Could I theoretically lock onto the poop in my lower intestine and the piss in my bladder and beam them out of myself so I don't have to go to the toilet?
Lol, a few years ago on the alien site, I wrote a scene for The Orville as a "what if The Orville suddenly got transporters" That was basically the premise of it.
If there's interest, and I can find it (I saved it to a text file somewhere before nuking my account), I can post it here.
whenever I see transporter memes, it reminds me that no one in starfleet needs to die. they could save and update your pattern. you'd only lose the away mission.
Pretty sure that's explained in canon by being too compute and storage intensive. You can't store a person's pattern in any medium, apart from the buffer.
And in there it's only very temporarily before breaking down (see scotty in the Dyson sphere or m'bengas kid)
It was just like a clueless captain to say "energize" as if that's going to magically make it work. Like, I'm trying to invent a whole new field of engineering here, Kathryn. Maybe step off a bit if you want them back in one piece.
Torres (later to Vorik over a mug of something replicated and syntheholic)
Yeah, that's one of those tropes I hate pretty much everywhere, but (old) Star Trek is great enough to look past it.
They are skilled and professional. But how incompetently was the playbook written, if pretty much everyone can come up with something previously not derived spontaneously, if it's that easy?
I generally view them as developmental or unreliable methods. A 20% risk of killing everyone involved is horrifying for a normal away mission return. However, the same risk for pulling a team away from imminent death is a lot more tolerable.
This also explains how they can implement them so quickly, it's already buried in the codebase.