TR-590 Mk10 Tricorder

 

The Starfleet tricorder was the versatile, portable sensing device developed by Starfleet R&D specifically for use by Federation Starfleet personnel. Succeeding the TR-580 Tricorder Mark 7, the TR-590 Mark 10 tricorder featured nearly identical control interfaces, features, and ablities. The entire unit, however, was streamlined and made much smaller, featuring a more angular design. The TR-590 was first fielded aboard USS Voyager in 2371, before being distributed to the fleet in 2372 after R&D deemed the Mk 8 and 9 failures, neither seeing service. The TR-590 functioned very much like the previous model of Starfleet tricorder, the Mk7, the Mark 10s were stored in most equipment lockers on board Federation starships. The Mark 10 tricorder could upload data it acquired remotely to a Federation starship. Discovered by the Maquis, the Mark 10 tricorder could be prevented from attaining credible readings when subjected to concentrated thoron particles (this was later corrected by R&D).

The Mark X tricorder was reportedly heavy for its size as indicated by B'Elanna Torres when she received a small gift from Tuvok during a holodeck generated baby shower. Torres asked if it was her child's first tricorder as the gift was small yet heavy. Unlike previous designs, the Mark 10 tricorder could still function after being underwater. It could also function in hostile environments such as temperatures of 500 Kelvin, the upper atmosphere of a planet, and planets suffering nuclear winter. The upper component of the TR-590 was capable of interfacing with a Starfleet desktop monitor and projecting a recorded image from the tricorder onto the screen. This tricorder was also able to access secured files on a 20th century computer.