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Transporter Uses

Here now is a list of the many ways the transporter has played an important part in Star Trek.

• "The Cage" (TOS #1) - The Talosians controlled the Enterprise's transporters to first allow only Number One and Yeoman Smith to beam down; and later when they first they beamed up and then after Captain Pike.
• "Shore Leave" (TOS #17) - The Caretaker caused interference to prevent beamdown to the pleasure planet.
• "Gamesters Of Triskellion" (TOS #46) - In preparing to beam down, the landing party is whisked lightyears away.
• "Assignment: Earth" (TOS #55) - The ship's transporters intercepted an alien supspace transporter beam. And later the alien transporter intercepted the Enterprisetransporter beam.
• "Plato's Stepchildren" (TOS #67) - Aliens used telekenesis to force Uhura and Chapel to beam down.
• "That Which Survives" (TOS #69) - In preparing to beam down, the landing party is whisked lightyears away.
• "The Mark Of Gideon" (TOS #72) - Beaming down to an alien planet, Kirk beams onto a transporter pad of an exact duplicate Enterprise.
• "The Savage Curtain" (TOS #77) - Alien interference prevents Kirk and Spock's phasers to beam down with them.
• "Shades Of Gray" (TNG #148) - Riker picks up an alien microbe which the transporter's biofilters are unable to screen out.
• "Future Imperfect" (TNG #182) - A young alien prevents Riker from beaming back to the ship.
• "Maneuvers" (VOY #827) - The Kazon Nistrem-Sect steal a transporter moduale from Voyager.

• "Patterns Of Force" (TOS #52) - The Doctor beaming down into the closet still having trouble with his boot.
• "Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan" (ST II: TWOK) - Before beaming down to Regula 1, McCoy and Kirk's exchange:

 McCoy: "Go? Where are we going?"
 Kirk: "Where they went."
 McCoy: "Suppose they went nowhere?"
 Kirk: "Well then, this will be your big chance to get away from it
 all."

• "Star Trek III: The Seach For Spock" (ST III: TSFS) - Kirk's plan to beam down to Genesis at the same time Kruge's crew would be beaming to the Enterprise.
• "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" (ST IV: TVH) - Beaming back to the ship from the hospital elevator, and seeing the stunned look on the police officer's faces when the elevator doors opened to reveal its emptiness.
• "A Matter Of Honor" (TNG #134) - Riker giving his transponder to the Klingon Captain. Classic and creative.
• "Manhunt" (TNG #145) - Lwaxana Troi beaming aboard in a kneeling position facing the wrong way on the transporter pad.
• "A Matter Of Perspective" (TNG #162) - As horrible as it is, a scene of classic timing when we see Riker materializes on the transporter pad just after the station he beamed from exploded.
• "Menage A Troi" (TNG #172) - The Ferengi Doctor beaming the Trois without their clothes.
• "Relics" (TNG #230) - Scotty beaming out of the transporter buffer after being in a feedback loop for more than 75 years.
• "Rascals" (TNG #233) - Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan beaming aboard as children. Classic looks on their faces; especially the young Picard's.
• "Trials And Tribble-ations" (DS9 #503) - Beaming aboard the turbolifts of the Original Enterprise.

