Trentin Fala killed after her transporter beam was scrambled by a remat detonator. The novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture suggests that they were essentially turned inside out.
The details of the injuries sustained by Sonak and his companion are unknown, only that they visibly grew much shorter than their normal form during the duration of the re-materialization. fortunately." ( Star Trek: The Motion Picture) The transport chief planet-side reported back, shaken, "Enterprise. The transportation failed, returning the deformed bodies back to Earth. As they began to re-materialize, the transporter systems couldn't cope with the data loss and their physical form became "deformed" the female crewperson screamed out in agony. During the transport sequence, a malfunction caused a corruption of the buffer pattern for the commander and the crewperson. Sonak was coming aboard to initiate his duties as the ship's senior science officer.
In the 2270s, two USS Enterprise crewmen, including Science Officer Commander Sonak as well as a female officer, were killed in a transporter malfunction while beaming to the Enterprise, which had recently been refitted. The death of Commander Sonak and another officer in the 2270s ( ENT: " Daedalus")Īccording to Montgomery Scott, as of 2269, if a transporter had insufficient power, then there was the real possibility that transportees would " come aboard a mass of dying flesh." ( TOS: " The Savage Curtain") When Erickson was finally rematerialized in 2154, the pattern had deteriorated, and Erickson died seconds after materialization. Fluctuations in subspace allowed Erickson's pattern to reform periodically, taking the form of a ghostly figure. However, the pattern was preserved in a subspace phenomenon known as " The Barrens". In 2139, the pattern of Quinn Erickson, son of the inventor of the matter transporter Emory Erickson, was lost during testing of new sub-quantum transporter technology. 2.3 Two entities merged into one (aka "splicing").2.2 Split one entity into two identical entities.( TNG: " Realm of Fear" DS9: " Past Tense, Part I") Because of transporter accidents, some people suffered from transporter phobia or experienced transporter shock.
( VOY: " Tuvix")īy the mid-24th century, there were typically, on average, two or three transporter accidents a year across the Federation, yet millions of people were transported every day. Scans of a planet's surface or atmosphere were also conducted, as well as the consideration of alien interferences. Defective technological components, such as bio-filters, pattern buffers, and molecular imaging scanners, and likewise, anomalies, power overloads, malfunctions were often investigated. Numerous independent technological and or environmental influences can cause a transporter malfunction. Though transporters were a relatively safe way to maneuver from one point to another, there were nonetheless multiple cases of transporter accidents. – Geordi La Forge, 2369 (" Realm of Fear")Ī transporter accident or transporter malfunction was an often unintentional occurrence caused by the malfunctioning of a transporter, however, some transporter accidents came as a result of intentional causes, such as murder or assassination.Īs with all technology, along with the unknown risks associated with matter-energy conversion, transporter accidents were often an unexpected reality of the 22nd, 23rd and 24th centuries.