My must-have would be
the ability to be transported from one location to another. On a
personal level, it would mean that I didn't have to travel many miles
to visit places and people I would like to see. As for the Star Trek
universe, it really couldn't exist without this technology, in my
opinion. Most of the episodes are based on the ability to be
instantly transported to another location. If instant 'beaming'
wasn't part of the story lines, then the show would not exist as it
does, so it's not a matter of being better or worse; it's a matter of
telling an entirely different story.
Since I have access to
every episode (or most episodes) of Star Trek, I looked at two just
to see how this technology was used. In the original pilot episode,
The Cage, a crew of six, including Spock, get beamed down to the
planet which is the focus of the story, at around 10 minutes. In the
latest episode that I watched, Star Trek Discovery, episode 1, the
Captain and Number One (both females, by the way), get beamed from
the planet that they seem to be isolated on, to the ship at around 5
minutes. It's fascinating how 'beaming', or transporting, has been
such an enduring technology over the many iterations of Star Trek.
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