It is true that Transporter Special effects cost a lot less money than landing a Star Ship on a planet special effects, so it was a budget decision to do Transporters.

@@davidgrisez Roddenberry 'invented' the Transporter concept because they couldn't pay to make a Shuttlecraft mock-up for the pilot :D

Hes allowed to be lazy seeing that he considered predicting the cell phone correctly

Do you think this way while enjoying ANY fiction?

It may have started as a quick plot device to avoided budgeting for a shuttle landing, but they become much more as a staple of the entire universe.

...although now that I think about it, a transporter could probably do that.

@@d.b.4671 Not only can it, it was actually done in the 2nd season of Star Trek: TNG. I forget the episode name, but in the one with the genetically modified children that created the 'aging virus' which infected Pulaski.

Possibly an alternative for male enhancement but I'm sure "humanity has progress beyond that sort of thing".

Man I'd pay for that.

@@RPhillip Yep, that episode *Unnatural Selection* (where the Federation ban on genetic engineering of Humans apparently had a exemption clause - _continuity contradictions in Trek?_ … never!) and the ridiculous episode *Little Rascals* (where Picard, Guinan, Keiko and Ro become children due to a transporter accident) were my inspiration. And of course Little Rascals ends with the new tweened characters becoming adults again, instead of enjoying the opportunity of having all those extra years added to their lifespan - just have 6 years of growning (okay, longer for Guinan) and then they are a healthy mature teen/young adult… with decades of experience behind them. Still it did lead to some great child Picard memes.

"I'll never be cruel to a gin and tonic again."

Do we need to put a paper bag on our heads?

That is hyperspace.

@@jamesbutters6115 Yes, if you like. It won't help, though.

@@daviniarobbins9298 But it becomes "Hyper-vomit" apparently...

"Is that you Dr McCoy?!" LOL

kinda what Archer's Enterprise thought of it :P used in absolute dire situation in first, or even second season.

"It turned inside out!" "And it exploded."

@@richardleeskinneriii9640 Now, now- THAT wasn't actually Star Trek... ;)

Galaxy quest

Until the movies, Bones used to beam down all the time

Are we the same exact beings we were at birth or from last night, quantum permanence is silly if you start to think about it..

For various reasons, it's clear there's something about the transporter process in Star Trek that maintains one's consciousness etc. through the whole thing, rather than just making a duplicate (at least in most situations), like how Barclay is shown to be continually conscious through the whole thing in one episode. For another example, to quote doctorwhom1 elsewhere in the comment section: "More evidence that transporters probably aren't suicide booths would be that telepaths are fine with them. If they really just killed and reassembled people then purely psychic entities (Spock's katra for example) would be ripped away from whatever's being transported."

"One to beam down." The transporter malfunctions. Again. "Mr. Stark, I don't feel so good..."

@@Jeddostotle7 Clearly, they beam the soul along with the body. It's part of the energy pattern of consciousness. (Also, katras and souls are the same thing. I'm not sure why this doesn't seem to be a general consensus.)

Well it does make some in universe sense. Imagine you might need to bean someone out who is running for their lives. Staying still long enough for the transporter to lock onto them might actually risk them getting captured or killed.

I think the confinement beam adds an opposite pressure equal to the amount being applied to stop movement. This would explain the ability to maintain momentum after it is released. Not that it actually stops it.

@@MandalorV7 is beaning someone out like flicking a bean?

@@MandalorV7 staying still relative to what, though? The surface of the planet or the orbiting space craft? 😁

This is Star Trek. Every problem can be solved by either a) emitting a beam of NonExistiton Particles or b) reversing the polarity of the deflector dish. Or sometimes c) both. 😂🖖

I imagine that the Heisenberg Compensators are a subcomponent - certainly an important one, but they are part of one of the larger systems that enables it to perform its overall function, rather than a discrete part of the process. Probably part of the process that scans and saves the quantum image, since said image would otherwise have a 'fuzzy' resolution that would not be safe for use. Sort of like how, for an exotic engine, you might need to engineer special bearings for its turbine-equivalents; those bearings are very important, in that they allow the component they're part of to function, but you wouldn't necessarily call attention to them in an overview of the engine's standard cycle, but you very much would talk about how the dang things keep failing and need replacing, or realigning, or etc if they were a common source of fault (i.e., brought up in the relevant episode as an issue)

I was also really surprised he didn't mention the Heisenberg Compensator, it was one of the main trivia things I knew about the transporter. Maybe he'll mention it in a later video, I only discovered this channel today :S

Surprised that the fact it's nothing more than a clever edit as none of this actually exists - hasn't been mentioned yet... 🤣

Geordi's visor..lol

Or creating some kind of interference, but knowing the shield frequency should do it. That's hard though especially in post-Borg world where most use dynamic frequencies(they change rapidly). Of course, overpowering the deflector array also works, I believe that's how Borg used to just beam to wherever they wanted.

Is it..?? If it's "so eaay" why haven't we even got energy shields yet..?? 🤣

IIRC, O’Brien used the shield rotation frequency to synchronize transport the the point where the shield would allow a transporter beam through. The rotation frequency is needed so the shield don’t block all energy simultaneously…preventing weapons from firing or being able to scan outside the shields.

A lot of things get very unhappy like me. What to be

These are basically suicide booths, evidenced by the fact that we got a duplicate Riker once. Basically they make a clone of you in a new location, and to avoid the inconvenience of having you at your present location they kill you.

