Star Trek "Transporter" Issues: I will divide its use into three categories for discussion: 1) From one

ship transporter to a ship transporter 2) From a ship transporter to planet surface 3) From a ship transporter to deep inside some opaque structure The least implausible of these is from transporter to transporter. For this you could send something like a radio wave containing the information about what was being teleported. With a radio wave-type signal you don't have to know exactly where the receiving end is, anyone with a "radio" within the broadcast range can get it. The receiving end could have a store of matter from which to construct whatever is having its information sent. You have equipment at the receiving end that can assemble the particles, so the equipment is nearby and in the same fra me of reference. Consider in contrast sending from transporter to planet surface. There are vario us issues aside from the previously mentioned problems with interference from th e planet's atmosphere and magnetic field, etc. Since you are not using a transpo rter on the planet surface to receive the transmission, it would be necessary to manipulate the particles you are assembling into the teleported object or perso n using some kind of long-range beams or fields created by the ship's transporte r up in space. While this may not be literally impossible for some future techno logy, the idea of accurately manipulating particles and atoms so precisely to co nstruct molecules using a device 100 miles away is rather questionable. Furthermore, since there is no receiving station that could have a store of matt er for the re-assembly, either you have to: a) Beam all the needed particles from the ship in a tight enough beam so you don 't lose the needed material over a 100 mile distance through an atmosphere b) Use matter on the planet surface near where you're assembling the object/pers on. Being able to disassemble matter from the planet surface (using a device 100 miles up in orbit) will be an additional long-range task. Since you can't count on the planet surface providing you with enough of the right combination of ele ments, you would have to disassemble the surface matter to sub-atomic particles and then assemble the particles into desired elements, so the disassembly and as sembly will be of the most difficult sort. In addition, this will all have to be done with both the ship and planet in moti on. Even if the planet is not rotating, it will be orbiting around its star and the entire solar system will be moving relative to the galaxy, etc. Your ship wi ll probably be orbiting the planet or otherwise trying to keep in sync with the planet. However, it is unlikely you will be able to match the motion of the ship and planet so precisely that it doesn't matter on the microscopic level on whic h you are trying to assemble atoms and molecules. The issue of relative motion m akes the task inherently harder than using a transporter on a planet surface to send to a location 100 miles away on the surface of the same planet. The most difficult option would be from an orbiting transporter to inside an opa que, solid structure on a planet. You can't beam in the matter to assemble at th e other end when there's an opaque, solid structure in between (assuming you're not willing to burn a hole through the structure to eliminate the barriers.) You r only alternative is to disassemble matter from near where you're sending the o bject/person to provide particles to construct the person/object. You would have to somehow detect through the solid, opaque structure where there was matter to disassemble and then observe and manipulate the particles in microscopic detail through the structure to assemble the object/person. All of this will require t hat the long-range beam/fields used to manipulate the particles is not distorted

or blocked by the structure. Plus your transporter and the structure you are se nding into are in motion relative to each other. Taken together, I can't see how this would not be impossible