As for the expression "you've earned your pay for the week", it's just a way of saying "attaboy" or "good Job"; it's not supposed to be taken literally. If you want definitive proof they used a monetary system on TOS look no further than the fact that in "Trouble With Tribbles", Uhura was definitely, literally going to buy a tribble before Jones gave her one for free. Nothing figurative about that.
Weird that you choose to discount two other lines of dialogue that support your argument, but okay.
Your reasoning is flawed. You are confusing continuity errors with fact
TAS: Terratin Incident
SCOTT [OC]: Barely, sir.
KIRK: Get a crew down to transporter room three. We have twenty minutes left while we can still operate transporter controls.
SCOTT [OC]: How many beaming down, Captain?
KIRK: One, Scotty. Myself.
TAS: Mudd's Passion
M'RESS: Mudd has landed on the planet surface. Co-ordinates relayed to Transporter room four.
SCOTT: And the Captain's in transports about it with our ever-loving Mister Spock.
M'RESS: You're funny, and very attractive for a human
I fail to see how TAS, a show that was produced four years after TOS ceased production, is binding on TOS. As pointed out earlier in the thread, TAS also added in a second turbolift on the bridge and had all sorts of other discrepancies with the original series.
By the way, The Making of Star Trek claims that there are altogether 11 transporter rooms: 4 6-person types, 2 dedicated cargo types, and 5 22-person emergency types (page 192).
Which is a good example of TMOST claiming something that is not at all supported by the show itself. Heck, if the
Enterprise had that many transporters, they could've beamed a
minimum of 134 people down at one time (24 people for the four six-person transporter rooms, and 110 for the five 22-person emergency transporters, plus however many the cargo transporters could beam down), and we never would've seen this backlog in "This Side of Paradise":
The dialogue in TSOP also indicates that beaming all the plants up to the ship is a long operation:
(No equipment or colonists now, just plants going up to the ship.)
MCCOY: (with an extreme southern drawl) Ready to beam up. Hiya, Jimmy boy! Hey, I've taken care of everything. All y'all gotta do is relax. Doctor's orders.
KIRK: How many of those did you beam up?
MCCOY: Oh, must be nigh onto a hundred by now.
If the transporter chief could beam up a hundred of the spores at once, he wouldn't lose track or have to guestimate. But if he was beaming them up six or so at a time a dozen or more times, he could absolutely lose track.
"This Side of Paradise" also shows us that long line of people outside the transporter room, waiting to beam down to the planet. That means there's a long wait. Therefore, only so many people can beam down at once. If there's just one transporter room with only six pads, it would take 70-71 transports to get all 424-430 crewmen. That's the kind of wait we're seeing. Therefore, there's just one transporter room. Again, Occam's Razor.
<Waits for the inevitable
"Oh, but Kirk just happened by in the 30-seconds where they were slightly backed up..." comments
>
Franz Joseph postulated multiple transporter rooms and even a cargo transporter. Naturally, if they actually had a cargo transporter, Simon Van Gelder would have beamed up there from Tantalus V.
Exactly. The entire plot of "The Enemy Within" also falls apart if the ship has more than one transporter.
If they never had to specify which transporter, like they did in later shows, then they only had one.
Yeah. Again, the phrasing
"THE transporter room" doesn't really allow for any wiggle room here.
Again, if the
Enterprise was real, then it absolutely makes sense for it to have multiple transporter rooms, as well as cargo transporters. But the series never shows or even implies anything like that, so...
Sorry, just playing Devil's Advocate because someone is gonna mention it.
