Transporter colors
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I would say the original series transporter is yellow.
For most other series, Starfleet transporter effects are white; other races have their own:
Klingon: red
Romulan, Borg: green
Cardassian (DS9): yellow
In the far future of DSC, transports happen instantaneously so there's very little effect. Although it does look sort of bluish.
For most other series, Starfleet transporter effects are white; other races have their own:
Klingon: red
Romulan, Borg: green
Cardassian (DS9): yellow
In the far future of DSC, transports happen instantaneously so there's very little effect. Although it does look sort of bluish.
In the TOS the transporter effect is yellow and occasionally blue.
I believe @jbond is referring to the paintjob on the transporter room set on the NX-01 not the animated teleportation effect though. The set walls were a lovely shade of brown that got painted over with a variegated orange/red/white pattern in season 3 (Looks to me like someone painted this on during the hiatus between seasons and it got kept).
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I believe @jbond is referring to the paintjob on the transporter room set on the NX-01 not the animated teleportation effect though. The set walls were a lovely shade of brown that got painted over with a variegated orange/red/white pattern in season 3 (Looks to me like someone painted this on during the hiatus between seasons and it got kept).
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The bottom one literally looks like spray paint.
I honestly don’t know why they thought it was necessary to upgrade the transporter in ENT.
Fixed that for you.
Fixed that for you.
True.
But still, why would a refit for the transporter even be needed when they barely used it to begin with because they did not trust it, and it never really had any serious malfunctions? Beyond some leaves and twigs sticking out of a redshirt on their first away mission, and Hoshi having a hallucination and not actually turn into a ghost.
I completely understand what you mean. Tech usually starts out enormous and gets miniaturized over time but I did get the feeling in the premier that it was being treated almost like a dumbwaiter and if they had stuck with that, it could have perhaps worked. Of course, then they go and beam Archer up right off the bat so there went that concept…
I like the revised operator's console but hate the decorative walls. They don't look remotely functional, no reason for them to look like that at all.In the TOS the transporter effect is yellow and occasionally blue.
I believe @jbond is referring to the paintjob on the transporter room set on the NX-01 not the animated teleportation effect though. The set walls were a lovely shade of brown that got painted over with a variegated orange/red/white pattern in season 3 (Looks to me like someone painted this on during the hiatus between seasons and it got kept).
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Somehow, I'm not surprised. Almost everything about Enterprise screams "MISMANAGEMENT!!"
And I believe they were also told by the very same higher-ups to have the transporter in the first place, which they initially did not want.
Same goes for the Temporal Cold War. The showrunners didn't want that either, but the network bean counters ordered it.
The writers wanted someone to die in the fourth episode.
Bakula didn’t think the redshirt should die, without the crew processing the death. Which he was right about.
Billingsley thought that the redshirt should have had a bigger transporter accident that what happened in the episode, with his limbs in the wrong place. Which he was right about.
One of the early ENT novels suggests that redshirt developed acne due to sand being transported inside him, along with twigs and leaves. It never made tv though.
The studio saying no one would ever die in a transporter accident seems believable, since they did not even want major transporter accidents like what happened in TMP. Yet they forced it onto ENT to use. Not realizing that species like the Klingons and Orions using transporters wasn’t the problem. It was that the prequel setting for human explorers should been more primitive for them in some capacity.
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We don't know that.
In fact I find it likely that they DID have transporters, given how far beyond Earth technology they are in pretty much every other major area.
I mean, the Vulcans as of ENT had shields, tractor beams, faster ships, and superior weapons. Why wouldn't they have transporters?
I think it is perfectly reasonable that not every species creates the exact same laundry list of technology.
One very interesting thing from HG Well's War of the Worlds. The Martians in the novel never developed the technology of the hinge, the concept of something pivoting around a shaft never occured to them. Instead of the hinge the Martians used a series of nested curved plates to provide the same function...
One very interesting thing from HG Well's War of the Worlds. The Martians in the novel never developed the technology of the hinge, the concept of something pivoting around a shaft never occured to them. Instead of the hinge the Martians used a series of nested curved plates to provide the same function...
The transporter seems so convenient and such a time saver that you'd expect to see the Vulcans use it. Yet we never do.
Also, not every species is equally developed in every technology area. The Satarrans were presumably developed far beyond anything the Federation had in the 24th century in computer and memory (wiping / suppression) technology, yet were more than a century behind in weapons technology.
