Weaponized Teleportation: Difference between revisions

 

== [[Live Action Television]] ==

* Any time a Transporter on ''[[Star Trek]]'' was used to beam someone directly into space, or inside a bulkhead, or some other hostile environment, was an offensive example of this trope. Beaming bad guys away without killing them would be the defensive use of this trope.

** ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'': The Mirror Universe Kirk kept an alien device called the Tantalus Field which could make anyone, anywhere (presumably within its scanning range) instantly vanish. In an un-filmed episode of ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Star Trek Enterprise]]'', it [[What Could Have Been|would have been revealed]] that the Tantalus Field was actually a kind of interdimensional/temporal transporter, which deposited its victims in isolated penal colonies. This would have allowed for the return of Mirror-Kirk, in a different century of a parallel universe. The Tantalus Field would count as a Teleport Gun if it weren't the size and shape of a TV set (it also didn't require manual targeting like a traditional weapon).