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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
It's also interesting how sf sometimes fetishizes tech and misses how it actually gets used in practice. Communicators in Star Trek - which are sort of cellphone like - were always used for Important Communications.
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The classic star trek communicators were really walkie-talkies or CB radios. The newer ones are a bit more cell-phone like.
A more realistic (aka, contemporary) approach to the landing parties would be the current stereotype of HQ-monitored special forces operations: drones scouting ahead of a team in constant communication with the base where every sneeze is recorded and every question is instantly researched by a team of techie specialists too valuable to be sent down until the area is secured. I.E., more like SG-1.
Better yet, more like VORPAL BLADE's Space Marines.