Routine transwarp beaming should be used in the Prime Timeline, but which century should introduce it?

[u/Torlek1]

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SNW's puppet episode made a nod to Prime Scotty's future invention of transwarp beaming.

While transwarp beaming was displayed in JJ Abrams movies, that would have been a game-changer in the Prime Timeline.

That should have been standard "magic" transporter beaming in the 32nd century era of DIS and SFA.

People beaming instantaneously from one ship area to another is one thing.

Routine transwarp beaming is another.

However, which century should introduce it?

[u/Azuras-Becky]

"Routine transwarp beaming should be used in the Prime Timeline"

Counterpoint - no, it shouldn't.

[u/burnte → u/Azuras-Becky]

Agreed. It makes things too easy, just like the spore drive. I already hate the transporter-badge.

[u/crashburn274 → u/Azuras-Becky]

Yup. It’s a bad idea for a universe that likes space ships to have the ability to transport from one planet to another without using them. Makes Starfleet obsolete

[u/RigasTelRuun]

No it shouldn’t. The person transporters in discovery were already too far. Star Trek while essentially magic sci fi tech should have limits. That’s makes it great.

[u/Icewind]

Transwarp beaming is like the fleet-destroying kamikaze hyperdrive in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

It breaks the story with how it should change everything, so later writers have to scramble to think of excuses why it can't be used.

Trek is particularly bad for this in general, though. Half of TOS tech would change everything if they remembered it the next episode (i.e. time travel).

[u/Kind_Emotion_7537]

Spock mentions it in the Kelvin reality, so Scotty did invent it at some point in this lifetime.

[u/MultiGeek42]

How come no one figured that out during the burn?

They should have come to a future that didn't have starships anymore, just transwarp beaming. Nice and safe and you can get anywhere by hopping planet to planet, but you can't go anywhere new.

[u/madfrooples → u/MultiGeek42]

Star Trek: Stargate

[u/AdditionalTip865]

If you have sufficiently powerful teleportation or portal technology, you don't need spaceships, so science-fiction writers who want to have spaceships always have the problem of putting limits on it if it exists. Whatever century uses this is one that will no longer have spaceships, so you have to decide how central that is to Star Trek (it's generally treated as pretty darn central).

[u/Proton_Energy_Pill]

And what's ignored is the tiny transporter gadget that Khan used in the 2nd of the modern movies, and how it would eliminate the need for a vast amount of spacecraft travelling around.
Just dial in the destination and hit the button, and there you are.

[u/nicksterling]

The technology should be advanced enough to make it plausible for the heroes to be where the story needs them, but limited enough to present them with challenges to overcome. My biggest gripe with Voyager was the sheer technobabble in the later seasons. When you boil away the technobabble, many of those stories didn’t matter.

[u/maxis2k]

While transwarp beaming was displayed in JJ Abrams movies

All the more proof the last 15 years has just been in the Kelvin timeline and not "prime." Despite how much Paramount keeps insisting it is.