunctions in such a way that endangers the occupants or even the entire ship several times. Evidently, no one onboard knows how to 1. open a door 2. find the off switch. Which leads to another tech problem: they can detect life forms from hundreds (thousands? millions) of kilometers away, and beam through empty space, a thick atmosphere, even through soild rock...but they can't detect and beam out anyone from the malfunctioning holodeck.

Unless that's just a desperate pick up line directed toward a married chick that you'll never even meet in real life...

Aww love you too

I think this was in Mr Scott’s Guide to the Enterprise. At least, I vaguely remember reading something like this in my misspent youth.

@@silmarian that seems right... Thanks!

Type 2's were an expanded power pack combined with a second prefire chamber that intensifies the type 1's ability to beam energy. Type 1's could disintegrate single targets, type 2's could vaporize whole crowds on wide field settings.

I see the Type II as the add-on, with the Type I having the "working guts." The Type II gives you a bigger power pack as you said, and better ergonomics, making it easier to aim at something that wasn't literally at point-blank range. In real life there are lots of add-ons available for popular pistols to turn them into carbines. They don't actually become any more accurate in and of themselves, but the superior ergonomics means you can better target something farther away.

And Type two slotted into a rifle type setup.

Phased particle(nadions) combined with laser= phaser.

Even though there's no canon on what phaser stood for before the Next Generation, it originally stood for "PHotons Amplified by Stimulated Emission of Radiation", meaning future lasers. Yeah, the creators of the original Star Trek's technology loved their photon weapons.

I want a star trek phaser😭😭

That's an excellent point. When i saw that scene it made me think of how well bricks can retain heat they're used for chimneys and pizza ovens

There's a channel where the Solar Death Ray( the detached screen from a 1990 type big screen tv) is used on stuff, and some rocks do go BANG! But not all.

Yours or theirs? A matter of perspective .

@@kurtsnyder4752 She clearly says they wear them on the left, so she said their left. It is clearly on their right.

From Murdoch Mysteries, Constable Crabtree mused that portable telephones would trip horses with all the cords users would drag around.

Kelsey and Bebe ❤

Like a poor guy in the late 1930s. RIP. Or in scattered atomic particles.

Beam is slower than the speed of light. Hence ability to see and avoid.

"It didn't work." 🖖

Yep.

Cilp show

At least Sean was relatable and could make the stuff we heard before seem interesting (again).

This is an AI generated video with an AI generated voice, NOT a human

Nut-check setting.

Hmm, in one episode, the weapon was linked to a transporter and the three who were "shot" materialized on the bridge of the 'D". This is my fanfiction of how Yar survives her"death" and is able to reunite with Sela.

Considering we have body-cams that was an interesting oversight.

She's older but not moldy. Muldauer

And no relation to a Fox guy.

Didn't Riker end up commanding a Viagra class ship?