Everyone always points out the incidental and accidental transporter incidents that happen from time to time in many of the Star Trek storylines.

What I am most interested in is … the story behind the development of the first transporter technologies. Think about the number of people that were vapourized, unmaterialized, dematerialized, transported into solid objects, transported into space, transported into alternate universes, materialized inside out, materialized with missing body parts, materialized without life for some reason, cloned, cloned and materialized within their clone, materialized with EXTRA body parts, materialized as a baby, materialized as a 90 year old, materialized with toaster embedded inside them, partially materialized, materialized in the wrong order, materialized with terrible life long side effects like cancers, memory loss or some exotic health condition that is only caused by transporter malfunctions.

Imagine the number of people that would have had to suffer so many ‘incidents’ before they were even able to safely say that transporters were a normal part of transporting people across distances.