The Most Surreal And Horrifying Transporter Accidents On Star Trek
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- Series: Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Episode: Season 6, Episode 4, "Relics"
The Enterprise receives a distress call from the USS Jenolan, a ship that has been missing for seventy-five years. After investigating, the crew finds no survivors, but LaForge notices that the transporters had been reconfigured in a strange manner. Amazingly, a pattern is still in the system's buffer and had suffered no degradation. He rematerializes the stored pattern, beaming Original Series character Montgomery "Scotty" Scott onto the transporter pad.
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- Series: Star Trek: The Original Series
- Episode: Season 2, Episode 4, "Mirror, Mirror"
In "Mirror, Mirror," Kirk, McCoy, Uhura, and Scotty are sent to a mirror universe after a transporter accident during an ion storm. In this alternate reality, the Enterprise is a warship for the malevolent Terran Empire. The only way Kirk and crew can return back home is by impersonating their mirror-universe duplicates and outsmarting an evil, goatee-sporting Spock.
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- Series: Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Episode: Season 5, Episode 24, "The Next Phase"
A faulty generator causes a transporter failure, leaving the crew of the Enterprise to believe Lt. Comm. LaForge and Ensign Ro were killed. But Geordi and Ro survived; they just beamed into a different phase than everyone else, free to wander the ship, but unseen and unheard by the rest of the crew. They observe their own funeral preparations before purposely causing a disruptor overload, which tips Data off to their whereabouts, allowing him to re-cloak them.
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- Film: Star Trek: The Motion Picture
A transporter malfunction results in the horrific deaths of two crew members. Science officer Sonak and another crew member arrive on the transporter platform with their internal organs outside their bodies. The fleshy, disfigured masses didn't survive long.
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- Series: Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Episode: Season 6, Episode 24, "Second Chances"
On an away mission, Commander William Riker came face to face with... himself! As it turns out, eight years ago, while serving on the USS Potemkin, a transporter malfunction caused the creation of a duplicate Riker (dubbed Lt. Thomas Riker). Thomas was brought aboard the ship, butted heads with William, and rekindled his relationship with Deanna Troi before ultimately being reassigned to the USS Gandhi where he could continue his Starfleet career.
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- Series: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Episode: Season 3, Episode 11 & 12, "Past Tense"
Sisko, Bashir, and Dax are sent back in time to 2024 San Francisco after a transporter accident. They inadvertently change history by allowing Gabriel Bell, a key figure and activist during a period of rioting, to be killed. It's on them to restore history before they can travel back home.
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- Series: Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Episode: Season 6, Episode 7, "Rascals"
Captain Picard, Ensign Ro Laren, Guinan, and Keiko O'Brien are returning from a botanical and archaeological expedition when their shuttlecraft is enveloped by an energy anomaly. An emergency transport to the Enterprise yields unusual results: Picard, Ro, Guinan, and Keiko reemerge on the transport pad as 12-year-old children!
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- Series: Star Trek: The Original Series
- Episode: Season 1, Episode 5, "The Enemy Within"
The crew of Star Trek: the Original Series learned the hard way - don't have magnetic dust on your suit when beaming back up to the ship. The result? Two separate Captain Kirks, one good but incompetent, the other... pure evil.
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- Series: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Episode: Season 4, Episode 10, "Our Man Bashir"
An explosion prevents Captain Sisko, Worf, Kira, Dax, and O'Brien from materializing on the transport pad. To save them, the transporter chief is forced to download their physical forms to the holodeck... right in the middle of Dr. Bashir's James Bond-inspired holodeck program. To further complicate things, the crew doesn't have their own memories and believe themselves to be the characters from the program. It's up to Bashir to keep his fellow crewmen alive in the game, because if he can't, they'll die in real life.
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- Series: Star Trek: Voyager
- Episode: Season 2, Episode 24, "Tuvix"
Tuvok and Neelix beam back aboard after an excursion to an alien planet to retrieve some plant samples. Unfortunately, one of the orchids they brought back with them is the cause of a disturbing transporter accident that ultimately merges Tuvok and Neelix into one being - Tuvix. The crew accepts Tuvix for what he is (after all, they are on a journey to seek out new life forms), but things get complicated when the Doctor finds a way to reverse the process. By Captain Janeway's orders, Tuvok and Neelix are both restored, but Janeway has to live with the moral consequences of destroying the being known as Tuvix.
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- Series: Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Episode: Season 6, Episode 2, "Realm of Fear"
Reginald Barclay faces his fear of transporters only to find his phobia is more than warranted. During transport, Barclay sees a worm-like creature swimming around in the matter stream and touching his arm. He steps off the transporter pad more paranoid than ever, diagnosing himself with transporter psychosis. He suffers from debilitating pain and blue flashes randomly light up throughout his body. After some tests, the crew discovers quasi-energy microbes infiltrated Barclay's system during transport, which is the cause of all his issues. He's ultimately cured of his ailments, but his phobia of transporters is only worsened.
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- Series: Star Trek: Voyager
- Episode: Season 5, Episode 6, "Drone"
A transporter mishap when Seven-of-Nine and the Doctor are beamed aboard led to the creation of a Borg drone! Seven's nanoprobes interacted with the Doctor's mobile emitter to bring this being to life, but the drone (given the designation "One") proves more powerful than anyone expected, accidentally alerting Borg forces to the location of the Voyager ship.
