Or if you want a same sex partner that totally understand you.
Comment on Star Trek transporters
Tedesche@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It goes a lot farther than that, actually. If you have the technology to assemble a person on a molecular level like that, you can basically prevent that person from dying. Captain got killed by an alien on an away mission? Just print another copy of them from their scan from just before they left.
Zippy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh yeah. Like if you still have their pattern saved in the buffer. That’s a frightening thought.
Or you could just print out thousands of the same redshirt to act as a boarding party.
newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pretty sure that’s why they specifically talk about how signal degradation occurs over time in TNG. You’re not supposed to be able to keep somebody in the buffer for an extended period of time, or you’ll lose the signal. This has been reconned multiple times though.
Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But didn’t Scotty store himself in the buffer for a ridiculously long period of time?
newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yep, that’s one of the examples I was talking about when I said they retconned what O’Brien. There’s also in strange new worlds, Dr. M’benga is keeping his daughter in the transporter buffer in the medical wing. There’s also that one episode on TNG where Barkley found all those people who were trapped in the buffer thinking they were like interdimensional worms or something.