# Any other Brundle-esque teleporter accidents in movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 28, 2006, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-brundle-esque-teleporter-accidents-in-movies/370550 "2006-08-28T17:20:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-brundle-esque-teleporter-accidents-in-movies/370550/41 "2006-08-30T23:24:20Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Yes, forget the title but it was when they had taken some shipwrecked Klingons on board. I never bought that. Intraship beaming would be much less risky than ship-to-surface beaming – the ship’s computer **knows** where all the bulkheads are. [/QUOTE] Unless it’s one of those too-close-to-focus-properly things. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-brundle-esque-teleporter-accidents-in-movies/370550/42 "2006-08-31T07:48:33Z")
[H.P. Lovecraft’s From Beyond](http://imdb.com/title/tt0091083/) Interdimensional leakage, a campy and horrifying telepenetration story. 7 tenebrous, eldritch, tentacles out of 10. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-brundle-esque-teleporter-accidents-in-movies/370550/43 "2006-08-31T07:50:44Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Unless it’s one of those too-close-to-focus-properly things. [/QUOTE] Yeah, but you’d think that Starfleet Engineers, renowned for their ability to “turn rocks into replicators” could develop a macro lens for the tranpsorters. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-brundle-esque-teleporter-accidents-in-movies/370550/44 "2006-08-31T13:19:52Z")
[QUOTE=Raguleader] Yeah, but you’d think that Starfleet Engineers, renowned for their ability to “turn rocks into replicators” could develop a macro lens for the tranpsorters. 😃 [/QUOTE] They did, but early on in the Federation’s history they were plagued with technical problems related to the petrolithium jelly coating on them. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-brundle-esque-teleporter-accidents-in-movies/370550/45 "2006-08-31T16:55:54Z")
Well, if tv shows count, there’s the first episode of the new season of V_Venture Brothers._ ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-brundle-esque-teleporter-accidents-in-movies/370550/46 "2006-08-31T17:23:54Z")
[QUOTE=Raguleader] Yeah, but you’d think that Starfleet Engineers, renowned for their ability to “turn rocks into replicators” could develop a macro lens for the tranpsorters. 😃 [/QUOTE] Except they eventually did; intra-ship beaming was easy by Picard’s time. It just never became routine because it’s a needless waste of power; virtually the only time anyone ever intra-ship beams on Picard’s Enterprise is when they’re a breath from death, and even then it’s uncommon (presumably because transport is a mild stress on the system not advised for the critically ill). ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-brundle-esque-teleporter-accidents-in-movies/370550/47 "2006-08-31T20:58:50Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] Except they eventually did; intra-ship beaming was easy by Picard’s time. It just never became routine because it’s a needless waste of power; virtually the only time anyone ever intra-ship beams on Picard’s Enterprise is when they’re a breath from death, and even then it’s uncommon (presumably because transport is a mild stress on the system not advised for the critically ill). [/QUOTE] Well, OK, that’s fair enough. Now that I think about it, I’m not sure that Starfleet engineers were particularly renowned outside of Starfleet before the Picard era. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-brundle-esque-teleporter-accidents-in-movies/370550.md?page=2)