Transporter colors

[trekshark]

Weren't the andorians caught off guard by transporter tech? If Vulcans had it I'd assume the andorians would know about it.

 

[at Quark's]

In the far future of DSC, transports happen instantaneously so there's very little effect. Although it does look sort of bluish.

You would expect the transporters to become faster and faster in the future. In fact, I believe the 'future' transporter in TNG : All Good Things (when they are beamed away from the Pasteur) is already marginally faster than the TNG-era transporter, which I think is a nice touch. After all, those 5-7 seconds spent on transporting in the TNG era are intolerably long....

 

[Tuskin38]

The Vulcans don't have transporter tech

According to Picard Season 2 they did in the 20th century

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

You know how in "Day of the Dove", the Klingon transporter is silent? They actually do a riff on that in the novel The Final Reflection which I thought was interesting. Apparently there's actually a scientific explanation as to why Starfleet transporters make noise!

 

[Disposable_Ensign]

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.

It always bugged me that their transporter was this small device tucked into a corridor. It should have been more like in TMP, a giant dangerous thing taking up an entire room.

This was an experimental transporter, probably put there for deep-space testing more than anything else. Almost everything about the NX-01 is experimental, down to the very registry number.

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?

In Daedalus, T'Pol makes reference to Vulcan sub-quantum transporter research, implying that they had transporters.

 

[at Quark's]

Having transporter technology and your enemies not knowing about it could be an awesome ace card in some (stealth) missions. I could imagine that some 20th-22nd century races had the tech but kept it a highly classified military secret, at least until rumours about them having it started circulating.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

You know how in "Day of the Dove", the Klingon transporter is silent? They actually do a riff on that in the novel The Final Reflection which I thought was interesting. Apparently there's actually a scientific explanation as to why Starfleet transporters make noise!

What does it say?

 

[F. King Daniel]

What does it say?

Something along the lines of them being dismayed that Federation transporters make such a horrible noise

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

What's the scientific reason, though?

 

[NCC-73515]

When Boimler was mistransported, he was ringing all the time, until T'Ana was able to remove that part

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

What's the scientific reason, though?

One of the Klingon characters in the novel says this:

"Antaan calls it a super-carrier wave, polarized in three dimensions plus warp-time. They're overlaying it on the ordinary transporter signal. At reassembly, it superheterodynes with the main signal; the heterodyning produces a set of parasitic sound frequencies."

So it LOOKS like it's some form of error correction to reduce the possibility of malfunction. The Klingons don't seem to think it has any actual value though.