Riker’s Handheld Starfleet Communicator

Commander Riker uses his communicator to respond promptly to Farpoint Station and announce his readiness to beam up. The device serves as the critical link enabling immediate coordination and transition from the station back to the Enterprise, anchoring the urgency of the moment.

Commander Riker uses his communicator device to contact the USS Enterprise, signaling his readiness to beam up after receiving urgent instructions from the Bandi woman. This object functions as a crucial link facilitating rapid communication and prompt response, underscoring the high-tech, time-sensitive nature of Starfleet operations.

Riker uses his communicator to maintain vital contact with Tasha and Troi, establishing a communication link that reveals the shifting stakes of the investigation. The communicator embodies the fragile tether between the away team members and command, carrying news that transforms cautious exploration into urgent inquiry.

Commander Riker and Tasha Yar use the communicator to maintain critical contact with the Enterprise during the unfolding psychic crisis and investigation, enabling urgent commands and status updates to be relayed in real time.

Commander Riker’s communicator is activated by Tasha to maintain contact with the Enterprise, facilitating critical real-time updates about their location and the unknown tunnel walls. It embodies the tenuous link between the away team and their ship, especially vital as Troi succumbs to psychic distress.

Commander Riker's communicator is tested by Data, who discovers an active alien shield blocking all signals to the Enterprise, confirming the team's isolation and intensifying the crisis amid the hostile subterranean environment.

Communicators, carried by all away team members, are rendered ineffective by an active shielding field detected during Data’s tests. Their failure symbolizes the team’s increasing isolation and vulnerability, disconnecting them from the Enterprise and any external aid.

Commander Riker's communicator is tested by Data but found to be effectively jammed by a shielding field, symbolizing the team's sudden isolation and cutting off their lifeline to the Enterprise ship above.

The communicator is central to this event, used urgently by Zorn to transmit desperate pleas for help to the Enterprise, and by Picard to contact Riker and coordinate the tactical response, symbolizing the fragile lifeline between the besieged Old City and Starfleet command.

Commander Riker's communicator is used by Groppler Zorn to frantically call for help and relay the desperate situation at the Old City. It serves as the vital link between the besieged Bandi leader and the Enterprise bridge, facilitating urgent communication under duress.

Commander Riker's communicator serves as the vital link between frontline operatives and the Enterprise bridge, transmitting real-time updates from the edge of the old city and facilitating critical tactical coordination amid the escalating assault.

Commander Riker uses his communicator to relay tactical information about the enemy’s selective bombardment and to receive and acknowledge Picard’s orders, serving as a critical channel of command and situational awareness.

The communicator is actively utilized by Commander Riker to relay real-time tactical information about the mystery vessel's orbit and its selective bombardment. This device serves as the critical link enabling Picard to receive updates and issue commands, thus driving the unfolding tactical and diplomatic decisions.

Commander Riker uses his communicator device to maintain secure voice contact with Captain Picard, facilitating the coordination of the vaccine beam-up and signaling the Enterprise's lock onto the Ligonian position to ensure smooth transport operations.

Commander Riker’s communicator crackles to life with Lieutenant Yar’s urgent summons, shattering the moment of tranquility and serving as the catalyst that propels Riker from personal relaxation to professional engagement.

Commander Riker uses his communicator to relay critical updates regarding Wesley's detainment and the Prime Directive’s implications, maintaining clear tactical communication with the Enterprise Bridge and supporting Picard’s command decisions.

Commander Riker's Communicator is implicitly active in the background as communications are maintained between away team members and bridge, supporting coordination during negotiations and security monitoring.

Commander Riker’s communicator serves as a vital communication tool during the event, crackling with updates and commands, including relay of Data’s recovery status. It anchors coordination and information flow, ensuring command cohesion and situational awareness amidst crisis.

Commander Riker’s communicator provides a critical communication channel for relaying updates about Wesley’s detention and coordination with the Enterprise team during the negotiation.

Commander Riker’s communicator is used to relay explanations of the Prime Directive to the Edo leaders, functioning as a crucial link for Starfleet command protocol and diplomatic clarity during tense exchanges.

Commander Riker’s communicator insignia facilitates critical real-time communication between the surface team and the Enterprise command, supporting updates and coordination throughout the tense negotiation.

