If TMP had kept going
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What is the official maximum distance of a transporter beam? I think that it was 16,000 kilometers in TOS and 40,000 kilometers in TNG. I don't know how well the evidence of episodes supports such maximum distances.
At the speed of light it would take 0.05333 of second to travel 16,000 kilometers and 0.13333 of a second to travel 40,000 kilometers.
[see posts numbers 203 and 204 for reversed travel times]
Obviously if the Enterprise had been travelling faster than light for a couple of hours it should have traveled at least 54,001.35 times as far as the official limit for a TNG transporter beam. So unless you can find evidence for normal Starfleet transporters having a much grater range than the official maximum ranges that seems like many times a "slightly longer distance than normal".
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Miles. It's 16,000 miles, according to The Making of Star Trek, page 192.
You've some serious math/unit errors in here for both results, but I'm not going to try to sort it out.
Oops. So 16,000 miles is 25,749.504 kilometers.
I didn't make math errors but typographical errors. I wrote 216,000 kilometers when I meant 16,000 kilometers, and I wrote 40,000 light years when I meant 40,000 kilometers. Which I said were the distances of the maximum transporter ranges in TOS and TNG. And as you pointed out it the TOS maximum transporter range is said to have been 16,000 miles or 25,749.504 kilometers.
And I think that you will find that at the speed of light - 299,792.458 kilometers per second - it would take 0.0533702 seconds to travel 16,000 kilometers, 0.0858911 seconds to travel 16,000 miles or 25,749.504 kilometers, and 0.1334256 seconds to travel 40,000 kilometers.
I get about the same.
Kudos on the maths! Mind you, those distances would be far greater than normal, and therefore impressive, but not interstellar, especially if Kirk doesn't spend hours walking through snow and an overnight rest in a cave. You are probably looking at 16 - 18 hours to get from escape pod to base, which makes it even worse that Scotty has STILL not picked up the distress beacon, let alone scanned for life signs and beamed the passenger to the base. It's an astonishing level of incompetence unworthy of Doohan's very competent officer.
Given Into Darkness has a transport of about 40 light years, it's all a bit moot, I suppose. They opened Pandora's box drilled through the bottom, and kept on digging. Bleh.
Yet, we saw Superman do just that in III
You have to feel for Superman, now that we no longer have phone booths... he's seriously handicapped...
I know it's not quite the point the OP was trying to make, but I've often felt that the gap in between TMP and TWOK would be a good setting for a show and/or a couple of movies. TMP and TWOK were only filmed a couple years apart, sure, but the settings are over a decade apart.
The 80's happened. There was no way they were keeping that color palette and 70's figure skater aesthetic.
Dr Culber's uniform in Discovery is a more modern take on a TMP uniform.
Or the Nemesis dress uniform.
He's wearing the Discovery Uniform in white. It's the same uniform.
There are no dark blue TMP uniforms though.
Yet, we saw Superman do just that in III
Which is frighteningly easier to believe than AltMcCoy saving AltKirk with magic blood while offscreen AltKhan's subjects were dozing to the tune of "Magic Bus" by The Who...
I don't understand the point
There was criticism that the TMP 'pyjama' uniforms do not look right. The white doctor's jumpsuit in Discovery is very reminiscent in style to TMP uniforms and nobody accuses them of wearing pyjamas. I'm merely suggesting that slight tweaks in style such as shoulder pads and boots would have improved the TMP uniforms.
And possibly a modesty cup for certain uniforms...
