The ST communicators are less cell phones than they are walkie-talkies with a 40,000 mile range. Plus I’m still waiting on the cell phone app that can create an ultrasonic feedback loop that can cause avalanches to stymie angry natives with pointy sticks
That range with no infrastructure and extreme reliability is the classic excuse for being so limited, with additional functions only coming from the deus ex machina technobabble that everything in Star Trek runs on.
Panel three demonstrates one of the challenges when your characters have no mouths. Uhura should be doing “duck lips” in her selfie but she doesn’t have lips.
PS. For the best of both worlds, get a Bluetooth wireless ST:TNG communicator.
Not gonna lie, I always thought Kirk’s name for his joystick was “The Prime Directive.” At least that way, ToS makes sense: One sexy alien lady is the only excuse he needs to instigate internal interference ifyouknowhatImean.
I laughed about the fourth panel far more than I should xD
I don’t think I laughed enough. Not done yet, though.
I haven’t stopped laughing yet… lol
The ST communicators are less cell phones than they are walkie-talkies with a 40,000 mile range. Plus I’m still waiting on the cell phone app that can create an ultrasonic feedback loop that can cause avalanches to stymie angry natives with pointy sticks
That range with no infrastructure and extreme reliability is the classic excuse for being so limited, with additional functions only coming from the deus ex machina technobabble that everything in Star Trek runs on.
And don’t forget instant voice commands for call routing. “Kirk to Spock”. Spock immediately answers.
OK, I confess, I laughed out loud at panel 4. 🙂
Oh yeah… panel 4 for the win!
I heard that some friend of Leonard Nimoy’s cracked up the first time he saw Nimoy open up his flip-phone.
I bet.
Panel three demonstrates one of the challenges when your characters have no mouths. Uhura should be doing “duck lips” in her selfie but she doesn’t have lips.
PS. For the best of both worlds, get a Bluetooth wireless ST:TNG communicator.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/jmgi/
The Bluetooth commbadge.
I’m dying at Panel 4… I’ll never again be able to watch Star Trek without thinking of this.
Not gonna lie, I always thought Kirk’s name for his joystick was “The Prime Directive.” At least that way, ToS makes sense: One sexy alien lady is the only excuse he needs to instigate internal interference ifyouknowhatImean.
“And that, Yeoman Rand, is why I call this the transporter room!”
“Weiner Pic” and “Captain’s Log”… hilarious double punch lines