Have we seen a DS9 transporter room? I can't remember ever getting a glimpse of it, although according to transporter room, it does (the article simply says DS9 has one but that ops has a transporter as well, citing DS9 as a general reference). Sloan 19:00, 30 Oct 2005 (UTC)
- I never realized this before, but we haven't seen one at all. When people come aboard, they either beam directly to somewhere or come through an airlock. I suppose the airlock area is the DS9 equivalent of a transporter room. --Vedek Dukat Talk | Duty Roster 08:37, 16 Nov 2005 (UTC)
- In the episode where the security system goes off on DS9, Dukat beams in. I think he used a transporter pad in Ops.
- In the episode To the Death their is a brief scene where they transport the surviving Jem'Hdar and Weyoun in. Sisko tells the transport operator some procedure that beams the soldiers in without their weapons. Surrounding the transport pad were several secruity officers with weapons aimed at the Jem'Hdar.
- There was an episode poss. season 4, where in the ward room, Sisko orders someone taken to the nearest transporter room. Only reference I can think of, they've never been seen apart from the pad in ops. Jakynes 11:33, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Corrections - in To the Death, Sisko transports the Jem'Hadar and Weyoun aboard the Defiant, not DS9. In Civil Defense, Dukat uses the transporter system on his ship to beam in just in front of the turbolift in Ops.
I'm actually surprised that there isn't a public transporter room somewhere connected to the Promenade. I guess there's really no need for it since passengers could simply call their docked ships and transport directly there. I also remember the reference where Sisko orders someone be taken to a transporter room. Maybe this transporter is somewhere near the Promenade.
There are also some cargo transporters in the various docking bays. Ezri Dax from the mirror universe in the episode The Emperor's New Cloak used a multi-dimensional transporter device on a transporter pad in one of the cargo bays to beam a Klingon cloaking device that Quark and Rom stole to the mirror universe. In addition, since the station was designed as an ore processing facility, and it was built in orbit of Bajor, it probably didn't make sense to shuttle the ore from the surface to the station. I would expect some large cargo transporters to be located in the ore processing center as well.
Besides, the transporter rooms even on Federation ships were really just reception areas. They really weren't needed other than to house the equipment. Since site-to-site transportation technology was basically perfected in the 24th century, it almost made the transporter room obsolete (as opposed to Kirk's era when he was concerned about beaming inside a wall in the episode Day of the Dove). -Davisn456 01:49, 17 September 2007 (UTC)