Även om det är helt handviftade i showen och filmerna som en av de saker som transportören bara gör (tillsammans med att ta bort momentum) har denna fråga tagits upp i minst en av TNG romaner.
I Skillnad från magi , kapten Geordi LaForge trialing ett nytt snabbare transportsystem. Tydligen är en av de viktigaste misslyckandena att det fungerar för snabbt för att tillåta normal process av tryckutjämning:
Captain’s Log, Stardate 60214.1. Since Tyler Hunt’s memorial service and the completion of the Challenger’s repairs, we have been on an extended detachment to test a new transporter upgrade that’s intended to provide near-instantaneous transport. No visible materialization phase, just pop, and you’re there. I’m sorry that that doesn’t really sound technical enough, but it’s the most accurate description of that I’ve heard so far. The ideal is that the full dematerialization and dematerialization phases should, together, take no more point zero two of a second. So far, the technology works, but the pressure differential caused by so quick a departure or arrival has — according to the results from testing with human-analog test objects — burst eardrums and caused other pressure-related problems. As a result, the program has gone back to the drawing board at the Daystrom Institute, and Challenger, I hope, will be free to resume a duty that, I don’t mind admitting, I find more appealing.