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Random Post - The Implications of Transporters (Patreon)

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2022-08-17 04:42:32
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2022-09

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This post is not connected to any current chapter. I stumbled upon this article and it is very thought provoking, so I thought I'd share. Gothic is in a unique position to put all the separate datapoints together and reach similar conclusions, but should he? I have a feeling if he did, it would be story killing.

Thoughts, my friends?

We're going to ignore various instances of transporters being used to beam into alternate dimensions, lol.

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Star Trek: The Strange Rules Of Transporter Immortality

One of the things that Star Trek does best is create a vast universe that is absolutely packed with information, lore, and culture, the forefront of this being both the highly advanced sociopolitical infrastructure created since the show first hit TV screens, and the fairly realistic fictional technology.

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sihko gaud

An audio book series "We are Bob" I've been listening to has an interesting concept for the immortality and replication dilemma. It basicaly deals with "brain downloads" but, it would work here. The persons memories are "saved" to be an AI. When an entity is destroyed and loaded from a "backup" or "save point," there is no problem aside from memories lost that the AI experienced after the backup(like RAM). However, if the "original" AI is still alive there is a "personality drift". And the new AI would be a different entity and make different choices than the parent AI. Eventually, there is a functioning society of AI all having the original meatbag's memory with different personalities. If you do something similar you could get a more aggressive version of Gothic who could be his Khan.

Slicedtoad

Meh, I don’t mind him finding someway to make people immortal (un-aging), but I don’t like using the transporter to do it. I prefer to think of those episodes as only being possible with someone like Q fiddling in the background. The idea that no one has looked into replicating some of those incidents on purpose is implausible. Maybe not cloning, but the de-aging, certainly.

Joseph Orlando
>>89775579

That's been the/my problem with so many of Star Trek's serialized episodes. How is it no one looked into these things afterwards?? If anything, maybe it's Q or some other high-level beings preventing them from realizing the possibilities? Protecting them from it. In my opinion, to a race unprepared for it or too immature to handle it, immortality is the first step towards extinction. A one-off situation, for example, might have a greater potential to not end up in disaster, but what about that immortal's lovers? His children? What happens when the rest of his race realizes that he's immortal and they're not? As long as it's not repeatable, I think it'd work, but with these transporter accidents, well, the clues are all there.

Joseph Orlando
>>89763396

I think the possibility of that would freak Gothic the fuck out. Gothic is doing everything he can to survive the dangers of his new life, but he's not afraid to die. I think that's a fine distinction, but it's a real one. He would be terrified of some other copy of him running around.

Slicedtoad
>>89775579

Eh, biological immortality (no old age) should be something that they’re mature enough to handle as a society. Make it a basic medical procedure to reverse any effects of aging. They’re post scarcity, which solves most issues. It’s not true immortality since everyone will eventually die due to accidents, violence or suicide (which will need to be renamed to something like “voluntary passing”). Of course, it might get nixed under the same umbrella as gene modding. Almost certainly, actually. In fact, that might be the excuse you need for why transporter accidents were never studied. After all, de-aging with a transporter would involve regenerating bad copies of DNA. Actually, how the fuck could that happen accidentally? The cloning thing, sure. But de-aging? Someone would have needed to manually program in the concept of biological age and how it can be reversed, detail by detail. I’m doubling down on the theory that Q or some equivalent did the deed and covered it up with “transporter malfunction”.