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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 3420822" data-attributes="member: 3649">In the original series, transporter tech wasn't nearly as precise as it was in later shows. It was horrifically dangerous to transport things from inside the ship to inside the ship, so dangerous that they only did it once. They do have a transporter pattern for everyone. That's how the transporter works. It effectively kills you, then reconstructs you at the other end. That's why McCoy hated the thing. And they do use it like that in at least two OS shows I can think of. I always got the idea that they didn't really know all the ins and outs of the transporter. The 'show' reason why it existed was to keep them from having to do shots of the ship landing and taking off (some of the original designs would have allowed that); it was too expensive.One of the most amusing things in the first movie was where the captains chair arms fold in to keep him in his seat, just because people kept harping on that point <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I think the main point was that if the shields went down, you were screwed no matter where you put the bridge. So you might as well put it on the part of the ship that can detach (as far as I know, they do this once and once only in any of the series) and up top so in case you have to crash land, it'll be the last thing to be destroyed.</blockquote>

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