Everyone remembers his irascibility in the film but ignores that, for the three original years, he transported without complaint in nearly every episode. And it was a reliable, proven technology that apparently only got worse and more twitchy a couple of decades later.
Everyone remembers his irascibility in the film but ignores that, for the three original years, he transported without complaint in nearly every episode. And it was a reliable, proven technology that apparently only got worse and more twitchy a couple of decades later.
I assume the subtext was that it was a reliable proven technology being operated, in his option, by an incompetent idiot too young to be trusted.
Which is as good an explanation as any for the other transporter scene…