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9.3 OTHER TRANSPORTER FUNCTIONS• Beam up. This process is very much as describedabove except that the emitter array serves as the primaryenergizing coil and that the signal is usually processedthrough the transporter biofilter.• Site-to-site transport. This refers to a doublebeamingprocedure in which a subject is dematerialized at aremote site and routed to a transporter chamber. Instead ofbeing materialized in the normal beam-up process, however,the matter stream is then shunted to a second pattern bufferand then to a second emitter array, which directs the subjectto the final destination. Such direct transport consumesnearly twice the energy of normal transport and is not generallyemployed except during emergency situations. Site-tositetransport is not employed during emergency situationsthat require the transport of large numbers of individuals becausethis procedure effectively halves the total systemcapacity due to minimum duty cycle requirements (See: 9.4).• Hold in pattern buffer. A transport subject that has notyet begun the materialization cycle can be held in the patternbuffer without image degradation for up to 420 seconds,depending on payload mass. Although it is normal procedureto direct the matter stream immediately to the emitter arrayonce Doppler compensation has been synchronized, this"hold" option can be exercised in the event that any problemsare detected with the emitter array or waveguide conduits.This option is also available at operator discretion for securitysituations when it is desired to detain a transport subject for abrief time until security officers are available.dispersal is usually accomplished by transporting the subjectinto space.• Near-warp transport. Transporting through a lowlevelsubspace field (less than 1,000 millicochranes) requiresa series of adjustments to the transport sequence including a57 MHz upshifting of the ACB frequency to compensate forsubspace distortion.• Transport at warp. Transporting through a warp fieldrequires a similar 57 MHz ACB frequency upshift; it alsorequires the ship and the remote site to be contained withinwarp fields of the same integral value. Failure to maintainwarp field equivalence will result in severe loss of ACB andpattern integrity. Such loss of pattern integrity is fatal to livingtransport subjects.• Biofilter scan. Incoming transporter signals are automaticallyscanned for patterns corresponding to a wide varietyof known hazardous bacteriological and viral forms. Whensuch patterns are detected, limited quantum matrix manipulationis employed to render the offending forms inert.• Molecular resolution transport. Living objects arealways transported at quantum resolution. In the interests ofpower conservation, many cargo objects are transported atthe lesser molecular resolution. Although personnel transportersare optimized for the higher quantum resolution level,they can be set to operate for cargo transport if desired.• Dispersal. Disengaging the annular confinementbeam will cause the materializing matter stream to have noreference matrix against which to form. In such a case, thetransport subject will form in a random fashion, usually takingthe form of randomly dissociated gases and microscopicparticulates. Operator override of the transport autosequencecan cause the ACB to be deactivated in order to allowthe harmless dispersal of a highly dangerous transport subjectsuch as an explosive device. Two safety interlocksprevent this option from being accidentally activated. SuchWe suggested the idea of transporters being unable to function in warp back in the second-season episode "The Schizoid Man."We realized, however, that laying down such an absolute rule would get some future writers into trouble, so we took theprecaution of suggesting a loophole, namely that you could indeed beam at warp, just as long as both the ship and the targetwere at the same warp factor. Sure enough, that very situation came up in "The Best of Both Worlds," and Transporter ChiefO'Brien has a line in which he confirms that we have indeed "matched warp velocity for transport." (There probably areoccasions where we have indeed broken this rule, but we do try to get things right.)