When the original Star Trek aired in 1966 my grandma was so terrified by the thought of a "Transporter" that she refused to watch further episodes. My childhood friends thought that Transporters, or Teleportation, was cool and helped Star Trek standout from all the other sci-fi shows on television. But there was lively debate among friends, classmates and teachers about the development of teleportation. Converting mass into energy, sending the energy to a destination where it will be converted back into mass - sounded a lot like how television works sending images and sound across distances.



My idea was that teleportation development would happen in baby steps, maybe starting with an intense energy field modulated by magnetic polarity.



The best example of the groundwork for teleportation I ever saw was the 1963 broadcast, "Borderland", a modulated energy field opens a doorway to a "mirror-verse".