# Does the Star Trek franchise explain how teleportation is achieved?

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**Created:** [April 4, 2021, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-star-trek-franchise-explain-how-teleportation-is-achieved/939400 "2021-04-04T20:02:36Z")
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### Author: ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-star-trek-franchise-explain-how-teleportation-is-achieved/939400/22 "2021-04-04T22:44:31Z")

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Recent thread from 2 weeks ago which discussed these issues.

> [@Star Trek tech features that logically should exist but didn't seem to](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tech-features-that-logically-should-exist-but-didnt-seem-to/938193):
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> In the Star Trek quote thread, there’s a quote from a character saying something to the effect that they’re glad someone grabbed 'em of they’d have fallen, and “it’s a long way to the bottom of the warp core.” Why would an accidental fall of such danger even be a possibility? The Enterprise computer knows where every living being on the ship is at all times. Enterprise is in space; all gravity is artificially created. Enterprise, and pretty much every other Federation vessel, has transporters…

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