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How do commbadges and pips stick?
Posted: 2016-06-02 10:48pm
by FaxModem1
Simple enough question, how do the pips and commbadges in TNG, DS9, and Voyager work? When seen off the a person's uniform, there is no lapel pin, nor is there a magnet to hide it in place. So, in universe, how do they attach?
Re: How do commbadges and pips stick?
Posted: 2016-06-02 10:51pm
by Borgholio
They often make a noise when pulling them off or putting them on. I gather it is some kind of miniature latch of some kind or a molecular bonding mechanism. Babylon 5 did the same thing with their combadges...they stuck to the skin without adhesive.
Re: How do commbadges and pips stick?
Posted: 2016-06-02 10:59pm
by Batman
Err-how do you know there IS no magnet to hold it in place? The magnet would be on the inside of the uniform so you'd never see it and about half the real-world replicas worked that way.
Re: How do commbadges and pips stick?
Posted: 2016-06-03 02:22am
by Axton
That was my thought. Magnet is embedded behind the fabric.
Re: How do commbadges and pips stick?
Posted: 2016-06-03 02:34am
by Crazedwraith
They stick very well thank you.
Magnets or some sci-fi adhesive.
Re: How do commbadges and pips stick?
Posted: 2016-06-03 03:11am
by SpottedKitty
Technobabble-powered static cling, I always thought.
Re: How do commbadges and pips stick?
Posted: 2016-06-03 04:39am
by FaxModem1
Crazedwraith wrote:They stick very well thank you.
Re: How do commbadges and pips stick?
Posted: 2016-06-03 05:15pm
by Prometheus Unbound
FaxModem1 wrote:Crazedwraith wrote:They stick very well thank you.
It's from when someone once asked the producers at a con how do the heisenburg compensatory work and they replied 'very well thanks'
Re: How do commbadges and pips stick?
Posted: 2016-06-03 08:25pm
by SpottedKitty
Prometheus Unbound wrote:It's from when someone once asked the producers at a con how do the heisenburg compensatory work and they replied 'very well thanks'
Should have added "as long as nobody looks at the status display"...
(FWIW, the version I heard, it was Patrick Stewart being asked about the warp drive; wouldn't surprise me if there were a dozen or more versions making the rounds.)
Re: How do commbadges and pips stick?
Posted: 2016-06-03 11:25pm
by U.P. Cinnabar
SpottedKitty wrote:Prometheus Unbound wrote:It's from when someone once asked the producers at a con how do the heisenburg compensatory work and they replied 'very well thanks'
Should have added "as long as nobody looks at the status display"...
(FWIW, the version I heard, it was Patrick Stewart being asked about the warp drive; wouldn't surprise me if there were a dozen or more versions making the rounds.)
I've heard both, actually. Micheal Okuda at a Vulkon some years ago answered the Heisenberg compensator question with "very well, thanks," and Stewart used that same answer to someone who asked about the warp drive at, I want to say, a Dixie Trek, but it was so far in the distant past(like yesterday), that I can't be sure.
The late Jimmy Doohan tried to come up with technical explanations for some of the workings of Treknology, and those explanations were fanon for some time.
(Pity about his Alzheimer's. He was a class act in his prime, same with Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Gates McFadden, and even Johnathan Frakes)