Talk:Holo-communicator
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[edit] Conversion between Standing and sitting
Unlike the "holographic cushions" depicted in Star Wars Prequels II and III in use by the Jedi Council, the Star Trek "Holo-communicator" is able to generate remote avatars that do not necessarily have the same body posture. Star Wars' device was only able to resize a 3D image of the actual person.
A clever idea of the Federation engineers....but: HOW ON EARTH is such an Avatar controlled remotely?
We see Gestures of standing avatars whose owners are SITTING IN A CHAIR.
If the device is de-coupling body postures of the real person and the avatar, how can you control the avatar's gestures?
My idea is: the device is stowed away after two episodes because someone of the writers actually began to think of the really impossible technology which is depicted here.....
Is the Holo-communicator from the same writer as the Emergency-Transporters from Nemesis?!?!?!
- I don't remember actually seeing the person on the other side of the holo-communicator, so how do you know they weren't standing? --OuroborosCobra talk 19:18, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
I remember a scene with Sisko seen as standing in the communicator ring but actually sitting in his chair.--84.163.8.248 19:35, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
- I just checked through both episodes featuring the device in question, and we never saw what Sisko looked like on the receiving end. You are not remembering correctly. --OuroborosCobra talk 19:58, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
- Captain Sanders said that Sisko appeared to be sitting on his bridge, which would suggest the communicator did not alter the images. In any event, I agree it was good to get rid of. 31dot 01:03, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Hm, my bad, sorry. Seems I am not remembering correctly... weird device, nevertheless. --84.163.8.248 20:02, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
- Most definitely a strange device, and one that I agree it was good to get rid of. --OuroborosCobra talk 20:30, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
