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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.

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Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
But didn’t Scotty store himself in the buffer for a ridiculously long period of time?

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- 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.
  
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  - TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
    
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