Comment on It's surprisingly easy to mix up a couple of coordinates

Gork@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• teft@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Being stuck in the ship’s memory buffer

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• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  4. Get Tuvixed because you got a bit of alien leaf stuck to your shoe.

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  • TubeTalkerX@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Teleporter going full Bill O'Reilly:

    Fuck it, we'll Merge it live!

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    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We’re gonna need a rebase -hard in here!

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How about all those many scenes where someone grabs a transported person to make a quick last minute getaway.

    So the computer was programmed and targeted for just one person but at the start of the transport sequence all of a sudden two people are now part of the transport.

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• RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1. The person on the other side isn’t guaranteed to be the same person when rematerialized. There’s the ontological argument that when you’re dematerialized, you die as your physical form is eliminated and that the person appearing on the other side is merely a clone of you, but not you.

  Ah, the ship of Theseus O’Brien.

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• negativenull@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Transporter of Theseus

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  • brezelradar@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As most of the human cells die and get replaced within a few years, humans are already beings of Theseus.

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    • MjolnirThyme@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Roughly every 7 years for most of the body, major organs tend to take longer, more like 10. Your brain replaces cells at a way slower rate, you’ll only Theseus your brain about 80% at best if you live a long healthy life.

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      • brezelradar@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, there is a wide spread in distribution. Blood cells, skin epithelium and some gastric cells only live for a few days.

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    • CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s not true at all.

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• Bonehead@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The person on the other side isn’t guaranteed to be the same person when rematerialized. There’s the ontological argument that when you’re dematerialized, you die as your physical form is eliminated and that the person appearing on the other side is merely a clone of you, but not you.

  [That's just all a bunch of metaphysical nonsense...](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Emory Erickson)

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• reminiscensdeus@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Big agree, do you think they’d let us into Starfleet if we refused to use transporters tho :(

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Didn’t bones refuse to get on that plane?

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That was Mr. T. Easy to confuse the two.

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• Steve@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Another reason why Stargate > Star Trek

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Except the Stargate also dematerializes you. Also there’s no way of guaranteeing that the gate on the other end is open and there’s apparently no safety protocols to ensure that it is so you could open the gate and then step through and just die.

    Oh you know it could be underwater.

    Or in space.

    Or around a black hole in which case you die even if you don’t enter.

    Really they’re actually quite dangerous technology and definitely not safe.

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    • Steve@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You know what? You’re right. I still think Stargate is a superior tv show, but the transporter is better than the stargate.

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    • JWBananas@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also sometimes they accidentally time travel you

      As I recall that was one of the problems with Carter’s control interface. A proper DHD shouldn’t have that issue.

      At least that was the case until it happened again in the Pegasus galaxy. But Stargate never was great about canonical continuity.

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  • Australis13@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Stargates dematerialise travellers too.

    https://stargate-sgc.fandom.com/wiki/Stargate

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  • Gork@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Isn’t that sacrilege on this instance? lol

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The first ever Star Trek tie-in novel, Spock Must Die, dealt with the implications of the first issue you brought up when Spock is accidentally duplicated by the transporter.

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  • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What about Thomas Riker?!

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