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We can't really know. Maybe only a slight change in the transporter setting significantly changes the visible effect and the color. Only the speed would be a sure sign of the kind or age of technology employed.
http://www.trektoday.com/news/170601_01.shtml The Enterprise will have a transporter (and imagine how pissed I am about that). The only thing I can do is observe the transport effect with a stop watch.
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I wonder. . . has anyone ever tried to catalogue all the various transporter effects, and how long they take? I guess it'd go something like this:
"The Cage:" Can't remember TOS: Classic whine and gold shiimmer TAS: Animated version of above Movies 1-6: various effects, can't remember much except it seemed to be variations on lights, glows and shimmers TNG/DS9: basically stayed the same. Generations: can't remember FC: definitely different Insurrection: bit more TNG-like again Voyager: the strange one, you know, two lights start in middle, move up and down, plus shimmer. . .
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Cage, TOS, TAS: Basically the same slow golden sparkle effect in all. People seem immobilized by the onset of the beam, yet they do end up in different positions than what they had when starting (phasers move from holster to hand etc.).
TMP: Blue variant of the above, with nifty "eddy currents" flowing in 3D all across the transportee's surface, instead of just sparkles.
ST2-ST6: Essentially the same effect in all of these, with "scan lines" similar to the later Voyager effect and with minimal sparkles. Only minor variations in color. Moving within the beam seems easy; people don't seem to maintain a rigid pose through the process in any of the cases.
TNG, DS9, Generations: Rapid white "waterfall" effect. Despite people often maintaining rigid poses, we get canon confirmation that one can move during transportation, and even look and feel around in the transporter beam's "phased realm".
Voyager: Scan lines added to waterfall, tinted towards blue. People always move within the beam.
First Contact: Simple waterfall? Rigid poses.
Insurrection: Very little transporting performed by Federation devices. How was Picard snatched to safety in the end? I seem to remember simple waterfall.
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I thought that in the movies, blue was Federaton, and Red was Klingon.
Did we see any other races transporter beams?
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"Realm of Fear" showed Barclay moving around while he should have been totally energized. Personally, I think he was moving in his mind, but not physically. When the other person touched him, his consciousness interpreted it as a creature biting his arm (I suppose it touched the matter that would later reconstitute his arm), but everything he saw was more like a dream. After all, he imagined those people as giant flying slugs...
I suspect that, when we see people moving in the beam, that's actually just the scanning process. From the moment of dematerialization to the moment of rematerialization, they can't really move (duh... all their bits aren't connected to each other...).
It is right you cant't move in the Beam. If you can, the Molecular Imaging Scanners coulnd't read you correct and the we have an nice Transporter accident
The Borg and the Romulan beam is Green The Cardassian: is gold
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In "Relics", when Scotty steps off the pad on the E-D, he remarks to Geordi that, "You changed the resonator array!" Since he obviously hasn't openend up a transporter and taken a look inside yet, and only expierienced a new transport, he must be talking about something that is apparent from the process itself. I assume that the writers intended him to mean the visual affect we all know and love.
Although, I couldn't find anything in the TNG TM under transporters about 'resonator arrays' or anything concerning the look of the thing.
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That's because the TNGTM came out before "Relics", and it was probably something the writers made up just for that instance.
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