Transporter Room???

[BillJ]

You know... I haven't seen any indication that the Transporter even exists!!!

Kirk/McCoy- moved to space by shuttle.
Kirk/Sulu - On mining planet via shuttle.
Kirk - On ice planet via what looks like some type of escape pod.

I know this seems silly... but a lack of transporters could be a deal breaker for me. It just something that is so integral to Star Trek.

 

[SalvorHardin]

Come on my friend....Seriously.

Do you even for a nanosecond believe there will not be a Transporter or transporter room ?

It's just a few great pictures we've seen so far...They don't have to show everything no matter how much we wish they did.

 

[BillJ]

It's not that they haven't shown everything... it's that they've made a point of showing our heroes moving around in shuttle craft.

 

[SalvorHardin]

It's not that they haven't shown everything... it's that they've made a point of showing our heroes moving around in shuttle craft.

And ?
They just released a few pictures...

They've also made a point of not showing the Enterprise...Should we start wondering and fearing now if they plan to do so in the movie or not ?

Come on...

 

[EJD1984]

There a couple of easy reasons for the appearance of non-transporter use.

1. They take a lot of power to operate. Kirk, McCoy and what appears to be a sizable amount of personnel traveling to the Enterprise via shuttle would be the most efficient - from a power consumption standpoint.

2. Could be battle damage to the transporters, Kirk and Sulu have to "hoof it down" to planets the "ole fashioned" way.

 

[ancient]

Pic 1 (cadet Kirk & Bones): How many cadets are on that shuttle? 10? 50? Plus, that's McCoy, since when has he ever taken the transporter when there's a perfectly good shuttle nearby?

Pic 2 (mining station): Ion storm....

 

[TeutonicNights]

I'd like them to get rid of the transporter altogether.
Introducing transporters was just a 60s decision to cut costs and because they had crappy shuttle FX back then.
But it's 2008 now. Time to move on.

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

Regarding the shuttle photo...

...By the look on McCoy's face, I have a feeling that this scene could be the "Enterprise Glory Shot". I think this may be the first time we (and Kirk and McCoy) see the Enterprise. If that is the case, then it would be less dramatic if Kirk and McCoy just beamed up.

I'd like them to get rid of the transporter altogether.
Introducing transporters was just a 60s decision to cut costs and because they had crappy shuttle FX back then.
But it's 2008 now. Time to move on.

I agree about costs being the original reason for including the transporter in 1966...however for better or for worse, the transporter is too far entrenched in the mythos of Star Trek to get rid of it now.

 

[Stardate]

Personally i would rather see more shuttle scenes in XI and less transporter scenes. Remember Roddenberry original plan did not include transporters, instead calling for characters to land the starship itself or using shuttles.

 

[OneBuckFilms]

I think they may have even mentioned them in passing in an interview somewhere.

Trust me, they are NOT getting rid of something THAT iconic as a concept.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have what, 6-8 pictures so far?

Very illuminating as they are, thats 6 frames of film, there are 24 frames for every second, and that is for a likely 2 hour movie.

6 of approx. 172800 frames. Can you honestly say there are no Trasporters in the movie with this information?

 

[EyalM]

Trekmovie.com mentioned a while back that there is a transporter set.

 

[TeutonicNights]

If only there was a way to "limit" transporter use, apart from the usual, convenient, awkward solutions like "transporters off-line" or "ion storm" or whatever. But there isn't.
The transporter is such a useful device,writers will have to alter their stories to explain why they can't just simply make use of the transporters in some situations.
When every shuttle has its own transporter like in TNG, it becomes pretty hard to explain. My hope is that they will at least show the transporters to be fragile, hard-to-operate, relatively new and bulky tech.

Not mentioning the uses of the transporter as a device to cure everything (Unnatural Selection, TNG) or to "store" people (Our Man Bashir; Relics) and its role in the evolution of the horrible technobabble that hurt Trek so much imo.

On the other hand, shuttle crashes is also something I would like them to use more sparsely.

The main reason to keep transporters is probably seeing Scotty operate it.

 

[Stardate]

I agree that transporter is iconic and entrenched in the mythos of Star Trek but they(XI producer) should add more limitations for transporter tech and use it wisely f.c. having less transporters' effective range and beaming to and from requires transporter room at both ends is a great start. I don't like a site-to-site transport

 

[M'Sharak]

Regarding the shuttle photo...

...By the look on McCoy's face, I have a feeling that this scene could be the "Enterprise Glory Shot". I think this may be the first time we (and Kirk and McCoy) see the Enterprise. If that is the case, then it would be less dramatic if Kirk and McCoy just beamed up.

About that photo, I'm remembering something from the AICN "Harry has seen some of J.J. Abrams' STAR TREK!!!" of some time ago, in which Harry described... [SPOILERS?]

Spoiler: what Harry described

The newer version was much much grander. It feels as though some Intergalactic Pearl Harbor has happened and all the cadets are anxious to get underway. You’d see cadets running to meet their shuttles – and as shuttles filled up, they took off to take their crews to their respective starships. They hold on the long shot – we hear Leonard McCoy being assigned to the Enterprise – You catch Uhura being assigned to a place… not the Enterprise. You see Chris Pine as Kirk demanding to know why his name wasn’t called out – apparently Kirk is in trouble. You remember that Kobayashi Maru thing he got a commendation for creative thinking for? Well, he isn’t smiling about it here. It seems his entire future career in Starfleet is in jeopardy – and he might miss out on whatever is going on. In a way it plays like the reality of legend. The truth behind the mythology of Kirk’s youth. How is Chris Pine? He’s young. The scene I saw wasn’t a strong KIRK scene, but a proto-KIRK scene. To see a character called Kirk that isn’t comfortably calling all the shots is a bit strange, but welcomed at the same time. I can’t wait to see how JJ takes the character and thrusts him into “greatness” – which has to happen in this film.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/37248

Now, I suppose something like that could have been framed in a simple "beam us up"-type box, but I can see reasons for not wanting to do it that way.

I suspect that photo may go with that scene, but do the whole movie without transporters? I doubt it very much. We haven't seen a transporter room yet because we just haven't seen it yet.

 

[Eric Cheung]

There is definitely a transporter because there are people playing transporter technicians. But perhaps, as in TMP, the shuttle is used to showcase the Enterprise in all her glory.

 

[gastrof]

Or maybe there are two hours more of stuff that somehow we haven't seen yet.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

It has been confirmed already, that there is a trasporter room set.
So, what I'm interested now is to see how they updated the Fx that go along with it.
Somehow I don't think it will look like the original fade-out or anything like what we saw later for that matter (pun intended!).
I expect something like a really lively 3D energy effect for the first time. Seeing the transported person starting to glow from inside out and fading outside in.

 

[Eric Cheung]

The TNG movie effect was a 3D take on the TNG TV show effect. I'd like the effect at least to be yellow like TOS, but 3D would be cool.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

You know... I haven't seen any indication that the Transporter even exists!!!

Playmates showed a transporter room playset at Toy Fair. Transporters exist.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Wanna bet the transporter room set features some plexiglas parts?