I am of the mind that star trek transporters don’t make copies (except in rare cases csused by external bs, like the time Ryker was duplicated), they are literally converting matter to energy, moving the energy, and then converting it back again. It’s the same you, with maybe as much lost in transmission as skin cells you’d lose overnight anyway.
Visually, that’s what I got out of it as well. Also presumably how you can get people stuck in teleporter buffers for indefinite periods of time and why teleporters can be “blocked” by dense structures or electromagnetic storms.
If people were just getting scanned and copied, the teleporters wouldn’t fail nearly as often as they do.
Reg even talks about being able to see things through the whole transmission and the only thing weird about it to the other characters was that he saw more than just electronic noise.
I am of the mind that star trek transporters don’t make copies (except in rare cases csused by external bs, like the time Ryker was duplicated), they are literally converting matter to energy, moving the energy, and then converting it back again. It’s the same you, with maybe as much lost in transmission as skin cells you’d lose overnight anyway.
Visually, that’s what I got out of it as well. Also presumably how you can get people stuck in teleporter buffers for indefinite periods of time and why teleporters can be “blocked” by dense structures or electromagnetic storms.
If people were just getting scanned and copied, the teleporters wouldn’t fail nearly as often as they do.
Reg even talks about being able to see things through the whole transmission and the only thing weird about it to the other characters was that he saw more than just electronic noise.