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Enterprise Transporter Platform (Corridor)

A recessed, circular transporter pad embedded in an Enterprise corridor: brushed alloy surface ringed by low-status indicator lights and scuff-marked decking roughly large enough for several people to stand on. Phase coils hum beneath the floor and the pad gathers a tight golden-blue shimmer when active. In the scene straw, feathers and panicked Bringloidi animals flood the platform, forcing Picard, Worf and O'Brien to wrestle livestock and debris away from the ring; crewers skirt the pad as Riker appears among refugees, and the device's clinical mechanics are temporarily overwhelmed by chaos and scent.
74 appearances

Purpose

To dematerialize, transmit, and rematerialize personnel and small cargo between the USS Enterprise and external locations by establishing and locking a transporter pattern.

Significance

Serves as the climactic instrument of crisis and revelation: Lwaxana's ascent onto the pad precipitates the exposure of a concealed assassination threat and reframes her role from comic interloper to mission savior. The pad's activation creates the moment of tension, forces immediate action from security and science officers, and leaves lasting emotional consequences for Picard and the crew.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

74 moments