Post by MCDemuth on Feb 15, 2022 23:06:24 GMT
Just watching an Episode of Star Trek DS9, where Jake goes to work with Chief O'Brien and his father gives him a Comm-Badge... and says that all station personnel wear them...
On the TNG Enterprise, crew members wear them as well, but not their children...
The only exception to the practice, that I know of, was Naomi Wildman on Voyager, but she was the only child on board.
I remember on an episode from one of the series, Voyager, perhaps... Where it is said that the Comm-Badges can be used to send out emergencies signals when they are damaged... in order to help search teams find disaster victims...
And so I wonder why doesn't EVERYONE have Comm-Badges?
Or at least some kind of a device that works in a similar way... since Space is dangerous...
Obviously, Children may not be disciplined enough to refrain from using them as communication devices, but you would think that there would be a need to track residents of a Starship, Space Station, or Starbase... and there must be devices that could be restricted in functionality to be locator devices, only...
As I recall, there was at least one TOS episode where a supposed dead crewmember was hiding on the lower levels of the ship... and they couldn't track him...
If a child got lost on a Galaxy Class ship, a device like that could come in very handy.
You would think in the 24th century, people would recognize them as valuable tools...
On the TNG Enterprise, crew members wear them as well, but not their children...
The only exception to the practice, that I know of, was Naomi Wildman on Voyager, but she was the only child on board.
I remember on an episode from one of the series, Voyager, perhaps... Where it is said that the Comm-Badges can be used to send out emergencies signals when they are damaged... in order to help search teams find disaster victims...
And so I wonder why doesn't EVERYONE have Comm-Badges?
Or at least some kind of a device that works in a similar way... since Space is dangerous...
Obviously, Children may not be disciplined enough to refrain from using them as communication devices, but you would think that there would be a need to track residents of a Starship, Space Station, or Starbase... and there must be devices that could be restricted in functionality to be locator devices, only...
As I recall, there was at least one TOS episode where a supposed dead crewmember was hiding on the lower levels of the ship... and they couldn't track him...
If a child got lost on a Galaxy Class ship, a device like that could come in very handy.
You would think in the 24th century, people would recognize them as valuable tools...
