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"The Apple" - The TOS Mythbuster Episode!

I am unfamiliar with the show so I did not interpret it as such.
It's a great show. I highly recommend seeking out some episodes online. Here's one folks here might enjoy (Start at 4:28):

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It's a great show. I highly recommend seeking out some episodes online. Here's one folks here might enjoy:

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Thank you for the recommendation. As with most things, comedy in text form can sometimes be missed without context clues.
 
As with most things, comedy in text form can sometimes be missed without context clues.
You mean something along these lines?
STAR TREK MYTH #5: Redshirts always die the most.

CONFIRMED.
As Memory Alpha puts it, "This is the episode in which the redshirt phenomenon comes to the fore. Every red-shirted male in the landing party dies horribly. Hendorff is killed by the plant's poisoned darts, Kaplan by the lightning, Mallory is blown up by an exploding rock, and Marple is killed by a blow to the head."

Well... Four outta five isn't bad. ;)
 
You know, when I say "I need to go to the bathroom", that doesn't mean the place I'm in has only one bathroom. So when Captain Kirk says "I need to go to the transporter room"...

Robert

"Bones, Spock, meet me in Bath Room 4."
 
So the real “myth” that gets busted is that inconclusive evidence of one scene from one episode can overrule real-world documentary evidence.

Except you're forgetting that when one transporter goes out, nobody ever thinks to jog down to another one. You can say "well the SYSTEM went down."

But then there's Wink of an Eye again...

[Transporter room]

(Scott is in the doorway of the room, as the Scalosians try to fix the transporter.)
EKOR: There's nothing wrong elsewhere, sir. Sufficient energy for beaming down.
RAEL: This is the only damage? Go get the others and bring them up here. (into comm.) Deela. Deela? Deela!


Kirk pulled a widget out of the console. The dialog makes it clear that there's nothing wrong with the system. These guys were able to adapt this transporter to work faster, so why not trot down to the other transporter room(s) and just make the same adjustment?

Most obvious answer: there are no others.

The on screen evidence supports only one transporter. Unfilmed documentation, sequel productions and fan speculation created additional. None of that changes the original series as filmed and broadcast. That's what counts, not documents or production staff wish lists.

As @Captain Tracy said upthread:
"While multiple transporter rooms makes more sense, one transporter room makes for much better stories."

As Connor MacLeod said:
"There can be only one!"
 
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These guys were able to adapt this transporter to work faster, so why not trot down to the other transporter room(s) and just make the same adjustment?
They only brought enough parts with them to modify one...which they figured would be sufficient, since there are only five of them. ;)
 
That's not a bug of this forum, it's a feature.

;)
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