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"That Which Survives" question

Hello all,
In the episode "That Which Survives" Spock states that the Enterprise was put through a matter transporter, teleported 990.7 light years and reassembled slightly out of phase. I was just thinking what an enormous computational task was required to detect that phase variance, With current computer technology transporting just one individual would require the storage capacity of hard drives stacked from Earth to the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Not taking into account the uncertainty principal, Knowing the ideal atomic state of a starship and her crew on a molecular level would rival even The Next Generations best computers. How do you think they accomplished this monumental feat?
 
Um... lucky guess?

That, or maybe someone should have looked for a 'Made in Magrathea' plaque somewhere on that moon.
 
The 990.7 light year was okay back in the sixties but nowadays people are comparing it to the distances that the USS Voyager was hurled to in Star Trek:Voyager and calling out error, error..non sequitar in the series canon!
JB
 
It just goes to show that Transporters in Star Trek really can't operate on the "scan, disintegrate, duplicate" principle after all. Maybe some form of quantum tunnelling instead?
 
To help explain this, I propose that a previously unknown elementary particle exists - let's call it a "put-on". The O.P. knows all about those.:guffaw:
 
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