Joseph Jordan

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• Ian Mackenzie commented on Another commercial ...
  (Rant) The transporter breaks things worse than that, imho. (From ST:TNG - don't remember exact episodes) You can transport antimatter - Wesley Crusher does it as a school project and it gets to (briefly) fuel another starship. Baryon (and Lepton) numbers are not conserved. There's an episode where they are filtering pathogens out of an away team (and can't do it for one of them...) Put this together, and you can eg transport 25kg of antimatter onto a starship / enemy base (can you spell gigaton, kiddies?), or 25kg matter + 25kg antimatter just outside your opponent's shields, or... Oh,...
• scott-sanford commented on Another commercial ...
  The transporter will always be a problem for me however, it just breaks stories in my opinion. This was another thing that was thought of even before the first pilot started filming. Yes, a teleportation gimmick can make storytelling difficult - but they didn't have the time or the budget to show people moving around in shuttles, so they invented transporters as a plot accelerator. In retrospect it would have been better to explain them as a side effect of the warp drive, something that would 'wormhole' a landing party down in one piece - but we're looking at this...
• paws4thot commented on Another commercial ...
  God, I know way too much about Star Trek. Didn't I have a life as a teenager? If your mind is anything like mine, you tend to at least sort of remember anything you're interested in and have seen once....
• scott-sanford commented on Another commercial ...
  Yes, and it's a cohort thing; I'm about Charlie's age and grew up the US, so anyone interested in science fiction would get a heavy dose of Star Trek growing up. It's been years since I read Whitfield's The Making of Star Trek, but it's still on my bookshelf - and still in my brain....
• ilya187 commented on Another commercial ...
  Keep in mind that almost all audiences in 1967 would accept that a person's "soul" is unique, and transports along with the body. The problem of copies simply would not occur to them. By the time TNG rolled out, that was no longer the case, but franchise was stuck with the transporters....