Pop-culture awareness of the teleportation concept was influenced by the numerous Star Trek television and theatrical movie series (beginning in 1964 with the original TV series pilot episode, "The Cage") that was originally created by television writer-producer Gene Roddenberry, primarily as a work-around for the prohibitively expensive visual effects required to depict a star-ship landing on a new planet every week. The transporter effect was achieved by a simple fade-out of the subject with a few cents' worth of glitter thrown in, a much cheaper alternative.
The teleportation of Star Trek is likely the most widely recognized fictional teleportation:[citation needed] the “transporter” device, which is used to teleport people and things from ship to ship or from ship to planet and the other way around in an instant. Persons or non-living items are placed on the transporter pad and are dismantled particle by particle by a beam, with their atoms being patterned in a computer buffer and converted into a beam that is directed toward the destination, then reassembled back into their original form (usually with no mistakes). Site-to-site transportation is also possible, where the subject does not need to be on a transporter pad at the source, or at the destination. However, there are a few accounts of groups of teleportees being fused together by a scrambled beam, transported to alternate universes, leaving copies of themselves behind, and similar mishaps.
In the rebooted film, with some help from the future, Scotty develops a new type of transporter that allows him to beam from a planet to a starship, while the latter is at warp. The technology is quickly confiscated by Starfleet for fear of its misuse but is used in Star Trek Into Darkness by the villain to escape from Earth all the way to the Klingon homeworld of Qo'noS (located about 90 light years away).