Was it... "Civilisation"?
So, Hoshi can pass through things and things can pass through her. She better be wearing her transporter altered uniform at all times then!
Spoilsport.
Just to clarify, when was the last time they used transporter?
Was it... "Civilisation"?
I believe it was "Detained." Reed was beamed down in Sulliban guise.
How much anyone want to bet that the soles of her feet pass through decks? Free money if you trust TPTB to finally get that one right.
Maybe Hoshi can fly out of the ship when it decelerates or accelerates. Gee I hope they don't have to change course at some time in the episode (unless they establish that Hoshi can breathe vacuum.)
(In TOS they got it right with Kirk "floating" and Spock refusing to move the ship despite the Tholians.)
Like Phil says (the only example I can think of is where he says that the Enterprise should be dark in "Timescape" since light photons shouldn't move), it's one of those nits that are necessary in order to make the story work.
TUE
No, time is actually moving. Remember, Data gives a time estimate for the warp core breach. Therefore, since photons always move at the speed of light relative to an observer, the lighting in the Ent-D is correct. Note that since the photon is its own antiparticle, it is even correct when time is running backwards.
So I came up with this rather random idea of why our heroes don't fall through the decks when they "dephase"- might it have something to do with the structural integrity field? How, you ask? Well, that I don't know, but I wanted to throw it out there...
>No, time is actually moving. Remember, Data gives a time estimate for the warp core breach. Therefore, since photons always move at the speed of light relative to an observer, the lighting in the Ent-D is correct.
-ScottN
I believe the nit wasn't that the light shouldn't be moving, but that the frequency of the light would be so high (while the speed remains the same relative to the observer, the frequency doesn't, if I remember correctly) that it would no longer be within the visual spectrum.
That's true. There'd be a red or blue shift depending on the source.
Sparrow47,
Feet and butts are effected by technobabble!
o.k. so Hoshi is in the pattern buffer right? and everything she experiences is...what in her mind?
assuming this I can't help but wonder what kind of experiences Mr Scott had gone through in "Relics," no wonder he looked so tired when the Enterprise D rescued him.
I wonder if this is the first documented case of "Transporter Psychosis" that Reg Barclay was so worried about?
Transporter Psychosis occurs in people after they've been through a transporter, and Hoshi has no exhibited any of the symptoms in episodes after this one that were described in Realm of Fear(TNG).
Moreover, since there is no known cure for it, it's unlikely that Hoshi has it.
Lastly, it wasn't until 2209 that it was even diagnosed, and that's 57 years after this episode.