yeah, Im sure we've been over much of this here or elsewhere.
The intersteller teleporter in the second one, really jumped the shark, it totally took me out of the movie, and destroyed any enjoyment I had in it. It killed the internal consistency of the movie itself. It needed to be dealt with properly so we would have a better feeling of the universes rules. the real issue is how its handled. Tone, and arguably techspeak. Because lets be honest, while its existence totally undermines starships and 99% of the reality of Startrek... so do lots of other things. As noted, even regular teleporters, Replicators, holodecks, androids, A.I., hardlight holograms, etc... TNG even implemented some stuff to help deal with some of the conflict breaking tech. Cloaking particularly. "outlawed"
Replicators are some world changing shit. Most of Startrek world building makes no sense in a world Replicators exist. Any practical application outside of food is insane. Armadas of drone ships.
Many put that tech into play with their Androids, and Ship A.I. you don't need Data's, you just need automatons doing your away party, and manual labor. no more Engineers getting killed by warp coil leaks. you apparently have a ship A.I. for medical problems, why not Engineering? and the Robotics to make androids clearly exists.
