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[Trekker4747]

The replicators use either energy to produce un complex molecular patterns or get the mass from it being stored in resivoirs or energy itself. It doesn't produce out of thin air.

 

[Orphalesion]

The replicators use either energy to produce un complex molecular patterns or get the mass from it being stored in resivoirs or energy itself. It doesn't produce out of thin air.

Well yeah, I never said "out of nothing"

 

[Trekker4747]

Well yeah, I never said "out of nothing"

"True the mass has to come from somewhere...but they do have replicators."

Reads otherwise to me.

 

[Mojochi]

Then Rascals showed you could make someone younger just by removing a certain amount of some genetic code.

They kind of did the same transporter trick, with Pulaski's affliction in Unnatural Selection. Definitely seems like they've stumbled onto some fountain of youth thing there

Yeop that and Thomas Riker proves that they could have potentially resurrected deceased people from their most recent transporter patterns. For all of Trek's claims that their transporters don't make copies they do seem to be able to.

The Tom Riker incident had just as much to do with the unusual nature of the distortion field from which his pattern was reflected as it did their technology. It's an entirely random anomaly, in conjunction with the use of a second transport beam, that created him somehow

 

[Tenacity]

The bigger problem would be that the person would be a clone, not the original.

From the way it's described in the episode, Will and Tom would be more like when a egg divides in the womb resulting in identical twins. Neither is a copy of the other, neither is a reproduction.

They are both the original of the Riker who was being beamed up to the ship when the beam was split by the transporter operator.