Film Theory: 3 DEADLY Truths About the Star Trek Transporter

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  @FilmTheory · 2 years ago · pinned

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  @cats-napping · 2 years ago

  Not ONCE did an episode that heavily featured the transporters go by without my dad turning to me and ranting about how he would never trust using a transporter and he HEAVILY encouraged me not to either. And I just sit there nodding along because he’s totally right and I totally agree, but also don’t think that’s something I gotta worry about for a bit.

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  @NamelessGamer29 · 2 years ago

  Fun fact: Not once is the phrase, “Beam me up, Scotty” exclaimed in the original series. It’s one of the most famous Mandela effects in fiction.

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  @sentoast1 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Matpat didn&apos;t even have to theorize much, the show explored almost every possibility lol

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  @johnkarakash · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m surprised you didn&apos;t mention how much Dr. McKoy fought against using the transporter in the ST:TOS movie. it even had an example of a very, very bad transporter accident!

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  @NamelessGamer29 · 2 years ago

  It’s funny because Bones brings up several concerns about the transporter but is often laughed off whenever he brings it up.

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  @Otto-w5c · 2 years ago

  One thing that Matt left out was you could also be teleported to a different universe. There was one episode in the original series and several episodes in Deep Space Nine where one or more people were transported to a mirror version of their universe.

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  @bookshelfpassageway6232 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Surprised he never pointed out that &quot;Beam me up, Scotty&quot; was never actually said in that exact way on the show, much like &quot;Elementary, my dear Watson&quot;. If there&apos;s a tradition time honored by both MatPat and Trekkies, it&apos;s being pedantic

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  @cybus01 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m surprised that Mat didn&apos;t mention the Next Generation episode &apos;Rascals&apos;, where the transporter was used to age or de-age people. They essentially unlocked immortality via the transporter, but it was never addressed again.

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  @Neridian_ · 2 years ago

  I never thought CGP Grey would be mentioned in a film theory

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  @ukiyasenpai · 2 years ago

  There is a reason that the NX-01 crew only used the transporters for emergencies and supplies. Then Season 4 happened, and they got used to it.

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  @XaviusNight · 2 years ago

  One thing to note about being stuck in the pattern buffer - it&apos;s entirely possible that you CAN&apos;T get stressed or experience normal psychological degradation from it, and can only experience them when you&apos;re out (which is why someone can develop a phobia about it, but someone else can get stuck there without overstressing about it) because in that state, they can perceive, but have no hardware on which to produce the chemical stress responses - the information is encoded as part of the transfer process, but they only experience the negative effects post-transport. Thus, if they don&apos;t have a problem with being transported (like Scotty), then they unlikely to come out stressed because they literally can&apos;t feel bored or stressed or angry or anything else at all. There&apos;s no physiological component to it because there&apos;s no physiology to happen in.

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