Lesson 10-ST: Personal Equipment
General Purpose | Medical Equipment | Personal Weaponry
General Purpose Equipment
COMMUNICATOR BADGE
Personnel subspace communication device, originally hand-held, later in the 24th century integrated in the Starfleet badge; the latter is also referred to as combadge. The communicator serves to establish a voice contact to another person or computer and provides lock-on contact for the transporter. The combadge is usually programmed with a crew member's individual bioelectric data, which is verified through a dermal sensor. The communicator will fail if used by an unauthorized person.
 EVA Pressure Suit
The current operational EVA pressure suit used throughout Starfleet is the Type-3 SEWG. This model is characterized by modular construction designed to fit from 38 to 76 percentile humanoid personnel. Torso, leg, boot, glove, and helmet assemblies are built in fifteen different sizes to allow for a wide range of body morphologies. The life support backpack and chest plate are furnished in three different sizes to accommodate different mission requirements and allow for custom loading of atmospheric gasses, cooling liquids, recycling gear, power supplies, and communication equipment.
PADD
Acronym for Personal Access Display Device, a hand-held access terminal to a computer system. PADDs are equipped with a display and touch sensitive areas and have limited built-in memory and computing capability. They are employed to establish uplinks and downlinks to computer systems and may serve as transporter lock-ons. Apart from Starfleet, PADDs are used by most other advanced civilizations.
TRICORDER
In 2378, a new tricorder appeared which almost entirely dispensed with the somewhat anachronistic button-and-screen approach employed on the earlier tricorders, and which appears to be far less bulky than the earlier models. A few buttons remain for basic commands, but the primary interface is a large touch-screen. The unit features a small flip-up scan head, and once again the same unit serves in the standard and medical roles.
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 instruments 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.
WRIST BEACON & LIGHT
This is a fairly recent addition to the Starfleet inventory. Added in 2371, it was designed with the idea of providing away teams with a way to produce extra illumination in a hand's off capacity. The Type VI produces two beams of light and attaches to the wrist by way of a velcro strap. It is extremely sturdy and will remain in place through even the most treacherous movements. Included on the Type VI is an emergency transporter beacon which can be used to enhance the wearer's signal in case of an emergency beam out.
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Medical Equipment
 BIOBED
Hospital bed that includes medical sensors and display units for diagnosis and gas and fluid connect points for treatment of patients. The primary biobed, typically located in the center of a starship sickbay, is equipped with an additional overhead sensor cluster and a containment field generator and serves for surgical and other intensive-care procedures.
DERMAL REGENERATOR
Medical device used to seal small wounds or burns and restore the original skin structure. Dermal regenerators are standard equipment of Starfleet and other civilizations in the 24th century.
 HYPOSPRAY
Medical device that allows subcutaneous or intravenous injections without syringe. The hypospray evaporates the medicament and ejects it under high pressure so as to penetrate the epidermis without damage.
MEDICAL TRICORDER
The medical tricorder is a modified Mark XI with an extra external medical probe and scanner attachment. The attachment is capable of the following:
- Biosampler
- Bioscanner
- Chemscanner
- Datalink
- Environmental analysis
- Medscanner
- Multiscanner
- Radscanner
For its size, the medical tricorder can maintain and store vast amounts of data in its own memory, which is used to help evaluate conditions on site.
The medical tricorder has an external hand-held sensing device.
This peripheral contains over 100 sensors, and the tricorder contains a specialized medical database that provides detailed medical diagnostic tools in the field including tomographic and micrographic imaging. A small diagnosis wand fits into the back of the peripheral and is occasionally used by the physician to provide close high-resolution scans.
Together, these sensors allow the medical tricorder to make very detailed diagnosis on known species. On unknown species, it is limited to telling if the life-form is sick or dying. A detailed analysis is not possible in such a situation. Effective range is about three yards.
 MEDKIT
The physician's medkit is a small, strap-on case designed to carry emergency medical supplies.
A full standard kit would include:
- 1 anabolic protoplaser
- 1 bandage assortment
- 1 cardiostimulator
- 2 hyposprays
- 1 medical tricorder
- 1 neural stimulator
- 1 respirator
- 1 sampling kit
...and the following medications:
- 3 vials of Analgine
- 5 vials of Delactovine
- 4 vials of Hyronaln
- 3 vials of Panamyacin
- 5 vials of Tricordrazine
- 3 vials of Tri-Ox
- 5 Magnesite-Nitron tablets
All doses of any drug type are contained in vials that must be inserted into the hypospray. The standard kit may be altered to suit missions or situations, but must be altered before the mission begins. For example, if the doctor knows that he/she is going into a combat zone, he/she may replace the 3 vials of Panamyacin with more Hyronalyn or Analgine.
