quote:Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: Mucus,
Danar tried to trick Worf into believing that he'd beamed somewhere from the cargo transporter. In reality, Danar was still hiding in the cargo bay.
I can't remember how Danar escaped the Enterprise, though. It's possible that after overpowering Worf (IIRC, he knocked a bunch of cargo pallets onto Worf-ie), he did use the cargo transpoter.
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I guess it's Canon if it's on screen, even if barely legible, but the Transporter console has a small callout called "Pattern Buffer (Quantum)" on it. This would seem to directly tie in to what was intended for the Transporters capabilities.
On the other note mentioned regarding antimatter, Picard was going to beam an entire shuttlecraft back into the shuttlebay and that's like beaming an entire starship, technologically speaking. There's antimatter in a warp-capable shuttle.
quote: There's antimatter in a warp-capable shuttle.
Is there? Certainly there could be, but matter/antimatter collision as a power source isn't a prerequisite for warp drive.
(Having said that, I do believe that various Starfleet shuttles have been explicitly antimatter-powered. I'm just saying.)
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For the life of me, I cannot remember a single reference to "antimatter" or even the more ambiguous "intermix" aboard shuttlecraft (or other craft smaller than runabouts). And I agree that warp engines can probably run on things other than antimatter.
Still, the ability to beam entire shuttles is remarkable no matter what the powerplant. It may suggest that transporters are used in the majority of replenishment tasks, including torpedo casings, drinking water, air and whatnot, and supplanting direct physical means. But personally, I'd want to retain the physical interfaces for the assorted consumables, merely because they are cool (I like Meyerisms to a degree). And the FC hole-in-the-hull is just *perfect* for an air replenishment interface...
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Runabouts have antimatter: I figure at least large shuttles would as well.
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