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Favourite Transporter Effect
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My favorite is from the Motion Picture. I like the swirling effect and the fact that the swirling effect is held within a beam light.
As seen here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0W852wflMA
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I kind of like all the versions of the transporter, especially the beam-splitter in Voyage Home and the swirls of Trek 09. On a different note, I love the disruptor effect in Search for Spock when Kruge kills one of his crewmen and light shoots from the Klingon's eyes while he evaporates.
I'm a little surprised to hear something positive about that effect. Why? I really don't know. I just thought it wouldn't be too popular. Personally, however, I agree. I think it's pretty neat looking. And we haven't had any others that looked quite like it before or since.
I also liked that swirling Ferengi effect from TNG's first season. I would have liked to have seen more of that.
It is funny that for a show like Star Trek something like the transporter beam is considered run of the mill, almost part of the furniture, so it then takes a thread like this to make you remember what a wonderful concept it is and also how it can even look quite beautiful! 
I have to agree with those who say the Cardassian effect was the
most impressive, something about the graceful way it almost scooped you up and then went about de materialising you felt like it was the most pleasant of all the transporters to travel with!
I also really enjoyed the 2009 movie's effect, it was both a classic TOS transporter and a modern take on the effect all at once!
Superbly done!
And my big bane with the majority of the effects was that, if you look at people's feet, they'd just fade away without any sparkles (almost as if the transporter computer was saying "look, feet, I'm going to concentrate on the important upper body stuff, you make your own way there and we'll deal with you when you get there!) but it wasn't really until the 21st century that we got the entire body covered by the effect!
A special shout out to Enterprise's effect too in that it merged the transporter beam effect with the really quite unique way the EMH rippled the air when he appeared in Voyager.
I thought that was also a cool look, the fact the air is disturbed by the person appearing too so Enterprise had it right in that regard, even if it was the series where you saw the transporter least, for obvious reasons!
I have to agree with those who say the Cardassian effect was the
most impressive, something about the graceful way it almost scooped you up and then went about de materialising you felt like it was the most pleasant of all the transporters to travel with!
I also really enjoyed the 2009 movie's effect, it was both a classic TOS transporter and a modern take on the effect all at once!
Superbly done!
And my big bane with the majority of the effects was that, if you look at people's feet, they'd just fade away without any sparkles (almost as if the transporter computer was saying "look, feet, I'm going to concentrate on the important upper body stuff, you make your own way there and we'll deal with you when you get there!) but it wasn't really until the 21st century that we got the entire body covered by the effect!
A special shout out to Enterprise's effect too in that it merged the transporter beam effect with the really quite unique way the EMH rippled the air when he appeared in Voyager.
I thought that was also a cool look, the fact the air is disturbed by the person appearing too so Enterprise had it right in that regard, even if it was the series where you saw the transporter least, for obvious reasons!
Which reminds me. I didn't like how when The Doctor finally got his mobile emitter in Voyager, and thus was able to be transported, how the transporter effect covered his entire body. It would have been MUCH cooler to see the effect localized on his mobile emitter, and then to have the EMH himself "zimmer out".
VOY's is my favorite too. I like the sound effect too.
I always felt the same way. That would have been a really cool, unique touch!
Agreed.
Agreed.
Yes, well I guess it just wasn't possible back then to combine the hologram fizzle out with the transporter beam at exactly the same time...
I always saw the Doctor a bit like Rimmer in Red Dwarf in hard light form, completely solid until he touched the off button, so him being beamed out whole didn't bother me too much.
(Though I mentally enjoyed the idea of him jumping out of the ship and flying down to where the rest of the crew beamed to, just cos he could!
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The Klingon transporter from TNG's "The Mind's Eye."
I like that little metal-sounding low frequency hum the DS9 Klingon transporters make.
All the transporter effects were very pretty and sounded nice in Generations - both Federation and Klingon. They kinda brought back the blue "tube of light" we saw in TMP to the Federation transporter, but it really looked out of place on Picard and Riker when they beamed up to the Farragut from the bridge of E-D without a pad. I like the TMP effect as well.
I have to agree that the Cardassian transporter is very nice. It's simple, elegant, pretty, relaxing, swift, and efficient. It is tied with the Fed transporters from Generations for my favorite. I would enjoy a trip through either transporter beam.
I really enjoy watching the first landing party beam down to Talos IV in The Cage. It took two transporter operators in sync and what seemed like a half an hour for the thing to spin up. The sound effects are cool too (the shipboard sound effects in TOS all around are fantastic).
The mirror-E's transporter in Mirror, Mirror sucked. Whether this can be attributed to Mr. Kyle's carelessness with the equipment is another discussion.
All the transporter effects were very pretty and sounded nice in Generations - both Federation and Klingon. They kinda brought back the blue "tube of light" we saw in TMP to the Federation transporter, but it really looked out of place on Picard and Riker when they beamed up to the Farragut from the bridge of E-D without a pad. I like the TMP effect as well.
I have to agree that the Cardassian transporter is very nice. It's simple, elegant, pretty, relaxing, swift, and efficient. It is tied with the Fed transporters from Generations for my favorite. I would enjoy a trip through either transporter beam.
I really enjoy watching the first landing party beam down to Talos IV in The Cage. It took two transporter operators in sync and what seemed like a half an hour for the thing to spin up. The sound effects are cool too (the shipboard sound effects in TOS all around are fantastic).
The mirror-E's transporter in Mirror, Mirror sucked. Whether this can be attributed to Mr. Kyle's carelessness with the equipment is another discussion.
This is going to sound corny but I have always liked the Original Series transporter effect
I bet there's a "style chooser" menu on the transporter console, where the operator gets to choose between swirls and sparkles and various pretty patterns.... *spent too long customizing new android*
Which reminds me, as a kid I'd get really annoyed if they cut away from the transporter mid beam or just showed the reactions of the people in the transporter room as the guest arrived without showing the actual optical of the transporter.
But I was a funny kid, always watching for the special FX and explosions, good job I grew out of that *cough*
I also used to get really worked up when the script called for a spacebattle when the script really couldn't afford it.
Most frustrating of all to 8 year old me was the times when an epic space battle was DESCRIBED to the captain by their tactical officer or the characters spent the entire time dodging bridge sparks and watching a 2-D rendition of the players on the viewscreen! (DS9 ep: Defiant is particularly bad for this, though it happened many times in Voyager too when the producers thought having a space battle would attract bigger ratings but the money had run out for the VFX so instead of re-writing the script to take it out they just had people running around on the bridge shouting!)
But I was a funny kid, always watching for the special FX and explosions, good job I grew out of that *cough*
I also used to get really worked up when the script called for a spacebattle when the script really couldn't afford it.
Most frustrating of all to 8 year old me was the times when an epic space battle was DESCRIBED to the captain by their tactical officer or the characters spent the entire time dodging bridge sparks and watching a 2-D rendition of the players on the viewscreen! (DS9 ep: Defiant is particularly bad for this, though it happened many times in Voyager too when the producers thought having a space battle would attract bigger ratings but the money had run out for the VFX so instead of re-writing the script to take it out they just had people running around on the bridge shouting!)
I actually liked that bit. It's one of my favorite jump-cuts in Trek, in fact: we see the landing party beam up with the normal effect, but when it cuts to the mirror transporter room (with associated mirror effect), that gave me chills.
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