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• USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The big one – relatively speaking, of course – in my mind is the site to site transporting.

  In “Day of the Dove”, Kirk asks Spock, ”Intra-ship beaming, is it possible?” and Spock rattled off a litany of reasons why it was considered too dangerous in all but the most necessary circumstances.

  However, we see in Disco, starting with “Context is for Kings”, that they can just order the computer to transport them from one room of the ship to another without hesitation.

  It’s a minor quibble all things considered. And clearly something most of the Disco detractors aren’t even aware of.

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  • Stamets@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Intra-ship beaming

    I don’t see that as breaking of canon but a demonstration of situations. They talk about how intra-ship beaming is dangerous but they don’t say it isn’t possible, just that it is used sparingly and in specific circumstances. Meanwhile Lorca is someone who doesn’t give the remotest of fucks about Starfleet and is using it to get home. He’s also trying to be secretive and is generally pretty impatient.

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    • USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lorca’s not the only one who uses it in Disco, though. It actually happens relatively frequently in the first two season. Obviously for seasons three and four things have changed and it’s no longer an issue.

      Hell, in SNW while Kirk is on the Enterprise in “Subspace Rhapsody” he prepares some samples collected outside the ship to be beamed to engineering and thinks nothing of that instance of intra-ship beaming. I guess he forgot that whole event where people broke out into song by the time he was mid-way through his own five year mission.

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