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
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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