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Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
Can a ghost travel through the trainspotter??

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Commie Lasorda
May 15, 2009

IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!

Zzulu posted:

:shroom:So if we ever invent teleporters that break us down and reassemble us at another point, will it be considered death each time? Or just like, temporary suspension? If you are completely disassembled but then put together again did you truly ever die? Is death even real? :okpos: Like, what if souls are real and every time you teleport a new guy is created and a new soul is created or what happens if you teleport but then the teleporter shuts down and your molecules just get frozen in transit and then 20 years later someone activates the teleporter and you are revived and :420: :420: :420:

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

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oh god i accidentally teleported his skeleton but forgot his body :whitewater:

Commie Lasorda
May 15, 2009

IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!
Also I think that Commandant Pee is p cool at least that's what I think his name is since he's always called numbah one

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

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can you please teleport all the fatt off of my body I need to lose some weight

Tricky D
Apr 1, 2005

I love um!

hemale in pain posted:

oh my god im so angry. everyone knows that holodeck food is replicated food and not just holograms.

If you spend an extended period of time living on the holodeck and eating holodeck food, when you finally leave, amino acids scattered throughout your body disappear and you melt into a puddle of bones and goop.

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

Tricky D posted:

If you spend an extended period of time living on the holodeck and eating holodeck food, when you finally leave, amino acids scattered throughout your body disappear and you melt into a puddle of bones and goop.

Star Track is loving metal.

Phobic Nest
Oct 2, 2013

You Are My Sunshine

Zzulu posted:

can you please teleport all the fatt off of my body I need to lose some weight

In the future you'll wanna be fat, the trend's already underway.

Same goes for baldness, they can cure fattiness and baldiness but don't cuz ugly is beauty and everything's upside down.

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
Who would win in a fight between Deep Space 9 and Babylon 5?

I say Babylon 5 because it's not an idea Paramount stole from J. Michael Straczynski.

dads_work_files
May 14, 2008

important_document.avi

consciousnesw isnt a physical object you clot so it doesbt matter if you destroy the body when you teleport it as long as there remains a contiguous strand of mremories and thoughts

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
So... you're all... astronauts on... some kind of Suicide Squad?

Lucky Guy
Jan 24, 2013

TY for no bm

Zzulu posted:

oh god i accidentally teleported his skeleton but forgot his body :whitewater:

it's ok ensign, captain spooky is a Skeletonian, he's supposed to look like that

it's understandable that you don't know about his people, aliens that aren't just humans with hosed up ears and faces are pretty rare

Booblord Zagats
Oct 30, 2011


Pork Pro
I like Riker because he refuses to sit in a chair like a normal goddamed person

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

Booblord Zagats posted:

I like Riker because he refuses to sit in a chair like a normal goddamed person

What no video?
Here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVIGhYMwRgs

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
Lest we forget: Gene Roddenberry was an unrepentant horndog (a man after my own heart) and originally wanted the character of Troi to have four boobs.

Gatekeeper
Aug 3, 2003

He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.
picker only died in encounter of farpoint if that was the first time he ever teleported goofballs

obv he's been dead for decades and all you ever see are his fresh ghosts

why don't you "engage" your critical thinking and "make it so" you don't sound so stupid

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

Gatekeeper posted:

picker only died in encounter of farpoint if that was the first time he ever teleported goofballs

obv he's been dead for decades and all you ever see are his fresh ghosts

why don't you "engage" your critical thinking and "make it so" you don't sound so stupid

I considered that before making my post, obviously in terms of series chronology he's probably been dead since his academy days, but the first time he actually died during an episode was Encounter at Farpoint.

Lucky Guy
Jan 24, 2013

TY for no bm

they made a star trek porno, maybe several

is the first one called Encounter at Fappoint?

Hammerite
Mar 9, 2007

And you don't remember what I said here, either, but it was pompous and stupid.
Jade Ear Joe

Lucky Guy posted:

they made a star trek porno, maybe several

is the first one called Encounter at Fappoint?

the best porn star trek is deep space nine inches

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
Star Track Trivia:

* The Ferengi originally had giant noses instead of giant ears, but their character design was changed at the last second so as not to appear anti Semitic.

* PHASER is an acronmyn for "Plasmitic Heat lASER"

* The show's creators really did their research: Within the show, the fictional speed "Warp factor 10" is actually faster than the speed of light. This means that any ship to achieve Warp 10 automatically goes back in time, just like in Einstein's theory.

* Capt Janeway was not the first female Starfleet captain. The unnamed Black woman captain of the USS Saratoga in Star Trek IV beat her by almost 9 years!

* Spocks are a fictional race dedicated to logic, but Tuvok often shows irritation when arguing with his best friend Nelax.

* The team behind Star Trek were avid anime fans and often worked references to their favorite anime, "Dirty Pair" into the show. This is most noticeable in the episode where Troi appears on screen wearing Yuri's costume from Dirty Pair and accidentally sits on a button to launch missiles, destroying an inhabited moon.

*The telepathic thing between Troi and Ricker that appeared in the pilot was actually in the script for every episode, but removed during editing.

*The character of Capt Picard never farts even once over the course of the series. This was in Patrick Stewart's contract and if he farted during the filming of any scene they were obligated to reshoot.

