Drawing a blank re: Star Trek TOS

[Orrex]

During the original run, did we ever see other transporters like the Federation's? I'm thinking of other, similar effects, with the shimmering colors during the materialization sequence.

I didn't recall any, but tonight I watched The Cloud Minders and was surprised to see a different visual style. Admittedly, this may be due to the effects upgrade that the series underwent a few years ago, but the city of Stratos used an transporter that enveloped the subjects in a reddish shimmer.

Were there others?

[MrScorpio]

1. The Klingons

[Orrex]

5. Couldn't remember for sure about them

I thought I remembered them having a different look, but I wasn't sure.

Thanks!

[arbusto_baboso]

11. The Klingon transporters were also silent.

But not as safe.

[Bucky]

2. Some of aliens could just *pop* into the bridge, as if someone just stopped the camera & walked on

ISTR a few times they used a different glimmering effect for different teleporting technologies. But I ain't geek enough to cite you episode & date.

[Orrex]

8. I believe that the "pop on" was usually accompanied buy a sort of honking, clang noise!

That's how you know that it's alien, you see.

[CBGLuthier]

3. Day of the Dove

Had to get an Ansara fix so watched Day of the Dove. Klingons beam to the planet in the first scene with a different look.

[Orrex]

6. Thanks! Love that episode!

I remembered Scotty holding them in the pattern buffer, but I had forgotten that they beamed down in the first place.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Cool fact about the original transporters: they wound up on the ceiling of

the TNG transporter pad. How awesome is that? :D

Beam me up, Scotty!

[Orrex]

7. Neat-o!

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Or maybe it was the lights they reused? I know they reused something.

[Orrex]

18. I recall that Nomad reappeared in TOS as part of the Romulan cloaking device

[edbermac]

10. I think the Pakleds took the bus in one episode.

The dumbest alien race on Star Trek. Too moronic to use a transporter.

[krispos42]

13. The short bus?

:D

[Bucky]

15. I like that about Star Trek: taunt "Ferengis" not Jews; make fun of "Pakleds" not Down's Syndrome

In the big picture, it's better to talk about evil Klingons rather than hurting the feelings of actual nazis.

[Orrex]

17. Hey, start your own thread

I'm talking about The Original Series. Kirk has nothing to say about Ferengi or Pakleds.

[kentauros]

12. Too bad they couldn't have used the same effect as in Forbidden Planet

including the soundtrack! :D




opening sequence soundtrack

[Orrex]

14. I recently discovered to my surprise that Robby appears in an episode of The Twilight Zone

Several, in fact, but the one I saw was Uncle Simon

He was modified slightly, but he was unmistakably Robby!

[Orrex]

16. I just remembered another non-Federation transporter-ish effect

In That Which Survives, the deadly, cell-disrupting woman disappeared in a sort of "folding" effect in which she compressed first into a vertical line and then into a point and then poof!

Of course, she wasn't entirely real or solid, so that might not count as a transporter.

[RedCloud]

19. Remember the metamorphosis cloud woman? I fell in love with her...