Deep Space Station Transporter Pad TOS

[Koloth TOS]

In Court Martial and The Trouble Witrh Tribbles the offices of the two commodores have a transporter pad respectively. I understand that is is neccessary to have visitors beamed to the right place instead of everywhere on the station. But where is the control panel to beam them back?

 

[LAFR]

They would be beamed back to where they came from by the original sending transporter.

 

[Koloth TOS]

Sure, but what is with the people, e.g. deep space station personnel , to be beamed from the station?

 

[CorporalCaptain]

In Court Martial and The Trouble Witrh Tribbles the offices of the two commodores have a transporter pad respectively. I understand that is is neccessary to have visitors beamed to the right place instead of everywhere on the station. But where is the control panel to beam them back?

This is a great question. In each case, a control panel has to be there somewhere. They're just not shown, as far as I know.

Whether something was designed and built for each set or on the other hand whether it was decided that doing so was unnecessary because we weren't getting a full 360-degree view of the interiors, I don't know.

 

[Kor]

In "Tribbles," I presume the transporter pad is controlled by the gizmo seen on the reception/welcoming desk at the left edge of camera view here : https://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x15hd/thetroublewithtribbleshd0393.jpg

In "Court Martial," panning left from the transporter alcove we see that there is a piece of abstract art on a shelf, a set of double doors, and then the table with the library computer/comm station. One or two shots show that on the other side, immediately to the right of the transporter alcove, there are a couple of framed pictures on the wall: https://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x20hd/courtmartialhd045.jpg
But I don't think we ever see what's further to the right beyond those pictures. So the controls must be somewhere in that general direction. Out there, thataway.

Kor

 

[Koloth TOS]

Very interesting explanation, Kor!
As to Tribbles, it seems plausible, although I was expecting something quite similar to what we are seeing on the Enterprise in the transporter room, just smaller. I understand, however, that the set decoraters didn‘t mind too much.

 

[BillJ]

In "Tribbles," I presume the transporter pad is controlled by the gizmo seen on the reception/welcoming desk at the left edge of camera view here : https://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x15hd/thetroublewithtribbleshd0393.jpg

In "Court Martial," panning left from the transporter alcove we see that there is a piece of abstract art on a shelf, a set of double doors, and then the table with the library computer/comm station. One or two shots show that on the other side, immediately to the right of the transporter alcove, there are a couple of framed pictures on the wall: https://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x20hd/courtmartialhd045.jpg
But I don't think we ever see what's further to the right beyond those pictures. So the controls must be somewhere in that general direction. Out there, thataway.

Kor

That is what I figured, just keeping the electronics out of site except for the pads themselves.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

I say Starbase 11 and Space Station K-7 have a centralized Transporter Control room, while the pads are distributed to offices all over the facility. So Commodore Stone gets on the intercom to Transporter Control and says "Beam me over to the remote site." Then he gets in his little chamber and leaves the beaming to them. Saves him a 300 km commute. And this arrangement is more cost-effective because it eliminates needless duplication of control systems.

 

[Phaser Two]

I say Starbase 11 and Space Station K-7 have a centralized Transporter Control room, while the pads are distributed to offices all over the facility. So Commodore Stone gets on the intercom to Transporter Control and says "Beam me over to the remote site." Then he gets in his little chamber and leaves the beaming to them. Saves him a 300 km commute. And this arrangement is more cost-effective because it eliminates needless duplication of control systems.

I like this explanation. It certainly fits logically, because I doubt either the starbase or the space station had only two-unit transporter pads. So the operation would be decentralized in each case.

 

[StarCruiser]

Since transporters are pretty much ubiquitous at this point, this makes sense for a large facility. The main control room may have it's own set of transport pads just for emergency use...

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Now that I've thought about it, Commodore Stone would not need to get a person on the intercom.

On his computer, he would open an app known as the Transporter Work Order Template. It already has his credentials for authority, and his Cost Center for billing purposes. He only has to fill in his destination and what time he wants to beam away. It takes him five seconds to enter an order with the Template.

Then an operator (or even an A.I.) in Transporter Central beams him where he wants to go. Bam. Done. And this has the advantage of leaving an electronic "paper trail" for tracking purposes. The Audit Department doesn't have to browse the actual transporter logs unless there's a discrepancy.

 

[Koloth TOS]

 

[Qonundrum]

I think they have a personal remote control, like a garage door opener or TV clicker remote control. Press it and *bzzzzzzztading!* you're in the other, predefined place. Or keyed by individual communicator. Or what McCoy used to maneuver Spock with in "Spock's Brain".

Why they didn't make that a standard component for all transporters so you wouldn't need someone standing on the job sleeping, I have idea...

In-universe, what they did with technology was so inconsistent and uneven...

 

[Phaser Two]

Perfect!! Just need the green (and green-LOOKING) wraparound on Kirk.

 

[BK613]

One could posit that the consoles are extra-large on starships because of all the variable-matching (velocity, etc.) that must be done for beaming to a planetary surface from a ship and vice versa. A wired transporter system at a facility on a planetary surface might not need such a bulky setup and could even be voice-controlled. Plus it kind of makes sense that a system on the surface would have more amenities than a system on a starship, where space is at a premium.

 

[Henoch]

In the TOS episodes, the two-person transporter was used to beam either onto, or off the station from a ship. For these operations, this puts control at the ship level, and the pads on the station as only transporter coordinates for the ship to target making the transporter process safer (i.e. transporter to transporter is a safer process verses only one transporter in the loop). KISS.

 

[Koloth TOS]

exactly, safer transportation method, to prevent people to be misbeamed to a planet like Triskelion or to a Mirror universe!

 

[Koloth TOS]

Perfect!! Just need the green (and green-LOOKING) wraparound on Kirk.

Indeed, waiting for the Exo-6 release of Kirk in green wraparound.

 

[Mres_was_framed!]

I say Starbase 11 and Space Station K-7 have a centralized Transporter Control room, while the pads are distributed to offices all over the facility. So Commodore Stone gets on the intercom to Transporter Control and says "Beam me over to the remote site." Then he gets in his little chamber and leaves the beaming to them. Saves him a 300 km commute. And this arrangement is more cost-effective because it eliminates needless duplication of control systems.

In the TOS episodes, the two-person transporter was used to beam either onto, or off the station from a ship. For these operations, this puts control at the ship level, and the pads on the station as only transporter coordinates for the ship to target making the transporter process safer (i.e. transporter to transporter is a safer process verses only one transporter in the loop). KISS.

I like the idea that these transporters do not have a control system nearby and are basically receiving pads. This would add reliability and speed in an emergency but not be needed when the average crew can beam down to a transporter room on the base/station. I think that a transporter room on the station/base could probably receive people just as the ship can, but I do not see a need for controls to use it directly, in an app or any other way. I think it is more interesting if they are not active like typical transporters.

 

[publiusr]

I have this idea of these pads being atop heat shields deposited into harsh zones to allow transports that would otherwise be impossible. Preposition.