"What do you mean drop me there?" he asks. "A tricorder is medical device used to collect data on a patient and help make diagnoses. I already checked out the med bay earlier and I'm pretty sure they don't have any."

It's primitive compared to what he's used to. The technology on the ship seems to be somewhat equivalent to what his world had at least a hundred years ago. It's just one more thing that he finds weird about this place.