Note: This cache is not available at all times as it is in a cemetery. Plan accordingly if finding this cache with the others in the series.
Energize!
"Transporting really is the safest way to travel."– Geordi La Forge, 2369
The transporter, or materialiser, was a subspace device capable of almost instantaneously moving an object from one location to another. Transporters are able to dematerialize, transmit and reassemble an object. When ready for beam up, characters would issue the command, "energize". 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. Transporters gave writers great material for new stories. Whether it was a transportor malfunction, accident, or the common "transporters are down" line, transporters usually played a role in a Star Trek story.
QUESTION FOR FINAL COORDINATES: The act of transporting an object is typically known as what in Star Trek canon?
A. Moving - N39 24.230 W087 25.965
B. Jumping - N39 24.325 W087 25.687
C. Buffering - N39 24.100 W087 25.369
D. Beaming - N39 22.593 W087 25.416