Commander Riker's communicator (the comm signal) is used by Captain Picard to transmit grave casualty updates directly to Doctor Crusher, serving as a vital communication link in the crisis command chain.

Commander Riker's communicator or a similar comm device is the conduit for Captain Picard’s voice delivering casualty updates. This communication tool bridges command and medical operations, enabling real-time coordination vital to crisis management.

Commander Riker’s communicator is actively used for receiving critical transmissions from the Transporter Room, underscoring the shift from personal celebration to operational alertness and bridging the event’s emotional warmth with emergent duty.

Commander Riker's communicator crackles sharply during the event, facilitating urgent messages that bridge the personal celebration with operational alerts. It conveys Lieutenant Yar's transmission about transporter readiness and the unexpected arrival of Admiral Quinn, symbolizing the inescapable intrusion of duty.

Commander Riker's communicator functions as the critical link for receiving and transmitting urgent messages during the celebration, notably capturing Lieutenant Yar’s announcement of Admiral Quinn's unscheduled arrival, which triggers the sudden tonal shift of the event.

Commander Riker's communicator is referenced by Picard as he attempts multiple urgent calls to the Enterprise, hoping to establish contact for an extraction. The communicator’s silence underscores the escalating peril and the away team’s isolation, serving as a narrative device highlighting breakdown of technology and rising tension.

Commander Riker's communicator unexpectedly functions amidst the chaos, delivering Captain Picard's voice and reestablishing vital command contact. It serves as the technological bridge between isolated away team members and the Enterprise's command center, symbolizing hope and coordination.

Commander Riker's communicator is the device through which Captain Picard initiates contact with Lieutenant La Forge, serving as the crucial communication lifeline connecting the isolated away team in the cavern with the USS Enterprise, enabling strategic coordination.

Commander Riker’s communicator serves as the critical link to Captain Picard aboard the Enterprise, enabling real-time communication and situational reporting about the unexpected obstacle blocking their mission, thereby maintaining command coordination and support.

Commander Riker’s communicator functions as the vital link between the away team and the Enterprise bridge, enabling Riker to report the obstacle and receive Captain Picard’s guidance. It provides a fragile but crucial communication channel amidst the hostile environment, reinforcing the connection between ground and ship.

Commander Riker’s communicator facilitates real-time voice contact with Captain Picard aboard the Enterprise, enabling urgent updates and command decisions to be exchanged despite the threatening environment, sustaining a vital link between ground and ship.

Commander Riker's communicator is referenced indirectly as Troi attempts to use it for contact but finds it nonfunctional, underscoring the isolation and failed hope for external aid during this torment.

Commander Riker's communicator is referenced indirectly as nonfunctional inside the shuttle, symbolizing Troi’s isolation and inability to call for outside help, intensifying the psychological pressure of Armus's torment.

Commander Riker's communicator, carried by Counselor Troi, is touched in an attempt to communicate for help but fails to operate due to Armus’s interference, symbolizing the isolation and severed lifeline of the trapped crew.

Commander Riker’s communicator is the vital link between the away team and the Enterprise, enabling crucial transmission of status updates and facilitating command coordination during the tense approach to the shuttlecraft.

Commander Riker’s communicator serves as the critical lifeline enabling distant communication between Beverly and Troi inside the shuttle. Through it, Beverly receives vital information about the injured crew, maintaining coordination despite Armus’s interference and physical barricades.

Commander Riker's communicator is the vital link enabling Troi to convey urgent medical information from inside the shuttle, maintaining fragile communication lines despite Armus's hostile interference.

Commander Riker’s communicator facilitates tense communication between Beverly Crusher and Counselor Troi inside the shuttle, sustaining the fragile lifeline of coordination and hope despite Armus’s hostile control.

Commander Riker’s communicator serves as the fragile link enabling Beverly Crusher and Counselor Troi to maintain contact despite physical separation. Through it, Beverly checks on Troi’s condition and coordinates medical efforts amid Armus’s blockade and psychological siege.

Commander Riker's communicator facilitates tense communication between the away team and Counselor Troi inside the shuttle, sustaining fragile contact that allows medical updates and emotional support despite interference and Armus's psychological pressure.

Commander Riker's communicator is used during his desperate attempt to call for Security amidst the violent assault, symbolizing his last link to help and the increasing isolation as Quinn attacks him.

