Because then Tuvix would still exist. And that flies in the face of all that is holy.
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InevitableWaffles@midwest.social 16 hours ago
I never understood why they didn’t just use the transporter to recreate Tuvok and Neelix. You have their patterns on file when they last transported. Just leave him alive and duplicate those two and you get both scenarios. We have seen examples of duplicates throughout the show. I know this isn’t really the point, but it’s always felt needlessly contentious when the writers could have just done it.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Because the point was the moral question.
data1701d@startrek.website 14 hours ago
From what I can tell, their patterns are only on file during the transport, after which they are discarded. They imply it takes a lot of power and data storage to transport, meaning that they can’t just store everyone’s patterns.
There is an instance in beta canon, but just knowing that transporters and the title are related might spoil the entire plot. Thus, I am using nested spoilers so that people can check if it might be something they’re going to read without knowing exactly which thing it is.
Spoiler for IDW Trek comics
::: spoiler IDW Lower Decks comics/graphic novels spoiler ::: spoiler Warp Your Own Way Spoiler Someone does overcome the power and storage problem and figures out how to make unlimited copies of a person, using this to repeatedly clone Captain Freeman and then Mariner to get secrets out of them. However, this was with years of research, and it was all destroyed within the comic plot to maintain continuity with the screen.
However, you could probably try replicating the two containment beams thing that happened to Riker and Boimler, though, duplicating Tuvix and splitting one.
Shadow@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
They stored people in quark’s holosuites in that ds9 episode
data1701d@startrek.website 37 minutes ago
Actually, they were stored across the entire station’s computer systems; only part of them was in Quark’s holosuite. It basically took every bit of storage on DS9 to store them.
Hominine@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
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Nomecks@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
It would have worked if they routed an inverse tachyon beam through the transport buffer.
wuffah@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Sure, but how would you account for the phase variance in pattern cohesion from the temporal drift induced by the inverse tachyon field?
lime@feddit.nu 10 hours ago
you can tap into the resonance frequency of the warp field to stabilise the wave but you’d need to disable a level of core safeguards while materialising.
wuffah@lemmy.world 35 minutes ago
Can the intermix chamber take that much resonance flux?
InevitableWaffles@midwest.social 15 hours ago
See? We could have technobabbled it into a new character on the show but here we are, arguing about this again lol