I don't mean when it malfunctions. I mean, do characters experience tingling/burning/dizziness/disorientation even when they're otherwise materially intact?
Does it hurt to be transported?
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In the novels it's been described as momentary pins and needles
Too rght. I bet it hurt Sonak and Admiral Ciana like a sumbitch...
"What we got back...didn't live long. Fortunately."
From how the transporter effect looked like in TNG, i always imagined it to feel very pleasant like a warm shower or a massage 
I imagine it's quite painless.
Unless the plot says otherwise. Then it sucks.
Unless the plot says otherwise. Then it sucks.
The definition of what happens during transportation sounds like it would hurt but people's reactions coming out suggest not.
We even spend time with Barclay in his matter stream in the buffer a couple times and he isn't in pain, except from what he thinks he is seeing in there.
We even spend time with Barclay in his matter stream in the buffer a couple times and he isn't in pain, except from what he thinks he is seeing in there.
Just seeing the thread title made me think of the scene in STIV:TVH, when Gillian let out a howl, the first time she was beamed aboard the "HMS Bounty." Not a howl of pain, just a howl of "What the Hell is happening to me?"
So there might be some emotional trauma, leftover psychological angst about the integrity of one's body (whether one might spontaneously disintegrate without the transporter machine) nightmares, etc.
Especially when you are momentarily in a wall.
Does it hurt to be transported?
It's like a mosquito bite. That's what I've been told.
It's like a mosquito bite. That's what I've been told.
They don't hurt until later.
Either that, or you're so over it, because it happened 5 years ago. Or it didn't happen to you in this reality.
Somehow, the 'skeletal lock' that B'elanna came up with always sounded a bit painful to me 
Not sure how it could hurt - your entire body is dematerialised at the same time, including your nervous system. Phantom pain? That said, I also don't understand how Barclay experiences the things he experiences in Realm of Fear.
Or long before you use them. Messing with time can reverse cause and effect, after all.
Not sure how it could hurt - your entire body is dematerialised at the same time, including your nervous system. Phantom pain? That said, I also don't understand how Barclay experiences the things he experiences in Realm of Fear.
Or long before you use them. Messing with time can reverse cause and effect, after all.
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And yet no character ever reacted to that on-screen.
The novels sometimes have very strange ideas that aren't in any way backed up by on-screen canon.
After a while, you might get used to it. Or you might have been forewarned. Or the sensation doesn't bother you as much as it does for some people
