GENERAL Story Question

[TGTheodore]

Have any of the novels dealt in detail with Earth's initial "invention" of their transporter?

We saw the original guy credited with it in Enterprise, and there was some mentioning of things that went wrong, but I think there would be a phenomenal murder/mystery potential surrounding the advent of the transporter and its actual introduction into Earth society and business.

--Ted

 

[Daddy Todd]

The David Brin/Scott Hampton TNG graphic novel Forgiveness covers some of that territory. I recall it as being quite similar to that Enterprise episode in many respects.

I can't recall any novels that cover that ground.

 

[Christopher]

...but I think there would be a phenomenal murder/mystery potential surrounding the advent of the transporter and its actual introduction into Earth society and business.

Didn't Larry Niven already cover that ground pretty well in stories like "Flash Crowd," "The Alibi Machine," and "A Kind of Murder"? Not in the Trek universe, of course, but with regard to the criminal possibilities of teleportation. Then there's Bester's The Stars My Destination.

 

[shivkala]

The closest I can think of is the Tobin Dax story in The Lives of Dax, which details his participation with the Cochrane Institute's prototype transporter project.

 

[ronny]

...but I think there would be a phenomenal murder/mystery potential surrounding the advent of the transporter and its actual introduction into Earth society and business.

Didn't Larry Niven already cover that ground pretty well in stories like "Flash Crowd," "The Alibi Machine," and "A Kind of Murder"? Not in the Trek universe, of course, but with regard to the criminal possibilities of teleportation. Then there's Bester's The Stars My Destination.

Was about to say pretty much the same thing about Niven but Christopher beat me to it. The only thing I have to add is another Niven story, "The Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot Club".

I guess I need to re-read Bester's novels since I wouldn't have thought to include that. I think I just enjoy his short stories more.

 

[Mistral]

There's also the first (?) section of Anne McCaffrey's To Ride Pegasus that touches on teleportation crimes.

 

[Rush Limborg]

^And then there's The Fly....

 

[T'Ressa Dax]

There's also the first (?) section of Anne McCaffrey's To Ride Pegasus that touches on teleportation crimes.

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I'm pretty sure it was the last section, not the first. Since they were just getting themselves organized at that point.

 

[Mistral]

There's also the first (?) section of Anne McCaffrey's To Ride Pegasus that touches on teleportation crimes.

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I'm pretty sure it was the last section, not the first. Since they were just getting themselves organized at that point.

My copy has been packed due to lack of space for 7 years You're probably right.