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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Siegfried: [QB] Well, when did the original colonists leave Earth and how long did it take them to find and travel Moab IV? It's conceivable that the colonists left Earth when the transporter was still in the prototype/design/testing phase for cargo applications when they left Earth. Another possibility is that some of the original colonists may have known about the transporter but this knowledge was simply lost to the ages. As Geordi said in that episode, "Maybe necessity really is the mother of invention." Living in an insulated and utopian society, I can't imagine the colonists having a need for the transporter since we've only really seen them in use for transporting people and cargo over really long distances. The colony was fairly small, so I doubt the colonists would take the trouble to build one or use one. The information may have not been passed on, or the information did survive in the databanks but was never reviewed or anything for the colony's lack of needing it. A third alternative is that it's possible that Starfleet developed the transporter and kept the project largely underwraps for a while. Look at how nervous all of the Enterprise's crew is at using it for bio-transport at their point in time. A bit of proof to offer for this is that Starfleet always seems to have the best transporter systems with the best scanning resolution. Sisko made a comment to Yates about the newest version of the transporter system and how she should upgrade to it from her current one. This implies to me that either Starfleet R&D led and leads the development of the transporters, or that a corporation with a lucrative government contract and many ties to Starfleet is doing that. As for the tractor beam, my impression has always been that the scientists weren't making improvements to a tractor beam but were inventing it from the ground up as a possible way to combat the problems from the stellar core fragment. Sounds like she was doing a lot of tinkering in her spare time with near impossible ideas since she admitted herself that she'd have no way of powering her tractor beam. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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