So you’re telling me … that when a starship is doing long haul travel across a long stretch that will take days or weeks … the Federation could save tons of energy and resources by just storing away all the crew into the transport buffer so that there wouldn’t be a need to feed, heat, sustain, create an atmosphere, entertain or make anyone comfortable for all that travel time?
You end up with one giant Giga-ultra-enterprise crew as one single monstrous entity … it’s extremely intelligent and unbelievably strong … and every time you transport it, it is reassembled into a new combination … transport one, the head and face is Picard … transport two, it’s Worf … transport three its more feminine as Beverly … etc ,etc.
Eventually it’s going to become some random low level security officer and then it’s going to trip over a random rock on an away mission and be killed.
I love how even the Borg wouldn’t entertain the idea of relying on a transport buffer to minimize its necessary crew during any lengthy trip. Sure, they don’t need much to sustain, but their required energy output must be substantial.
edit: surely, they just put unnecessary crew into “sleep mode,” which I guess is close enough.
So you’re telling me … that when a starship is doing long haul travel across a long stretch that will take days or weeks … the Federation could save tons of energy and resources by just storing away all the crew into the transport buffer so that there wouldn’t be a need to feed, heat, sustain, create an atmosphere, entertain or make anyone comfortable for all that travel time?
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Something would definitely go wrong. It always does.
Either everyone would get merged into a single individual, or you’d end up with two of everyone and half of them would join a terrorist organization.
You end up with one giant Giga-ultra-enterprise crew as one single monstrous entity … it’s extremely intelligent and unbelievably strong … and every time you transport it, it is reassembled into a new combination … transport one, the head and face is Picard … transport two, it’s Worf … transport three its more feminine as Beverly … etc ,etc.
Eventually it’s going to become some random low level security officer and then it’s going to trip over a random rock on an away mission and be killed.
There’s a weed joke in there and I need it…
Apparently, yes they could
I love how even the Borg wouldn’t entertain the idea of relying on a transport buffer to minimize its necessary crew during any lengthy trip. Sure, they don’t need much to sustain, but their required energy output must be substantial.
edit: surely, they just put unnecessary crew into “sleep mode,” which I guess is close enough.