ENT s2e10 “Vanishing Point”
This was actually the first ever Star Trek episode I’d seen and terrified me. Avoided the show(s) for a few years because of it.
Beaming in general is terrifying. You are destroyed on a molecular level and then reconstructed somewhere else. Is that at the new location actually you, or just a convincing clone? What does it matter for the others around you, as the clone has and is everything you previously were, but you are actually dead.
iirc when beaming, you can momuntarily feel yourself in both places at once, which implies that your brain activity is at least contigious even if you’re made of new atoms. i guess it comes down to what you consider “you”
But there’s also the part where, canonically, the transporter takes some shortcuts and reuses some allegedly common data for your species potentially modifying your DNA. Who knows what else it simplifies for efficiency.
You’re cells/tissues have been regrown/replaced throughout your existence. You have already “died” countless times. Fuck it, dude. Let’s go bowling.
Edit: totally spaced on the fact that he’s addressing a young Stamets in Dazed and Confused!
You’re cells/tissues have been regrown/replaced throughout your existence. You have already “died” countless times.
but that over a long period of time, not in a flash like on a transporter pad!
Fuck it, dude. Let’s go bowling.
Okay, have it your way…
Niko, my cousin! Wanna go bowling?
You are still operating while that happens, so you don’t die.
Wonder if they used it medically and for cosmetic surgeries. Nose too long? Cancerous growth? We’ll remove that while you beam
IIRC, there were a few fetal transports (rather than c-sections).
Several episodes mention “biofilters” that eliminate viruses during transport. So yes there’s already some modification going on!
This has gotta be responsible for some awful mistreatment of alien gut fauna
You are photocopied and then die. Society continues to benefit.
Sign me up. Let some other sucker live my life.
Yeah I’d already been into sci-fi stuff and had been watching other Sy-Fy “horror” movies at the time. This episode really nailed the feeling though and lives rent free in my mind whenever the consequences of teleportation are brought up.
An odd beginning, but gotta start somewhere. Was well steeped into Trek when ENT came about. The first episode I caught (from regular cable before streaming was the mainstay) was s1e4 “Strange New World”. When I saw the crew shuttle down to an M-class planet, just in uniform rather than isolation suits, and with everyone’s favorite good boi Porthos I noped the fuck out. Wasn’t until sometime after its cancellation that I gave it another go. Love the show, for the most part, now. Still too bad they never had the chance to make a finale.
Still too bad they never had the chance to make a finale.
I mean, we have Demons and Terra Prime :)
And who could say no to Robocop!
Trip and T’Pol’s little one still so heartbreaking.
Peter Weller makes a damn fine Villain (Admiral Marcus, Paxton).
Peter Weller is a villain irl
Oh?
That image is just cracking me up for some reason.
