This season keeps sounding better and better. In this epsiode, the gang runs into the inventor of the transporter (I'm guessing this is yet another instance of Vulcans holding back). The guy is apprarently on the ship to experiment with extending the range of Enterprise's transporters well beyond 20,000 kilometers (though I thought it was only around 2,000 kilometers, according to "Raijin", I think). In any case, he wants to do it by shifting a transport beam through subspace.
Huh? I thought transporters ALREADY did that. I guess it could be a different sort of thing he's talking about, but still - I hope they'll come up with some fitting tech for us to pick to pieces.
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So far, I doubt we have enough on transporter history to allow ENT to actually contradict anything.
I just have to express my profound disappointment that the inventor of the transporter appears to be human.
I mean, sure Cochrane invented warp drive, but only after everybody else had invented it first. The Trek universe seems set up so that everybody has to invent warp on their own - the Federation (and probably the pre-Fed Vulcans, too) has actually made that into a law! However, there is no such pressing need for everybody to invent their own transporter. Are we really supposed to believe that the upstart Earthlings invented this device for the rest of the Alpha quadrant or what? (Not for the Klingons, that's for sure...)
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I'm assuming the epside title refers more to Daedalus losing his son Icarus during their flying experiments, than the chance of a Daedalus-class ship appearing. . .
quote:Originally posted by Timo: I just have to express my profound disappointment that the inventor of the transporter appears to be human.
You expect ENT to actually make something interesting and different out of the 22nd century?
They probably don't want to 'confuse' the 'occasional viewer', and make it a human-only party (where human should be read as American). Or even more likely, they didn't even consider an alternative.
I suspect the chances are quite high that this Emory fellow is from Montana...
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This concept reminds me of "The Stars My Destination," in which everyone moved around by a form of mental teleportation. The limit was usually around 5000 miles and no one had ever teleported through space, until the hero manages to do it.
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Do you mean tesseracting? There's been at least two seperate stories I've read where all people have to do is be able to visualize and understand five-dimensional space. Once their mind accepts it (we're hard-wired for three dimensions, you see) they can freely move through time and space.
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Teleportation by the power of the mind was referred to in The Stars My Destinations as jaunting, after the man (named Jaunte) who first demonstrated the phenomenon. All you do is visualize the destination (where you must have previously visited), and off you go!
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Just make sure you remember the positions of all stars and other visible astronomical phenomenae, or else you'll travel back in time as well. Anne McCaffrey said so.
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(Though, re: Pern: was it the stars? I thought it was just "visualize your destination," and the Brave Heroine and her Talking Telepathic Dragon Friend were just so amazingly special and neat that they found out they could travel through time too. And then they showered McCaffrey with awards.)
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(I have a low opinion of the pre-novel material, and the few other novels of hers that I have read [mostly of the "Ship Who Did Something" genre] have not raised my level of appreciation.)
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