"To boldly go where no man has gone before." Recognize that famous line? Then somewhere along the way, you've been exposed to that cultural phenomenon known as Star Trek.
They had this invention on the Enterprise, you remember, it's called a transporter - as in "Scotty, beam me up!" Well, the transporter sort of rearranges your molecules and beams you to another location almost immediately. But sometimes the crew would get beamed down to some unknown planet, only to be greeted by this horrific space creature...