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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Daniel Butler: [QB] We got a bit off-topic in Rev's fed hopper thread so I'm starting a thread about it here ;P Is it silly that transporters are never used as a weapon in Trek? Would it be banned by treaty? Would the Romulans ever abide by that? Would the Breen even sign it? The Dominion probably wouldn't give a shit. Neither would the Cardassians. The Klingons would probably consider it dishonorable and wouldn't engage in it (except for rogue agents like the Duras sisters or Kruge...). There are a *lot* of things the transporter could do that they never use it for. It's a truly post-singularity technology and they're just using it as a quick version of the number four bus. You could use it against unshielded enemies (aboard ship or planetside) in a number of ways - beam them into space; scramble them up like Picard did to the Tox Uthat; beam out their bones; beam all the atmosphere off their ship; beam out key components of their ship or bodies; etc (these are a mix of my own suggestions and things other people put forth in Rev's thread). As for non-weapon uses, you could beam people's waste right out of their bladders and rectums. Goodbye, crew head (except emergency installations I suppose). Also I recall reading some TOS-era novel where the sickbay beds had transporter arrays in them and could beam things in and out of a patient like debris, shrapnel, etc. and which could project forcefields to, for example, keep a major artery closed or halt internal bleeding. So can you think of any more interesting uses for the transporter, and any more plausible reasons why the galaxy at large in the Trek universe wouldn't use transporters that way? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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