( TOS: ' Errand of Mercy') The Ferengi referred to theirs as a matter-energy device. ( TOS: ' The Savage Curtain', ' The Empath' ENT: ' Broken Bow', ' Vanishing Point' TNG: ' Ship in a Bottle' VOY: ' Ex Post Facto') The Organians referred to Klingon transporters as material transmission units.
( TOS: ' The Squire of Gothos', ' The Savage Curtain')Īlternate names for the transporter included matter stream converter, energy-matter scrambler, or transporting device.
The transporter was a subspace device capable of almost instantaneously transporting an object from one location to another, by using matter-energy conversion to transform matter into energy, then beaming it to or from a chamber, where it is reconverted back into its original pattern. Refit Constitution-class transporter room
– Geordi La Forge, 2369 (' Realm of Fear')
