Transporters would contribute to crime

[gakelly]

Someone could literally kidnap anyone or anything at anytime using a transporter system. You wouldn't be safe on the surface of a planet unless you had some kind of shielding to protect yourself.
Kidnapping, human trafficking, theft of valuable merchandise, food, transporting bombs into areas.

 

[NewHeavensNewEarth]

All indications are that transporter devices were regulated, and it wasn't something everyone just had setup in their living room.

All the same, I'm wondering if you watched "The High Ground" TNG episode recently.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Transporters aren't privately owned on Earth. On Earth in DS9's time they've replaced the subway system. On Yorktown in Beyond they're phone booths where you dial your destination from a pre-set list.

I'm not sure what's to stop a rogue ship in orbit from doing all you say, though...

 

[Spot261]

Why would anyone want to human traffic or rob a bank in a society without money?

 

[Timo]

Indeed, if you took transporters out of Star Trek, you'd still have dozens of future technologies that would come in handy if you want to do crime. The absence of crime thus isn't tech-specific.

Or perhaps it is? With transporters, you can immediately catch the criminal. There's no such thing as a getaway, no such thing as a hideout. Even planning a crime in the supposed privacy of your head may backfire if a Betazoid walks past. And you never know whether the police will catch you after the fact but before the crime, expending some time travel resources to prevent you from achieving your criminal goal.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[at Quark's]

Transporters aren't privately owned on Earth. On Earth in DS9's time they've replaced the subway system. On Yorktown in Beyond they're phone booths where you dial your destination from a pre-set list.

I'm not sure what's to stop a rogue ship in orbit from doing all you say, though...

Didn't alt-Paris in VOY: Non Sequitur have a portable site-to-site transporter just in case? And while he is a 'criminal', he doesn't look like a very powerful, top-level one to me. So even if they're regulated, they're probably not that hard to come by.

 

[Mojochi]

Except that the tech for matter/energy transportation is basically what gives them the tech for matter/energy transference. Meaning, once you have transporters, replicators aren't far behind, & that is much of the reason for the decline in all their crime to begin with

 

[Nakita Akita]

Someone could literally kidnap anyone or anything at anytime using a transporter system. You wouldn't be safe on the surface of a planet unless you had some kind of shielding to protect yourself.
Kidnapping, human trafficking, theft of valuable merchandise, food, transporting bombs into areas.

What ev.....
All they'd have to do is reverse the polarity on the tachyon emitter, adjust the girls generator output and compensate for the field wave gyronomter on anything from a triquarter to The enterprise and they could determine where the person was taken to.

It's like you never even saw the show.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

The implications of the transporter are terrifying if you think about them for five seconds. Really they should have had them require transporter fixtures on both ends to work.

Because otherwise you just have to not rematerialize the person and you have a disintegration weapon with surgical precision.

I’m sure on desnsely populated planets they have some kind of safety protections, like dampening fields that require some official transporter code to get through. But more often than not they hand wave and uses of transporters besides quick travel.

 

[gakelly]

Yes. The transporter weapon would be much deadlier than phasers or photon torpedoes. You can just beam a large group of people into space or not rematerialize someone. End of battle.

In an episode like Legacy or Too Short a Season where there were hostages, you could just beam everyone into a cargo bay or something filled with some sort of gas that would render everyone unconscious and then sort it out later.

 

[gakelly]

I wonder if they could have just transported all the drones from a borg ship into space. If they could transport on and off the ship, the Borg didn't have any sort of shield to stop the transporters.

 

[DonIago]

I doubt the E-D had the transporter capacity to beam all the Borg off a cube before they erected shields.

Also the Borg appeared to have personal transporters and at least some of them survive quite nicely in space, so...

 

[Nakita Akita]

I doubt the E-D had the transporter capacity to beam all the Borg off a cube before they erected shields.

Also the Borg appeared to have personal transporters and at least some of them survive quite nicely in space, so...

But I hate the Borg!
They were so scary back when we first encountered them.
And
I forgot that they could survive in space.
But if they were all just floating around
Possibly their batteries would die in addition not much of a threat if they are out floatin around in space, maybe....
They scare me.

 

[DonIago]

The Borg are sorta supposed to be scary...

What I wonder is whether the Borg could command a cube even if they were all beamed into space and couldn't beam themselves back to it...

 

[Tenacity]

The Borg were scary, right up until it became possible to defeat them repeatedly with a little effort.

 

[MAGolding]

Except that the tech for matter/energy transportation is basically what gives them the tech for matter/energy transference. Meaning, once you have transporters, replicators aren't far behind, & that is much of the reason for the decline in all their crime to begin with

In real life replicators would be invented long before transporters, since replicators are perfectly possible and plausible while transporters are fantastically difficult to invent.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

On Earth in DS9's time they've replaced the subway system.

Actually, no, the subway still exists even in the 24th century. We see a station (its entrance, anyway) in Non Sequitur.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Actually, no, the subway still exists even in the 24th century. We see a station (its entrance, anyway) in Non Sequitur.

It's been a looong time, but I think they imply it's the planetary transporter system under there now? Then again, there are many Treks depicting trains in the 23rd and 24th centuries.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

It's been a looong time, but I think they imply it's the planetary transporter system under there now? Then again, there are many Treks depicting trains in the 23rd and 24th centuries.

It's not a transporter. Definitely a rail network (actually it's probably maglev) of some kind. It's called Trans Francisco.

 

[F. King Daniel]

It's not a transporter. Definitely a rail network (actually it's probably maglev) of some kind. It's called Trans Francisco.

They did not call it that

I'm also not convinced the subway stations aren't now transporter stations following the old routes, only stepping on to reach the next station? Trans(porter)?