Riker’s communicator is used in a desperate attempt to call security during the violent assault, serving as a fragile lifeline to the outside crew and signaling the escalation of the crisis.

Riker uses his communicator in a desperate attempt to call for Security during the assault, representing the fragile link to outside help and the Enterprise crew’s coordination under crisis.

Commander Riker's communicator is discreetly activated by Captain Picard to send a private message under the watchful eyes of adversarial admirals. The device serves as a crucial lifeline for covert coordination, enabling Picard to navigate the dangerous political terrain with strategic caution.

Commander Riker's communicator is discreetly activated by Captain Picard after the dinner announcement, serving as the crucial covert communication link that enables Picard to inform Riker of their readiness, facilitating strategic coordination amid the unfolding conspiracy.

Commander Riker's communicator is covertly activated by Captain Picard after the two infected admirals enter the dining room. It serves as a critical communication tool enabling Picard to establish a secret line with Riker, facilitating coordination and tactical planning for the imminent confrontation.

Riker's communicator fails catastrophically when attempting contact with both the Transporter Chief and the Captain, serving as the definitive proof their reality is being manipulated by external forces beyond Starfleet technology's capacity to overcome.

Riker's communicator fails catastrophically when attempting to verify their location, its garbled transmission serving as the final proof that normal Starfleet protocols are powerless against the void's reality-warping environment.

Riker's communicator represents the last tether to Enterprise reality before its abrupt failure—the garbled transmission and subsequent silence physically manifesting the crew's existential severance from known spacetime.

Riker's communicator fails catastrophically after a brief, garbled exchange, transforming from a lifeline into concrete evidence of their isolation. Its abrupt silence carries more narrative weight than any distress call ever could.

Worf's communicator remains distressingly silent despite repeated activation attempts, its failure transforming from technical glitch to existential harbinger of their separation from known reality.

Worf's communicator serves as the first confirmed casualty of Nagilum's reality manipulation, its failed response transforming from routine equipment check to existential alarm bell. The silence after activation physically manifests their severed connection to known reality.

Picard's Communicator emits the off‑screen summons; Riker touches it to acknowledge the order to report to the Phaser Range. The device punctuates the social moment with command authority, pulling Riker away from the introduction and signaling the ship's operational priorities.

Picard's communicator transmits the off‑screen summons that redirects the scene. The device's chime and voice cut through the transporter room's din, prompting Riker to touch the communicator and depart, thereby turning a social moment into an operational pivot.

Riker's communicator is pressed and activated to hail the Enterprise; it functions as the expected tether to command, but it returns silence — narratively converting a tool of connection into proof of isolation and escalating stakes.

Riker is touching his communicator attempting contact; the device yields no usable radio link, its silence establishing immediate isolation and prompting Data's withdrawal recommendation.

Riker fidgets with his comm-badge at the scene's opening, attempting to establish ship contact; its failure underscores isolation and primes the team to rely on sensors and local interrogation rather than outside aid.

Riker's compact Starfleet communicator suddenly emits a crackling voice from Picard, creating a brief, static-laced lifeline. It shifts the emotional tenor from institutional stalemate to a fragile hope for external rescue, then falls silent again when the link is lost.

Riker's communicator unexpectedly transmits Picard's voice in heavy static, momentarily converting the scene from contained negotiation to operational emergency and catalyzing a shift to outside command intervention before the line fails.

Riker's communicator, previously silent or intermittent, comes alive at the event's close: it transmits Picard's recall and punctures the private, mournful moment, shifting focus from local discovery to shipboard command coordination.

Riker's communicator activates at the end of the emotional beat; its incoming signal from Picard interrupts the private moment and serves as the narrative device that returns the team to duty and ship contact, re-prioritizing operational tasks over mourning.

Riker's communicator, silent or previously unreliable, suddenly comes alive and carries Picard's voice; the device abruptly shifts the scene from private mourning to operational exchange, forcing Riker to transition into an outward, reportive role.

Picard's communicator functions as the procedural escalation tool; Geordi touches it to summon the Captain immediately after reading the anomalous stardate, converting the technical discovery into a command-level issue and propelling the narrative forward.

Picard's communicator is used as the escalation tool: after reading the anomalous stardate, Geordi touches the device to summon command, converting a local engineering discovery into a shipwide strategic datum.

