Adding to your examples in the cannon of Star Trek the teleporter is not a murder machine, except for all those transporter accidents. In “Daedalus” (ENT) the creator of the teleporter somehow proved it, even if not every officer believes that yet.

Real life though, I’d never set foot in a transporter. A real life, Star Trek like transporter would definitely be a murder machine though.

I was just thinking that. If I didn’t know what it was beforehand driving past it, I’d assume it was a Nazi swastika. Wonderful of that neighbor though. tlhIngan maH! taHjaj!

Deep Space Nine is the best of Start Trek and I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise. It wasn’t afraid to criticize it’s self. Could Picard have done what Sisko did in The Pale Moonlight? I don’t think so, Picard would have lost the war with the Dominion.