U.S.S. Voyager
Transporter Room - PAGE 9
U.S.S. Voyager
Transporter Room - PAGE 9
On an Intrepid class starship (such as Voyager), the power of a transporter signal can be boosted by tying the transporter system directly into the navigational deflector [#22 Non Sequitur].
Bemonite, a metallic ore, tends to inhibit energy propagation such as that employed in a transporter beam [#99 Once Upon A Time].
One component of a transporter system are 'Heisenberg compensators', designed to permit the derivation of precision vector and positional data of particles on a subatomic level. [TNG: Realm of Fear] [TNG: Ship in a Bottle]. Behind-the-scenes: Werner Eisenberg's 'uncertainty principle' suggests that on a subatomic level, it is possible to know the motion or the position of a particle, but not both. Some scientists have suggested this basic characteristic of matter may make it impossible for a transporter as seen on Star Trek to work, so staff member Michael Okuda suggested the 'Heisenberg compensator' as a scientific gag to 'explain' how the transporter does it anyway.
In the event of failure to transport a person or object successfully, 'emergency transporter procedure 21 alpha' is implemented. Janeway ordered Ensign Seska to carry out this procedure in [#9 Emanations] after she beamed aboard the away team - a humanoid body exchanged with Kim due to the activity of a subspace vacuole. 
Seska works to try and successfully complete the beaming aboard of the away team
[#9 Emanations]
 [#27 Maneuvers] | In 2372, in [#27 Maneuvers], Torres locked onto and successfully transported Chakotay from captivity aboard a Kazon-Nistrim ship. She explained: "I can compensate for that by synchronising the ship's annular confinement beam to the warp core frequency." to which Kim replied: "Maybe, but at a relative speed of 2 billion kilometres a second it's pretty tough to get a lock on somebody." Tuvok said there would be a risk of scrambling Chakotay's molecules, and the procedure is against Starfleet protocols. However, Torres would have been successful were it not for the fact that Seska prevented it. Instead, certain Klingon majes were beamed aboard Voyager instead and compelled to agree to return Chakotay and his shuttlecraft in exchange for their freedom. Torres had used the transportation technique in the Maquis. |
"Emergency transportation" is the term for short-range transporter use aboard a starship for evacuation purposes. Voyager's emergency transporters have a range of less than 10 kilometres [#50 Future's End, Part One].
In an emergency the pattern buffer can be extended to transport a large number of people (or objects), such as the 204 Klingons from their vessel in which the warp core was about to breach [#160 Prophecy].
Ensign Kim and the Klingon Morak discuss the transporter
 204 Klingons successfully evacuated by transporter to Voyager [#160 Prophecy] |  discussing the transporter [#160 Prophecy] |
"Site-to-site transportation" is the term (or "site to site" for short) for the process whereby a transport subject is first beamed to the transporter from a remote location and, instead of being materialised in the transporter chamber, is then directly transported to another location and materialised there. The procedure is also known as "direct transportation". It is often used to transport critically ill patients directly to Sickbay.  Tuvok: "Beam the wounded directly to sickbay." The process is comparatively costly in terms of power supply usage and is therefore used mainly for emergency situations (in the Galaxy-class starship, launched several years earlier than the Intrepid-class, the power cost was nearly double that of ordinary transport; by the time of USS Voyager's launch that ratio may have been reduced). Site-to-site transport is seen in several episodes including [#22 Non Sequitur], and later Paris seems to abuse the procedure in order to transport to Torres' location with a bunch of flowers in his hand [#75 Scientific Method].
In [TOS: Day of the Dove] this procedure, then called "intra-ship beaming", was used for the first time, and was considered a risky matter, but it has clearly been improved upon since then and been made safe (or as safe as possible). Ship systems routinely log transportations. The transporter sensor log is a moment-to-moment record of energy output and fluctuations during transporter operation, and a review of the log can reveal potential problems [TNG: Attached]. In addition, any beaming in or out shows up on the consoles at Ops and Security/Tactical on the bridge. Transporting can also be controlled from those stations. It is also possible to block a transport out, although a block needs to be activated quickly in order to prevent transportation because beaming out takes such a short time. Starfleet Command HQ also monitor transportations: when, in an alternate reality, in 2372, in [#22 Non Sequitur], Paris and Kim made an unauthorised beam-in in to Kim's office to gain access to the prototype runabout Yellowstone, security officers were there within seconds. |
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In late 2372, in [#40 Tuvix], there is a minor glitch in the transporter's molecular imaging scanners. The transporter operator tries narrowing the annular confinement beam to correct it. After Ensign Kim runs a diagnostic on the bio-filters and transporter logs they confirm that the glitch did not interfere with the beam out. However, when Tuvok and Neelix are transported back to Voyager, the single man (who later names himself Tuvix, combining the two names) is formed when all of Tuvok and Neelix's biological matter merges on a molecular level. All vital signs are stable, and he has the memories of both men, but a single consciousness. Initial microcellular scans show no cause or method of separation. Kes performs a full bio-spectral analysis in the science lab while the Doctor examines the genetic data.
Tuvix arrives on Voyager as the result of a problem with the transporter
[#40 Tuvix]
A biochemical analysis shows that the orchid brought with Tuvok and Neelix from the planet's surface contains the same elements as many plants-chloroplasts, lysosomal enzymes, cytoplasmic proteins. But it is the presence of lysosomal enzymes that could be evidence of symbiogenesis, which provides the explanation for their situation. Symbiogenesis is a rare reproductive process where symbiogenetic organisms merge with a second and hybrid species. For example, Andorian amoebas are able to merge with other single-cell organisms to form a third unique species. Neelix and Tuvok were broken down to a microcellular level during transport, and enzymes that cause symbiogenesis interacted with their DNA while they were in the matter stream. The Doctor initially makes over a hundred attempts to reverse the symbiogenesis using the medical transporter. With each attempt there is cornplete cellular collapse since the genetic codes of the test flowers were so scrambled that the targetting scanners were unable to recognise the original patterns. Eventually, the Doctor develops a radioisotope which attaches itself to the DNA of one of the merged species, but not the other. To reverse the process of symbiogenesis it is necessary to beam out the selected DNA and segregate the two merged species. To do this they have to modify the molecular imaging scanners, and compensate for the higher levels of radiation. The Doctor feels unable to perform the operation as this would kill Tuvix who is unwilling to die and the Doctor is programmed to do no harm, so Janeway performs the operation instead, which successfully restores Tuvok and Neelix. The event is briefly mentioned in [#170 Renaissance Man].
In early 2375, as depicted in [#96 Drone], there is a transporter malfunction when an away team beams back to Voyager. The patterns of Seven (whose anatomy incorporates some Borg cybernetic systems) and the Doctor merged briefly, causing some of Seven's Borg nanoprobes to assimilate the Doctor's mobile emitter (which is 29th century technology). Borg nanoprobes are encoded to utilise any technology they encounter. Then the combined "it" transformed the diagnostic station in the science laboratory. When Ensign Mulchaey entered the room "it" sampled his DNA, using his genetic code as a template to create a lifeform, namely a unique Borg drone whose maturation rate is 25 times that of a conventional Borg and who, after maturation, has the Doctor's mobile emitter's 29th century technology driving his neocortex, and thereby producing an evolved "super-Borg".
after a problem beaming the away team aboard, the Doctor's program fritzes
[#96 Drone]
  A very famous person beams aboard USS Voyager.(pop-up window) |
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