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I'm with you on the transporters, but the fly in the ointment for me has always been inertial dampeners. If it's possible to sidestep conservation of inertia, I'd be pretty surprised. If not, the crew will be converted into stew the first time a ship slows down or makes a course correction.
I wonder if there's a technical manual out there that tries to explain it. It seems like energy manipulation is something startrek tech excells at.
The other part of that is, of course, that they don't seem to use the technology (or artificial gravity or the tractor beams for that matter) for anything else. In particular no weapons or defence systems.
The Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky uses artificial gravity as the basis for almost all its tech.
Seriously, once the shields are down why aren't they just dematerializing parts of the enemy ship?
And why bother with fussy warp cores? Just de-materialize random junk and use that energy.