Hopefully once we get that tricorder up and running we can have a better understanding.

[if they build it themselves, they should be able to trust the results.]

I know some folks here who had the chips taken out and they could no longer use the 'magic', but it no longer suppressed their native abilities either. I don't know what the docs do with them after the procedure, but I wonder if they'd let us take a look at one of them.

[And by 'us' he mostly means Spock- his First Officer would be better suited to it than he would.]