From Newsgroup: rec.arts.startrek.current

Verily, in article <10kmnie$rp44$2@dont-email.me>, did atropos@mac.com
deliver unto us this message:

Why does the ship need to land and dock? They not only have transporters, they
have the new-fangled transporters that are built into their com badges and which apparently are psychically linked to the person's mind because they're all constantly just slapping their lapels and somehow the thing knows exactly where to beam them.

If Trek were more realistic, I could see it. It would use less energy to
dock or launch the mobile part once in a while than to constantly
disintegrate and reconstitute everyone. Given that Trek seems to be in a fantasy world of unlimited energy, though, then it does seem pointless.
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