PADD

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A PADD, short for Personal Access Display Device, is a hand-held, multifunctional computer used in various guises by various races, including the Federation, Klingons, Romulans and Cardassians.

Earth Starfleet and later Federation Starfleet used PADDs starting around 2150 and continue to use them to this day for various functions. PADDs are wireless in nature and can access other PADDs, tricorders, communicators and ship's computers as needed.

The controls are touch-focussed and LCARS-based, allowing the user to intuitively access data via a large screen activated and operated by touch. PADDs in the 2360s utilized boronite whisker epoxy construction, powered by sarium krellide power cells. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Manual)

USS Cantabrian counselor Scott Fack preferred using PADDs to read novels instead of a book. (Star Trek: The Cantabrian Expeditions: "Isolation")

[edit] References

• TNG:
  • "Force of Nature"
  • "Masks"
  • "Parallels"
• DS9:
  • "Little Green Men"
  • "Trials and Tribble-ations"
  • "Far Beyond the Stars"
• VOY:
  • "Good Shepherd"

[edit] External links

• PADD article at Memory Alpha, the canon Star Trek wiki.
• LCARS PADD: A Nokia 770 look for the 24th century