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A transporter is a fictional teleportation machine used in the ''Star Trek'' universe. Transporters convert a person or object into an energy pattern (a process called ''dematerialization''), then "beam" it to a target, where it is reconverted into matter (''rematerialization''). The term ''transporter accident'' is a catch-all term for when a person or object does not rematerialize correctly. According to ''The Making of Star Trek'', ''Star Trek'' creator Gene Roddenberry's original plan did not include transporters, instead calling for characters to land the starship itself. However, this would have required unfeasible and unaffordable sets and model filming, as well as episode running time spent while landing, taking off, etc. The shuttlecraft was the next idea, but when filming began, the full-sized shooting model was not ready. Transporters were devised as a less expensive alternative, achieved by a simple fade-out/fade-in of the subject. Transporters first appear in the original pilot episode "The Cage". The transporter special effect, before being done using computer animation, was created by turning a slow-motion camera upside down and photographing some backlit shiny grains of aluminium powder that were dropped between the camera and a black background.〔Herbert F. Solow and Robert H. Justman, Inside Star Trek the real story, 1996, ISBN 0-671-00974-5.〕 Gene Roddenberry in 1964 had not seen ''The Fly'' upon his first draft of "The Cage", but it was brought to his attention, and this is how the transporter was considered. The later ''Doctor Who'' series 'The Seeds of Death' in 1969 also had teleport device called "T-Mat" for a Teleport Matter transfer. According to the ''Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual'', the three touch-sensitive light-up bars on the Enterprise-D's transporter console were an homage to the three sliders used on the duotronic transporter console on the original Enterprise in The Original Series. In August 2008, physicist Michio Kaku predicted in ''Discovery Channel Magazine'' that a teleportation device similar to those in Star Trek would be invented within 100 years.〔Gary Sledge, ''Discovery Channel Magazine'' Issue 3, ISSN 1793572-5.〕 == Depiction == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Transporter (Star Trek)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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