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9.4 LIMITATIONS OF USE 9.5 TRANSPORTER EVACUATIONThe personnel and cargo transport systems areenormously useful for starship operations, but are neverthelesssubject to significant limitations. Some key limitations ofoperation include:• Range. Normal operating range is approximately40,000 km, depending on payload mass and relative velocity.Emergency evacuation transporters have more limited capabilitiesand are limited to approximately 15,000 km, againdepending on available power.• Interference from deflector shields. When deflectorshields are raised to defensive configuration, it is impossibleforthe ACB to propagate normally across the required EM andsubspace bandwidth. In addition, spatial distortion from theshields can seriously disrupt pattern integrity. For this reason,transport is not possible when shields are in place.• Duty cycle. Although the transport autosequence lastsapproximately five seconds, pattern buffer cooldown andreset takes an average of eighty-seven seconds, yielding anaverage duty cycle of just over ninety-two seconds. Since thetransport beam conduits permit the matter stream to be routedto any pattern buffer, any given chamber can be reused immediatelywithout waiting for cooldown by switching to anotherpattern buffer. Since there are only three pattern buffersnormally used for personnel transport, this process can berepeated twice before waiting for pattern buffer reset. Thistranslates into an average of about 1.9 six-person transportsper minute, resulting in a total system capacity of about sevenhundred persons per hour.• Transport while at warp. Warp fields produce severespatial distortion in transporter beams, making it impossible totransport when the ship is traveling at warp speeds. The onlyexception is when both the ship and the target site aretraveling at the same integral warp velocity.• Replication limits. Personnel transport is accomplishedat quantum-level resolution using analog image data.By contrast, food and hardware replication (which employstransporter technology) employs digital image data at themuch more limited molecular-level resolution. Because ofthis crucial limitation, replication of living beings is not possible.The transporter systems are enormously useful duringmissions that require bringing large numbers of individuals toor from the ship in short timeframes. The use of transportersystems imposes specific requirements on evacuation missionprofiles.EVACTOSHIPIn case of emergency evacuation to the ship, all sixpersonnel transporters would be brought into use. Maximumbeam-up rate is limited by the minimum duty cycle of thetransporter systems (See: 9.4). Utilizing all six personneltransporters results in a maximum beam-up rate of approximatelyseven hundred persons per hour.In such scenarios, however, the personnel transporterswould be supplemented with the eight cargo transporters.Although the cargo transporters are normally optimized foroperation at molecular (nonlifeform) resolution, they can bereset for quantum (lifeform-safe) transport at a significantreduction in payload mass, yielding an additional beam-upcapacity of three hundred persons per hour for a total systemcapacity of one thousand persons per hour.EVAC FROM SHIPEmergency evacuation from the Enterprise can be accomplishedat a significantly greater rate than transport to theship due to the availability of six emergency evacuationtransporters capable of transporting twenty-two persons at atime off the ship. These units, which are incapable of transportto the ship, share the personnel transporters' pattern buffers,but employ high-volume scan-only phase transition coils,yielding a 370% increase in payload mass over the standardunits, although their range is limited to 15,000 km (comparedto 40,000 km for the standard units). As a result, when emergencytransporters are used to supplement the personnel andcargo transporters, the rate is nearly doubled to some 1,850persons an hour.The emergency transporters have another significantoperating advantage, that of lesser power requirements. Thiscan be of great importance during crisis situations whenavailable power is limited. In such cases, transport can berestricted to emergency transporters only, yielding an evacuationrate of about one thousand persons per hour, owing tothe longer degauss time for the lower-power phase transitioncoils.The transporter is one of the most brilliant dramatic concepts in Star Trek. It allows our characters to move quickly and cleanlyinto the midst of a story. In Star Trek: The Next Generation, transporter technology is further postulated to have been advancedto the point where it can be used to replicate objects. This is a nifty idea, but we must be careful to limit the ability of the replicator,lest it become able to re-create any rare or valuable object, and perhaps even to bring dead people back to life. Such abilitieswould be quite detrimental to dramatic storytelling. The idea of replicated objects being stored at "molecular resolution "insteadof the "quantum resolution" necessary to re-create living beings is a result of this concern. (Actually, there have been a coupleof occasions where the transporter has been improperly used to save the day, but our writers have become more careful aboutsuch things.)

10.0 SCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS10.1 SENSOR SYSTEMSThe Galaxy Class Enterprise features one of the mostsophisticated and flexible sensor packages ever developedfor a Federation starship. These sensors make the Enterpriseone of the most capable scientific research vessels ever built.There are three primary sensor systems aboard theEnterprise. The first is the long-range sensor array located atthe front of the Engineering Hull. This package of high-powerdevices is designed to sweep far ahead of the ship's flight pathto gather navigational and scientific information.The second major sensor group is the lateral arrays.These include the forward, port, and starboard arrays on therim of the Primary Hull, as well as the port, starboard, and aftarrays on the Secondary Hull. Additionally, there are smallerupper and lower sensor arrays located near Decks 2 and 16on the Primary Hull, providing coverage in the lateral arrays'blind spots.The final major group is the navigational sensors. Thesededicated sensors are tied directly into the ship's Flight Controlsystems and are used to determine the ship's location andvelocity. They are located on the forward, upper port, upperstarboard, aft, and upper and lower arrays.Primary Hull lateral sensors• Aft lateral sensorsEngineering Hull lateral sensorsLong range sensorsLower sensor platform10.1.1 Principal sensor locations on USS Enterprise

10.0 SCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS10.1 SENSOR SYSTEMSThe Galaxy Class Enterprise features one of the mostsophisticated and flexible sensor packages ever developedfor a Federation <strong>star</strong>ship. These sensors make the Enterpriseone of the most capable scientific research vessels ever built.There are three primary sensor systems aboard theEnterprise. The first is the long-range sensor array located atthe front of the Engineering Hull. This package of high-powerdevices is designed to sweep far ahead of the ship's flight pathto gather navigational and scientific information.The second major sensor group is the lateral arrays.These include the forward, port, and <strong>star</strong>board arrays on therim of the Primary Hull, as well as the port, <strong>star</strong>board, and aftarrays on the Secondary Hull. Additionally, there are smallerupper and lower sensor arrays located near Decks 2 and 16on the Primary Hull, providing coverage in the lateral arrays'blind spots.The final major group is the navigational sensors. Thesededicated sensors are tied directly into the ship's Flight Controlsystems and are used to determine the ship's location andvelocity. They are located on the forward, upper port, upper<strong>star</strong>board, aft, and upper and lower arrays.Primary Hull lateral sensors• Aft lateral sensorsEngineering Hull lateral sensorsLong range sensorsLower sensor platform10.1.1 Principal sensor locations on USS Enterprise

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