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In Star Trek - What's the Point of the Transporter Room?

If transporters can beam people directly from site-to-site (i.e.: straight from the surface of a planet to the bridge (as seen in STNG S3-E3, "The Survivors", and other episodes), why is a dedicated transporter room and pads required aboard a starship?

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  • Point to point was 1) later technology (for constitution class), 2) still used a transporter room to house the equipment, it operates like two transports, one to the room and one back out, but without re-materializing and flushing the buffers in between. – ewanm89 Apr 29 '12 at 18:29
  • http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Transporter#.22Site-to-site.22_transport – ewanm89 Apr 29 '12 at 18:32
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    http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Site-to-site_transport – ewanm89 Apr 29 '12 at 18:34
  • I feel like I've read this question before... – Izkata Apr 29 '12 at 22:28
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    I have: http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5589/in-star-trek-whats-the-point-of-the-transporter-room – Izkata Apr 29 '12 at 22:29

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I recall something about energy utilization. Most efficient was a pad-to-pad transport, less efficient was non-pad to pad (or vice-versa) and least efficient was non-pad to non-pad. Wish I could tell you where I came across this but can't :( Think it was in a TNG episode but can't swear to it.

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