Como você disse que aceitaria relatos anedóticos em vez de estatísticas frias e difíceis, observe que o Enterprise episódio " Daedalus " lida com a gênese do transportador e apresenta seu criador, Emory Erickson:
ARCHER: I have to confess, given a choice, I'd much rather use a good old-fashioned shuttlepod.
EMORY: I'll never forget the protests when the transporter was first approved for bio-matter.
DANICA: Oh, God. Here we go.
EMORY: People said it was unsafe, that it caused brain cancer, psychosis, and even sleep disorders. And then there was all that metaphysical chatter about whether or not the person who arrived after the transport was the same person who left, and not some weird copy.
TUCKER Which would make all of us copies.
EMORY: I had to fight all of that nonsense, and I'm not going to tell you there weren't costs. I'm living proof of that, but I won. Mankind is better off. Makes everything I've fought for worthwhile.
Enquanto Emory despreza as preocupações sobre o uso do transportador, ele revela que as vidas reais foram perdidas durante os primeiros usos do transportador:
EMORY: I sympathise, believe me. During the initial tests for the transporter, some brave men and women were lost. Not a day goes by that I don't think about them. How can I help?
Em particular, seu próprio filho, Quinn, se perdeu em tal acidente, e seu padrão ficou preso em uma anomalia do subespaço por 15 anos. No episódio, eles conseguem rematerializá-lo, mas ele morre alguns instantes depois.
Assim, aparentemente, parece que o risco de usar o transportador diminuiu significativamente desde a geração de Archer.