Two or Three Options:

What would be better for Star Trek, all the energy it takes to generate the lasers and the proton phaser or would it be better for the Enterprise and other star ships to carry the weight and the bulkiness of physical missiles, bullets, rocks, etc? I could see that having both would be a good mix.

Tracker Beam, Humpty Dumpty

I wonder if they could, in that fictional world, at least try to put a tracker beam on a missile, a bullet, etc, in order to retrieve it via teleportation after it is fired. Even if a missile were to blow up, what would stop them from teleporting the molecules, the matter, back in order to recycle and reuse them to turn them back into new missiles, bullets?

Beaming People

Which brings up the art of moving people. Did we talk about teleportation yet?

Star Gates

It seems that it would be better to do what they did in Star Gate and also The Expanse with those gates or wormholes where you bend space and time to move from one side of the paper of space to the other side of the paper via bending the paper as opposed to running across the paper.

Star Trek Teleportation

But in Star Trek, they beam people. I wonder how small they go. Well, come to think of it, I think we did talk about this before or it might have been other people. I am beginning to forget. But teleportation can be extremely hard to do when you are dealing with life.

Yogurt Life

Because it is kind of like stirring yogurt or mixing a pile of fertilizer to the extent that you disrupt the soil, the environment, the dirt, where the bacteria, etc, may be disturbed and that may cause problems. Likewise, teleportation may cause problems as the cells may come back distorted. I cannot say if molecules would come back completely the same, organically, naturally, and not synthetically, or virtually, etc.

Microwave Evaporating People

In theory, perhaps Star Trek could evaporate people so to speak, not to be confused with the dangers of a microwave, and then reassemble the molecules or perhaps the atoms.

LEGO People

I don't know if they would have to cut up the LEGO pieces of life into molecule size slices or if they would need to cut everything up into smaller pieces. And who knows if there are no isolated atoms or other smaller things that are somehow not currently part of a particular molecule.

Rocks & Sand

In other words. Molecules are like rocks. But the smaller parts are like sand. So, imagine transporting those rocks in metal cages. The problem might be that the sand could leak out as you transport the rocks from point A to point B. That's the thing about teleporting Picard for example.

One Size Fits All?

The technology may be able to beam over the rocks, the molecules, assuming that every single dot and everything within a human body are contained in molecules and that there cannot be isolated fragmentation of particles or whatever that may not be currently within the borders of the molecules and assuming that the molecules are all the same size, etc, etc.

Humpty Dumpty Molecules

On top of that, the molecules are always moving and if you try to move the molecules, then can you put them back where you find them?

3D Printer Teleportation

That would be the ultimate 3D Printer. I have no idea how fast molecules might move. On top of that, could the transported molecules leak. Plus, could the molecules of the transporter machines leak into the transported molecules similar to how plastic leaks into the bottled water thanks to BPA, etc?

Robot Picard

Before Picard became Borg, he could have became part machine as the molecules of the transporter machines could have fused with his molecules, a little, bit by bit, little by little, as he is teleported over the years. The machines would have to be perfect not to allow for that kind of vulnerability.

Brain Phones

It'd be like putting your mind or soul into the Internet similar to that movie, The Lawnmower Man from the 1990's and the sequel as well which followed with a future world of like 2010 which was the future at that time.

Stuck Inside Computers

There has been some television shows I believe, like the Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits where I think a guy got stuck in the computer. Some episodes I think. Well, I can only recall one episode relating to that. But teleportation is kind of like that in that you have to move through the machines like data moves through wires to make its way through the world wide web.