After recent events, I could see the transpoerter either being abandoned entirely, or being restricted to inorganic cargo use only. I could also see them keeping it officially, but with a huge amount of officers refusing to use it unless they had no option, a la McCoy or Pullaski.
Spoilers Will the Federation abandon the transporter?
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Given that we see the transporter in the 32nd Century, I don't think it gets abandoned. Maybe the personal transporter concept helps with the DNA "virus" that the Borg did this season, but it doesn't get abandoned.
Or maybe they do for a time, but it comes back into use. The Federation has been canonically shown to forget the lessons of history time and again.
Probably not. It will be updated with some new filter that will fail at the most dramatically convenient time.
In other words, it's Star Trek.
After World War III, Humanity lost both circuit breaker technology and software firewall technology.
Damn, guess everything turns out okay.
I was sure they were done for this time
Damn, guess everything turns out okay.
I was sure they were done for this time
Unfortunately, 32nd century technology can be defeated by a crying alien brat.
None of these things should have happened if transporters are portrayed on screen as they're supposed to work in the various non-canon technical manuals and dialogue etc. We've never seen biofilters do much of anything (apparently the Reliant's didn't even filter out Ceti eels, despite Strange New Worlds establishing that TOS era transporters already had biofilters).
Strictly speaking, the moment Picard was transported the first time after his recovery from the Borg, the transporter, which has a data log of the person being transported down to the molecular level, should have issued a warning saying, "DNA inconsistencies found in relation to previous instances of transport. Medical evaluation is highly recommended" or something to that effect.
Basically, if transporters operated as we're told in dialogue they operate, with biofilters, etc. the villains' plot in Picard would've been foiled in like the 2nd episode of TNG Season 4.
Strictly speaking, the moment Picard was transported the first time after his recovery from the Borg, the transporter, which has a data log of the person being transported down to the molecular level, should have issued a warning saying, "DNA inconsistencies found in relation to previous instances of transport. Medical evaluation is highly recommended" or something to that effect.
Basically, if transporters operated as we're told in dialogue they operate, with biofilters, etc. the villains' plot in Picard would've been foiled in like the 2nd episode of TNG Season 4.
Well, whenever the computer closes a door it opens a window.And 24th Century computers can't open more than one window at a time.
Really bad programming.
Tech only works to support drama, not the other way around, unfortunately.
All that means is the villains found a way to neutralize that failsafe and fool the computer into thinking everyone's biology was as it was supposed to be.
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