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Ah, the transporter: the cause of, and solution to, many episodes' problems.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Nah, it wouldn't solve for cellular boredom
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.
Why was Leslie Nielsen never in any Trek? He and Scotty were friends and he would have been an amazing Q
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.
Is there a stated maximum range of the transporter anywhere in the lore?