Transporters Yay/Nay

[Butters]

So you're at the technology fair and on display is the world's first teleport, Star Trek style. As we all know, it scans the original, destroying it in the process, and reconstitutes it elsewhere. Lots of people are trying it out and they all seem unharmed by the experience. You're offered a trip to anywhere and back again. What do you say?

 

[BillJ]

Hell no.

 

[Distorted Humor]

Nope, but I would figure out how to split the stream so to speak so another copy is created elsewhere. Tom Riker will not be alone. That, and I would be afraid of something like Whipping star happening....

 

[C.E. Evans]

Yes. The person who emerges at the end of the process will still be me in every way that counts--same looks, memories, beliefs, and skills. It'd be a different story if that wasn't the case, but otherwise I don't have a problem being dematerialized in one place and rematerialized somewhere else. The cells in my body now aren't the same ones I was born with anyway...

 

[Timo]

..I won't mind having my suddenly truncated life continued by my identical twin. Especially if the teleporter really takes me "anywhere" and back, rather than just a few thousand kilometers away like its Trek counterpart. With suitable protection, I'd love to do a quick tour of the various highlights of our own solar system, then take a trip to somewhere spectacular and distant like the place in "Where No One Has Gone Before".

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Rom's Sehlat]

I would be one of the people who want its testing to proceed, but I would wait for thousands of people to go through it before me.

 

[scotpens]

Before stepping onto that thing, I'd make damn sure there wasn't a fly within a hundred feet of me.

 

[SchwEnt]

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?

What, your brain is concurrently disintegrated so that prevents the pain from registering as a sensation?
And what of the after effects?

 

[Hawku]

I'd try it, but I'd need a few drinks first.

 

[Tiberius]

As long as whatever comes out the other end isn't me, I won't. Even if it's an exact copy of me, I won't.

 

[Colonel Midnight]

It wouldn't a transporter thread unless we have this wonderful quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

I teleported home one night
With Ron and Sid and Meg.
Ron stole Meggie's heart away
And I got Sidney's leg.

Cheers,
-CM-

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

We have seen in "Realm of Fear" that a person's consciousness continues unharmed throughout the transport process, so I don't see the downside here. You don't die and get replaced by a duplicate of you; your *body* is duplicated, but your mind - soul, if it were - stays the same.

 

[BillJ]

We have seen in "Realm of Fear" that a person's consciousness continues unharmed throughout the transport process, so I don't see the downside here. You don't die and get replaced by a duplicate of you; your *body* is duplicated, but your mind - soul, if it were - stays the same.

Which makes no sense. The thing essentially disintegrates you.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Well, if you get right down to it, NO part of the transporter makes sense in a scientific way. But we have to go with what they show us.

 

[sbk1234]

I sure as hell wouldn't be one of the first on that damn thing. Maybe after a few hundred thousand have safely gone through...

 

[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]

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]

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.