• "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" (TOS #21) - Scotty used the transporters to return Captain Christopher and the Air Police Seargeant to the exact moment in time at which he'd beamed them out; thereby erasing their memories of the Enterprise.
• "The Trouble With Tribbles" (TOS #42) - Scotty used his engineering expertise to lock onto every tribble aboard the Enterprise and beam them into the cargo hold of the Klingon ship; where they'd be "no tribble at all".
• "A Piece Of The Action" (TOS #49) - While making some old-style phone calls from his locale, Koik had Scotty locate the guys at the other end of the blower and give 'em rides to his flop; using the transporter.
• "The Day Of The Dove" (TOS #66) - At the prodding of an Emergency Signal from Kirk's communicator, Scotty stored the patterns of the Klingons in the buffer, while just materializing the Enterprise landing party.
• "The Cloudminders" (TOS #74) - Kirk had Scotty lock onto High Advisor Plasus and beam him to his coordinates without advance communication or warning.
• "Star Trek III: The Seach For Spock" (ST III: TSFS) - Kirk's plan to beam down to Genesis at the same time Kruge's crew would be beaming to the Enterprise.
• "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" (ST IV: TVH) - Beaming up the 400 tonnes of whales and water.
• "Lonely Among Us" (TNG #108) - Using the transporter to beam Picard's conscious energy back into his body.
• "The Schizoid Man" (TNG #131) - A "near warp transport". Essentially coming out of warp just long enough to beam the away team off the ship and then going back into warp before they even materialized on the planet.
• "Unnatural Selection" (TNG #133) - Using the transporter to de-age those affected with the aging virus created by the advanced immune systems of a group of super-children. (The reverse is performed in "Rascals", TNG #233.)
• "A Matter Of Honor" (TNG #134) - Riker giving his transponder to the Klingon Captain. Classic and creative.
• "The Emissary" (TNG #146) - Matching the warp nine speed of the Class Six Probe to beam it aboard.
• "A Matter Of Perspective" (TNG #162) - On the part of the writers, having the energy beam bounce off the transporter beam just as Riker beamed out to make it appear as though Riker had actually fired his phaser before beam-out.
• "Captain's Holiday" (TNG #167) - Transporter Code 14: causing the communicator to overload and destroy the Tax-ut-at.
• "The Most Toys" (TNG #170) - Having the transporter detect that the weapon in Data's hand was in a state of discharge, and then using the transporter to deactivate it before materializing him.
• "Best Of Both Worlds, Part II" (TNG #175) - Armband transporter controls for the shuttle's transporter, when Worf and Data were beaming Picard of the Borg ship.
• "Brothers" (TNG #177) - Seeing Lore activate a transporter with a control located under his thumbnail.
• "Devil's Due" (TNG #187) - Ardra's extensive transporter systems to alter her form and make others disappear at will.
• "Realm Of Fear" (TNG #228) - On the part of the writers, enabling us the viewer to actually see what it looks like to be beamed. In the story, having people trapped in the beam, yet having them appear as creatures.
• "Relics" (TNG #230) - Scotty creating a special type of feedback loop so he could remain in the buffer without having his pattern degrade.
• "Rascals" (TNG #233) - Using the transporter to age Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan back to adults; the opposite of what was done in "Unnatural Selection", TNG #133.
• "Ship In A Bottle" (TNG #238) - Using the transporter in an attempt to beam holo-matter into reality.
• "Gambit, Part I" (TNG #256) - A gun that was linked to a ship's transporter system, enabling instanteaous transportation under the guise of disintegration.
• "Homeward" (TNG #265) - Beaming the alien colony to the holodeck and then to their new home all without them realizing it.
• "Past Tense, Part II" (DS9 #458) - Using the Defiant's transporter to search Earth's past in hopes of finding Sisko, Bashir, and Jadzia.
• "Through The Looking Glass" (DS9 #466) - The Mirror-Universe O'Brien using the transporter to travel between the universes.
• "Shattered Mirror" (DS9 #492) - The Mirror-Universe Jennifer Sisko using the transporter to travel between the universes.
• "Trials And Tribble-ations" (DS9 #503) - Timing the transporter to avoid detection by the Enterprise's sensors.
• One Little Ship" (DS9 #537) - Beaming a pocket of miniturized air molecules just ahead of a miniturized O'Brien and Bashir from a miniturized runabout into a regular sized control circuit.
• "Eye Of The Needle" (VOY #807) - Using the transporter to beam a Romulan captain from the Alpha Quadrant to Voyager through a collapsing wormhole, that actually lead to the past.
• "Non Sequitur" (VOY #822) - Paris with a portable transporter unit to help Harry escape the Feds and get back to his own time.

