Lt. Commander Avogadro!

The door hisses open in front of you as you enter the transporter room. You climb the stairs towards the transporter platform taking your place between two comrades. As you stand and wait for the order to energize you try not to think about your body being dematerialized into trillions of lines of code and transmitted through space. Once the order is called you are immediately aware of the molecular imaging scanner above you differentiate every molecule throughout your body turning it into a matter stream. When the transporter begins to energize, the core of your body feels like a leg fallen asleep. As your entire body is converted into a matter stream, the sleep-feeling moves outward into your limbs and feet. A bright, indiscernible light surrounds you and all sound rushes to complete silence. You pray to god the Heisenberg compensators remember where each subatomic particle belongs right before your entire body is transferred into the pattern buffer. All thoughts and memories become nonlinear and incoherent, time is incomprehensible while your dematerialized body transports from the buffer into a data stream to your destination. You feel the pull of gravity and the sleep-feeling as your body starts to rematerialize. The pressure difference on the planet’s surface acts on the matter stream forming, displacing air, dust, and moisture particles in the form of your body. As the sequence completes, you feel the light film of dust and moisture on your skin and your uniform like perspiration from the area your body now inhabits. The slight dizzying effect of your inner ears aligning themselves passes as your vision focuses and you gain your footing on the new terrain. You, like everyone else, take the 6.381 seconds that passed since you were standing on the transporter platform for granted; more important matters are at hand. Lt. Commander Avogadro needs to find the kitty treats the scanners picked up on Ceti Alpha V.