Away Team Equipment 1 - USS Highlander

Communicators

Personal communications device used by Starfleet personnel. Communicators provide voice transmissions from a planetary surface to an orbiting spacecraft or station, and between members of a landing party. Communicators also provide a means for a ship's transporter system to determine the exact coordinates of a crew member for transport back to the ship. Early versions of the communicator were compact handheld units with a flip-up antenna grid. Starfleet briefly used wrist communicators, but more recent units have been incorporated into the Starfleet insignia worn on each crew member's uniform.

These combadges have a dermal sensor that can be used to restrict usage to one authorised individual only. Starfleet combadges are programed to activate automatically when the casing is destroyed, a feature designed to help rescuers locate a seriously injured person. The current combadge device is constructed of a crystalline composite of silcon, beryllium, carbon - 70 and gold.