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In "The Doomsday Machine" (S02E06) near the end, when Lt. Kyle is trying to beam Kirk back to the Enterprise, Scotty is in the Jeffries Tube working on the transporter systems and, when Kyle tries to beam Kirk up, there is a poof of smoke on the transporter pad and Kyle calls it something that sounds like "It showed an allegade." This happens again on the next attempt.

What is the actual word Kyle uses and is it ever referred to again in any other episodes and is any description of exactly what this malfunction is or what it does ever explained?

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    "It shorted out again" == "It showed an allegade"??? Commented Jun 15 at 13:28
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    @releseabe - Kyle has a very strong accent, and it's also a lot clearer in the remastered version. Commented Jun 15 at 18:29
  • @releseabe: As I said on the answer, I first saw this in the 60s, as a kid. And it STILL sounds like that to me. Maybe it's Kyle's accent. As a kid, I had no idea what "allegade" meant and later I thought it was just something made up like technobabble. Commented Jun 16 at 2:32
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    It was 1967. Everyone over age 15 had seen electronics and electrical devices release the magic smoke; it was just that damned common. Commented Jun 16 at 19:34

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The line is

"Bridge, it shorted out again".

It's not entirely clear what is causing the short (or how Scott fixes it) other than generic damage and engineering magic.

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    Gee, what happens if you are transporting a human during a short? Maybe, "thank heavens for pattern buffers" and they just euthanize whatever was assembled the first time? Commented Jun 15 at 13:29
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    @releseabe - 90% of the Transporter Chief's job is quietly murdering all the random shit that they accidentally make Commented Jun 15 at 14:09
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    Tough gig. Seriously: Is this in any story? Commented Jun 15 at 16:08
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    @Shawn - In Tuvix the normal transporter guy is MIA so Janeway has to do the murdering herself. Commented Jun 15 at 23:54
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    @Tango I just watched the clip, and it seems perfectly clear to me. Are you a native English speaker? He has a bit of an Australian accent. Commented Jun 16 at 15:16

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