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That Voyager is one clean burning starship though, I’ll tell you what. (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (39 children)

I never understood how transporters are not basically used as quicksave devices. Redshirt died on the planet after beaming down? Just create another copy from the transporter puffer. Tuvix deserves to live. Sure, just recreate tuvok and Neelix from the transporter puffer.

Edit: "Transporter puffer" may come from me watching the German dub

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Transporters become horrifying when you think of them as something obliterating all your molecules then recreating them somewhere else. The thing that comes out the other side has all your memories and personality and looks the same… but you 100% died when you got vaporized in the teleport.

I would never do it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For more information, watch the documentary "The Prestige"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Oh man, that was a crazy reveal. And he kept them all!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If it has my memories and affects the world the way I would, that's me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Look at any photograph or work of art. If you could duplicate exactly the first tiny dot of color, and then the next and the next, you would end with a perfect copy of the whole, indistinguishable from the original in every way, including the so-called "moral value" of the art itself. Nothing can transcend its smallest elements.

CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Ethics of Greed"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So... don't think of them like that. They clearly don't work that way in Trek.

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