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Subspace transceiver

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A subspace transceiver is a communications technology that utilized subspace as the medium for sending and receiving subspace transmissions.

History and specifications[]

Subspace transceivers produced a signature in subspace that could be tracked even if the devices weren't transmitting. (ENT episode: "Canamar", TOS novel: Troublesome Minds)

Federation[]

By the 2360s decade, combadges contained a miniature subspace transceiver assembly powered by a sarium krellide power cell that had a range of 500 kilometers unless amplified by a nearby station or starship. (Star Trek: The Magazine Issue 4: "Personal Communicators", TNG reference: Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual)

In the 2360s decade, Galaxy-class starships had 20 subspace transceivers embedded along the hull for internal and local communication, each of which was 1.5 meters long, 2 meters wide, and 1 meter thick, containing a subspace transmitter, subspace antenna, data processors, control hardware, and EPS power modulation conditioners. At least three were required to enable a transporter lock. These ships also had 10 ultra-high power subspace transceivers below its hull, each of which was 6 meters long, 4 meters wide, and 3 meters thick, and these were tied into the ship's subspace antenna array. The larger units also contained sub-light and warp signal pre-processors, Doppler compensators, Heisenberg compensators, passive ranging determinator, and a signal amplifier/noise removal system. By the 2360s, Starfleet ships were able to transmit and receive at a rate of 18.5 kiloquads/second. (TNG reference: Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual)

An exographic sensor utilized a subspace transceiver assembly in part to allow a person to see through solid objects. (Last Unicorn RPG module: Star Trek: The Next Generation Players' Guide)

By the 2370s, PADDs and portable computers used transceivers for interactive communication. Phasers contained a subspace transceiver assembly for use as a safely interlock, to enable a station or starship to override their power settings. (Last Unicorn RPG module: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Core Game Book, Decipher RPG module: Star Trek: The Next Generation Players' Guide) Tetryon pulse launchers also had this feature. (Last Unicorn RPG module: The Price of Freedom, Decipher RPG module: Starfleet Operations Manual)

Other cultures[]

Klingon equipment also contained subspace transmitters. Aboard the B'Rel-class bird-of-prey, six interlinked transceivers were placed aft of the command boom. (ST reference: Klingon Bird of Prey Owners' Workshop Manual)

Deep Space 9 operated 24 Cardassian subspace transceivers, which were trumpet-shaped, 2.41 meters tall and 0.98 meters in diameter. Starfleet installed six octagonally-housed transceivers from retiring Soyuz-class ships that had 33 years of operational life remaining, which were 0.56 meters thick and 1.33 meters across. Their communications data transmitted at 53.45 kiloquads/second. (DS9 reference: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual)

Romulan PADDs for civilian use were stripped down, not having any long-range communications features. Military personnel used uprated equipment containing subspace transceivers with a range of 30,000 kilometers. (Last Unicorn RPG module: The Way of D'era: The Romulan Star Empire)

The Borg Vinculum interconnected drones via a network of subspace transceiver arrays. One Borg implant in particular, known as a cortical array, was a neural subspace transceiver that enabled short-range communication with other drones. Borg diamond drones were given more powerful transceivers. (Adventures RPG module: Delta Quadrant Sourcebook)

The Matryoshka Brain megastructure was laced with subspace transceivers. (Adventures RPG module: Nest in the Dark)

In the 25th century, Elachi Ornash-class battlecruisers were equipped with enhanced subspace transceivers that enabled remote piloting of escorts and carriers through subspace. (ST video game: Star Trek Online)

One ventral organ in a star-jelly appeared to serve as a subspace transceiver as well as a transporter emitter. (TTN novel: Orion's Hounds)

Types[]

History[]

Moore's transceiver

An Orion Syndicate subspace transceiver.

