Wanna see the transporter?
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Since I've enjoyed your posts, I'm going to take that in a good way and laugh along with you
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Since I've enjoyed your posts, I'm going to take that in a good way and laugh along with you
Yeah, it was meant as a light-hearted comment.
No. If it were STAR WARS XI, there'd be a CGI comic relief alien running around and knocking crap over. And I'm not talking about Simon Pegg.
"Meesa likey Uhura's BOO-TAY, Captain!!
Lookey-lookey! She-ah bootylicious!"
Lookey-lookey! She-ah bootylicious!"
How do we know it is glass?
Remember this is an era of tranparent aluminum. (and other metals.)
I just hope they don't allow them to move about during the beaming process. I mean c'mon... the system is tearing your molecules apart--you're not going to be leisurely looking about and talking, like Lt. Barclay with his transporter psychosis episode. The people should be held fast by an intense gravimetric beam so that the dematerialization can be properly performed with 100% accuracy! 
It can shatter in slow motion.
None of the transporter effects have EVER been as cheesy or WTF? as the swirly, psychedelic blue patterns in TMP. Those never looked good, and I hoped that the Director's Edition DVD would have changed those effects to something more TWOK/TSFS-like if nothing else. Oh well.
I just hope they don't allow them to move about during the beaming process. I mean c'mon... the system is tearing your molecules apart--you're not going to be leisurely looking about and talking, like Lt. Barclay with his transporter psychosis episode. The people should be held fast by an intense gravimetric beam so that the dematerialization can be properly performed with 100% accuracy!
While I agree with you 100% ... you're borderin' on nerd talk there son!!
Oh by the way, isn't there an episode where Kirk moves his head in a close up while transporting - I can't remember which episode from TOS, but I could swear he moves his head to look at something.
I absolutely agree - When I first saw it in the theaters i was sort of like - where's the glittery stuff - where'd the swirls come from. I am glad it was changed as the movies went on. I still don't think we ever got close in any of the movies or series to a good representation or modern interpretation of the original effect from TOS which I thought was brilliant.
ENTERPRISE and its 22nd century transporter came closest, though even it didn't quite nail the look of the TOS technology and felt "newer."
I don't recall anything like that from TOS, but that doesn't mean it never happened -- just that my memory may have holes in it.I just hope they don't allow them to move about during the beaming process. I mean c'mon... the system is tearing your molecules apart--you're not going to be leisurely looking about and talking, like Lt. Barclay with his transporter psychosis episode. The people should be held fast by an intense gravimetric beam so that the dematerialization can be properly performed with 100% accuracy!
While I agree with you 100% ... you're borderin' on nerd talk there son!!
Oh by the way, isn't there an episode where Kirk moves his head in a close up while transporting - I can't remember which episode from TOS, but I could swear he moves his head to look at something.
I think the Barclay thing can be excused as dramatic license to tell a "what if you were actually conscious of everything while you were in transit?" story? Obviously, you can't get good reaction shots from a discorporated cloud of energized particles, so it was a necessary device that we be able to see Barclay standing there looking around while in the matter stream. It was a good ep, and I chose not to get too bogged down in the (theoretically-) technical impossibility of it. YMMV.
I know some people fussed about Gary Seven's cat Isis...her tail snapping back and forth and moving during the transport off the Enterprise. As if the imperfect opticals of the time mean anything.
I don't recall anything like that from TOS, but that doesn't mean it never happened -- just that my memory may have holes in it.I just hope they don't allow them to move about during the beaming process. I mean c'mon... the system is tearing your molecules apart--you're not going to be leisurely looking about and talking, like Lt. Barclay with his transporter psychosis episode. The people should be held fast by an intense gravimetric beam so that the dematerialization can be properly performed with 100% accuracy!
While I agree with you 100% ... you're borderin' on nerd talk there son!!
Oh by the way, isn't there an episode where Kirk moves his head in a close up while transporting - I can't remember which episode from TOS, but I could swear he moves his head to look at something.
I think the Barclay thing can be excused as dramatic license to tell a "what if you were actually conscious of everything while you were in transit?" story? Obviously, you can't get good reaction shots from a discorporated cloud of energized particles, so it was a necessary device that we be able to see Barclay standing there looking around while in the matter stream. It was a good ep, and I chose not to get too bogged down in the (theoretically-) technical impossibility of it. YMMV.
I got it...
It was the episode where Lee Meriwether played the sentry where if he touched you you died. Kirk was beaming down and she appeared in the transporter room, there is a close up and he moves his head as she jolts the crewman...off to find pics...
Con't...
Episode is 'That Which Survives'
Here's the pic (now imagine Kirk's head moving)
^ Okay, I remember that, now that you mention it, and I seem to recall thinking "Hey, can he do that?" when I saw it in the original run. Probably another one to be chalked up to dramatic license, though -- effect may sometimes trump established technical details.
But what really would stop them from moving?
Another instance would be in TWOK when Saavik and Kirk are still
talking through beam up.
Another instance would be in TWOK when Saavik and Kirk are still
talking through beam up.
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