* When the series was released in HD for the first time, viewers could see the strings holding up the Enterprise D model.

Lucky Guy
Jan 24, 2013

TY for no bm

Hammerite posted:

the best porn star trek is deep space nine inches

nice

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
More trivia:

The ST:TNG episode "The Drumhead" was remade, shot for shot, into the Battlestar Galactica season 1 episode "Litmus."

Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house
The idea that you die when you're remade in a teleporter is pretty stupid and pre-supposes there's some part of you that can't be broken down into a simple chemical process.

Consciousness is an illusion, our thoughts are merely chemical and electrical impulses imperfectly formed thanks to our fleshy parts. I'd assume they've reached the point where an exact 1:1 copy can be made, down to a molecular level, meaning that the question of whether or not you're the same person is akin to religious mumbo jumbo on whether or not there is a soul.

There isn't. It's the same person going in and coming out.

a whole buncha crows
May 8, 2003

WHEN WE DON'T KNOW WHO TO HATE, WE HATE OURSELVES.-SA USER NATION (AKA ME!)
i like the sex planet

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

Ddraig posted:

The idea that you die when you're remade in a teleporter is pretty stupid and pre-supposes there's some part of you that can't be broken down into a simple chemical process.

Consciousness is an illusion, our thoughts are merely chemical and electrical impulses imperfectly formed thanks to our fleshy parts. I'd assume they've reached the point where an exact 1:1 copy can be made, down to a molecular level, meaning that the question of whether or not you're the same person is akin to religious mumbo jumbo on whether or not there is a soul.

There isn't. It's the same person going in and coming out.

Counterpoint: if you were to make an exact atomic replica of you, you would not suddenly have access to that individual's subjective experience, even if he or she had all your memories.

Neither would your subjective experience travel to the exact duplicate if the original is destroyed.

Whether or not you believe in a soul, there's pretty strong evidence against the idea that an individual can "survive" being atomized even if you put them back together using the same atoms.

hemale in pain
Jun 5, 2010




we know that in star trek your aware throughout the teleportation process and that you don't die. that's dealt with in enterptise episode with the creator of the teleporter.

in real life who cares because we're all going to be long dead before we can teleport people

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

Applewhite posted:

The moment he voluntarily stepped into a machine that shredded him into his component atoms.

Later those atoms were used in the assembly of an impostor being which falsely believed itself to be Picard.

also, all events on the show are actually psychotic hallucinations, as it is impossible to exceed the speed of light

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl
the federation is also actually a hellish dystopia which brainwashes everyone. heh, you can keep your communism; i'll take the wonderful fruits of free markets :smug:

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl
if phasers "vaporize" someone, it should fill the whole room with a cloud of lethal steam. myth... busted

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

also, all events on the show are actually psychotic hallucinations, as it is impossible to exceed the speed of light

Ohh. Suddenly the slow zoom out of Patrick Stewart's eyeball, revealing him to be bound up in a strait jacket in a padded cell in a secure mental institution at the end of the last episode makes a lot more sense.

TwoFire
Sep 11, 2001

by Ralp

Applewhite posted:

Ohh. Suddenly the slow zoom out of Patrick Stewart's eyeball, revealing him to be bound up in a strait jacket in a padded cell in a secure mental institution at the end of the last episode makes a lot more sense.

id rather watch a mad man then mad men wait gently caress

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl
let's pray for sir patrick stewart's health and sanity. thanks and "god bless"

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

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What happens if two redshirts step into the teleporter and beam into the exact same spot. Do they fuse? Do they explode?

TwoFire
Sep 11, 2001

by Ralp

Zzulu posted:

What happens if two redshirts step into the teleporter and beam into the exact same spot. Do they fuse? Do they explode?

they eventually boil over in gbs hth

Clipperton
Dec 20, 2011
Grimey Drawer

Yolomon Wayne posted:

Furthermore, you could alter the backup to give yourself a bigger dick or tits before restoring yourself a few dozen times.

both please

dozens of them

Hammerite
Mar 9, 2007

And you don't remember what I said here, either, but it was pompous and stupid.
Jade Ear Joe

Ddraig posted:

The idea that you die when you're remade in a teleporter is pretty stupid and pre-supposes there's some part of you that can't be broken down into a simple chemical process.

Consciousness is an illusion, our thoughts are merely chemical and electrical impulses imperfectly formed thanks to our fleshy parts. I'd assume they've reached the point where an exact 1:1 copy can be made, down to a molecular level, meaning that the question of whether or not you're the same person is akin to religious mumbo jumbo on whether or not there is a soul.

There isn't. It's the same person going in and coming out.

:sparkles: <--- captain janeway beming up

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
If consciousness is an "illusion," who is being decieved? Checkmate, anti-consciousness people :smug:

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

Applewhite posted:

If consciousness is an "illusion," who is being decieved? Checkmate, anti-consciousness people :smug:

wow.. i.... im gonna have to think about this one for awhile

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Applewhite posted:

How do the Klingobs fly spaceships when nerdy stuff like knowing how to make a spaceship work is seen as shameful in their society?

if you have high tech stuff, then it means even more nerds to beat up.

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TwoFire
Sep 11, 2001

by Ralp

etalian posted:

if you have high tech stuff, then it means even more nerds to beat up.

like everyone in this thread :twisted:

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