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Characters in science fiction TV have to move through the universe at the speed which the plot necessitates. In  Star Trek , characters can  beam  from one location to another in an instant. In the visual modality, there is no continuous path of motion between the source and the goal, which would technically disqualify  beam  from most linguistic definitions of motion. This study aims to map out the usage patterns of  beam  and investigate whether or not it is linguistically construed as motion within the show. The study is based on a section of the TV Corpus (Davies, Mark. 2019. The TV Corpus.  https://www.english-corpora.org/tv/  (accessed 28 May 2022)) consisting of all available episodes of all  Star Trek  TV series between 1966 and 2005 and uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. The study found that  beam  is indeed used as a motion verb within the series. Its usage is also quite varied, denoting motion of many different figures in many different directions. The fact that we conceive of  beaming  as motion even though there is no continuous path might be partly explained by the etymology of  beam , and partly by the embodied nature of language. Our current register makes it is hard to imagine transportation without movement.

Subverting motion in science fiction? Beam in the Star Trek TV series