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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Sisko probably enjoyed the special services of Starfleet Academy, where personnel transporters would be in abundance. For training use if not for anything else. Still, I think a transporter in every garage sounds quite reasonable. Remember that we are not speaking starship transporters: these would be completely different machines, probably slaved to a central unit and lacking any user-adjustability. Instead of an independent station, there would be the barest essentials and a long solid cable leading to a transporter system hub. And a lot of it would be site-to-site in the TNG era, too. So all you would need would be that "Non Sequitur" bracelet and a big government-operated machine hidden somewhere beneath the city or in orbit. Something like that would probably be a lot easier to do than designing and building a starship transporter. We had trains long before we had automobiles, and telephones long before radio transceivers, even though the former seemingly required a greater infrastructure than the latter. When the infrastructure is "allowed" to be bulky and immobile and centralized, the operations themselves become smoother and cheaper and simpler. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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