transporter question

[roguephoenix]

can i get some basic working of the transport process? from what i understand you get scanned, that info gets stored, you get broken down into parts (or energy?) and "beamed" to a location where you are put back together based on that scan prior to transport. is that it?

also, does the scan happen upon transporter lock acquisition?

 

[Non Sync]

The Star Tek: The Next Generation Technical Manual describes in amazing detail the actual timeline of a transporter sequence.

Here are the highlights for a beamdown program:

00.145 sec- Begin emission of Annular Confinement Beam (ACB) in chamber
00.359 sec- The Molecular imaging scanners begin scan sequence
00.432 sec- Begin transmission of analog image data to pattern buffer
00.464 sec- Verification of image data integrity
00.596 sec- Begin dematerialization cycle
00.998 sec- Pattern buffer begins acceptance of matter stream
01.027 sec- Verification of matter stream integrity
01.221 sec- Begin transmission of annular confinement beam to target coordinates
01.237 sec- Begin transmission of matter stream to emitter array
01.240 sec- Begin transmission of image data through ACB
01.241 sec- Begin transmission of matter stream through ACB. Begin materialization cycle.
04.077 sec- Dematerialization cycle complete
04.824 sec- Materialization cycle complete
04.824 sec- Verify pattern integrity
05.000 sec- Signal successful transport

The book actually describes 58 steps.

You would want the scan to occur very close to the start of the actual transport sequence to ensure the data is the most up-to-date.

 

[roguephoenix]

well the only reason i ask is because i was wondering if any changes to the subject happens after the scan, would that even materialize or will the computer reconstruct from last known?

 

[Non Sync]

The time between the start of the scan sequence and the begining of the dematerialization cycle is 00.237 seconds. I suppose that any changes to the subject after the scan is complete would be lost.

Does throw a wrench into a couple episodes.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

There must be some kind of safegaurd or something for objects or beings that happen to intersect the subject transportee, since as we saw in ST IV, you can hitchhike in on someone else's beamout. Just putting that out there.

 

[Forbin]

We've seen Kirk and Spock being machine-gunned just after they begin to beam up, with the bullets going into their sparkley, disassembling forms. Yet they arrive safely aboard. From that we could assume that the scan of their bodies was made just before beaming, and they were reassembled in the condition they were in prior to being shot.

 

[MarianLH]

Hypothesis: the process was slower back in the 23rd century, giving Gillian time to jump in with Kirk before the scan.


Marian

 

[Non Sync]

We've seen Kirk and Spock being machine-gunned just after they begin to beam up, with the bullets going into their sparkley, disassembling forms. Yet they arrive safely aboard. From that we could assume that the scan of their bodies was made just before beaming, and they were reassembled in the condition they were in prior to being shot.

Or the transport ignored the bullets as they were not part of the scan.

Actually, it is a function of the plot compensator to include transport whatever is a needed part of the plot and to ignore those things that are not part of the plot.

 

[Ziz]

I always liked Mike Okuda's explanation.

Someone asked me "How does the transporter work?" and the only answer I could give them was "Very well, thank you."

 

[roguephoenix]

the thing is that when lt. kerry was killed just before enegizing, i was just wondering if the computer would have picked up that he was dead or that he would be reconstructed alive.

 

[Loneknight]

Hypothesis: the process was slower back in the 23rd century, giving Gillian time to jump in with Kirk before the scan.


Marian

Although, lest we forget they were using a Klingon transporter. Could their technology have been slower?

 

[SoM]

The time between the start of the scan sequence and the begining of the dematerialization cycle is 00.237 seconds. I suppose that any changes to the subject after the scan is complete would be lost.

Well, Data once fired a weapon DURING a beamout (he began to pull the trigger just as he was dematerialising, whereupon Chief O'Brien noted that the weapon was "in a state of discharge" and disabled it before Data materialised, but no "discharge" escaped at the beamout site.