Smart in one way but it did cause a lot of storytelling problems because they constantly had to come up with half baked excuses for why it wasn’t working this time when just using the transporter would solve a major problem without fuss.
A much better implementation of transporters, from a storytelling point of view, is in Stargate, where the various versions of the technology all have pros and cons.
The ring systems are point-to-point only but they can punch through a lot of interference. The Asgard systems work more like the Star Trek systems but they’re much more easily interdicted.
Smart in one way but it did cause a lot of storytelling problems because they constantly had to come up with half baked excuses for why it wasn’t working this time when just using the transporter would solve a major problem without fuss.
A much better implementation of transporters, from a storytelling point of view, is in Stargate, where the various versions of the technology all have pros and cons.
The ring systems are point-to-point only but they can punch through a lot of interference. The Asgard systems work more like the Star Trek systems but they’re much more easily interdicted.