#StarTrek Nerd Talk

Transporters:

1) kill you here, rebuild you there
2) kill you here, build a new you there
3) turn you into a newt (matter stream) but you get better?

In other words, is there continuity of personhood in transporters? Image
#StarTrek is full of very smart people. Would they walk into a Kill You Now, Resurrect You Later machine?

Yet from very early on (episode 5), we see the transporter building a duplicate. That raises an issue that its a high tech Xerox (later two Rikers) Image
Many people in #StarTrek don't seem religious (no Father Mulcahy figure), but many Bajorans are. Would Bajorans, especially Bajoran spiritual leaders, use transporter technology if there was any question? ImageImage
Now you can point to this episode or that, but #StarTrek is not the best for either continuity or even logic. No matter what happens in transport, how could you have a conversation like Kirk and Saavik? (Or the Barkley episode stuff) Image
How can Kirk and Saavik have a conversation during beaming? That suggest neither deconstruction nor reconstruction, but simple movement (quantum tunneling magic?)

Okay - but then how do we get Two Kirks or Two Rikers if its just shunting cars and moving freight? ImageImage
Crewman Green beams back to the Enterprise, but that isn't the Crewman Green that beamed down - its that Outer Limits like salt vampire. So, all this pattern buffer talk seems malarkey. ImageImage

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