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Originally Posted by blankall
I always got the impression that the transporters required a team of specialists to operate, even then it was pretty reckless and dangerous to use them. There were multiple major storylines revolving around transporter accidents.
I never really got how those damn things worked. Why not use them to create an army of soldiers? Cure diseases? Keep you young? Etc....
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by the TNG era they are probably the statistically safest way to travel. given how common site to site transport was, there was barely even a reason for a transporter room at all.
as for all your other questions...about as futile as understanding the Heisenberg compensators. same thing happens when you try to think about how holodecks really work.