Transporters Yay/Nay

[Gary7]

Only if it purifies my DNA and resets my age to 22.

[Paradon]

I think I'd take the shuttle if that were the case! [laugh] I don't even like flying, so why would I let myself be teleported.

[RocksW]

I always assumed it would transfer your consciousness, like preserve your brainwaves but destroy your body... is that true? if so id vote yay, if not nay.

[GNDN]

Paradon wrote:

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I think I'd take the shuttle if that were the case! [laugh] I don't even like flying, so why would I let myself be teleported.

AAAAaaaaahhhhhh... that makes perfect sense. You don't like flying. So given a choice between transporting or flying in a shuttle, you would choose flying.




Hey, wait a minute

[C.E. Evans]

SchwEnt wrote:

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I know it's never been shown to be true in ST.
But you know what? I bet it HURTS to be transported.

Your body is dematerialized while you're conscious.
How can it NOT hurt?

I think the only time we saw someone scream during transport was during the malfunction in TMP. Barclay didn't seem to be in any pain when we witnessed him being transported in "Realm of Fear."

What, your brain is concurrently disintegrated so that prevents the pain from registering as a sensation?

Probably. Or the transporter process reduces it to a mild tingly sensation that lasts only a few seconds.

[Satyrquaze]

I'd like to point out that the people who are saying "yes" are all presuming it'll work at 100% efficiency... all those parts made by the lowest bidder. Hell, it doesn't always work in the 24th century, 200 years after its creation. And we're talking about the first one available for public (Human) use.

"No, you won't feel any pain, your pain receptors will be reduced to atoms and scattered across thousands of miles."

[C.E. Evans]

Satyrquaze wrote:

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I'd like to point out that the people who are saying "yes" are all presuming it'll work at 100% efficiency...

It would have to be, or else it wouldn't be deemed safe for public transport at all.

[The Mirrorball Man]

The transporter KILLS you and then creates a perfect duplicate of you somewhere else, a duplicate who has every single one of your memories except the moment of your DEATH. That's why people in the Star Trek universe think that transporters are safe. It's because people DIE every time they step onto that thing, but they can't warn anybody.

[Satyrquaze]

C.E. Evans wrote:

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It would have to be, or else it wouldn't be deemed safe for public transport at all.

Two words: The Titanic.

And again... these things don't always work properly in the 24th century.

[BillJ]

The Mirrorball Man wrote:

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The transporter KILLS you and then creates a perfect duplicate of you somewhere else, a duplicate who has every single one of your memories except the moment of your DEATH. That's why people in the Star Trek universe think that transporters are safe. It's because people DIE every time they step onto that thing, but they can't warn anybody.

[C.E. Evans]

Satyrquaze wrote:

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Two words: The Titanic.

One word: irrelevant.

And again... these things don't always work properly in the 24th century.

They either work or they don't work. When they don't work, nobody goes anywhere.

[BillJ]

C.E. Evans wrote:

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They either work or they don't work. When they don't work, nobody goes anywhere.

Tell that to poor Commander Sonak.

[C.E. Evans]

BillJ wrote:

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Tell that to poor Commander Sonak.

That was a costly operator's error. It would otherwise not have happened at all if someone had been paying attention that the Enterprise's transporter wasn't working right--it's the reason why Kirk boarded the ship by travel pod. Any other time, if the transporter was faulty, no one would be beamed anywhere until it was fixed as was the case both before and after that incident.

[Satyrquaze]

What about Evil Kirk, the Mirror Universe, Sisko, Bashir and Dax who were accidentally transported to the year 2024, by an explosion in a microscopic singularity while passing through the solar system at the time of the beam-out, or how about when most of the command staff of DS9 were tranferred to the Holosuite as holograms, Tuvix, Weyoun 5... just sayin...

[C.E. Evans]

Satyrquaze wrote:

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What about Evil Kirk, the Mirror Universe, Sisko, Bashir and Dax who were accidentally transported to the year 2024, by an explosion in a microscopic singularity while passing through the solar system at the time of the beam-out, or how about when most of the command staff of DS9 were tranferred to the Holosuite as holograms, Tuvix, Weyoun 5... just sayin...

Nice try, but those were generally the result of "weird spacey stuff" happening and no one died during those instances except for Weyoun 5 (which appears to have been a deliberate act of murder). Evil Kirk and Tuvix were successfully reintegrated to their original selves. And the transfer of DS9 command staff into a holosuite was done to keep them alive after a runabout explosion.