Timeline for What do the three controls on the Transporter operate?
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| Sep 2, 2014 at 1:24 | comment | added | user32355 | In TNG 1x21 "The Arsenal of Freedom" the operator uses only two of them and by keypress instead of actually moving them. | |
| Aug 27, 2014 at 2:14 | vote | accept | Often Right | ||
| Aug 27, 2014 at 0:34 | comment | added | Valorum | It took me a while, but I've managed to identify what all three controls do and tie it into a TOS episode. | |
| Aug 27, 2014 at 0:30 | answer | added | Valorum | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 4:49 | vote | accept | Often Right | ||
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| Apr 24, 2014 at 1:22 | answer | added | anoxm | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 23, 2014 at 23:59 | comment | added | Oldcat | hue, saturation, contrast.... | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 23:20 | comment | added | madfriend | My guess (totally random) is that first is for dematerializing something at given coordinates, second is for transporting, third is for materializing back | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 22:47 | answer | added | SA295 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 12, 2014 at 14:10 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/454984900090003456 | ||
| Apr 12, 2014 at 5:02 | history | edited | Often Right | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
expanded the question to make it more answerable
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| Apr 6, 2014 at 21:15 | comment | added | Valorum | @KeithThompson - I don't know of a reason either, but that doesn't make it opinion based it just means that I need to look harder. The TNG Manual is no help, it just says that they're "transport sequencers" | |
| Apr 6, 2014 at 20:14 | comment | added | Keith Thompson | @Richard: I know of no in-universe explanation of the design. If there is no such explanation, then we're left with nothing but opinions and guesses. Still, it makes sense to leave the question open for a while in case anyone has more information. | |
| Apr 6, 2014 at 11:11 | comment | added | Valorum | I'm at a loss why someone's voted to close this as "opinion-based". | |
| Apr 6, 2014 at 10:06 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 6, 2014 at 9:44 | comment | added | Mario | Random idea: "It looks cool" (back in the 60's). Another random idea: It's there to force the user to use both hands to pull all three sliders at the same time (since we don't know how hard to do this is). Yet another random idea: It's like throttle in most bigger planes: There are three single sliders to control the "speed" (or power) of the whole thing. | |
| Apr 6, 2014 at 5:38 | history | asked | Often Right | CC BY-SA 3.0 |