^Could be. That sounds familiar. I'll just have to watch them again. Which is, of course, never a bad thing.
Transporter console slider controls
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Scotty: Captain, thank Heaven.
Spock: Mister Scott, there was no deity involved, it was my cross-circuiting to B that recovered them.
McCoy: Well then, thank pitchforks and pointed ears.
I think that is what they were thinking of....
What were the major transporter episodes or ones with transporter problems or we see something different? Enemy Within, The Menagerie, Gamesters of Triskelion, Obsession, Tholian Web, Day of the Dove, Dagger of the Mind, Enterprise Incident, Mark of Gideon, The Changeling, Doomsday Machine, City on the Edge of Forever
-Chris
-Chris
I knew I'd seen someone somewhere use only one of the sliders, and I think I've found where: in TNG's 11001001, when Riker sets the controls for himself and Picard to beam onto the Bridge - he only activates the centre "slider".
http://tng.trekcore.com/hd/thumbnails.php?album=17&page=17
Of course, not only is this a timed transporter maneuver (do we ever see this again on TNG?) but it is also intership. These two factors may also have a bearing on why only the central control was utilised.
http://tng.trekcore.com/hd/thumbnails.php?album=17&page=17
Of course, not only is this a timed transporter maneuver (do we ever see this again on TNG?) but it is also intership. These two factors may also have a bearing on why only the central control was utilised.
Picard tries an auto beam-out in Starship Mine, but it is terminated when the power goes out.
-Chris
This is how Lazarus did it: he pushed some button near the bottom of the console, then up with the sliders.
In The City on the Edge of Forever, McCoy raised the sliders, then apparently hits some button up top. The sound effects support this, but it's a little hard to see what he's doing with his hand.
In The City on the Edge of Forever, McCoy raised the sliders, then apparently hits some button up top. The sound effects support this, but it's a little hard to see what he's doing with his hand.
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I guess because the directors of the episodes just didn't give a beaming fuck.
While we probably won't get a solid answer, I can gladly live with approximations of what may have been intended.
In the two aforementioned examples, both knew (McCoy?!?) that they needed to rely on an automatic transport procedure.
Maybe the top position is the default setting for automatic transport (presumably the whole procedure starts with some automated mechanisms) but when you have manual control or override (Scotty) you sort of shift from automatic into a manual mode which allows the operator to do various fine adjustments and the like which the computer can't perform?
Bob
This one from Assignment: Earth is a bit more complicated.
Gary Seven switches several controls on the same panel that Lazarus used. As can be seen here, the middle slider is down and the two side sliders are up.
Seven then heads to the transporter chamber, apparently without having touched the sliders: still one down, two up.
While beaming, a shot of the transporter console shows all three sliders up!
Gary Seven switches several controls on the same panel that Lazarus used. As can be seen here, the middle slider is down and the two side sliders are up.
Seven then heads to the transporter chamber, apparently without having touched the sliders: still one down, two up.
While beaming, a shot of the transporter console shows all three sliders up!
It is a bit funny to place the only dexterity-requiring controls in the transporter panel on the sinister side!
Perhaps Scotty or Kyle installed a southpaw console in Transporter Room Three for personal reasons? There'd be little problem with that during a five-year mission where transporter chief rotation would be nonexistent.
(Yeah, it's the right-hand side of the left side if there are two operators. But in TOS, there very seldom are, and the operator sort of tends to stand in the middle.)
Timo Saloniemi
Perhaps Scotty or Kyle installed a southpaw console in Transporter Room Three for personal reasons? There'd be little problem with that during a five-year mission where transporter chief rotation would be nonexistent.
(Yeah, it's the right-hand side of the left side if there are two operators. But in TOS, there very seldom are, and the operator sort of tends to stand in the middle.)
Timo Saloniemi
Of course, the 'Transporter console' in both pilots was nothing but the helm/nav console relocated from the bridge set.....
Deela had her own approach, as well:
Ordering Kirk into the chamber, she first moves the sliders up, then pushes that red switch on the black corner console. (This is the only thing I've learned about operating the transporter thus far: that black corner console is important.)
With Kirk ready to beam (though he had disabled the transporter), Deela pushes that red button once again, and moves the sliders down.
We can't see what, but she appears (aided by sound effect) to be pushing some button or switch, from the way she's looking it's on the right side of the unit.
Tries again: up go the sliders, and back to that red switch!
Ordering Kirk into the chamber, she first moves the sliders up, then pushes that red switch on the black corner console. (This is the only thing I've learned about operating the transporter thus far: that black corner console is important.)
With Kirk ready to beam (though he had disabled the transporter), Deela pushes that red button once again, and moves the sliders down.
We can't see what, but she appears (aided by sound effect) to be pushing some button or switch, from the way she's looking it's on the right side of the unit.
Tries again: up go the sliders, and back to that red switch!
In The City on the Edge of Forever, McCoy raised the sliders, then apparently hits some button up top. The sound effects support this, but it's a little hard to see what he's doing with his hand.
I'm actually surprised McCoy knows how to work the transporter at all. I guess they must train *everyone* aboard ship in basic transporter operation, so they at least have a chance in an emergency evac or something.
That doesn't explain how Lazarus and Deela know how to work the console, though. Presumably they'd never even seen Federation technology before!
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