If you've ever felt lost and worthless, step aside, because someone else feels even more so, and his name is Chief O'Brien of the Starship Enterprise. Fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation, crappy jobs, and ennui will enjoy our short-lived Chief O'Brien at Work comics.
If the TNG TM is to be believed, a site to site transport is essentially two transports, one after the other - you're beamed to the transporter room, but the matter stream is not rematerialised but rather shunted to a second transporter (the transporters are linked in pairs) and beamed to the destination. Thus it takes twice as much hardware, and almost twice as much power and twice as long. Thus normal practice is not to do it unless there's a pressing reason.McAvoy wrote:Always thought it was kinda odd that they walk to the transporter room when its been proven they do not need a transporter room. Maybe it takes more energy and its not quite as safe as going from one pad to the other.
That's how I generally picture it.GrahamKennedy wrote:If the TNG TM is to be believed, a site to site transport is essentially two transports, one after the other - you're beamed to the transporter room, but the matter stream is not rematerialised but rather shunted to a second transporter (the transporters are linked in pairs) and beamed to the destination. Thus it takes twice as much hardware, and almost twice as much power and twice as long. Thus normal practice is not to do it unless there's a pressing reason.McAvoy wrote:Always thought it was kinda odd that they walk to the transporter room when its been proven they do not need a transporter room. Maybe it takes more energy and its not quite as safe as going from one pad to the other.
Of course that's not canon, but it does make sense to me.
For some reason I am having a hard time making sense of this.GrahamKennedy wrote:If the TNG TM is to be believed, a site to site transport is essentially two transports, one after the other - you're beamed to the transporter room, but the matter stream is not rematerialised but rather shunted to a second transporter (the transporters are linked in pairs) and beamed to the destination. Thus it takes twice as much hardware, and almost twice as much power and twice as long. Thus normal practice is not to do it unless there's a pressing reason.McAvoy wrote:Always thought it was kinda odd that they walk to the transporter room when its been proven they do not need a transporter room. Maybe it takes more energy and its not quite as safe as going from one pad to the other.
Of course that's not canon, but it does make sense to me.
