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LoglineAn accident with an experimental quantum probability field causes everyone on the USS Enterprise to break uncontrollably into song, but the real danger is that the field is expanding and beginning to impact other ships—allies and enemies alike.


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[-] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The main thing that bugged me with M'Benga's daughter is that they've basically just retconned how many people understand the way they can use the transporter buffer that was seemingly novel to the TNG folk when they came across Scotty inside of one during Relics. Geordi was all like "what is going on with this transporter" but this season you have Chapel and M'Benga using it as an active stasis system for triage purposes. (Although now that I read what I wrote, that's just like two more people who know it, and using the Klingon war as a way to establish the knowledge is pretty good.)

Just kind of seems like it would either be more widespread of a use-case in medical scenarios or have some kind of super major drawback in addition to storage capacity like general degradation. Then it would make sense that Scotty pulled another miracle and kept himself from degrading for 100 years.

[-] TheGayTramp@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

I’m fairly certain there was a throwaway line from Scotty about how he tweaked something to keep the buffer running for so long

[-] lowvisnitpicker@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the part that puzzled Geordi was the transporter was able to hold a pattern for nearly 80 years. SNW shows M'Benga had to pull his daughter out periodically to keep her pattern from degrading.

[-] LibraryLass@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

It does though. As the others said, Scotty did have to jury-rig some modifications for long-term storage and even then he wasn't able to save the other survivor long-term.

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