Emory and Trip in “Unfinished Business”

Those early days were pretty terrifying. I'm lucky to be alive.

Trip

Is it true you were the first person to go through?

I wasn't about to let anyone else do it.

Trip

You must have been scared.

Terrified. That original transporter took a full minute and a half to cycle through. Felt like a year. You could actually feel yourself being taken apart and put back together. When I materialized, first thing I did was lose my lunch. [Trip laughs] Second thing I did was get stone drunk. Trick I learned from Zefram Cochrane. Now there was a man who knew the benefits of a little "liquid courage."