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after her apparent death in 2367. The single-bit errors discovered transporter, emergency. Short-range transporter aboard a starby this comparison proved the remains were not those of the ship used for evacuation purposes. The emergency transporters ambassador. (“Data's Day” [TNG]) on the Starship Voyager had a range of less than ten kilometers (“Future's End, Part I” [VGR]) transporter psychosis. Rare medical disorder caused by a breakdown of neurochemical \N transporter. Matter-energy conversion device used to provide a molecules during transport. Transporter psy: convenient means of transportation. The transporter briefly conchosis was first diagnosed in 2209 by verts an object or person into energy, beams that energy to researchers on planet Delinia Il. The condition another location, then reassembles the subject into its origina affected the body's motor functions, as well | 2 form. (“The Cage” [TOS]). Transporters are unable to function as autonomic systems and higher brain func- when deflector shields are operational. (“Arena” [TOS]). Mark V tions. Victims were found to suffer from para- and Mark VI transporters (which ceased being produced in 2356) noid delusions, multi-infarct dementia, tactile — were unsafe for the transport of unstable bio-matter. This prob and visual hallucinations, and psychogenic ’ lem was corrected in the more recent Mark VII units. (“Family hysteria. Peripheral symptions included sleep- Business” [DS9)). SEE: annular confinement beam; autoselessness, accelerated heart rate, myopia, quencers; beam; biofilter, transporter; emergency transmuscular spasms, and dehydration. The problem was eliminated porter armbands; food replicators; Heisenberg compenaround 2319 with the development of the multiplex pattern sator; intraship beaming; ionizer, transporter; Kyle, Mr; matbuffer. Lieutenant Reginald Barclay, suffering from acute fear of ter stream; molecular imaging scanner; O'Brien, Miles; pattransporting, believed he might have been experiencing trans tern buffer; pattern enhancer; pattern lock; phase transition porter psychosis. (“Realm of Fear” [TNG]) coils; phased matter; rematerialization subroutine; replicator; shuttle escape transporter; site-to-site transport; transtransporter sensor log. port, near-warp; transAboard Federation porter carrier wave; starships, a compo- a. transporter 1D nent of the trans- a = a trace; transporter porter system that psychosis; transrecords transporter porter test article; activity. In 2370, fol- BE BE Transporter Theory lowing the disappearance BE The transporter was of Dr. Beverly Crusher and Es | Gene Roddenberry's solution during a routine transport, - [== problem of how to get his Captain Jean-Luc Picard to the television production

the transporter sensor log == 0 characters from the starship revealed an unusual con- 2 down to a planet's surface. centration of antigraviton \ Landing a huge spaceship particles in the emitter every week would have cost coil. This led to the dis- ll far too much for a television covery that they had been 3 budget, but the transporter kidnapped by the Prytt fo | L provided an ingenious means who used a tractor beam of getting the characters to deflect the transporter oe = — | — | quickly (and inexpensively) beam into Prytt territory jo. A into the midst of the action (“Attached [TNG)). (— |= jm | & Even though Star Trek's visual .] effects budgets and tech transporter shock. Rare | ~~ LORE Ee | niques have improved phenomenon wherein a = a ~~ a << I'S) to the point where a person experiences — < > [= starship can occa dizziness, headaches ——e— -g x A sionally land (“The and disorientation after EN > ~ — 1 > 37s" [VGR]), the being transported. The — = - transporter still effects of transporter -_ —_— remains the landing shock wore off quickly, and system of choice this condition was usually the result of a transporter malfunction. (“Past Tense, Part |" [DS9]). transtator. Key element of Federation tech SEE: transporter psychosis. nology, used in virtually every piece of Starfleet equipment. Dr. McCoy accidentally left his gE transporter targeting components. Aboard Federation star- communicator behind on planet Sigma lotia i ships, a subsystem of the transporter that is responsible for I1in 2268, and it was believed possible that the y determining the exact coordinates of the materialization site. In lotians would figure out how the transtator 7 2370, following the disappearance of Enterprise-D Captain worked. (“A Piece of the Action” [TOS], “Trials Jean-Luc Picard and Dr. Beverly Crusher during a routine trans- and Tribble-ations” [DS9]). Even after the - port, the targeting components were suspected as a possible advent of isolinear optical chip and bio- Pa o> cause, although later testing exonerated them. (“Attached” neural gel pack technology in the 24th centu- Pp [TNG]) ry, transtator components continued to serve a _— critical role in Starfleet hardware. Harry Kim transporter test article. A cylinder of duranium about one occasionally performed transtator assembly diagnostics on meter tall and 25 centimeters in diameter, used to test transporter Voyager's systems. (“Time and Again” [VGR]). performance by beaming the article away and then back to a transporter pad, or simply beaming it between pads. (“Hollow transwarp. In subspace physics, a velocity equalling warp 10 Pursuits” [TNG]). The transporter test article prop was made from unattainable under normal warp theory. An object traveling at a Navy sonobuoy casing. The same shape was used for quite a transwarp velocity would theoretically be moving infinitely fast number of props in Star Trek: The Next Generation and in the Star and would therefore in principle be occupying all points in Trek movies. the universe simultaneously. Controlling the point of exit from