Question For Trekkers

[Amarok]

First off - it's  "Trekkies" not Trekkers - you visigoth
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Even more curious - why do they leave the bridge to go to the transporter room? Why not just transport from the bridge to the planet? For that matter - why waste all the space on corridors? Just transport wherever you need to go.

I can't win.  I say 'Trekkers' and I get called a Visigoth.  I say 'Trekkies' and get called insensitive.

That's it.  From now on, you lot are 'Roddenberries'.

Boru

Oh dear Q no don't call people Roddenberriers you'll wind up angering many of the anti Roddenberry fans . Just a friendly warning i honestly don't care what you call me .

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I’m assuming that due to the limited space available on a runabout, and the fact that the entire crew seems to be needed on the surface, that we see it regularly because a more automated system is required.

I would suspect that the larger ships are capable of doing it, but they have crew do it manually in case something goes wrong.

Anyway, what would transporter techs do all day?

Fair point.  These ships appear to be largely constructed of breakdownium - something ALWAYS goes wrong.

Boru

Too be fair we generally only see the ship when it's in crisis . I'm sure the Enterprise was not exploding every Tuesday

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My guess is that the SAG requires a minimum number of actors to receive screen time.

Well yeah we have to see Miles Obrien at least once every few episodes on TNG