• "Mudd's Women" (TOS #4) - Chasing Mudd and his girls into an asteroid belt, the ship used up dilthium crystals causing Scotty to switch to auxilary power while beaming aboard Mudd and his cargo.
• "The Enemy Within" (TOS #5) - When Fisher beamed up, the ore on clothes caused the transporter to malfunction, creating the accident that caused the two Kirks to materialize. Later, in the Engineering section, the evil Kirk accidentally shot some transporter relay circuits with a phaser.
• - Due to interference from the quasar-like phenomenon, the Enterprise was at first unable to use the transporters to search for the landing party.
• "The Doomsday Machine" (TOS #35) - The transporter circuits suffered damage after an attack by the planet killer. When Kirk revealed his plan of ramming the Constellation down the planet killer's throat, Scotty said to him, "A cranky transporter's a mighty finickey piece of machinery to be gambling your life on sir." Upon Scotty's return to the Enterprise, it burned out altogether and Scotty rushed to repair it to beam Kirk out in time.
• "The Apple" (TOS #38) - With the landing party on the surface, the Enterprise transporters became inhibited. As Scotty put it, "The way it is now, we couldn't beam up a fly."
• "The Tholian Web" (TOS #64) - Due to unusual properties in their area of space, the transporter was able to bring back all members of the landing party except for Kirk, who ended up being trapped in Defiant in interdimensional space.
• "Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan" (ST II: TWOK) - Transporter power was down supposedly for 2 days; it turned out to be 2 hours.
• "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" (ST V: TFF) - The transporter was non-operational in this film supposedly because the ship was still new, and they wasn't quite complete.
• "Heart Of Glory" (TNG #120) - Due to radiation around the engineering core of the freighter, Yar had trouble beaming back the away team and almost lost them.
• "Contagion" (TNG #137) - Due to the Iconian computer virus, none of the ships systems, including the transporter, were working properly.
• "The Ensigns Of Command" (TNG #149) - The transporter is unable to function in the orbit of Tau Sygna V due to hyperonic radiation in the atmosphere.
• "The Enemy" (TNG #155) - Due to severe electrical storms inherent to Galorndon Core, the transporter only works in windows or openings in the storm.
• Hero Worship" (TNG #211) - Due to radiation leakage from the warp core on the Vico, the Enterprise was unable to beam Timothy from where he was stuck under a support beam. Data had to get him out to the corridor.

• "The Enemy Within" (TOS #5) - a transporter accident created two Captain Kirks; one good, one bad. It did the same on some sort of alien canine in that episode as well.
• - a transporter accident caused Kirk, McCoy, Scotty and Uhura to transpose with their counter-parts in an alternate universe.
• "Star Trek -- The Motion Picture" (ST I: TMP) - a transporter accident claimed the life of Vulcan Enterprise Science Officer, Commander Sonak; paving the way for Spock's return to active Starfleet duty.
• "The Next Phase" (TNG #224) - A Romulan experiment in phase cloaking leads the Enterprise crew to believe Geordi and Ro are dead when they don't rematerialize on the Enterprise after beaming from a damaged Warbird.
• "Realm Of Fear" (TNG #228) - Crewmembers of the derelict USS Yosemite have somehow become trapped in the Enterprise transporter beam.
• "Rascals" (TNG #233) - A transporter accident causes Picard, Ro, Keiko and Guinan to materialize as childeren; approximately 12 years old in appearance.
• "Second Chances" (TNG #250) - 8 years prior to this episode, a transporter accident allowed Riker to return to the Hood, but unbeknownst to anyone else, created a second Riker at the planet he beamed up from.
• "Past Tense, Part I" (DS9 #457) - A transporter accident causes Sisko, Bashir and Dax to materialize in San Francisco, circa 2024.
• "Our Man Bashir" (DS9 #482) - A transporter accident prevents the runabout crew from materializing on the transporter pads. In an effort to save them from degrading in the buffer, their physical patterns are stored in the holosuite, while their neural energy is stored throughout the rest of the station.
• "Treachery, Faith And The Great River" (DS9 #556) - We learn from Weyouns 6 & 7 that a transporter accident was responsible for the death of Weyoun 5.
• "Tuvix" (VOY #840) - A transporter accident causes Neelix and Tuvok to merge and become one entity: Tuvix.
• "Drone" (VOY #896) - A transporter accident causes Seven's nanoprobes to merge with the Doctor's portable holo-emitter, creating a Borg drone with 29th-century technology.

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