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	The standard tricorder is a portable sensing, computing, and data communications device		The standard tricorder is a portable sensing, computing, and data communications device
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	In its primary role aboard a starship, the personal access display device (PADD) is a handheld		In its primary role aboard a starship, the personal access display device (PADD) is a handheld
	control and display terminal. Small, easily managed terminals and computers are in daily use		control and display terminal. Small, easily managed terminals and computers are in daily use

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=Science Stations=
Science stations I and II are the first two aft stations located directly behind the Tactical station
on the upper level of the Main Bridge (different ship configurations may place this elsewhere).
They are used by bridge personnel to provide real-time scientific data to command personnel.
These stations are not assigned full-time technicians, but are available for use as needed. Station I is frequently manned by the CSO and additional scientists to Station II.
In some cases, the science stations are used by personnel attached to secondary missions
including researchers, science officers, mission specialists, and others who need to coordinate
operations closely with the bridge. Science I and II are generally configured for independent
operation, but can be linked together when two researchers wish to work cooperatively. The aft
Science stations have priority links to Conn, OPS and Tactical. During Alert status, science
stations can have priority access to sensor arrays, if necessary over ridding ongoing science
department observations and other secondary mission upon approval of the CSO.

The Science I station incorporates an isolinear ship matrix panel that permits specialized
mission profile programs to be loaded as needed, and also permits investigators to accumulate
data for later study.

Primary functions of Science stations include:
* The ability to provide access to sensors and interpretative software for primary mission and command intelligence requirements and to supplement OPS to providing real-time scientific data for command decision making support.
* The ability to act as a command pst of coordination of activities of various science laboratories and other departments, as well as for monitoring of secondary mission status.
* The ability to reconfigure and recalibrate sensor systems at a moment’s notice to specific command intelligence requirements.

=Tricorder=
:''Main Article: [[Tricorder]]
The standard tricorder is a portable sensing, computing, and data communications device
developed by Starfleet R&D and issued to starship crew members. It incorporates miniaturized
versions of those scientific instrument found to be most useful for both shipboard and away
missions, and its capabilities may be augmented with mission-specific peripherals. Its many
functions may be accessed by touch-sensitive controls or, if necessary, voice command
Tricorders are extremely compact and powerful sensory devices. In addition to containing a
wide range of miniature electromagnetic, magnetic, audio, chemical and subspace sensors,
tricorders also include extremely detailed databanks on a wide range of scientific and historical
information. The computer in the tricorder can rapidly identify known lifeforms, materials and
energy sources by comparing its sensory reading with its databanks. Tricorders can also
attempt to analyze unknown lifeforms, materials or energy sources, although this could take up
to an hour, during which the tricorder may still be used for other tasks. Tricorders also contain
subspace communicators with ranges like those of personal communicators. The can send and
receive data of all types from a starship computer or other distant source.

The normal range a standard tricorder is 2,000 meters for long range scans, 25 meters for
short-range for short-range scans. All long-range scans are omni directional, but the user must
aim the tricorder at a specific location to perform a short-range scan. Various types of ionic and
other interference can greatly reduce the range of a tricorders scans.

=PADD=
:''Main Article: [[PADD]]''
In its primary role aboard a starship, the personal access display device (PADD) is a handheld
control and display terminal. Small, easily managed terminals and computers are in daily use
throughout Starfleet, as a natural response to crew members’ needs to 1.) execute hardware
functions in a variety of functions, and 2.) manipulate visual information and communicate that
information to others aboard ship. Access to the ships computer and other pieces of equipment
can be accomplished through he usual control display and larger terminal screens, of course,
but the PADD has become a convenient adjunct to those panels.

=Deflector Dish=
Although the density of the interstellar medium is extremely low, significant hazards to
navigation exits, especial for a starship traveling at relativistic or warp velocities. Among these
are micrometeroid particulates, as well as the much rare (but more hazardous) larger objects
such as asteroids. Even the extremely tenuous stray hydrogen atoms of the interstellar medium
itself can be a dangerous source of friction at sufficient velocities.

The heart of the navigational deflector system is three redundant high power graviton polarity
source generators. The flux energy output of these generators is directed and focused by a
series of powerful subspace field coils. The main dish is attached to the actual emitter array.
The dish is steerable under automatic computer control. Subspace filed coils are used to shape
the deflector beam into two primary components. The first shields the ship two kilometers ahead
of the ship. These low-powered fields are relatively static and are used to deflect the stray
hydrogen atom as well as any submicron particles that escaped the deflector beam. The
navigational deflector, also controlled by the subspace field coils, is a powerful tractor/deflector
that sweeps thousands of kilometers ahead of the ship, pushing aside larger objects that may
present a collision hazard.

Because the main deflector dish radiates significant amounts of both subspace and
electromagnetic radiation, it can have detrimental effects on the performance of many sensors.
Which is why the LRS array is located behind the main deflector, allowing sensors to ‘look’
directly through the axis of the fields.

=Probes=
:''Main Article: [[Probes]]''
Automated sensor platforms propelled by micro fusion reactors or warp field sustainers, used to
extend starships sensor range and sensitivity, to perform routine surveys, or to reconnoiter an
area where a threat may exist. Probes can be retasked and piloted from the mother ship,
although specialized scans typically require manual replacement of sensor pallets. All probes
are roughly cylindrical and approx. 2 meters long, about the same size as a photon torpedo
launcher.

There are nine classes of probes, classified by mission type. Increase in class number does not
necessarily indicate a corresponding increase in utility, although it does usually indicate an
increase in speed and range.

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