Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

beam out

English answer:

transport

Added to glossary by Virginija
Apr 13, 2008 18:01
16 yrs ago
English term

beam out

English Other Cinema, Film, TV, Drama Science fiction
-Carter?
-I don't know, sir. He wasn't beamed out.

It's from the film Stargate Continuum

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transport

where a body is deconstructed into atoms, recorded as data, and transmitted. When the transmission is received at the other end, the person is reconstructed.

Essentially here, Carter did not make it.

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Note added at 18 mins (2008-04-13 18:20:05 GMT)
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Oh, and it is almost instantaneous.
Peer comment(s):

agree Cagdas Karatas : This reminded me of Star Trek!
23 mins
agree Jim Tucker (X) : Poor, poor Carter! Such a good sort he was.
1 hr
agree Jack Doughty : But in Star Trek, Scottie was always ordered to beam people up or down.
1 hr
There was also "beam out", en masse, as it were. Especially in later years. "Keep a transporter lock on them, Mr. Worf. Be ready to beam them out of there!"
agree Mihaela Ghiuzeli
4 hrs
agree PoveyTrans (X) : why can't all questions be this fun?
4 hrs
agree V_Nedkov
17 hrs
agree Koren Wheatley : ah, to be able to beam out to somewhere else!
17 hrs
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