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Did anyone else notice that the schem's transporters seemed faster than most? I clocked the transport of data (when they think he is B4) in at a second, maximum and the transport of picard as similar. Usually it takes far longer.IMO

NecronLord wrote:Did anyone else notice that the schem's transporters seemed faster than most? I clocked the transport of data (when they think he is B4) in at a second, maximum and the transport of picard as similar. Usually it takes far longer.IMO

Borg transporters from BOBW were quite fast too IIRC.

From Endgame they clock in @ ~1.5 secs. I haven't seen BoBW part 1 though.

NecronLord wrote:Did anyone else notice that the schem's transporters seemed faster than most? I clocked the transport of data (when they think he is B4) in at a second, maximum and the transport of picard as similar. Usually it takes far longer.IMO

I also had a question about that. We have heard several times that a transporter works by first analyzing one's atomic and molecular structure, and then re-assembling that structure on the other end. When Picard was being transported, though, he clearly REACTED to being beamed out, moving his body considerably and changing his facial expression. It seems clear, now, that the transporter would have had to operate in a different manner, because Picard's movement would have thrown off such a system, and because Picard was still moving even after he had begun to de-materialize.

Master of Ossus wrote:

NecronLord wrote:Did anyone else notice that the schem's transporters seemed faster than most? I clocked the transport of data (when they think he is B4) in at a second, maximum and the transport of picard as similar. Usually it takes far longer.IMO

I also had a question about that. We have heard several times that a transporter works by first analyzing one's atomic and molecular structure, and then re-assembling that structure on the other end. When Picard was being transported, though, he clearly REACTED to being beamed out, moving his body considerably and changing his facial expression. It seems clear, now, that the transporter would have had to operate in a different manner, because Picard's movement would have thrown off such a system, and because Picard was still moving even after he had begun to de-materialize.

Well in the past they have beamed people up sitting down and they have materialised standing. I think the transporters seem to put people in an attention pose regardless. How they do this with aliens I don't know.

NecronLord wrote:Well in the past they have beamed people up sitting down and they have materialised standing. I think the transporters seem to put people in an attention pose regardless. How they do this with aliens I don't know.

Hmm... possibly. We've also seen some people who were beamed up in kneeling positions, or even lying down.

I do not, however, think that there has been a previous example of someone actually moving while they were beaming out, before.

Master of Ossus wrote:

NecronLord wrote:Well in the past they have beamed people up sitting down and they have materialised standing. I think the transporters seem to put people in an attention pose regardless. How they do this with aliens I don't know.

Hmm... possibly. We've also seen some people who were beamed up in kneeling positions, or even lying down.

I do not, however, think that there has been a previous example of someone actually moving while they were beaming out, before.

Actually there are numerous examples. How else do people talk while in transport? Or what about when Barclay was moving all the time while he was in transport and saved the people caught inside the buffer.

In the TNG episode with the Iconian supervirus, Picard is moving as he talks to the Romulan captan during beam out.

In insurrection the Sona transporters were pretty quick.