Two Starfleet officers using transwarp beaming in 2258.
Transwarp beaming was an advanced transportation technique. Where it was possible to beam a person from one planet to an adjacent planet within the same star system or even onto a starship traveling at high warp. Transwarp beaming was developed by Montgomery Scott at some point prior to 2387. (TOS movie & novelization: Star Trek)
Starfleet confiscated Scott's formula for transwarp beaming. In 2259, John Harrison, a Section 31 agent gone rogue, used the formula and a portable transwarp beaming device to flee from his attack on Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco by beaming away all the way to Qo'noS, the capital of the Klingon Empire. Scott expressed great displeasure when he learned the formula had been abused by Harrison. (TOS movie: Star Trek Into Darkness)
In 2385, the crew of Deep Space 9 posited that the Tzenkethi had developed transwarp beaming technology. (DS9 novel: The Missing)
External link
- Transwarp beaming article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.