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Paul D. Waite
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Why aren’t transport requests addresed to a specific transporter room instead of the ship?

When somebody requests a beam-out, they say:

[officer’s name] to [ship], [amount of people] to beam up

I know the AI would know to route this channel to a working transporter room after the word “beam”, but why not follow this format instead?

[officer’s name] to [transporter room], [amount of people] to beam up