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Transporters as they work on Star Trek are one of those technologies that are moral nightmares if you think about them too hard. -- nm

Posted by Reagen Jan 18 '24, 11:35

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Ah... college. I remember those conversations. - Spawn Jan 18, 11:49
Yes. I think they actually did a great job exploring that on Lower Decks this past season. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Jan 18, 11:47 2
- and on Enterprise. -- nm - Remlik Jan 18, 12:02 1
  - the ep with the inventor of the tech re-aired last night. that one was tough to watch, but - i.b.! Jan 18, 12:12
Yep. A greater philosophical dilemma than the Ship of Theseus. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 18, 11:46
You just know Kirk would have beamed his way into multiple women’s locker rooms if given only a slight deviation in arc. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 18, 11:45 14
- It's probably the reason why the Federation was so quick to adopt holodeck technology -- nm - Roger More Jan 18, 11:49 13
  - Also rife with morality issues. See Barclay and LaForge -- nm - TWuG Jan 18, 11:53 12
    - Voyager had another good one with the doctor and the Cardassian doctor hologram who did experiments on Bashorians -- nm* - Beaker 🍺 Jan 18, 12:01 9
      - that just reaired here in the past week or so, followed not long later by the doctor - i.b.! Jan 18, 12:06
      - Yes, that doctor's rights were grossly infringed by the Federation's collection and storage of such detailed personal information. -- nm - Roger More Jan 18, 12:05 6
        
        (this was using the Cardi hologram doctors knowledge he got by doing experiments during the occupation to save Torres) -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jan 18, 12:07 5
        
        I find it unlikely that they were able to create such a full picture of Crell Moset's personality and motivations simply by feeding a bunch of his - Roger More Jan 18, 12:14 4
        
        give ChatGPT a few hundred years... -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jan 18, 12:18 3
        
        Yall took my Kirk was a Ho joke into a nerdy nerdy place. Shame! -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 18, 12:20 2
        
        Nerds on ST! Someone fetch Will his smelling salts! -- nm - Roger More Jan 18, 12:23 1
        
        Will bath salts do? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 18, 12:42
      - Digital necromancy. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 18, 12:02
    - And Quark. (But, so long as no-one opened the holodeck door, only photons were harmed) -- nm - Roger More Jan 18, 11:59
    - That's where the scifi comes from. Ambiguous unsettled morality issues to explore. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 18, 11:57
the only thing that can stop a bad guy with at transporter . . . -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 18, 11:37

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