Continuity of consciousness fans when it’s night time and they have to sleep :woe:
Die every night, only to be resurrected in the morning
<DSBM starts playing>
I’d not be happy about being killed and replaced by my exact clone aspect of the thing.
There’s the plot contrivance of accidentally making two people instead of one (Thomas Riker episode) which opens that door even wider for the notion that new people are being made with each “transport” though I’m sure handwaving that away (or at least cultural normalization of death by disintegration followed by construction of new people in everyday use) is a norm in the setting as well as in the fandom. Dr. McCoy seems anxious about it but goes into the transporter anyway.
most appropriate use of that emoji
Same!
We literally saw a first-person perspective on being transported in the episode where Barclay was overcoming his phobia of them and they don’t even break continuity of consciousness
This is like asking “would you take a bus” and then linking to a video of a fatal bus accident
Except for that one time where it created a clone of Riker, thus proving once and for all that the transporter does not preserve consciousness.
It literally preserved an extra consciousness and didn’t know what to do with it so left it there
if it opened up a subspace wormhole and translated you through i would
but since it destructively scans and then reassembles the scan from matter that’s been converted from energy: absolutely not
if i were to soft reboot star trek’s tech and sci-fi i would change it to the subspace wormhole system. basically a micro warp drive that stretches space and lets you step through
if i were to soft reboot star trek’s tech and sci-fi i would change it to the subspace wormhole system. basically a micro warp drive that stretches space and lets you step through
Something like that was even in an episode of TNG, “The High Ground”. The handwavey “why it’s not used elsewhere” excuse was that it’s harmful to living tissue.
Good episode too, despite the script having quite a few “end of history” brainworms. I know some people complain that it’s a little too on-the-nose regarding political terrorism but sometimes an on-the-nose script is exactly what’s called for. And the main antagonist has that fantastic line “The difference between generals and terrorists, Doctor, is only the difference between winners and losers.”
late reply but i saw that ep as a kid and immediately thought it was about the Troubles. really soured me on the IRA until I realized they were actually a good thing
i forgot all about the subspace teleporters though! it was scary how OP they seemed despite the super cancer. you’d think the Dominion would have no problem handing the tech out to all their slave warriors but hey that’s Star Trek for you. everything is so self-contained until DS9 and maybe Lower Decks
It’s funny you mention the IRA analogy, because that’s the same episode that had some controversy in the UK.
The Dominion always struck me as more of a technology-scavenger organization. Not much R&D of their own, an “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” mentality. Could be that no-one in their part of the galaxy invented something like it.
oh yeah that makes sense. kind of like Star Trek’s version of warhammer 40k’s Imperium
Bruh there’s demons that will eat you in the transporter buffer no shot.
Barclay did nothing wrong
Only if it was made in China.
No way in hell I’m stepping on the X-Porter or whatever the Musk bazinga version will be!
only if i were otherwise doomed at my current location
Absolutely not. Knowing my luck, I would be victim of some bizarre transporter malfunction that splits me into two beings or sends me to the evil universe or some shit.
Hate to break it to you, but we already live in the evil universe
Not nearly enough goatees around for this to be the evil universe. It’s certainly the dumbest universe.
Bizarre transporter malfunction that splits me into two beings
i would love to have a dude around that i can go ‘‘he’s literally me’’ with
Sounds like a good time
Only if I’m allowed to tinker with the pattern buffer first. If I’m getting scanned and squirted through subspace then I want to make a few changes on the version of me that comes out the other side.
As long as I could be assured that it didn’t have one of those Pattern Scrambler things on it
Don’t want to be turned into a pile of randomly assorted meat and bones
Yeah, they do some goofy bullshit where you’re awake the whole time, there’s no continuity of conscious issue with transporters.
would marx or engels step into a star trek teleporter?
I would only put my dick in it. No regrets.
Yes
Yes, I’ve wanted to die quite a lot in my life and being able to repeatedly do it doesn’t seem so bad
