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The transporter was invented by Gene because [it] was just impossible for us to land a spacecraft on a different planet every week.

We could afford to beam them down. And that's what we had to do. The thought had occurred to Gene early on and it was much better to find another way to get down to a planet. Keep the ship up in the air.

I'd worked with actors suspended in mid-air. And it's a time consuming process and it doesn't look quite right. You know there � there's something wrong about it, especially when these kind of tucks appear in their clothing where the wires go. Of course they're in a body harness and then the wardrobe is put on over it. And it takes forever to do a scene when you're floating actors. So that was another big worry about me because I knew we had to do our shows in six days apiece. So I was happy to hear that we didn't have to do that, that there was artificial gravity.