Comment on Please advise on this conversation we had over on c/Piracy. Transporters and replicators, basic operating principles?

surfrock66@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

So first, it’s assumed that the transition between matter and energy has evolved to be essentially lossless in the trek canon, and you just have to assume that’s true. This is handled with the “Matter-energy conversion matrix” which is a hand-wavey sci-fi invention like a “Heisenberg Compensator.” See …fandom.com/…/Matter-energy_conversion_matrix

Additionally, this process is bidirectional; waste on a starship is converted into energy and stored. This is done with the “bio-matter resequencer” and is referenced a few times, see:

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