May 03, 2016 01:56
I was thinking about the teleport device, and the many complains about it (including the whole "it's dumb the made travel via ships obsolete"):
safety.
Such a long travel could be very wearing for a body. Perhaps, after the first tests, it turned out a standard human couldn't even survive a beam outside the usual range of the standard beaming pad, and only an augmented could use it without consequences.cost.
We don't know how the thing works. It could be powered by dilitium crystals that burns out for one long distance travel and the cost per beam would then make the device unproductive or unsustainable on the long run (dilitium isn't renewable matter) reserved for very special occasions. It could be single-use, which would make it not very handy.Police.
Starfleet would probably never release it to the public. Such a device would make public security a hell because anyone could commit any crime and literally vanish from the scene a second later. It wouldn't be the first time some fruitful military research wouldn't be made available to all, anyway.One way ticket.
John uses it to beam himself on the Klingon planet but the device is found by Scott on Earth, which would mean that you don't bring it with you. Hence it would make a poor choice for travel, since it would grant you a one-way ticket to wherever you go. While this wouldn't stop the average Joe from going to town-on-planet-A to town-on-planet-B (he'd get another on planet B's wallmart), it would definitely be a problem for the poor captain who's exploring the quadrant. It wouldn't substitute Starfleet ships, because you would beam (in the dark) where you want, yes, but you couldn't get back and I don't think Fleet's officers are eager to spend the rest of their lives on the new discovered planets just because they can't beam back home.Beaming in the dark.
It wouldn't be recommended, as every superhero with teleport power will explain you. A receiving pad assures you that you won't beam in a wall. The reason why the beaming back on the Enterprise from Delta Vega or on the Narada were... hm, dubious. Scotty wasn't really manning the controls in the dark, like you would if your destination would be an uncharted planet since he knew the Enty blueprints, but... Yeah.
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