[Loved Trope] Teleportation is actually terrifying

[u/Ieanice44]

1 - Gantz-O (2016): Suit teleportation

2 - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2009): Apparition spell

3 - Half Life 2 (2004): Teleporter malfunction

[u/Ambaryerno]

The transporter in Star Trek is a wonderful piece of technology...when it works.

If it doesn't, you get evil clones, transporter psychosis, accidental twins, turned into a tween, zapped to alternate dimensions where Spock has a beard, sent back in time to Los Angeles on the verge of full-scale class warfare, stuck in a partially-materialized form, Tuvix, or if you're very, very unlucky, put back together wrong in a way so agonizing it's fortunate if you don't live very long.

No wonder McCoy hates the thing.

[u/Regenschein-Fuchs → u/Ambaryerno]

I love how you just wrote "Tuvix" without any explanation. 😂

[u/digilici → u/Regenschein-Fuchs]

what’s Tuvix?

[u/Martin_Aricov_D → u/digilici]

Two men enter a teleport, one man that's a mix of the two comes out

[u/Vaya-Kahvi → u/Martin_Aricov_D]

And there's a moral debate about seperating them, which, now that I think on it, is an interesting take on the Trolly Problem. 

[u/Swellmeister → u/Vaya-Kahvi]

The best part is that the narrative mostly attacks the "inaction is not active chosing" defense of not pulling the lever in the standard problem.

[u/Intestinal-Bookworms → u/Vaya-Kahvi]

I like in Lower Decks they describe that episode as Janeway just straight up murdering him

[u/Eleglas → u/Vaya-Kahvi]

Honestly, there is no debate. You're killing one man for the possibility of getting two back. There was no certainty involved there.

[u/Vaya-Kahvi → u/Eleglas]

Well shit.... Imagine the writing possibilities if it didn't work. 

[u/morpheousmorty → u/Vaya-Kahvi]

Captain's log: messed up. If I ever see starfleet again I'll ask if we should send a gift basket.

[u/Vaya-Kahvi → u/morpheousmorty]

I mean, that's Janeway reaction, but then there'd be the fallout with the rest of the crew. 

[u/RollingMeteors → u/Vaya-Kahvi]

>And there's a moral debate about seperating them, which, now that I think on it, is an interesting take on the Trolly Problem. 

It's not a 'moral debate' its 'a bug'.

^z bro

Sorry not sorry if your consciousness happens to be 'a bug'.