The transporter is a constant problem and has been for decades. So, it comes down to inventing tech to break it. Feels as cheap as anything else Trek is doing.
Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 4x06 - "Stormy Weather"
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At least it makes logical sense if you have a jamming field up that prevents transporting.
It fulfills the logical requirements on how to counter said tech.
Otherwise it creates a larger logic gap as to why that person wasn't saved.
One line is all it takes.
It does.
And Star Trek does it a lot. It's not logical but it is what it is.
ETA: And before I get accused of saying that past Trek did something then it is ok Discovery does it, I am not. I find it annoying but I won't take points away for it.
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I've seen situations where IRL people sit there and do nothing while a crime happens in broad daylight in front of them.
It's called "The Bystanderd effect".
But a machine that is well programmed, should be able to do much more.
Theoretically.
I kind of liked Zora singing "Stormy Weather." Yeah, it's contemporary music from the 20th century but at least it's not Talarian metal or rock.
From Deanna's dream sequences.
We've been seeing "SFRA" all over decals designed by the likes of Mike Okuda for decades, and he and Rick Sternbach spelled it out in the Tech Manuals they co-wrote: StarFleet Regulatory Agency.
The anomaly was within inches of the hull and the shields were obviously at the failure point for the hull to be dissolving.
As soon as he was sucked out he was immolated.
There was nothing to beam back in.
Anyway, Zora was still in the midst of her crisis, she will probably regret her actions that resulted in his death for the rest of her existence.
I believe that she thought he would activate his own transporter device in time...
He obviously panicked at the last moment and didn't.
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Thats pretty much all you ever seem to say
And? Would you like me to lie? I state how I feel, and if I don't like something. Currently, I don't care for a lot of Season 4. But, it isn't because of the transporter or someone dying.
Nah, that's just box ticking.
Rookie.
Maybe that's how you feel, you're entitled to that.
But to me, it's part of the greater cohesive logic of the world and the consequences of said tech being used in that world.
You have Zora, an AI that's been monitoring the ship and the crew, yet she couldn't save Cortez.
-_-
Data wouldn't have had that issue if he was connected to the ships main functions and had control over it.
Sure he would. The entire point of that plot line is for that character to have "issues", be it Data, Zora or some other character in a similar situation. The tech is there to fail.
Yup. It was just Cortez's time.
I made the joke in another forum, but if the writers were going to go fanservicey anyway, they could have had her sing Sabotage since it's a famous Captain's favourite piece of classical music. lol
But yeah, like I said, I totally get it but it kills the world building for me. We live in an age where people barely go back to consume media that's from the 90s - which is why everything is being remade instead - so the idea of people in the future being so obsessed with the equivalent of Homer seems rather silly to me.
You and I hang out with very different people.
Also, Trek has repeatedly shown the characters being obsessed with Earth history.
They don't? I hear some of the twentysomethings at work playing songs from 90s, 80s and even the 70's. Rick James' "Super Freak" is very popular with one young woman.
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