begin quoting Darren New as of Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 04:41:28PM -0800: > David Brown wrote: > >It's done occasionally, one I can specifically think of is with Riker's > >transporter accident that created an identical copy. > > They had Kirk be an evil/good Kirk once too, as well as using it to > (IIRC) replace someone infected with a disease with the body that was > sent to the diseased world instead of the body that came back. Or something. > > The usual excuse is that there's too much data to actually store a copy > - you have to send it and reconstruct it as you create the data.
Yah, but they violate that constraint, so you can't even retcon a decent explanation. That's one of the reasons I went from being an avid fan to actively avoiding the show. (I always figured Dr. McCoy had a better grasp of the actual risk...) I liked Larry Niven's approach -- you turn the thing you're sending into an FTL particle with a rest-mass equivalent to that of which you're sending (space-ship + people). Analog, no copies, no messy digitization. -- Everyone can have a personal force-shield suit that lets them walk in space But next week everyone is freezing to death as they crash into a star's face Stewart Stremler -- KPLUG-LPSG@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