In 1957, T'Mir and Mestral were unable to tell if a distress signal was sent from their crashed ship in Carbon Creek, Pennsylvania on Earth, because their subspace transceiver had been damaged. (ENT episode: "Carbon Creek")

In 2151, Captain Jonathan Archer asked Hoshi Sato to put aside her diagnostic on Enterprise's subspace transceiver array to secretly track down Malcolm Reed's favorite food. (ENT episode: "Silent Enemy")

In 2265, double agent "Anna Sandesjo" on Vanguard used a miniaturized subspace transceiver hidden in a briefcase to reach her contact Turag and her Starfleet Intelligence handler T'Prynn. It used a clandestine frequency to camouflage signals among the space station's regular communications. (VAN novel: Summon the Thunder)

In 2269, Sealon vessels targeted subspace transceivers on Trellisane to block Trellisanian requests for help from the Federation. (TOS novel: The Trellisane Confrontation)

In 2270, Section 31 agent Moore used a special Orion Syndicate-made subspace transceiver he claimed was especially good at scrambling messages to make them seem like background noise. Unfortunately for him, Lieutenant Nyota Uhura was still able to detect his transmissions and trace them with a trident scanner to his quarters. (TOS - Mission's End comic: "Issue 4")

In the 2270s decade, Outpost Epsilon 9 served as a communications array and subspace transceiver located near Klingon space. (TOS - Untold Voyages comic: "Renewal")

In 2287, Delegate Tiam was unaware that a subspace transceiver hidden in his quarters aboard the Galtizh that he used to contact rebel allies had been planted there by his aid Kital so as to monitor his communications. (TOS novel: Probe)

In 2374, Grand Nagus Zek brought three private subspace transceivers to Deep Space 9 in order to arrange a meeting with Commissioners from the Ferengi Commerce Authority. (DS9 episode: "Profit and Lace")

In 2376, the MIDAS Array's communications technologies for Pathfinder Project enabled its subspace transceivers to conduct nearly real-time conversations from up to 50,000 light years away. (VOY episodes: "Life Line", "Inside Man", "Endgame", Adventures RPG module: The Command Division)

In the 25th century, a network of transceivers in Khellian system were used as a relay to amplify signals to Starbase 39-Sierra. In 2409, Starfleet suspected that cloaked Reman starships had damaged some of them. (STO mission: "Khellian System Patrol")

Uncommon uses[]

In 2154, Enterprise encountered the Romulan drone ship Prototype 01, whose hull was covered with subspace transceivers and multi-spectral emitters used for remote control piloting. (ENT episodes: "Babel One", "United")

In 2255, Michael Burnham used a subspace transceiver aboard USS Shenzhou to turn a command-confirmation subchannel used by the ship's tractor beam system into a private channel to hail Spock. Later, Spock was able to boost a communicator's signal by using a tricorder's subspace transceiver. (DSC novel: Desperate Hours)

In 2266, Ming Xiong's escape pod crashed and sank into an ocean. He wore a modified environmental suit able to withstand high pressure, and it contained a powerful subspace transceiver. He separated the transceiver assembly from the suit helmet, then attached kelvinium filaments between it and a power cell. This would create a small force field strong enough to protect him from a blast needed to send the pod back to the surface. (TOS novel: Reap the Whirlwind)

In 2275, Montgomery Scott uprated a small, portable subspace transceiver to provide 247 times the output of a communicator. To prevent that power boost from overloading its location transponder, he thickened that circuitry and also installed four backup transponders. The device would still overload within a couple of hours, but would allow him to track Spock as he traveled through a region of disruptive radiation. (TOS novel: The Better Man)

In 2371, Harry Kim used the subspace transceiver array in a tricorder to securely connect USS Voyager to an Akerian computer. (VOY novel: The Murdered Sun)

In 2372, Corat Damar used a freighter's subspace transceiver array to produce a fake signal that dilithium was aboard, a lure for a Klingon ship. (DS9 episode: "Return to Grace")

In 2374, The Doctor was sent through USS Voyager's subspace transceiver array to the USS Prometheus. (VOY episode: "Message in a Bottle")

In 2376, Fabian Stevens removed his communicator's subspace transceiver, using it to interplex a tricorder to a sensor array. (SCE eBook: Wildfire, Book 2)

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See also
subspace amplifier, subspace antenna, subspace transmitter

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