i always figured that the transporter was ultimately just a scanner and the beaming in process is the same as being replicated, but the replication has to be done while the scanner is running because there’s simply too much data to actually store long-term unless you’re willing to use the whole ship/station/whatever as a buffer, like that one DS9 episode. and i guess the scan requires a level of detail it can only get from the source destructively which is why it isn’t a clone unless the beam gets reflected? or something? this is one of those things that makes less sense the more you try and figure it, and suddenly a literal matter stream somehow seems more feasible
maybe ships have Einstein Compensators or some shit allowing 1:1 matter energy conversion but it only works on transporters so you can’t make a perpetual energy machine? i need to lie down
The destruction has to be intentional, since a transport can also be canceled midway. Also remember the Voyager episode where they stored an entire ships crew in the transport buffers for extended periods of time to circumvent some racist patrols that would attack them otherwise
Perhaps Voyager had more storage in its systems, due to being a newer model of ship? It was more advanced in a bunch of other ways as well (variable geometry nacelles, class 9 warp drive).
i always figured that the transporter was ultimately just a scanner and the beaming in process is the same as being replicated, but the replication has to be done while the scanner is running because there’s simply too much data to actually store long-term unless you’re willing to use the whole ship/station/whatever as a buffer, like that one DS9 episode. and i guess the scan requires a level of detail it can only get from the source destructively which is why it isn’t a clone unless the beam gets reflected? or something? this is one of those things that makes less sense the more you try and figure it, and suddenly a literal matter stream somehow seems more feasible
maybe ships have Einstein Compensators or some shit allowing 1:1 matter energy conversion but it only works on transporters so you can’t make a perpetual energy machine? i need to lie down
Thanks for your contribution to this nonsensical discussion.
The destruction has to be intentional, since a transport can also be canceled midway. Also remember the Voyager episode where they stored an entire ships crew in the transport buffers for extended periods of time to circumvent some racist patrols that would attack them otherwise
Perhaps Voyager had more storage in its systems, due to being a newer model of ship? It was more advanced in a bunch of other ways as well (variable geometry nacelles, class 9 warp drive).