TOS era transporters and post TNG transporters work somewhat differently. Transporting someone in TOS freezes them, where in TNG, they can move and talk. Plus DS9 uses Cardassian tech, so who knows what they have going on.
Canonically, moving during transport is pre-TNG, even. It first appeared in one of the TOS-cast feature films - maybe even the first: “The Motion Picture.” I don’t recall off the top of my head. But pattern buffers themselves I think weren’t “invented” until after the TOS generation. Probably introduced to address the horribly transporter accidents that could occur, as in the films. Anyway, I don’t think they had the buffer technology before TNG, and I don’t think it affected one east or 'tother whether people could move and talk during transport. I think that was more a result of the capabilities of period FX.
I thought the buffer was more like stasis than a VR. I only really saw it referenced a lot in Strange New Worlds, where it was pretty clearly static.
It does whatever the bloody hell O’Brien wants it to do.
TOS era transporters and post TNG transporters work somewhat differently. Transporting someone in TOS freezes them, where in TNG, they can move and talk. Plus DS9 uses Cardassian tech, so who knows what they have going on.
Canonically, moving during transport is pre-TNG, even. It first appeared in one of the TOS-cast feature films - maybe even the first: “The Motion Picture.” I don’t recall off the top of my head. But pattern buffers themselves I think weren’t “invented” until after the TOS generation. Probably introduced to address the horribly transporter accidents that could occur, as in the films. Anyway, I don’t think they had the buffer technology before TNG, and I don’t think it affected one east or 'tother whether people could move and talk during transport. I think that was more a result of the capabilities of period FX.