To: Lawrence D'Oliveiro
-=> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote to alt.politics,alt.startrek <=-
LD> From Newsgroup: alt.startrek
LD> So what were the three things that the Tricorder, um, corded?
Environmental scans, data recording and data analysis. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricorder
This sent me down a rabbit hole reading about Wah Chang, the creator of
the tricorder.
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wah_Chang:
For Star Trek, Chang built costumes for the salt vampire ("The Man
Trap"), the Gorn ("Arena") and Balok's false image ("The Corbomite
Maneuver"). He created tribbles by using artificial fur stuffed with
foam, the Neanderthals in "The Galileo Seven", and the Romulan Bird of
Prey ("Balance of Terror"), and the Vulcan harp first seen in "Charlie
X" and later seen in "The Conscience of the King", "Amok Time", "The Way
to Eden"; and Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Chang is mistakenly
credited with having designed the phaser; it was actually designed by
the Art Director of the original series, Matt Jefferies. The Desilu prop
department prepared a single "hero" working model phaser, deemed
unacceptable by Gene Roddenberry; Wah Chang prepared additional working
and dummy mockups of the phaser, as well as other principal props.[17] A
Desilu invoice dated August 22, 1966, shows Chang "reworking phasers"
for $520.00.[2]
Wah Chang's futuristic "communicator," a design influence on clamshell
cellular phones. Chang's communicator design has been credited as an
inspiration for modern flip-type cell phones.
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