Editing Transporter (Star Trek) (section)

==Narrative function==
[[Image:Transporter3.jpg|thumb|right|Transporter chamber and control console aboard the [[USS Voyager (Star Trek)|USS ''Voyager'']], as seen on ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'']]Creator [[Gene Roddenberry]]'s original plan did not include transporters, instead calling for characters to land the starship itself. However, this would have required unfeasible and unaffordable (for the 1960s) sets and model filming, as well as episode running time spent while landing, taking off, etc. The shuttlecraft was the next idea, but when filming began, the full-sized shooting model was not ready. Transporters were devised as a less expensive alternative, achieved by a simple [[Dissolve (filmmaking)|fade-out/fade-in]] of the subject.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jung |first=Michael |date=2021-05-16 |title=The Untold Truth About Star Trek Transporters |url=https://www.looper.com/411445/the-untold-truth-about-star-trek-transporters/ |access-date=2023-04-12 |website=looper.com |publisher=[[Looper (website)|Looper]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>''Star Trek: The Next Generation 365'' by Paula M. Block, Terry J. Erdmann</ref> Transporters first appear in the original pilot episode "[[The Cage (Star Trek: The Original Series)|The Cage]]".

===Transporter accidents===
Many episodes of ''Star Trek'' series feature transporter accidents as a [[plot device]]: a malfunctioning transporter fails to rematerialize a person or object properly in some bizarre way that creates a science-fictional problem or ethical dilemma that characters must resolve. In various episodes, transporter accidents have been used to send characters to a [[parallel universes in fiction|parallel universe]], or [[time travel in fiction|back in time]]; to split a character into two distinct individuals, or merge two characters into a single individual; and to regress adult characters to children, among a variety of other effects.<ref>{{cite book |pages=124–126, 135 |title=Star Trek: The Human Frontier |last1=Barrett |first2=Duncan |last2=Barrett |first1=Michèle |date=2017 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781315516486 |edition=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=icnLDAAAQBAJ}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Ruditis |first=Paul J. |year=2021 |publisher=DK Publishing |title =The Star Trek Book: New Edition |isbn=9780744054156 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xBotEAAAQBAJ}}</ref>