@SpunkyTWS wrote:
Years ago a friend and I were talking about Star Trek, and he was laughing about TOS communicators basically being flip phones. I pointed out that no matter where the crew was on, or in, any planet, as long as the Enterprise was orbiting it they never worried about a dropped call or being out of range. Imagine having that kind of service when calling the International Space Station.
Yeah, TOS technology still isn't quite out of date.