(beeping)
-: You know, maybe ignorance really is bliss.
-: Sir?
-: Oh, if I didn't know so much about these things
maybe they wouldn't scare me so much.
I can still remember the day in Dr. Olson's
transporter theory class when he was talking
about the body being converted
into billions of kiloquads of data,
zipping through subspace.
When I realized there's no margin for error.
One atom, out of place and, poof.
You never come back.
It's amazing people aren't lost all the time.
-: With all due respect, sir.
I've been doing this for 22 years
and I haven't lost anybody yet.
-: Yes, but you, you realize,
if the imaging scanners are off even 1000th of a percent-
-: That's why each pad has four redundant scanners.
If any one scanner fails the other three takeover.
-: Reg, how many transporter accidents have there been
in the last 10 years?
Two, three?
There are millions of people who transport safely
every day without a problem.
-: I've heard of problems.
What about transporter psychosis?
-: Transporter psychosis?
There hasn't been a case of that in over 50 years.
Not since they perfected the multiplex pattern buffers.
-: Reg, transporting really is the safest way to travel.
(sighs)