Rand clearly was. You can see the pain on her face, she clearly blamed herself for what happened.
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ST1: Terrifying Transporter
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Rand clearly was. You can see the pain on her face, she clearly blamed herself for what happened.
Space Seed, Obsession, Specture of the Gun, Encounter at Farpoint
Interesting, thanks. Blink and you miss it. I must up my game.
The Concordance immortalized this as, “He dislikes the transporter intensely (the thought of getting his disassembled molecules scrambled in transmission gives him the willies), but he uses it when necessary.” Seems a little overblown considering he uses it uncomplainingly in 95% of the episodes, and just grumbles a little bit of exposition in the remaining 5%.
I mean, it's Season 1 that he says this:Interesting, thanks. Blink and you miss it. I must up my game.
The Concordance immortalized this as, “He dislikes the transporter intensely (the thought of getting his disassembled molecules scrambled in transmission gives him the willies), but he uses it when necessary.” Seems a little overblown considering he uses it uncomplainingly in 95% of the episodes, and just grumbles a little bit of exposition in the remaining 5%.
MCCOY: No. I signed aboard this ship to practice medicine, not to have my atoms scattered back and forth across space by this gadget.
It stands out as a character trait.
His reaction in TMP is certainly more visceral than any other time in TOS, but it’s understandable considering the circumstances. Not only was this following only hours after a fatal transporter accident, if it occurred in the transporter room McCoy was beaming from there might be lingering visual and olfactory signs of the accident (trying not to get too graphic). Plus this occurred as McCoy was forcibly put back into service. And the dialogue in the SVP and how quickly McCoy started beaming once Kirk gave the order, I think it’s likely that McCoy wasn’t even standing on the transporter pad when it happened. McCoy is experiencing a complete loss of agency as he is forced to experience he has some level of anxiety about while fully triggered.
Consider the reaction of a person that had mild but normally manageable anxiety about heights was forced to go skydiving - hours after a fatal skydiving accident at the same location. Then unexpectedly pushed out the plane. All in all I think McCoy handled it pretty well.
Consider the reaction of a person that had mild but normally manageable anxiety about heights was forced to go skydiving - hours after a fatal skydiving accident at the same location. Then unexpectedly pushed out the plane. All in all I think McCoy handled it pretty well.
McCoy never struck me as unreasonable.
I had never heard this before. Interesting!
There is something about the feel of season 1 that is never replicated in TNG, a positive paradigm like no other. I also found upon a recent rewatch of the series that season 1 was not nearly as bad as I remembered, and season 7 was not nearly as good.
The transporter in TMP is like an old landline. The system on the ship is directly linked to the system on the ground. If something goes wrong on one end, the call isn't going to go through. I have wondered why Starfleet just couldn't beam them up directly to the lounge or someplace else since they most likely have more power and resources to draw from. This makes their deaths ever more tragic and pointless.
The Enterprise transporter always had more bugs than melting ice cream on a sidewalk. TMP stayed true to that attribute of the ship's design.
The Enterprise transporter always had more bugs than melting ice cream on a sidewalk. TMP stayed true to that attribute of the ship's design.
The problem is one of pacing. McCoy's attitude is regarded as quaint when just two scenes ago the Starfleet Command janitor had the remove the remains in two buckets .
Nah! McCoy was having a bad day and unfortunately he appeared to have these bad days beside a transporter. If he strongly felt that way of the device he wouldn't use it. I remember watching a TV show called "The A-Team" where this mohawk black man would go through carnival hoops not to go on a plane, so Barclay and some other guys would have to be inventive to tranquilize the man in order for him to be on board a plane. McCoy was a very smart man, and an experience Surgeon, he's seen all kinds of tragedies to the humanoid anatomy, I doubt a transporter accident would rattle him enough to have a lasting effect on him.
Probably so, or being a doctor he has seen some injuries happen that have left an impression.
Indeed, the element of the ship not being ready is also a fossil from earlier drafts of the story, where that element was first thought up because they thought they'd have to rush pre-production and wanted to have an explanation why some of the sets might not be fully complete.
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