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I remember in The Original Series Roddenberry belabored a bit on the transporter and how it actually functioned.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
Um wait, wrong show.

Years ago I recall a book called "The Making of Star Trek" and in that book, there was a discussion of the transporter.
For every use of the transporter, it cost something like $10000, so they did try to minimize gratuitous transporter usage.

I might be remembering incorrectly, but it was something like 40 years ago that I read the book.

That's where I got most of my info. Don't remember all the fine details either. Great book even for casual fans of TOS.

Kind of crazy, considering he invented transporter technology to save money on what would otherwise have been a lot of shuttle craft scenes. Of course, time was a major consideration, too.

-Rob

Even crazier, they were originally going to land the entire ship on each new planet!

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Even crazier, they were originally going to land the entire ship on each new planet!

Which apparently eventually carried over to Voyager's ability to do so.

The transporter deaths in the first movie still get me. Also they can transport your body but are you still the same person? Damn I love scifi

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The transporter deaths in the first movie still get me.

What we got back didn't live long.
Fortunately.

That was a terrifying scene. I like how Galaxy Quest did their version of a transporter accident.

"It came up inside out. Then it exploded."

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The transporter deaths in the first movie still get me. Also they can transport your body but are you still the same person? Damn I love scifi

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-Rob

I've always wondered about using the teleport to fix medical issues. Cancer? Just beam yourself and reassemble without the cancer cells. Could you save a copy of yourself and get reassembled with a heart you saved 5 years ago that was healthier?

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I've always wondered about using the teleport to fix medical issues. Cancer? Just beam yourself and reassemble without the cancer cells. Could you save a copy of yourself and get reassembled with a heart you saved 5 years ago that was healthier?

Transporters on the show have been used to deactivate weapons before they are rematerialized, so anything seems possible.

Curing cancer should be a breeze.

Also, they were used at least once to restore someone to health by using a pattern of that person from when they were healthy. So, this should directly result in immortality. Every 5-10 years, just go back for a 'reset to factory settings' (losing 10 yrs of memory would suck, tho).

Also, it is an efficient cloning device. Foe example, there were 2 Will Rikers. A transporter accident had Will beam up to his ship, but the beam bounced off the ionosphere or something, sending an identical Will back to the planet. This could easily be duplicated. The advantages of this are clear to see, especially since the Dominion War caused the loss of hundreds of Federation ships and crews.

Could be your "consciousness" cannot transfer to a template that isn't exactly like the one it just left.

Voyager had transporter issues too. Tuvok and Nelix became Tuvix. Physically and mentally.

So, even 100ish years into transporters, they were....will be sketchy.

My nerd fangs are appearing.

Could it be said that:
transporter = replicator

Both convert matter to energy back and forth supposedly. One is just large enough to handle earth sized people etc. Is that about it?

Shouldn't they go by the same name, or are we going to say it is like calling a garden trowel a shovel?