A handheld communicator is touched by Pulaski to summon Security; Picard then uses the channel to override that request and to issue an order clearing Shuttle Bay Two. The communicator is the procedural mechanism that brings Security into the scene and also exposes the chain‑of‑command tension between medical protocol and captain's authority.

Pulaski touches her communicator to summon Security, using it as the procedural lever to call enforcement; Picard then uses the same communication channel to override her request and issue a counter-order to clear Shuttle Bay Two, turning the device into an instrument of competing authority.

A handheld communicator is used by Pulaski to summon Security; its chime converts medical procedure into a shipwide operational response until Picard overrides the call and issues alternate orders, demonstrating chain‑of‑command through a simple device.

Picard touches his communicator and issues a terse order summoning Doctor Pulaski to Shuttle Bay Two. The communicator converts Picard's immediate decision into institutional action, calling medical authority into the scene and advancing rapid containment and evaluation.

Picard touches his communicator immediately after firing to summon medical assistance (Dr. Pulaski) to Shuttle Bay Two. The communicator converts the private, charged moment into a procedural, institutional response — calling in expertise and medical containment.

Riker's communicator is touched and activated as a direct assertion of command — a simple gesture that signals the transfer of battlefield information back to the Captain and to re-establish centralized decision-making after the discovery.

Commander Riker's palm comm unit emits a metallic priority chime and transmits the Sheliak Corporate message; the device functions as the dramatic trigger that collapses the private, pedagogical moment into official duty.

Riker's communicator emits the priority hail that terminates the intimate exchange. Functionally, it is the narrative vector that transfers the action from private mentorship to operational alert: its message contains the external antagonist's arrival in the form of a Sheliak transmission.

Riker places his communicator in Rishon's hands as an assurance: the ship will remain nearby and can be contacted. The device functions as both a practical lifeline and a symbolic bridge between the couple's isolation and Starfleet support.

Commander Riker places his personal communicator in Rishon's hand as a lifeline and promise of continued contact; the device functions narratively as a compromise between enforced evacuation and absolute noninterference.

Commander Riker's personal communicator is referenced as Riker attempts to use it while moving into the storm; its failure underscores the team's isolation. The broken or limited communicator converts an otherwise trivial separation into a life‑threatening severance of contact.

Riker's personal communicator beeps with a Sickbay priority call, its chime puncturing the congenial atmosphere and serving as the narrative pivot from intimacy to urgent duty.

Riker's communicator functions as the catalytic plot device: after the intimate exchange, it emits Beverly's urgent com tone, instantly converting a private moment into a professional summons and redirecting Riker's attention to Sickbay.

A personal Starfleet communicator (represented by the canonical Riker unit) is pressed against a fallen guard's communicator by Roga, using the personal device as an authentication medium to transmit a spoken command to the ship computer and trigger subsystem changes.

A standard-issue Starfleet personal communicator (represented in the canonical list by Riker's unit) is used as the interface through which a voice command is issued to the ship computer. Roga presses the incapacitated guard's communicator and speaks the order that causes the Deck 36 force field to drop, demonstrating the communicator's dual role as personal device and system-access interface.

Riker’s communicator is flipped open in a futile attempt to hail the Enterprise as the Ferengi transporter beam activates. The device fails to connect, its static a metaphor for Riker’s helplessness. The communicator’s presence underscores the suddenness of the abduction—Riker is disarmed and outmaneuvered, his usual tools of protection and communication rendered useless. Post-abduction, the communicator is left behind in the clearing, a symbol of Starfleet’s inability to intervene in time.

Riker's Starfleet communicator is his failed lifeline to the Enterprise, as he attempts to hail the ship after awakening in the holding cell. The device's static and silence underscore his helplessness, trapped aboard the Krayton with no way to coordinate a rescue. Its presence highlights the Ferengi's jamming technology and the captives' isolation, as Riker is forced to rely on his own wits rather than Starfleet's resources.

Riker’s Starfleet communicator is his last hope for escape, but its range is insufficient to contact the Enterprise. He flips it open in the holding tank, only to be met with static, symbolizing his isolation and the Ferengi’s jamming technology. The communicator’s failure forces him to rely on his wits and physical intervention (e.g., testing the forcefield, confronting Nibor). Its presence highlights the contrast between Starfleet’s institutional support and the Ferengi’s self-sufficiency.