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17 years ago
Has anyone out there ever contemplated the true potential of the transporter in Star Trek?
I've been thinking about this for a while now, and I've come to the conclusion that the transporter has a tremendous amount of potential that was never used on any of the shows or in any of the movies.
Consider how it works. First it scans the object to be transported - usually a person - down to the atomic level, getting a comprehensive read of where exactly each atom is, which direction it's going, how fast it's moving, and what its relation to the surrounding atoms is. It records that information and stores it, then disassembles the object (or person) to a quantum energistic state and stores that too. Then it uses the digital information about the object's patterns to essentially re-create the object in a different location, using the energy gained from breaking the object down in the first place. All in a span of mere seconds.
Several times in the shows, objects and people have been held in the transporter's buffers for extended periods... in one episode of Voyager, they discovered a ship with a buffer holding the original show's head engineer, who had apparently been in the thing for years.
A few times something went awry, and things came through distorted in some way. Again, at one point in Voyager, Neelix and Tuvok were fused into a single being. Later in the episode the Doctor figured out how to separate them again - using the transporter.
Now, think about this for a minute. If you're stored as digital information, that could be edited. If you had cancer, a medical expert and a computer specialist could team up to delete that cancer outright, with no invasive procedures or healing time. Broken bones could be fixed in only minutes: put you in the transporter, edit your information, and re-form you again with bones intact.
There isn't a single disease or physical problem that couldn't be fixed like that. The transporter is, essentially, the ultimate medical tool. But it goes even further than that.
What if someone used the transporter to IMPROVE themselves? They could increase bone hardness or muscle tone. They could eliminate excess fat cells, or improve their nervous system so that the brain's signals could move faster and smoother through the body. And cosmetic changes would be child's play to accomplish, removing skin blemishes or restoring a receding hairline. It could even reverse the effects of aging, making someone effectively immortal.
Not to mention the ability to keep Away Teams completely safe from harm... just have the transporter copy their information when they go, and if they die, re-create them again!
Hell, you could even go so far as to use the transporter to completely re-write someone's genetics. Want to be a Vulcan for a day? No problem! And us furries would have a blast with the thing, you know we would!
Thoughts, anyone?
I've been thinking about this for a while now, and I've come to the conclusion that the transporter has a tremendous amount of potential that was never used on any of the shows or in any of the movies.
Consider how it works. First it scans the object to be transported - usually a person - down to the atomic level, getting a comprehensive read of where exactly each atom is, which direction it's going, how fast it's moving, and what its relation to the surrounding atoms is. It records that information and stores it, then disassembles the object (or person) to a quantum energistic state and stores that too. Then it uses the digital information about the object's patterns to essentially re-create the object in a different location, using the energy gained from breaking the object down in the first place. All in a span of mere seconds.
Several times in the shows, objects and people have been held in the transporter's buffers for extended periods... in one episode of Voyager, they discovered a ship with a buffer holding the original show's head engineer, who had apparently been in the thing for years.
A few times something went awry, and things came through distorted in some way. Again, at one point in Voyager, Neelix and Tuvok were fused into a single being. Later in the episode the Doctor figured out how to separate them again - using the transporter.
Now, think about this for a minute. If you're stored as digital information, that could be edited. If you had cancer, a medical expert and a computer specialist could team up to delete that cancer outright, with no invasive procedures or healing time. Broken bones could be fixed in only minutes: put you in the transporter, edit your information, and re-form you again with bones intact.
There isn't a single disease or physical problem that couldn't be fixed like that. The transporter is, essentially, the ultimate medical tool. But it goes even further than that.
What if someone used the transporter to IMPROVE themselves? They could increase bone hardness or muscle tone. They could eliminate excess fat cells, or improve their nervous system so that the brain's signals could move faster and smoother through the body. And cosmetic changes would be child's play to accomplish, removing skin blemishes or restoring a receding hairline. It could even reverse the effects of aging, making someone effectively immortal.
Not to mention the ability to keep Away Teams completely safe from harm... just have the transporter copy their information when they go, and if they die, re-create them again!
Hell, you could even go so far as to use the transporter to completely re-write someone's genetics. Want to be a Vulcan for a day? No problem! And us furries would have a blast with the thing, you know we would!
Thoughts, anyone?
IMDB Has nothing on it, and neither does his bio on startrek.com!
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/vi.....r/1112502.html
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001150/
There are two things that I can think of why they didn't do anything with that. Either A) Ethical reasons, since there was a moral code, the "Prime Derective", which may have said that that was an innappropriate or dangerous use of the technology, or B) The writers of the show never thought of it.
Well then, here's hoping warp tech becomes a reality...cause like you said, we furries would sooooo abuse...*cough*...I mean...have a blast with it.