To the ancient ones pattern buffers were known as turtles
You obviously just need a buffer as large as the original buffer's structure plus its content...
Pretty sure there are few Cardassians who would “volunteer.”
Pretty sure a Cardie engineer had a few Bajorians who were voluntold
O’Brian: “Cardassians, Bajorans, if I don’t get more volunteers soon I’m going to start picking people myself.”
I feel personally attacked knowing that is Tobin.
Maybe that's the universe and reality we exist in ... we exist in a pattern buffer within a pattern buffer within a pattern buffer within an infinite number of pattern buffers ... and it all started with a great cosmic Chief O'Brien.
So Miles is gonna create a transporter zip-bomb!