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STAR TREK: TNG
MEDICAL SCANNER
STAGE PROP
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Medical Scanner Stage Prop, retail $(probably several hundred each!)
Manufactured by (Unknown)
Last updated 09-22-12

My usual review format will not be used here because the item on this page is a fairly rare stage prop, not something the average person could get or might even want.

This very unique device was used while filming episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation; it was generally used in sickbay on the USS Enterprise (registry number NCC-1701D) in conjunction with a medical tricorder, and was passed over the patient. It has a set of "rotating" yellow-green LEDs along the sides of its base, and a flashing red LED on its underside.

Every time I pick one of these up, I can "hear" the main computer of the Enerprise-D (voiced by Majel Barrett-Roddenberry) say something.

I'm nuts about all of the Star Trek series, so it would be no big secret that I just about went over the deep end (and almost shat myself!) when I opened the box containing these!!!

SIZE

To activate it, one usually removes it from the front of a medical tricorder first.

Holding it so that your thumb and middle finger grip the sides of the lower half, use your index finger (forefinger) to press down on the upper half - the yellow-green LEDs near its base should now come on in a "chaser" sequence and a red LED on its underside should also flash.

Stop pressing with your forefinger to turn it off.

Place it back in the chamber in the front of a medical tricorder at this point...like you're really going to have one of those things!!!

When it's time to change the battery (and yes, it really *IS* a "battery" and not a "cell"), pull the two halves of the instrument apart. In the lower half (the part with the LEDs in it), you'll find a compartment with an A23 12 volt cigarrette lighter battery in it. Tip out the used battery, and dispose of or recycle it as you see fit.

Insert a new A23 battery into the compartment, orienting it so that the nipple-end (+) positive goes in first.

Slide the upper half back on, and there, you're done with it.

Current usage measures 28.80mA on my DMM's 400mA scale.

This medical scanner is meant to be used as a stage prop on a television program, not as a flashlight meant to be carried around, thrashed, trashed, and abused, so I won't try to drown it in the fishtank or toliet tank, bash it against a steel rod or against the concrete floor of a garage, let my housemate's citty kats

go to the litterbox on it, run over it with a 450lb Celebrity motorised wheelchair, stomp on it, use a large claw hammer in order to bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoñata, drop it down the top of Mt. Erupto (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piñata" too much again

- candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piñata Central), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; the cannoñata (also located at Piñata Central) is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island, and Mt. Erupto is an active volcano on Piñata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, launch it into tight orbit of the red supergiant star Beta Stromgren an hour before it goes supernova, or perform other indecencies on this rather rare and expensive stage prop that flashlights might have to have performed on them. So this section of the web page about the Star Trek: The Next Generation Medical Scanner Stage Prop will be ***SIGNIFICANTLY*** more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight that was born to be a flashlight and nothing but a flashlight.

In fact, the photographs, spectrographic analyses, and video clips on this web page may very well be it.

Actually there is one more thing...the person who sent these says that the metal tends to tarnish with handling, and he recommends Flitz metal polish to make them sparkle like new ("new" as in the 24th century of course!) again.

Photograph showing it activated.

Spectrographic analysis of the yellow-green LEDs ringing its base.

Same as above; newer spectrometer setting used.

Spectrographic analysis of the red LED on its underside.

Same as above; newer spectrometer setting used.

Spectrographic analysis of the yellow-green LEDs ringing its base; yet newer spectrometer software & settings used.

Spectrographic analysis of the yellow-green LEDs ringing its base; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 540nm and 580nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is ~558.90nm.

Spectrographic analysis of the red LED on its underside; yet newer spectrometer software & settings used.

Spectrographic analysis of the red LED on its underside; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 605nm and 650nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is ~628.65nm.

Spectrographic analysis of the red LED on its base; yet newer spectrometer software settings used.

Spectrographic analysis of the red LED on its base; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 610nm and 650nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 627.699nm.

Spectrographic analysis of the yellow-green LEDs ringing its base; yet newer spectrometer software settings used.

Spectrographic analysis of the yellow-green LEDs ringing its base; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 550nm and 570nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 557.618nm.

USB2000 Spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.

Video clip on YourTube showing the flashing LEDs on the device.

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Another video clip on YourTube showing the flashing LEDs on the device.

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I cannot provide either one in other formats, so please do not ask.

TEST NOTES:
Test units (2) were sent by a website fan and were received on 08-01-08.
No email address was provided; if you sent these, please PIPE UP so I can thank you for them!!!

This person wrote stating that he did not require a "formal review", but it looks like he's going to get an "informal review" anyway - simply because I'm nuts about Star Trek: The Next Generation (and all other Star Trek series) and because these stage props from Star Trek: The Next Generation use LEDs.

UPDATE: 03-04-10
I shot another video of this product in operation; please see above for that.

MANUFACTURER: Unknown
PRODUCT TYPE: Stage prop for filming Star Trek: The Next Generation
LAMP TYPE: 3mm diffused LED
No. OF LAMPS: 10 (9 yellow-green, 1 red)
BEAM TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Push halves of product together to activate, release to deactivate
CASE MATERIAL: Aluminum
BEZEL: N/A
BATTERY: 1x A23 12 volt battery
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: 28.80mA
WATER- AND PEE-RESISTANT: Very light splatter-resistance at maximum
SUBMERSIBLE: HUSOOS CRISTO TRAGEN EINE URIN-GEFÜLLTE WINDEL, NEIN!
ACCESSORIES: Velvet-like drawstring bag
SIZE: 65.50mm L x 25mm Dia.
WEIGHT: 57.60g (2.030 oz.)
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: USA
WARRANTY: Unknown

PRODUCT RATING:

Because this product is a stage prop of limited production and its primary purpose is not to emit light, a conventional "star" rating will not be assigned to it (them).

Star Trek: The Next Generation Medical Scanner Stage Prop * (URL not known)

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