Poll: Face-Off: Four Kinds of Beaming
Some stories had fantasies of beaming. What is your favorite mention about beaming in one of these four specific situations? Beam to the discussion for your questions!
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"Star Trek" William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, Leonard Nimoy 1968 NBC
The everyday life in the future version: One, a few or all of the situations like "Beam me up, Scotty!" or "Beam us up, Scotty!" -
Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum in The Fly (1986)
The romantic mad scientist version: Seth Brundle telling Veronica Quaife he went through his transport device. Seth Brundle: "I missed you, tonight" Veronica Quaife: "It's still night ... I came back. You had to celebrate without me. I'm sorry." Brundle: "I went through last night." Quaife: "You went through? Without testing the baboon?" Brundle: "I was... drunk. I was a bit upset." Quaife: "You could have killed yourself." -
Susan Sarandon, Tim Curry, Barry Bostwick, Jonathan Adams, and Patricia Quinn in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
The whacky version: Dr. Everett V. Scott: "This sonic transducer. It is - I suppose - some kind of audio vibratry physiomolecular transport device?" Brad Majors: "You mean ..." Scott: "Yes Brad! It's something we ourselves are working on for some time!" Later ... Scott: "A device which is capable to break down solid matter and then projecting it through space - and who knows, perhaps even time, itself!" -
Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges in K-PAX (2001)
The philosophic alien version: Prot claims he uses a beam of light to travel from his planet K-PAX to Earth Prot: "I will admit the possibility that I am Robert Porter, if you will admit the possibility that I am from K-PAX. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a beam of light to catch." Suggested by Djesika