TRANSPORTER SYSTEMS OPERATION

	Transporter operations can be broken into five major stages. 
Because of the criticality of this system, normal operating rules require a 
transporter chief to supervise and monitor system operation. (Note: This 
section describes a beam-down sequence from the transport chamber to a 
remote destination. The beam-up sequence from a remote site to the 
transport chamber involves the same system elements in a somewhat 
different configuration.)

¥Target scan and coordinate lock. During this initial step, the destination 
coordinates are programmed into the transporter system. Targeting 
scanners verify range and relative motion, as well as confirming suitable 
environmental conditions for personnel transport. Also during this stage, a 
battery of automated diagnostic procedures assures that the transporter 
system is functioning within operational standards for personnel use.
¥Energize and dematerialize. The molecular imaging scanners derive a 
realtime quantum-resolution pattern image of the transport subject while the 
primary energizing coils and the phase transition coils convert the subject 
into a subatomically debonded matter stream.
¥Pattern buffer Doppler compensation. The matter stream is briefly held in 
the pattern buffer, which allows the system to compensate for the Doppler 
shift between the ship and the transport destination. The pattern buffer also 
acts as a safety device in case of system malfunction, permitting transport to 
be aborted to another chamber.
¥Matter stream transmission. The actual point of departure from the ship is 
one of seventeen emitter pad arrays that transmit the matter stream within 
an annular confinement beam to the transport destination.  Æ