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  • The word "easily" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

  • I think they would likely have significant storage and bandwidth needs - more significant than the examples provided.

  • Scotty managed to keep a whole ship crew alive for decades in the buffer of a transporter, and did not need the entire ship’s storage.

    It was just him and Ensign Franklin, and Franklin didn't survive the attempt.

    didn’t the DS9 incident happen entirely on accident?

    No, it was a deliberate decision by Eddington.

    ODO: Do we still have their patterns?

    EDDINGTON: Yes. They're in the buffer. But the patterns will start to degrade if not used immediately. We need to store the patterns somewhere.

    ODO: This is more complicated than just an ordinary transporter pattern. We're going to have to preserve all the neural signatures of everyone on that runabout. Do you know how much memory it would take to save just one person's neural signature, much less five?

    EDDINGTON: I don't think we have any choice. Computer, I need to store all data currently in the transporter pattern buffer. Where can I save it?

    COMPUTER: There is insufficient computer memory to save the data.

    ODO: The pattern buffer's beginning to lose coherence. The patterns will start to degrade any second now.

    EDDINGTON: Computer, what if we wiped all computer memory in every system on the station and then stored the patterns?

    COMPUTER: That procedure has not been tested. It cannot be predicted.

    ODO: The buffer is depolarising.

    EDDINGTON: Computer, this is a command priority override. Wipe all computer memory necessary in order to save the patterns from the buffer. Authorisation Eddington 0-6-5-alpha enable.

  • Sure, "Rascals" breaks the transporter rules in pretty much every way.

  • The TNG Technical Manual explanation is pretty straightforward - storing "neural energy" (and indeed replicating any living creature) requires capturing the quantum state of every particle in the organism, with a zero percent error rate, and they simply don't have the storage capacity to do so reliably. The one time they managed to store neural patterns long-term, it required the entire storage capacity of Deep Space 9 to store the neural patterns of five people ("Our Man Bashir").

    The transporter buffers can handle these patterns on a short-term basis, but the tradeoff is that they start to degrade over time (typically portrayed as within a few minutes, though there's some variability).

  • I would argue that Prodigy is very Starfleet-centric.

  • Or were they secretly hunting for the alien ship?

    It was this - they're investigating the destroyed vessels.

  • At some point, I'd like to see a gag about how the Romulans seem to hang out in the Neutral Zone all the time.

  • He can’t fire the speaker, but he can kick him out of the Liberals.

    Kicking a former Speaker out of the party because of actions taken as Speaker would be a terrible precedent.

  • I said "no spill," but I think "no tip" will actually yield better results.

  • Yeah they're basic, over-the-counter no-spill mugs, generally for use on boats.

  • Pretty weird move from an education minister, too, unless Polish politics are very different from ours.

  • Picard also mentioned having recently learned more about his family.

  • Trust would have seen someone point out “This person is not who you think he is.” and the speaker realizing “Oh shit, you’re right. We had better cancel these ceremonies.”

    My interpretation of this is that someone would have had to know that this person is not who he thought he was, and given him the heads-up.

  • Who are you asserting had prior knowledge of this and said nothing?