What happened to Lore?

[bbjeg]

They recorded both events in their logs. I've seen them reduplicate many fields and energies. Hypothetically, they can generate the field used to duplicate Riker, then duplicate the age reduction that those "Rascals" went through and, voila, you have teleporter cloning that one could use to live forever.

 

[Terok Nor]

I am willing to believe all that self betterment stuff in TNG, but I will not believe that people would not bring back dead if were possible. It would totally undermine every death in the series. Hell, think the lengths Kirk went to bring Spock back.

To be fair Seven Of Nine had the ability to bring Neelix back to life (and sadly did) but she never used it for anyone else who died. There's also a cure for death in the JJVerse. Star Trek just chooses to ignore the fact death has no meaning because it would limit the drama otherwise.

 

[Longinus]

They recorded both events in their logs. I've seen them reduplicate many fields and energies. Hypothetically, they can generate the field used to duplicate Riker, then duplicate the age reduction that those "Rascals" went through and, voila, you have teleporter cloning that one could use to live forever.

And I say they cannot do it because we don't see them doing it or ever discuss the possibility of doing so.

 

[bbjeg]

Like I said before, ethics are probably stopping them.

 

[Longinus]

What ethics? It makes no sense. And why would every known culture have these same ethics?

 

[JirinPanthosa]

That doesn't stop our heroes from killing criminals. It's not "death penalty", it's simply a mechanism by which the criminal forfeits his, her or its life.

Timo Saloniemi

Characters kill criminals if they are actively a threat to themselves or innocent bystanders. If they lay down their arms and surrender or they are otherwise rendered harmless killing comes off the table.

I don't think it's ethics stopping them to allow people to live forever so much as writer's contrivance. Just because something was established in one episode doesn't mean it counts in any other episode. They also forgot the Too Short A Season drug exists.

Just like in Avatar, they try to get the Unobtainium by destroying the sacred tree, and pay no attention to fact that the tree can be used to transfer consciousness from one body to another and they can just make bodies, so taking the tree intact would get give them an immortality solution. They aren't opposed to discovering immortality or dumb enough not to realize that would be even more profitable than the ore, just them thinking of that would ruin the writer's plans.

 

[bbjeg]

What ethics? It makes no sense. And why would every known culture have these same ethics?

I didn't say every known culture, I'm talking about Starfleet. They totally have the tech to live forever but I bet Prime Directive says they can't, right next to no genetic modifications.

In fact, ancient Bajorans are currently living forever in the wormhole.