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  • x4740N
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    23 days ago

    The transporters don’t kill you, that one ST:ENT episode with the invented of teleporters proved that

    He had to get his lost son back into phase which died shortly after

    It seems that all the stuff we’ve seen in star trek suggest the transporters move you through subspace and the weird transporter incidents are likely to just be freak subspace phenomenon that they haven’t accounted for with the transporters

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      23 days ago

      I mean to be honest the writers never really got a handle on how the transporter actually worked. Its mechanics were never as locked down as the various transporters in Stargate. We knew what their limitations were.

      If transporters really work the way Star Trek claims there is absolutely no reason they would constantly get blocked by magnesite, random stones, atmospheric interference, or whatever the current MacGuffin of the week is.

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        22 days ago

        If transporters really work the way Star Trek claims there is absolutely no reason they would constantly get blocked by magnesite, random stones, atmospheric interference, or whatever the current MacGuffin of the week is.

        Perhaps the things you mention really only interfere with the transporters sensor’s in some way

        Skimming memory alpha Magnesite does interfere with sensor and transporter functions but memory alpha doesn’t specify if the transporter function interference is related to the transporter sensors or not

        I don’t see how random stones apply here as it could be any kind of stone and you’d have to be more specific, transporters can already discern rocks from people, i think i recall hearing something about subspace shadows somewhere but i cannot recall where i heard it so i cant confirm subspace shadows