Citations:transmat

English citations of transmat and trans-mat

Noun: "teleporter"

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• 1959 June, Laurence Janifer, “Obey that Impulse!”, in Future Science Fiction, number 43, page 40:

  One of these days.., they'll invent a Transmat that'll set you down anywhere.

• 1970 June, Robert Silverberg, “The Tower of Glass”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 30, number 3, page 83:

  Three lines of workers began to vanish into the transmats, heading for their homes in the android compounds of five continents, […]

• 1975, Terry Nation, Genesis of the Daleks (Doctor Who), season 12, serial 4, episode 1, spoken by The Doctor and a Time Lord (Tom Baker and John Franklyn-Robbins):

  TIME LORD: Ah. Welcome, Doctor.
  DOCTOR: What's going on? Don't you realize how dangerous it is to intercept a transmat beam?
  TIME LORD: Oh, come, Doctor, not with our techniques. We Time Lords transcended such simple mechanical devices when the universe was less than half its present size.

• 1983, The Long Way Home, (video game published with 16/48 Magazine):

  You are in a TRANS-MAT unit. You see a faulty control panel with a button on it.

• 2005, Andrew Cartmel, Through Time: An Unauthorised And Unofficial History of Doctor Who, page 166:

  "Dangerous things, transmats," says the Doctor happily. Then a Dalek sentry turns up and pursues him up the cellar stairs.

• 2005, Russell T Davies, Bad Wolf (Doctor Who), season 1, episode 12, spoken by Lynda Moss (Jo Joyner):

  Oh, that's the transmat. Scrambles your head — I was sick for days.

• 2005, Michael Ryan, Same as It Never Was (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), season 3, episode 21, spoken by The Shredder (Scott Rayow):

  The traitorous Utrom scientists I have captured are completing a colossal transmat device. With it, I will send forth my armies and enslave the stars, one world after another. There is no hope. There is only the Shredder.

• 2015, “Lost to Light”, in Destiny: The Taken King, spoken by Ghost (Nolan North), Activision Publishing; developed by Bungie:

  Eris? Cayde? I think we've lost them. Something's blocking our signal and our transmat.

• 2017, Andrew Kreisberg, Jessica Queller, Robert Rovner, Caitlin Parrish, Nevertheless, She Persisted (Supergirl), season 2, episode 22, spoken by Lillian Luthor (Brenda Strong):

  I have justified the worst behavior for the best of causes. But I was right. The threat was real. But maybe I backed the wrong child to stop it. The transmat portal you created? That was brilliant, Lena.

Verb: "to teleport"

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• 1983, Peter Grimwade, Mawdryn Undead (Doctor Who), season 20, serial 3, episode 4, spoken by The Doctor (Peter Davison):

  The capsule is locked into the TARDIS' homing device. It will transmat to the centre of the TARDIS.

• 1991, Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman, Carmen Carter, Robert Greenberger, Doomsday World (Star Trek: The Next Generation; 12), Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 171:

  It wasn't far enough away to think about transmatting and besides, that was no longer a viable option, what with vandals having wrecked some of the booths in the area.

• 1999, Paul Magrs, Jeremy Hoad, The Blue Angel (Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor Adventures; 27), BBC Worldwide, →ISBN, page 36:

  'No, you're not,' Blandish put in smoothly 'You're transmatting down with me. I'll head the away team and I'll consent to let you advise.'

• 2010, Mark Michalowski, Shining Darkness (Doctor Who: New Series Adventures; 27), BBC Worldwide, →ISBN, page 17:

  Donna twisted her neck around to try to find the Doctor, but she realised that she'd been transmatted alone.

• 2017, Jessica Queller, Derek Simon, Far From the Tree (Supergirl), season 3, episode 3, spoken by J'onn J'onzz (David Harewood):

  No, you can't transmat planet to planet without a gate on the other side. We'll have to get to Mars the old-fashioned way.