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When a character presses his/her communicator and says something like "Crusher to Picard", it seems like the other character hears this in real time, as it is being said. How does the communicator know who you're talking to before you say their name? |
When a character presses his/her communicator and says something like "Crusher to Picard", it seems like the other character hears this in real time, as it is being said. How does the communicator know who you're talking to before you say their name? |
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* Less impressively/buggy, communications all the way from ship-to-ship to the lowly combadge are also psychic about ''stopping'' a transmission. Automatic doors are similarly psychic throughout ''Trek'', knowing whether you want to exit, ''how'' you are going to exit (right down to slipping through almost-closed doors?), are permitted to go through, and so forth... all before you ever approach them. |
* Less impressively/buggy, communications all the way from ship-to-ship to the lowly combadge are also psychic about ''stopping'' a transmission. Automatic doors are similarly psychic throughout ''Trek'', knowing whether you want to exit, ''how'' you are going to exit (right down to slipping through almost-closed doors?), are permitted to go through, and so forth... all before you ever approach them. |
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* You press the comm badge and say "Crusher to Picard." The badge hears that, opens the line to Picard, and repeats "Crusher to Picard" on his end. The lag time is minimal because of very fast transmission speeds and because standing there staring at someone who's waiting and not doing anything for a second or two just to be "realistic" and satisfy nitpickers is not good television. |
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