Here's a question for anyone's opinion
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This might be better off in the "Trek Tech" forum.
That's were I got the thought lol
I'd say no. Transporters convert people or things into energy, to my understanding, before transporting them. And the velocity at which that someone is moving would not likely be converted to energy to be transported.
It rarely seems to make any difference if someone's falling, or running, or the planet's rotating, or the ship is zooming past, people generally appear standing on the pad.
Star Trek '09 shows us an exception, with Kirk and Sulu slamming onto the pad, but Chekov was in a bit of a rush at the time and he was fortunate to get them at all. Later on in the movie Kirk transports from a planet spinning at 1000 mph and hurtling around its star at 70,000 mph, onto a ship travelling at warp, and materialises without even losing his balance.
Star Trek '09 shows us an exception, with Kirk and Sulu slamming onto the pad, but Chekov was in a bit of a rush at the time and he was fortunate to get them at all. Later on in the movie Kirk transports from a planet spinning at 1000 mph and hurtling around its star at 70,000 mph, onto a ship travelling at warp, and materialises without even losing his balance.
Moving to a more appropriate forum.
It's one of those things they handwaved because it was a really cool sequence, but think of the applications! If you can neutralise momentum, can you add it? They could make some revolutionary transport system this way. Beam freight somewhere in space and it materialises on course for it's destination. Beam up a shuttle an inch from crashing and it's momentum is completely nullified.
...crush people horribly beaming them up and adding 50G's...
So that would be a Yes!
Taking away momentum or leaving it in-tact seems easy enough.
Adding Momentum probably costs more energy to do so.
There's no free lunch in physics.
That's a scary way to use a Transporter
Or the old school way and beam people out into deep space, widest angle of dispersion.
The more humane way to use a Transporter Offensively.
Always figured any changes in velocity, momentum, direction, also any gravity, time displacement, any extra matter that may have slipped in, or changes in atmosphere or pressure, etc. from one place to the other. Were all things they were in-fact accounting for, balancing-out or neutralizing, with all that meticulous "busy work" with levers, switches and nobs you see them do.
Why they always showed some prep work calculations and delay before they are" broken-down" or "reassembled" for the new location.
Why they always showed some prep work calculations and delay before they are" broken-down" or "reassembled" for the new location.
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Perhaps in the case of Star Trek 09, because Chekov was beaming in Kirk and Sulu in the fly, maybe it was more of a case that they just materialized an inch or so above the transporter pad and simply collapsed rather than maintaining the actual momentum from their free fall.
Yeah, they definitely weren't actually moving at the same relative rate they were to the surface of Vulcan; for one thing, that wouldn't have helped them, they'd hit the pad as hard as they would've hit the ground. For another, they would've passed straight through the transporter room and down the other side before they were done materializing.