A few series were good about it without going full hard sci fi: Dark matter is a good one.

I doubt the kazon are smart enough for the expanse

@@theomnissiah-9120 Kazon as belter fanboys who don't understand how belter society would work is actually pretty on point, IMO.

that's the same reason for shields - to avoid showing the ship in repair dock all the time

I mean, who's to say that your "you" consciousness doesn't die every time you go to sleep, and everything you remember is just your brain filling the blanks when your next consciousness steps in as you "wake up"? How's that for some nightmare fuel?

@@moriskurth628 in that case I'm probably the longest person alive on earth rn

@@moriskurth628 and time is perceived buy the individual and is not a universal constant so the process you speak of could sit beyond the individual's concept of time then you don't need sleep to kill the consciousness it could happen in the bink of an eye, or it could happen slap bang in-between what the individual perceives to be a continuous consciousness and the moment one consciousness takes over from the other sits in an increment of time that is inconceivable to the individual making the change from one consciousness to the other seemless.

Apparently you are conscious, in one show they were talking during transport and the conversation continued through materialisation. So I wonder how Scotty passed the time while locked in a pattern buffer for so many years.

@@moriskurth628 science is to say, you dont stop existing when you sleep.

and there's also that time they beamed a probe going at warp 9 into the enterprise

Indeed, you still have all your memories, skills... everything that makes you you is still intact. Doesn't make it any less disconcerting to learn you get broken down to the quantum level, though. The time machine in Michael Crichton's _Timeline_ is worse, though, since it explicitly is described as breaking down the original body, and creating an exact duplicate at the destination point.

I mean, assuming that the stream of consciousness is the same as a regular ol' internet data stream actually makes the question moot. Why wouldn't we be able to handle breaks in the stream when we can just pause and buffer it?

Except that temporal beings die every second as their consciousness progresses to the next second. Your living mass is in constant flux. You may remember being a child, but that 2ft being no longer exists. Baby you is effectively dead. So really, in the grand scheme of life, having your matter broken down to the quantum level and reassembled is no different. Certainly it brings to question the plausibility of an afterlife. But what happened to 2year old you? Not much difference.

@@Humaricslastcall The internet is two machines communicating with one another. When communication is reinstated the machines can come to a consensus where the other left off. A transporter is a single machine reading data from a source that has been obliterated.

@@thomasreedy4751 There's also the fact that cells in your body are dying and being replaced constantly. I forget the actual math behind it, but I think it's fair to say that almost all of the cells in your body have been replaced by the time you become an adult; so, thinking of yourself as being a completely different person from when you were a child might be more accurate than you'd think.

Kinda reminds me of how the Falcon in The Force Awakens miraculously timed their approach to Starkiller at faster than light speeds to take advantage of the fraction or a second refresh rate of the base’s energy shielding. Did I just use a Star Trek topic as a springboard into a point about Star Wars? Yes and I feel great!

Or silent holocaust machines.

In STD they have all this and more built into a small metal... I can't find a word. How were they called? Ah, yes, the MICRO HOLOCAUSTERS 9000

@Tesla-Effect Year of Hell, Part 2

@@hawkeye5955 Who's gonna tell Janeway-

Stardate: {REDACTED} Computer Log: Transmission: Audio only: "The Rebel flagship is within range of the Federation base. All is lost; they've won."

Zoltan shield bypass solve problem.

Somebody with better skills than I needs to create a schematic of the Heisenberg Compensator.... And you know damn well who needs to be in that pic!

And yet there have been numerous times of “we’d use the transporter but we can’t drop our shields.

@@the_kraken6549 Yeeep, besides if the Shield Frequency is known, you can just shoot through them. Like in Voyager and Star Trek Generations.

Make sure it’s the “Rio Grande;” she lasted all 7 seasons.

The perfect size for a bachelor(ette) to fly around space on their own, like a future version of getting a houseboat, or an RV.

And it exploded

This approach is both safer and has longer range, so it is preferred whenever possible. All you need to do is "Hand over" or receive the pattern, other side does the rest. It does not protect you from subterfuge by the other side however (See "Data's Day").

@@christopherg2347 It's the transporter that scans, broadcasts you, and disassembles /rebuilds you.

Actually that's not how it works in science. you postulated a result, and thus it's your responsiblity to prove it TRUE first. Otherwise we can go into 'I can say whatever I want to be true cuz you need to prove it to be false' realm of nutty-folk :p

Well, since the equivalence principle says everyone can be right if they consider themselves to be stationary, not everything, as it still includes anything with displacement 0 on their own inertial frame (such as the ship, or a ship that's following in the same warp factor)

@@DrVictorVasconcelos I am about 30 billion braincells short of being able to understand this

I assume they mean under acceleration or with an unpredictable trajectory.

I forget which show it was exactly, maybe Enterprise, but I remember one character describe that they could feel standing at two places at the same time. Which would mean the transporting process happens so fast that there is little time for the subjects brain to full register what is fully happening.

@@MandalorV7 that also indicates a continued consciousness between sites, making it less of a murdermachine than the brundle-teleporter which explicitly does deconstruct you...

😆

Or just have the transporters "forget" to reassemble them. Seems like a pretty powerful weapon.

@@BoopSnoot that's some Section 31 thinking there... I like it. "Transport accidents" when capturing enemies...

Yeah, that was a fantastic episode.

Teleporter implies high tech device that breaks down molecular structure and reassembly in another location. Transporter is..... a bus