Next thing you know Mr. Scott will realize you don't beam someone somewhere, you bring somewhere to someone and reconstruct him back from the digital copy buffer there.
The opposite of hitting a big bullet with a smaller bullet while riding a horse. So it will be a matter of scale whether you do it to a giant tin can between star systems or, one person first packaged into a digital copy buffer between buildings. I suspect it will be more like stepping through a door. Not sure you can exactly copy that unique spark called your consciousness.
In the end it will be due to learning to compress and expand space between star systems.