LASER SCALPEL
These work with out causing additional blood loss, but can dazzle anyone unwary enough to look into the beam, even though the scalpel can only cut within its focal length.
SURGICAL SUPPORT FRAME
A vital tool in nearly all surgical procedures is the surgical support frame (SSF), or "clamshell" as it is sometimes referred to. The SSG not only maintains a sterile environment for most surgical procedures but also incorporates several vital diagnostic and life support tools. These include a battery of bio-function sensors, supplementing those provided by the biobed and by the overhead medical equipment array. The SSF is capable of automated administration of intravenous medication as well as cardiovascular support and emergency defibrillation. A variety of surgical support frame types are available for different procedures, as well as for different lifeform types. Most biobeds are designed to accept surgical support frames. Surgical procedures are accomplished at the primary biobed, located at the center of each sickbay ward or surgical suite. Above this biobed is an overhead cluster of diagnostic and biofunction sensors. This array also incorporates a low-level forcefield generator that can be used to reduce the chance of potentially harmful microorganisms entering or leaving the biobed area. Note that this forcefield is of a relatively limited utility and is not adequate to maintain a totally sterile environment sufficient for surgical procedures or to satisfy biohazard protocols.
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Personal Weaponry
EVA PHASER RIFLE
Specially designed for use with environment suits, the EVA rifle has two pistol-grips and no trigger-guard for ease of handling, as well as magnetized areas for securing in zero-gravity conditions.
 ISOMETRIC DISINTEGRATOR
Shoulder-mounted large-caliber energy weapon.
 PHOTON GRENADE
Matter/antimatter annihilation weapon used by Starfleet and by the Klingon Defense Force. A Starfleet photon grenade contains small deuterium and magnetically constrained antideuterium tanks. This weapon yields a very large explosion and is typically used by Starfleet Marines or heavy weapon personnel.
TYPE-I PHASER
During the early 2360's, Starfleet used a small "cricket" phaser that could be concealed easily. This model of phaser had eight (8) settings, from light stun to disintegration. In 2371, the Type-I phaser was redesigned.
TYPE-II PHASER
Hand phaser with 16 settings. Basic controls were three main buttons: Beam Intensity (forward, left), Beam Width (forward, right) and the trigger.
All variants of the 24th-century phaser store energy in a sarium krellide cell. Sarium krellide stores a maximum of 1.3x106 megajoules per cubic centimeter. The power cell is connected in series to three control modules: the beam control assembly, the safety interlock and the subspace transceiver assembly (STA):
- The beam control assembly includes the controls which alter the beam's intensity and width, as well as the trigger.
- The safety interlock is used to identify and check the person using the phaser.
- The STA is used as part of the safety system whilst on a Federation starship, automatically limiting power levels during firing when on board, usually to no more than heavy stun; it also has additional target sensors and processors for distance aiming.
Energy from the power cell passes through all three modules and is then routed through shielded conduits to the prefire chamber, a sphere of gulium arkenide-reinforced LiCu 521, 1.5 cm in diameter. This energy is stored temporarily by a charge barrier, which then collapses the energy, discharging it through the LiCu (the 'emitter crystal') as a pulse of energy.
The charge barrier collapse takes an average of 0.02 picoseconds, whereupon through a 'rapid nadion' effect the LiCu emitter converts the pulse into a tuned phaser discharge. As with a ship's main phaser banks, the greater the energy in the prefire chamber, the higher the percentage of nuclear disruption. Low to moderate phaser settings are calibrated to fall short of this nuclear disruption threshold, limiting the phaser discharge to stun and thermal electromagnetic effects.
 TYPE-IIIc PHASER RIFLE
Sometimes referred to as assault rifles, the Type-IIIa and its companion the Type-IIIb utilise plasma acceleration to provide a powerful bolt of energy similar to that fired by pulse phaser cannons on the Defiant-class starship.
In the late 2370's the Type-IIIc was introduced as an upgrade of the Type-IIIa, with improved holographic targeting.
The beam can be configured to transport Borg nanoprobes.
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