They go in…
So you’re telling me … that when a starship is doing long haul travel across a long stretch that will take days or weeks … the Federation could save tons of energy and resources by just storing away all the crew into the transport buffer so that there wouldn’t be a need to feed, heat, sustain, create an atmosphere, entertain or make anyone comfortable for all that travel time?
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Something would definitely go wrong. It always does.
Either everyone would get merged into a single individual, or you’d end up with two of everyone and half of them would join a terrorist organization.
You end up with one giant Giga-ultra-enterprise crew as one single monstrous entity … it’s extremely intelligent and unbelievably strong … and every time you transport it, it is reassembled into a new combination … transport one, the head and face is Picard … transport two, it’s Worf … transport three its more feminine as Beverly … etc ,etc.
Eventually it’s going to become some random low level security officer and then it’s going to trip over a random rock on an away mission and be killed.
There’s a weed joke in there and I need it…
Apparently, yes they could
I love how even the Borg wouldn’t entertain the idea of relying on a transport buffer to minimize its necessary crew during any lengthy trip. Sure, they don’t need much to sustain, but their required energy output must be substantial.
edit: surely, they just put unnecessary crew into “sleep mode,” which I guess is close enough.
I’d be the guy telling the Cyrus Ramsey story while we waited in the transporter room for our turn to be bufferized.
“fictional”
That’s what Section 31 wants us to believe.
The transporter on the Enterprise A was terrifying
Old Scotty or Youngish Scotty, I can’t choose! A Scotty centric episode is a good indicator of radness.
And Scotty provided the seriousness that Khan was dangerous to the ship when he brought his dead nephew to Kirk. When Scotty changes attitude, shit got real.
Was that in the series or the 2nd movie? I honestly can’t remember.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Blood and radiation burns and torture. The writers upped the ante.
What about Welshie?
I wish the made a time travel movie with both Scotties
This actor was so good, he elevated that ep to something memorably scary.
Broccoli was legit. The character could have been a 2d pervert but had more.
The D had plenty of people to make things weird. You’re right, he was more. Cruel recruitment algorithmn forced him to work in the most stressful environment in Starfleet. Fragile genius!
He gets a lot of redemption in Voyager, IMO.
Yeah! He becomes the bestie of whoever Janeway hasn’t killed. ;)
Didn’t he create a mind reading super computer on the holo deck at some point.
It’s Barclay sir. But I understand that mixing up the syllables can lead to this blunder.
You missed the joke
Macniel is doubling down on the joke, sir. Time to pop another one in the buffer pattern prison. 🥶
One thing I like about Enterprise is how nervous they are, especially at first, about the transporter. They never do use it regularly, like in the other series. The default is the shuttle pod. It feels like a very realistic reaction to the new technology.
It’s not even remotely unrealistic to have people in the 24th century actively avoiding transport, despite it’s obiquitousness.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletransportation_paradox
We would just never know. Hell, the suspicious people are basically proved right by the endless amount of transporter accidents there are. Especially the case of William Thomas Riker.
Tldr there’d be absolutely no way to verify the transporter isn’t actively killing everyone it transports and making perfect clones of them.
What is a man? What has he got? If not himself, then he has naught.
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels
I teleported home last night with Ron and Sid and Meg,
Ron stole Meggy’s heart away and I got Sidney’s leg.– Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
