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Poopernickel
Oct 28, 2005

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I always wondered how come they didn't just keep a backup copy of the command staff in the transport buffer at all times.

Oh, picard got trapped in a cave? No big deal, just materialize the backup copy out of the transport buffer and onto the bridge

Make it so, transporter chief o'brien

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Poopernickel
Oct 28, 2005

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CainFortea posted:

Takes a poo poo ton of power.

Scotty kept himself in the transport buffer on his jank-rear end ship for like 50 years so it's 100% doable

"Let the borg have him, we've got a backup copy"

Poopernickel
Oct 28, 2005

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do you guys remember the one where broccoli reached out of the transporter stream and grabbed onto some squiggly aliens?

like how does that even work

Poopernickel
Oct 28, 2005

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vyelkin posted:

the smartest star trek character was that lady who was the enterprise's doctor for season 2 of tng because she didn't trust the teleporter and always took shuttles instead

she was in TOS also, joining the ranks of scotty, bones, and majel barrett

Poopernickel
Oct 28, 2005

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Raskolnikov38 posted:

you are just an incredibly complex chemical computer.

More like a meat android

Poopernickel
Oct 28, 2005

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Raskolnikov38 posted:

wait polaski was in tos???

a couple of times as different characters, yeah

Poopernickel
Oct 28, 2005

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OMGVBFLOL posted:

and how small do the pieces have to be? does the person have to be atomized or is killing them enough? can the scan just scan them, transmit the scan, and then dump them out an airlock or feed them into a big grinder?

does the person gasping in vacuum or ground to a pulp not "die" because the copy exists? If so, how long can elapse before the killing for them to not "die". can we give em like a day of overlap with the copy to bang hookers and pound six gram rocks? can the person who got scanned just go off and live a normal life and die of prostate cancer and it still counts as "not dying" if the copy outlives them?

Well you see,

Poopernickel
Oct 28, 2005

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"I should rig the transporter up to duplicate people without them knowing, then make an evil army of clones and convince them that they're the originals."

- Transporter Chief Miles O'Brien, just before he was removed from transporter duty and transferred to the middle of nowhere

Poopernickel fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Feb 11, 2020

Poopernickel
Oct 28, 2005

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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

Only if souls aren't real, which as established are real in Star Trek.

What about Tom Riker?

Poopernickel
Oct 28, 2005

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Transporters are demonstrated to be capable of:

1. Remove weapons mid-transport
2. Remove viruses
3. Age or de-age somebody
4. Beam poop from my bowels directly into the captain's lunch
5. Clone somebody
6. Access alternate dimensions
7. Make and store a backup copy

And the crew's just using 'em to gently caress around going to planets and stuff. Sad.

Poopernickel fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Feb 12, 2020

Poopernickel
Oct 28, 2005

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In my gritty TNG reboot, the bridge crew just gets transporter-cloned for every away mission. Then they get vaporized on the off-chance that they survived the mission.

And the actual bridge-crew just plays out holodeck gently caress fantasies like 24/7.

Also the Lexx shows up at some point.

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Poopernickel
Oct 28, 2005

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The most inventive transporter thing was that one DS9 episode where the killer had a gun that transported bullets mid-flight.

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