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Is beaming down in Star Trek a death sentence?
Most discussions of this are strictly idle ponderings. This one goes in depth and examines what the show itself has to say about transporters.
It’s a long one, so bring a snack.
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I didn’t read the whole thing. I always thought of the transporter taking your actual atoms and sending them somewhere else. However, there was that episode where it made two copies of Riker. I think the StarGate would have the same kind of questions
Oddly, they didn’t really address that episode
If they don’t wipe the data pattern buffer after each transport, the thing becomes the greatest cloning engine that ever was.
On the gripping hand, if it’s connected to the medical database, it ought to be able to repair every wound, disease, scar, and DNA breakdown in your body in the process, so it’s
a floor wax and a dessert toppinga location shifter and the fountain of youth all in one.CGP Grey did a video on this a year ago — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYI