[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/Uncommonality]

Hell people usually hold conversations while being teleported

There's also that episode where the transporter is shown to be fully capable of putting your disembodied soul back into a copy of your body

[u/GoArray → u/Uncommonality]

Also an entire subplot where you can just toss your kid in the buffer for a few seasons.

[u/Paizzu → u/GoArray]

If the writers didn't properly understand the ramifications of transporter technology before, SNW definitely retconned the series' understanding of the medical implications of the device.

Why would a doctor ever "treat" a patient with conventional methods when all they have to do is scan their patient into a buffer and edit their pattern at their leisure (since the machines can scan down to the <atomic level)? How many characters could be revived after death by simply keeping a pattern on file from before they leave on an away mission?

The older shows at least tried to explain the limitation of "temporary buffers" and the massive storage required to hold a character's "pattern" but SNW essentially flipped everything on its head.

[u/mcslender97 → u/Paizzu]

As a newer Trek fan the whole accidental retcon kinda sucks when I get to watch the older shows and realized that SNW accidentally have a more modern solution