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[-] Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago

Ah, the transporter: the cause of, and solution to, many episodes' problems.

[-] Kolrami@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

People are justifiably creeped out by Barkley and his holodeck antics, but the transporter can sneaky clone people and nobody in that universe is suspicious about it.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Its not even a sneaky clone. They straight out copy, vaporize then buffer your ass in some computers chips. They then point your bits and bobs at an end point and slap the "CLONE THERE!" button.

[-] Kolrami@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

They're really casual with that word "buffer." They admit that they always have a copy of you on file just in case. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but when the TNG crew were turned into kids, the transporter folks were like "hey, why don't we just use the old bodies that we have saved in the buffer?"

Side note: if you can do that and retain your memories, by their rules haven't they invented an immortality machine?

[-] DrChaotica@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Side note: if you can do that and retain your memories, by their rules haven’t they invented an immortality machine?

Toss it on the pile with the Khan blood and the rest of the immortality methods we see once and then never hear of again.

[-] JWBananas@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Nah, it wouldn't solve for cellular boredom

[-] zoostation@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

We're sorry to bother you at a time like this, Dr. Crusher. We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then.

[-] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just for those who might not get the reference

https://youtu.be/XFhpctuUwb4?si=lyBUE0dqtj8rrbFD

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Why was Leslie Nielsen never in any Trek? He and Scotty were friends and he would have been an amazing Q

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Be honest, OP, did you come up with this independently, or is it based on my comment?

To be clear, that's a genuine question. It's not like borrowing a joke from Police Squad gives me any real claim to it.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Is there a stated maximum range of the transporter anywhere in the lore?

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