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Deleted user 8 July 2015 10:57:38

OMG! I want one.

Mrs Hermit would kill me though.

Not-a-reviewer 8 Jul 2015 11:08:10 7,686 posts
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Why not use your phone?

Deleted user 8 July 2015 11:11:26

If you need to ask that, you will never understand.

Whizzo 8 Jul 2015 11:20:16 44,810 posts
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It is a little hard to resist, much nicer than some badge on your chest that's for sure.

AcidSnake 8 Jul 2015 11:22:39 8,461 posts
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Never understood how these things worked...Forget time travel, transporters, holodecks and so forth...

If the away team is on the planet and says "Tamawawa to enterprise" or something the captain says "Go ahead" that means the captain heard the "Tamawawa to enterprise" bit.
But what if he said "Tamawawa to engineering"? Would the whole ship just hear that and engineering just has to pick up?

I'm baffled...

Deleted user 8 July 2015 11:24:13

WANT!

And I'm not a nerd.

Seriously.

I'm not.

Load_2.0 8 Jul 2015 11:30:17 33,582 posts
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AcidSnake wrote:
Never understood how these things worked...Forget time travel, transporters, holodecks and so forth...

If the away team is on the planet and says "Tamawawa to enterprise" or something the captain says "Go ahead" that means the captain heard the "Tamawawa to enterprise" bit.
But what if he said "Tamawawa to engineering"? Would the whole ship just hear that and engineering just has to pick up?

I'm baffled...

It would be the same as Voice dialling I assume and be directed to the appropriate section.

Tamawawa to enterprise goes to the Bridge.

Tamawawa to engineering goes to the Engineering section.

Yes I also want one, provided it makes the appropriate sounds.

AcidSnake 8 Jul 2015 11:33:12 8,461 posts
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@Load_2.0:

Indeed, but in that case the captain would not hear the "Tamawawa to enterprise" bit, just a chime or something? Yet they repeatedly show that that bit is heard.

I even thought, well, the computer must record it and then replay it in the appropriate area. But then for the person on the ground there would have to be a delay at least as long as the phrase he had just spoken which there never is...

Dirtbox 8 Jul 2015 12:09:28 92,595 posts
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Deleted user 8 July 2015 12:17:27

That is indeed awesome. If I had any spare money, I might get me one.

Deleted user 8 July 2015 12:18:20

AcidSnake wrote:
Never understood how these things worked...Forget time travel, transporters, holodecks and so forth...

If the away team is on the planet and says "Tamawawa to enterprise" or something the captain says "Go ahead" that means the captain heard the "Tamawawa to enterprise" bit.
But what if he said "Tamawawa to engineering"? Would the whole ship just hear that and engineering just has to pick up?

I'm baffled...

You're dangerously close to finding something illogical in Star Trek... which I struggle to imagine, there must be a logical explanation

DFawkes 8 Jul 2015 12:41:20 32,785 posts
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I'd prefer a Bluetooth TNG Combadge, to be honest. Is that even a thing? I'm aware the quality would probably be shocking but I'd feel cooler (yes I know I wouldn't actually BE cooler because I'd be a nerd smashing a Bluetooth headset against his chest) tapping a badge to answer it.

DFawkes 8 Jul 2015 12:42:53 32,785 posts
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Deleted user 8 July 2015 12:49:42

The real difficulty about that is, I guess, to filter your voice out of all the noise and make it well understandable. But with the advance of intelligent speech and voice recognition, it might actually work in the not too distant future.

Edited by DrStrangelove at 12:50:49 08-07-2015

Tryhard 8 Jul 2015 12:58:55 12,014 posts
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If Tamawawa is a female, then she will get put straight through to Kirk's bedroom.

oldskooldeano 8 Jul 2015 13:48:10 3,496 posts
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I've been waiting nearly forty years for one of these.

Dirtbox 8 Jul 2015 13:50:55 92,595 posts
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Deleted user 8 July 2015 14:00:02

Scotty, beam up my virginity when the ladies see me flip this bad boy open with one hand

AcidSnake 8 Jul 2015 15:10:08 8,461 posts
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Who is this Kirk you keep mentioning?

I know only Kark...

Deleted user 8 July 2015 17:29:47

@Dirtbox

Sometimes I think universal translators might just be a lazy excuse for everyone speaking English. Sometimes. But maybe I'm just hypercritical again.