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3D cutaway drawing of a transporter in operation - stage 3. Source ST:M. Picture size 175Kb.
| 3D cutaway drawing of a transporter in operation - stage 3. The drawing refers to the transporters aboard Galaxy class ships but the operational principles and transport procedure are the same. Source ST:M. Picture size 175Kb.
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 | These coils create the ACB (annular confinement beam). A second field holds the subject in this beam as a disruption can cause an energy discharge. |
 | Living subjects are always transported at the optimal quantum level, but inanimate objects are transported at a lesser molecular level in order to save power. |
 | The matter stream is sent into the pattern buffer. |
 | In an emergency the pattern can be held in the buffer for a period of time. Frequent use of transporter suspension, as when Voyager hid its telepathic crew and a group of Brenari from the Devore Imperium, means that acute cellular degradation occurs. Eventually irreversible degradation occurs.
However, the distinguished Starfleet engineering officer Montgomery Scott (known as 'Scotty') managed to survive for 75 years in transporter suspension by setting the system to perform a continuous diagnostic, in [TNG: Relics]. |
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