The standard tricorder remains the primary portable sensing, computing, and data-communications device incorporating miniturized versions of standard scientific instruments. Touch controls or voice commands provide operational access. The medical tricorder consists of a standard tricorder plus the medical peripheral add-on. 

The upgraded device measures 15.81 by 7.62 by 2.84 centimetre and masses 298.3 grams. The casing is gamma-strengthened polyduranide. The control surfaces retain the familiar operator interface and 3.5 by 2.4 centimter display screen. The major optronic subassemblies include power loop, sensor assemblies, primary processors, control and display interface, subspace transceiver assembly, and memory storage units. 

Power is provided by an induction-rechargeable sarium-krellide energy cell rated 36 hours of continuous use with all subsytems. the typical power level is 16.4 watts. 

The available sensor assemblies have been increased to 315 mechanical, EM, and subspace devices mounted about the internal frame and embedded in the casing. 189 are clustered in the forward end of directional readings, with a field-of-view (FOV) lower limit of 52.3 arc-seconds. The other 126 omnidirectional devises make measurements of the surrounding space. The previously available deployable hand sensor on the standard tricorder has been eliminated, made obsolete by the increased resolution of the main unit. 

The TR-590 polled main computing segments (PMCS), the primary data processors, are divided among the five inner casing surfaces and are rated at 275 gigafloating point (GFP) calculations per second. The data-storage sections include eight wafers of densified chromopolymer isolinear crystal for a total capacity of 9.12 kiloquads. The control and display interface(CDI)routes commands from the panel buttons and display screen to the PMCS for execution of tricorder functions. The opaque control surfaces are fabricated from thin-film copper dilefinate infused with metallic dyes to fix the graphical content. The display screen incorporates a standard nanopixel matrix similar to that used in padds and consoles. Communications with other data units is performed by the STA, with range limited to forty thousand kilometers, similar to the communicator badge. 

Sometimes, Starfleet missions require the moving of relatively large objects in proximity to a starship. Such procedures can take form of towing another ship, or midifying the speed of a small comet, or holding a piece of instrumentation at a fixed relative position to ths starship. The execution of these procedures requires the use of the standard tractor beam, which is installed in Federation starships. 

Tractor beam emitters employ superimposed subspace/graviton force beams where the interface patterns are focused on a remote target. By controlling the focal point and interference patterns, it is possible to use this stress pattern to draw an object toward the ship. Conversely, it is also possible to invert the interference patterns and move the focal point to actually push an object. 

The emitters are located on major positions on a ship's exterior, providing the maneuvering of any object in the starship's way. They are directly mounted to the primary structural members of a ship's frame work. Tractor beams requires a lot of signification mechanical stress and inertial potential imbalance. Reinforcements and inertial potential cancellation is provided by tying the tractor beam emitters to the structural intergrity field, or SIF network. 

Effective tractor beam emitter's range has a varied range. Assuming a nominal 5 m/sec² delta-v, the primary tractor emitters can be used with a payload approaching 7,500,000 metric tonnes at less than 1,000 meters. Conversely, that same delta-v can be imparted to an object massing about one metric tonne at ranges approaching 20,000 kilometers.