Star Trek: Exploring the Incurable Transporter Psychosis

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Throughout the many years Star Trek has graced screens, a lot of this time has been spent expanding the enormous universe Gene Roddenberry first created over 50 years ago. The franchise is filled with a vast array of alien races, and social-political atmospheres that are highly complex for a fictional universe. At the heart of Star Trek however, like many science fiction programs, is an intricate and highly advanced array of technology, from warp drives to universal translators.

The technology is so great that it has managed to even influence the real world, with a surprisingly large amount of technological advancements taken from the show propelling modern day humans into the future. The TV shows and movies present all these great gadgets and gizmos with little sense of negative implications of their prolonged use. However, this is not the case with the medical condition named transporter psychosis.

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The condition is named, aptly, after the main suspected cause: the transporters. These wonderful devices were first created in a whirlwind panic from the writers of The Original Series. They were unable to land the main Enterprise ship on each and every planet the crew visited due to budget restraints, and when they decided to use shuttles instead, the prop model was not ready. They had to come up with a last minute alternative, and so transporters were born. Because of this fairly rushed introduction, the way in which they actually work has been a bit turbulent over the years, with varying explanations over multiple programs. The main principle, though, is that they break down a person to an atomic level, then send their ‘pattern’ to the target location, and basically