Yeah the transporter can stop a phaser in mid discharge. Why not also just clean out your bowels for you. In fact why even get up and shit and shower in the morning. Seems like the transporter could beam you out of bed and do all of that for you.
In the Star Trek universe, I’ve realized it’s not too good to think about how many problems transporter could solve. It would be obvious if you were in-universe and using transporters a lot.
For example, how often could a problem be solved by transporting an enemy into space or by starting a transport and then intentionally purging their pattern from the buffer?
Quite often, I suspect. Technically, they should be able to use the transporter and buffer to copy and save the state of people too.
Log all the lifesigns on the ship. This is done every morning, or whenever people board or leave the ship, or just before people head out on an away mission.
Compare log to previous saved log. If there’s any difference, notify command to investigate.
When beaming an away party back, beam them directly into quarantine until they’ve been checked against their medical records, or the pre-transport saved state.
If the ship is boarded during an attack, beam all non-registered lifeforms into space (or into the replicator nutrient pool for reuse)
If an away team member is killed, restore from your transporter backup.
Struggling with an engineering problem? Copy a few more Geordies from the stored transporter state.
Yeah the transporter can stop a phaser in mid discharge. Why not also just clean out your bowels for you. In fact why even get up and shit and shower in the morning. Seems like the transporter could beam you out of bed and do all of that for you.
In the Star Trek universe, I’ve realized it’s not too good to think about how many problems transporter could solve. It would be obvious if you were in-universe and using transporters a lot.
For example, how often could a problem be solved by transporting an enemy into space or by starting a transport and then intentionally purging their pattern from the buffer?
Quite often, I suspect. Technically, they should be able to use the transporter and buffer to copy and save the state of people too.
It might slightly ruin the drama.
That’s how you get a ship full of amoral Garys.