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In Star Trek Season 3 how did Spock come to know the secrets of quantum teleportation?

• I can't remember and it's pissing me off. My friends are all trying to tell me that Im making it up! Please somebody who knows Star Trek really well!!

• Answer:

  Mr Spock may have to wait a little longer for a Scotty to beam him up with it. In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Vice Admiral James T. Kirk and Lieutenant Saavik carry on a conversation during rematerialization. In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Dr. Gillian Taylor jumps into Kirk's transporter beam during dematerialization, and rematerializes without any apparent ill effects,except for a tongue-lashing from Admiral Kirk. This is probably due to the "annular confinement beam", a component of the Transporter mentioned in the various television episodes, which serves to keep patterns separate from one another. In the same movie, Mr Spock is beamed in a cloaked ship while walking. In the original series, beaming to and from the transporter chamber was a necessity. This is explained in the TOS episode, "Day of the Dove". Spock and Scotty had said that doing a site-to-site transport, as they are referred to on the show, on board the ship could be risky. They could "beam into a deck" or an inanimate object and get stuck there. However, there are apparently safeguards in place to prevent people from being beamed into hostile environments such as under water and into lava pits, although it is possible to override this safety feature; for example, in the TOS episode "And the Children Shall Lead", two security guards are beamed into open space. In the following series, however, the actual transporter room seems to become mostly obsolete, the actual equipment notwithstanding. Characters are shown activating the transporter from ordinary consoles and beaming from place to place without apparent trouble. The main operator can likewise send those in transport anywhere with ease. A possible explanation for this is put forward in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual, where such site-to-site transports would probably use twice as much energy as would be required for transport to or from the transporter room itself, since the subject would have to be beamed to the transporter, stored, then shunted to their destination. In addition, the six circles on the platform are generally used as targets for the subjects to stand on, but they do not appear to represent any limitation of the hardware to six or fewer people. People have been transported carrying others, in a coffin style transport, and once animals, hay, and other inanimate objects.