Star Trek transporters should make a duplicate person

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Posted by Flint
2/17/2023 1:47 pm 		#1

I don't know how deeply their function has been explained, but I assume all of the information contained in the physical structure of a person--be it expressed as a wave function or whatever--can be determined, stored, communicated, and recreated in another location.

I can't think of a good reason, other than ethical considerations, that the original person needs to be "destroyed" in order to create the copy. I mean, there's ethical arguments on either side, really. Doesn't the original person have a right to life?

I would be very surprised if the Star Trek universe didn't contain a rogue scientist who creates copies of themself. They can't possibly have a non-crackable anti-duplication safeguard in every transporter device.
 

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Posted by glatt
2/17/2023 3:07 pm 		#2

Doesn't the original person have a right to go where they wanted to go?  Instead they are stuck back on the damn platform of the Enterprise.  And then the dude that went down to the planet surface is stuck there and another copy ends up back on the Enterprise.  There's not enough food on the ship for that.  There's got to be a mathematical equation for this but I bet the biomass grows quickly.

Actually, have you seen Moon with Sam Rockwell?

 
Posted by Flint
2/17/2023 3:14 pm 		#3

Oh yeah, great GREAT move. Excellent suggestion.

Have you seen Primer?
https://xkcd.com/657/

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Posted by Happy Monkey
2/18/2023 2:19 pm 		#4

glatt wrote:

Actually, have you seen Moon with Sam Rockwell?

Or "The Prestige"
 

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