Some minor trivia fixes. “Beam me up, Scotty” was never said in that way in the original or animated series. It’s one of those expressions that came up to create a reference people got, possibly from some joke on TV that caught on. The other is that the transporter was created because they didn’t have the shuttlecraft model ready, or so I’ve heard, so they came up with teleportation, which Star Trek wasn’t even the first science fiction story to use, to get everyone to the planet. The reduced cost was just a benefit, though shuttles would be used throughout the franchise.
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