Comment on Star Trek transporters
TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 9 months agoOh 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 9 months 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 9 months ago
But didn’t Scotty store himself in the buffer for a ridiculously long period of time?
newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 9 months 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.
TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They also basically put almost the entire crew into the pattern buffer in STD, right? Although I guess they weren’t in the for very long.