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So the computer is piecing together evidence from a wide array of sensors. The computer is frequently shown being able to theorize and extrapolate from available data based on spoken natural language commands.

The sensors are aided by the ship's computer which is sophisticated enough to simulate fully sapient beings (at least from The Next Generation onward).

In this case, they explicitly infer the presence of life based on "localized decreases in entropy." (Things were not as random within specific areas within the micro-verse in specific ways which indicated life-forms were responsible.) And in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine they find a tiny little miniature universe and their sensors can detect there is life in it.When they scan a ship for "life", they appear to actually scan for "life" - it is pointed out at least once in Star Trek: The Next Generation that their sensors can pick up artificial life, such as androids.detector for whatever Green Rocks or Phlebotinum residue they're looking for this week. Standard tricorders can detect people and give some indication on their physical status, but for medical diagnosis specialized medical tricorders are brought out. The tricorder combines this trope with The Little Detecto it's a hand-held, all-purpose note with one partial exception.Interestingly, one episode of Star Trek: Voyager featured them finding the wreck of an early 21st century Mars mission ship which appeared to be the first to mount an Everything Sensor - that's virtually how it was described!.Spock: Our ship's instruments are specifically designed to locate and identify any object in our universe, be it energy or matter. Much tension is derived from trying to figure out what a distant enemy warship formation are doing now when all the heroes know is what they were doing minutes or hours ago, or infer what's going on inside a space habitat or an outpost beneath the surface of an airless planetoid from whatever radio traffic they can intercept. The sensor systems aboard a warship are explicitly limited to optical and infrared cameras and wide-spectrum radio telescopes, and both the sensors themselves and the ship-to-ship voice and data links are limited to the speed of light.

#Tvtropes scannerz series

The Lost Fleet series is a notable aversion, despite being a Space Opera series that owes more than a little to Star Trek.

Davenant had simply connected the thermopile with the galvanometer, blinkered the lens to provide sharp directionality, and come up with an infrared spotter. He needed a single device, rugged and portable, which could be adjusted to perform twenty different functions.

The Snows Of Ganymede by Poul Anderson, the Planetary Engineers carry a 'general unit' which can be modified for any purpose required, as they are an order of Gadgeteer Geniuses.Ī man in the field, who might have to work hundreds of kilometers from camp, couldnt pack twenty different meters and detectors.

She uses it to clear for eating the mana melons the Avians brought her when she was trapped in a pit on the spaceship.

Nicole from Rama II has a sensor which can detect if objects found are safe for human consumption.

Most wizards carry one somewhere about their persons as the accepted Everything Sensor.

The Thaumometer, and related devices used by wizards on the Discworld are handy devices apparently running on Phlebotinum, used to ascertain the precise degree of eldrich, strange and potentially unseemly things going on in the vicinity of Ankh-Morpork and Unseen University.

Justified in that the Dust's capabilities are fairly well defined and based on actual research work being done now and extended into the future the Dust Motes are very small computing devices with micro-scale sensors and actuators but can act in concert wirelessly, within limits of the power available and their programming. Baker uses nanotechnological "Faerie Dust" to scan just about everything for everything. In fact, they are even able to see the force lines inside Hypersphere.

Specially-trained humans with multiple implants in their heads (known as cybreakers or mnemonics) are likewise able to scan their surroundings without any external devices.

the largest collections of neurons he sees). Instinctively, he combines this ability with his training, which allows him to shoot shapeshifters in the brain (i.e. In one novel, a Space Marine gets empathic powers, allowing him to "see" nervous systems of living creatures.

Space Marines are trained to be able to identify signatures at a glance. The author usually mentions that the sensors simply return the "energy signature" of the target, and it's up to either the operator or the machine to figure out what it could be based on known signatures. In The History of the Galaxy books, pretty much all sensors act this way.