The transporter has a failsafe to replace missing atoms or molecules that didn’t make the trip by pulling from reserves. It got a lock, attempted transport, then got an error saying 7x10^27 atoms didn’t make it and replaced them, leaving the original Riker on the planet and constructing an entirely new Riker on the Potemkin’s transporter pad. Thomas is the original, Will is the clone.
How do you think that they deal with all the waste on ship? It’s all just kept in a big vat for the replicators. And replicators are just small specialized transporters with preprogrammed buffers.
As far as I know, no matter is transported in a Star Trek transporter. It selects a certain volume of space, creates a digital copy of that and then transforms ship energy into new matter that exactly replicates that pattern while disintegrating the original source. That’s why it should be possible to use the transporter as a backup machine for all those poor red shirts
There are multiple references to a matter stream. The system does a matter-energy-matter conversion, but the final matter is (typically) sourced from the starting matter. Whether that counts as moving the matter is dubious, to say the least. It’s like disassembling a Lego set, melting down the bricks, casting new bricks from the melted plastic, and then building the set again. Is it the same set?
The transporter has a failsafe to replace missing atoms or molecules that didn’t make the trip by pulling from reserves. It got a lock, attempted transport, then got an error saying 7x10^27 atoms didn’t make it and replaced them, leaving the original Riker on the planet and constructing an entirely new Riker on the Potemkin’s transporter pad. Thomas is the original, Will is the clone.
PC LOAD MATTER? What the hell does that even mean?!
Anyone got a spare matter cartridge?
There’s not an ounce of Cyan in Riker’s body, but this thing still refuses to materialize without a new cartridge!
Excuse you?
How do you think that they deal with all the waste on ship? It’s all just kept in a big vat for the replicators. And replicators are just small specialized transporters with preprogrammed buffers.
They’re both clones, as is the fate of anyone who uses a Star Trek transporter.
Found Bones.
Bones died that day. I’m just what you remember of him.
As far as I know, no matter is transported in a Star Trek transporter. It selects a certain volume of space, creates a digital copy of that and then transforms ship energy into new matter that exactly replicates that pattern while disintegrating the original source. That’s why it should be possible to use the transporter as a backup machine for all those poor red shirts
There are multiple references to a matter stream. The system does a matter-energy-matter conversion, but the final matter is (typically) sourced from the starting matter. Whether that counts as moving the matter is dubious, to say the least. It’s like disassembling a Lego set, melting down the bricks, casting new bricks from the melted plastic, and then building the set again. Is it the same set?
The Riker of Theseus?