Captain we have discovered the key to eternal youth, what should we do?

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I think the shields have to be down for them to do that. Still, there are countless ways you could weaponise the teleporter.

I'm trying to watch the original series now since I got it on blu-rei for Christmas. So much retarded shit and I'm not even through the first season.

Yeah, the original series is fucking garbage.

TOS had some great episodes (not a lot) like Balance of Terror

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I went into it with completely wrong intentions. I always thought Goy Trek was somewhat Hard sci-fi and realistic but the majority of stuff is just pure fantasy under the guise of science.

Scotty did it during his Kobayashi Maru test - he beamed torpedos onto the Klingon vessels.

That's what happens when you let a drug addled pacifist hippie communist make a "sci-fi" TV-show.

I don't think anyone has ever claimed Star Trek was hard sci-fi.

It's a show that literally has an episode about space hippies. How the hell did you make that assumption?

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letting that retard stay a god would have been a huge mistake tbh

Don't forget he tackled some other pressing issues confronting humanity, like turning Wesley into this dopey looking fucker for like 5 mins.

They made that, it was called Voyager.

And it sucked.

The hippy is the commander from Austin Powers btw

I don't recall Voyager doing any of that.

Its better than any Star Trek series after it.

We all wished Wesley turned out alpha as fuck.

He's Tucker from blues brothers

No he's Murdock from Rambo II.

Just a heads up dingus but Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, and Star Wars aren't hard sci-fi either.

I think most of us wish he'd turned into anything else. Maybe a corpse.

The holograms in Star Trek are for all intents and purposes a form of perfect replication using light, the reason people don't do what you describe even if it's practical is the same reason the crew gets disturbed when a perfect clone made the transporter happens don't forget half the reason people do the things they do is more out of a sense of higher ideals and not wanting to be bored by using holograms you undermine the people who joined specifically so they could work on a spaceship. And also because for all you know that's exactly what they do when mass producing the ships and equipment, only using a more heavy industry method that is permanent.

*perfect clone made from the transporter

Transporters basically murder you and create a perfect copy someplace else.

We are witnessing the goofy adventures of Ryker #203 and Picard #554.

And that's why the Empire from Star Wars will always be morally superior to the Federation.

This is true, the teleporter is a murder machine and the crew of Enterprise knew it was. But Archer forced them to use it anyway. Does Thomas Riker ring a bell? A perfect copy of Will Riker until Thomas had to scrounge for survival. Which begs the question, why not use the teleporter to create perfect copies of the most beautiful women for all the men in the service?

That's what the holodeck's for.

I thought that too, but what about the fact that people are conscious while being transported? How does that work? I recall a TNG episode where the austistic guy in engineering (I forger his name) saw a monster while being transported.

his name was barclay (or broccoli) and he was the laziest antagonist ever to grace the multiple seasons of television. for some reason back in the fucking late 90's show runners decided that it was better to show what fucked him in the head instead of why he was wrong morally for allowing himself to be fucked in the head

star trek has never been the same since

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user its a major improvement over the piece of shit he is now.

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Does she age back in a day or a year? How loli sex does O'Brien have? Or is the future so boring he tucks his wife in after a bed time story?

Apparently the holographic "persons" are entirely individuated instances of AI as well. You could literally embed the entire Westworld universe.. the entire story and all the drama and nuance and moral and pilosophical implications and put it on a giant starbase holodeck without too much reworking.

mfw i actually sling shot around the sun and manage to do that but since i'm a mute turbo-autist as soon as she touches me she starts aging up really fast to the point that by the time we're done, i was fucking her aged corpse. what a waste of time.

the writers were predicting the future for will wheatum and pre-cucking him through his show character by actually letting him experience the world through the eyes of his wife's lover for a few moments. it's actually quite meta.

Looking at it again, it looks less to me like O'Brien is disgusted by the situation, and more like he's trying to hide his boner so his wife don't give him shit about this for the rest of his life.

Note his legs and hands and general body language in all three pictures.

It was undone quickly so no plowing underage Japanese girls for O'Brien.

Yes, it's not disgust but fear and doubt in his eyes.

I think the transporter carries over the consciousness by gradually destroying and remaking the atoms and simulating their connections between the two locations. That or spacemagic. They definately become cloning/murder machines when they malfunction, though.

Now that I think about it, TNG teleporters seem to first gradually turn the person into a sentient energy structure, i.e magic (not mere data), and then shift them back to physical forms, again gradually. That explains why they can't "teleport" through information networks and both the Broccoli and cloned Riker incidents.

His posture is oddly reminiscent of another film.

Wait a second, is that girl wearing a diaper?

In the socialist Federation happens every other episode.

The Federation is an eugenics program that mainly selects for natural luck in order to create the Q.

Have you considered how easy it must be to dispose of a body in the Star Trek universe? Just dematerialise it, or vapourise it with a phaser. There must be shitloads of unsolved murders on Earth. Then again, maybe they just have surveillance everywhere.

Phasers leave DNA residue. Sustained and concentrated fire makes it hard to identify the individual, but still leaves some residue that can be analyzes forensically.

This man was kicked so many time it doesn't even funny anymore…

recall that souls, ghosts, and psychic powers are all canon in star trek

I now realize that, that rock is the shape f a dick leaking pre-cum.

I've always wondered. Do their toilets just dematerialise the shit when they flush?

What?

Everything organic on a starship is broken down to its base elements and used to make new things by the replicators.

To me, he'll always be the Warden in Ernest Goes to Jail.

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why can't they just rig the transporters to transport waste out of everybody automatically so you never have to go to the bathroom

Even the last parts of the digestive track serve a function. Just beaming your shit out of your colon would be unhealthy in the long term.

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