A transporter is a fictional teleportation machine used in the Star
Trek universe. Transporters convert a person or object into an energy
pattern (a process called "dematerialization"), then "beam" it to a
target location, where it is reconverted into matter
("rematerialization"). The term "transporter accident" is a catch-all
term for when a person or object does not rematerialize correctly.A
transporter in the Gerry Anderson episode of Fireball XL5 entitled
'The Forbidden Planet' (broadcast in March 1963) predates the Star
Trek version. Although dematerialisation is implied, there are no
special effects other than vanishing and re-appearing.According to The
Making of Star Trek, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's original
plan did not include transporters, instead calling for characters to
land the starship itself. However, this would have required unfeasible
and unaffordable sets and model filming, as well as episode running
time spent while landing, taking off, etc. The shuttlecraft was the
next idea, but when filming began, the full-sized shooting model was
not ready. Transporters were devised as a less expensive alternative,
achieved by a simple fade-out/fade-in of the subject.[full citation
needed] Transporters first appear in the original pilot episode "The
Cage". The transporter special effect, before being done using
computer animation, was created by turning a slow-motion camera upside
down and photographing some backlit shiny grains of aluminium powder
that were dropped between the camera and a black background.According
to the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual, the three
touch-sensitive light-up bars on the Enterprise-D's transporter
console were an homage to the three sliders used on the duotronic
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