Edit: need to hire a proofreader
This is why Q never took the transporter when he was on the Enterprise. Not even in human form.
He knew OBrien would trap him in the buffer.
Even the other Q blocked the Enterprise from transporting the shuttle Q was in when he left the Enterprise as a human.
You’re saying you’ve discovered a potential weakness?
O’Brien scribbles notes onto PADD
This dialog is actually from DS9 Episode Business as Usual when O’Brien had to carry around Kirayoshi. You remember when he brought Yoshi to Ops? It wasn’t to soothe him, it was actually to buffer him while no one was looking.
I heard this story direct from Keiko’s hairdresser so it must be true.
It was tough to divert attention since everyone wanted to see the baby. Sisko, being a good sport (and himself not wanting to be buffered), gave out a stern “Doesn’t anybody work around here?”
O’Brien saw to it that The Sisko would be spared in the great purge to come.
I have not watched this series yet it reminds me of the evil teleportation corporation scheme in schlock mercenary. That what great sci-fi.
The teleporter is a fun scifi device in Trek, it’s both philosophically interesting, and the ambiguity around how it works and what it can do creates some interesting plots and discussions online.
Without spoiling anything, in The Next Generation there’s a character who refuses to use it, in a prequel (Enterprise) there’s a general fear of teleportation. In DS9 there’s an episode where it gets used as a weapon. In Voyager and TNG there are episodes where malfunctions result in some pretty intense moral dilemmas.
The writers of Trek use it to good effect and that’s what makes it my favourite scifi.
The transporters don’t kill you, that one ST:ENT episode with the invented of teleporters proved that
He had to get his lost son back into phase which died shortly after
It seems that all the stuff we’ve seen in star trek suggest the transporters move you through subspace and the weird transporter incidents are likely to just be freak subspace phenomenon that they haven’t accounted for with the transporters
I mean to be honest the writers never really got a handle on how the transporter actually worked. Its mechanics were never as locked down as the various transporters in Stargate. We knew what their limitations were.
If transporters really work the way Star Trek claims there is absolutely no reason they would constantly get blocked by magnesite, random stones, atmospheric interference, or whatever the current MacGuffin of the week is.
If transporters really work the way Star Trek claims there is absolutely no reason they would constantly get blocked by magnesite, random stones, atmospheric interference, or whatever the current MacGuffin of the week is.
Perhaps the things you mention really only interfere with the transporters sensor’s in some way
Skimming memory alpha Magnesite does interfere with sensor and transporter functions but memory alpha doesn’t specify if the transporter function interference is related to the transporter sensors or not
I don’t see how random stones apply here as it could be any kind of stone and you’d have to be more specific, transporters can already discern rocks from people, i think i recall hearing something about subspace shadows somewhere but i cannot recall where i heard it so i cant confirm subspace shadows
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