Octavia Butler did something like that (It wa time travel, but she did end up embedded in a wall) in Kindred.
There’s also James Patrick Kelly’s “Think Like a Dinosaur,” which was made into an Outer Limits episode. You can listen to it here.
Octavia Butler did something like that (It wa time travel, but she did end up embedded in a wall) in Kindred.
There’s also James Patrick Kelly’s “Think Like a Dinosaur,” which was made into an Outer Limits episode. You can listen to it here.
According to the novelization of the movie, the female was Kirk’s girlfriend ( someone asked by Starfleet Command to settle the new Admiral down so he would accept the desk job) and the male was the replacement for Spock, named Xon.
The crewman-in-the-deck was due to a spatial anomaly, not a transporter accident.
James Blish went further in his novel Spock Must Die!-
Spock was duplicated on Organia when they attempted a long-distance transport so he could find out where the Organians went, because the Klingons started a war against the Federation in violation of the Organian Peace Treaty.
I think you’re right, but wasn’t there an episode of TOS when the ship was hijacked and they had to transport from point to point within it, risking materialising inside a wall? (and did that actually happen, or was it only mentioned as a risk?)
I’m pretty sure that Jean-Luc Picard was cloned in the transporter at least once. Or was that a time travel incident?
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.
Another episode of TNG where Barclay sees some monsters in the in-between place when he transports. The monsters turn out to be Federation personnel who got trapped there some time before.
That sounds creepy! Can someone find out what episode that is?
(If this is a doublepost, I apologise. The Boards said the thread didn’t exist. Transporter mishap? I think so.)
I looked it up. The episode was called Realm Of Fear
Might be more a concern of precison rather than accuracy. Yes the ship knows where all the walls are. But is the transporter accurate to 2 inches, 2 feet, or 20 feet? ISTR they made it a point to transport out into the middle of wide-open spaces a lot.
On at least one occasion, the Romulans cloned him the old-fashioned way, with the intent of eventually using the clone as a spy within Starfleet (after removing the troublesome original, of course). That plot never came to fruition, but the clone did become a rather renowned Romulan general during the Dominion Wars.
An Isaac Asimov story about the effects of a transporter breakdown, reviewed here:
http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/Asimov/Stories/Story130.html
There was another episode of TNG where scotty has been stuck in a transporter buffer for 50 years and is released by Jean Luc
Not a movie but a great short storie by Stephen King called “The Jaunt” in Skeleton Crew which deals with some wierd teleportation effects.
What about the message from the other transporter pad, the outrageously unemotional response (probably from some bored crapless ensign) telling us that what returned didn’t survive for long. Was it some sort of a nod to fans who had heard of the new series or a note to them to stop writing in and asking about the new Vulcan character they were promised?
Yeah, some poor yellowshirt from engineering. The anonalies were pockets in time weren’t they? Was it just my impression or did engineering really start losing crew members when we got to the Next Generation?
I believe that was Crichton’s conciet in Timeline- things didn’t line up quite right after a few trips through the quantum foam (or whatever) and you had some people with funky scars and lack of blood to extremities due to “transcription errors.”
Major Nelson was frequently vindictively teleported to strange places, or transformed completely, by Endora on Bewitched
I think you’re conflating two shows there, bubbaloo. Nelson was I Dream of Jeannie’s protagonist; you’re thinking of Darrin Stephens.
I opened the thread to mention that scene. What a great movie.
An excellent story.
[spoiler]Turns out that although physical transportation of your body is instantaneous, the experience that your mind undergoes is nowhere near it. Anyone unfortunate or dumb enough to go through the jaunt gate while awake will endure untold eons of a black silent void — blind, deaf, numb, cut off from the world, with only his own thoughts to occupy him, for a seeming eternity.
At the destination end, madness and a quick death are the usual results.
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Well, I’m not getting in the damn thing, I’ll tell you that.
Oh, and Stephen King wrote a moronic story about teleportation. I think it was called “The Jaunt”, which I assume was meant as an homage to Alfred Bester. (Nice idea, but King should stay away from science fiction as he has the mind of a bright eight-year-old.)
But I remember that episode…it was the one where Gilligan finds the cursed Tiki idol in Hawaii and then sneaks onstage as a dancer during Ricky’s big show… :smack:
Of course you are correct…loss of TV trivia is the first sign of early onset demetia
Of course as always, Douglas Adams sums it up nicely:
I teleported home one night
With Ron and Sid and Meg.
Ron stole Meggie’s heart away
And I got Sidney’s leg.