A transporter-less Trekverse

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I'd also like to have seen the beamed-object falling a few inches when materialised. How can they always have been placed so precisely on the ground, within nanometres, without actually merging them with the substance?

There's a razor-thin field beneath the object. It does settle, albeit imperceptibly to the Human eye.

 

[uniderth]

But rethinking the transporter so it almost sounds quasi-possible, we're left with maybe a device that generates a stable wormhole with a finite range and apparently only the ability to be focused in the location and not the actual time part of spacetime. The warp drive itself does something similar by creating a stable wormhole around the ship during FTL flight, though its called the warp bubble, and it CAN sometimes be used to alter spacetime in more than the spatial directions.

Anyway it would explain why the transporters sends you forward and back with your clothes and items and not butt naked.
"Beam me down to Alpha Centauri A.. also remove 50% of my cellulite. I'm feeling lucky"

That's a brilliant idea. Transporters-as-scanners ( as explained in TNG:TM ) have always bothered me as being too close to magic to sit comfortably in the Trek universe; how could a starship in orbit scan someone at a subatomic level to 100% accuracy? And don't get me started on the Dominion beaming Kira three light years away.

A small workhole sounds more 'realistic'. Perhaps beaming-up would require an apparatus at the landing-site to initiate the reverse. Maybe that's what communicators help to do.

I'd also like to have seen the beamed-object falling a few inches when materialised. How can they always have been placed so precisely on the ground, within nanometres, without actually merging them with the substance?

I'd also dispense with beaming into other ships and structures unless they had a receiving pad ( like in TMP ).

Ok. So how do we retcon all existing transporter references to be this wormhole teleporter, rather than disassemble you and reassemble you one sided fax machine?

 

[XCV330]

Ok. So how do we retcon all existing transporter references to be this wormhole teleporter, rather than disassemble you and reassemble you one sided fax machine?

I don't think you can. save it for the inevitable and probably far off total reboot of the franchise.

 

[uniderth]

I don't think you can. save it for the inevitable and probably far off total reboot of the franchise.

But as an overly obsessed Star Trek fan I can sure try!

*clicks over to Star Trek Script Search*

 

[Mytran]

If the wormhole is funnelled through an adjacent realm composed of a different type of energy to our own, it shouldn't be too hard to reinterpret most show references

 

[blssdwlf]

If the wormhole is funnelled through an adjacent realm composed of a different type of energy to our own, it shouldn't be too hard to reinterpret most show references

"That's it! The dilithium crystals. With their power we could do it."

 

[XCV330]

If the wormhole is funnelled through an adjacent realm composed of a different type of energy to our own, it shouldn't be too hard to reinterpret most show references

Would explain also why sometimes there are accidents like in TMP. partial materialization in adjacent realm.

 

[uniderth]

If the wormhole is funnelled through an adjacent realm composed of a different type of energy to our own, it shouldn't be too hard to reinterpret most show references

"That's it! The dilithium crystals. With their power we could do it."

Would explain also why sometimes there are accidents like in TMP. partial materialization in adjacent realm.

I suddenly really hate episodes like "Rascals" and "Unnatural Selection".