To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com
From: Allyn Gibson 
Reply-To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com

On Wednesday, June 18, 2003 Jay wrote (responding to Steve):

>> Although the normal transporter likely has built-in failsafes
>> to prevent it from creating a duplicate Riker (after all, where
>> did the matter come from to do that), it should certainly be
>> possible to design a transporter that can replicate a person
>> and create a perfect, living copy.

> Be careful.  Too much of that and it stops looking like Star Trek
> and starts looking like those rotten "Phoenix" books

I'll have to go digging through my Star Trek comics collection, but I
recall a story, published in one of the NextGen specials from DC in the
mid-90s, that ran something like this:

Alien scientist developed a device that worked like a VCR for the
transporter, an analog tape that recorded the transporter signal output. 
The planned application was to replace the digital signal for the
replicator system with an analog signal, the way audiophiles prefer vinyl
to compact disc today.  (Picard swears replicated caviar doesn't taste the
same, but I can't tell the difference between vinyl and digital, so what do
I know?)

Anyway, in testing the device the scientist uses himself as the guinea pig.
 He doesn't transport anywhere; it's just a test to see whether or not the
recording system works.  It does.

Accident happens.  Scientist is killed.  Murdered, I think, by terrorists.

Geordi uses the "playback" feature to provide a signal stream to
the transporter.  The "copy" of the scientist reforms on the
transporter platform.

He's the same person as the scientist was when he had himself put through
the transporter stream.  Yet, he's also a copy, resents that, and wishes
that Geordi hadn't done what he did in bringing the scientist
"back."

Allyn                                    http://www.allyngibson.net
AIM: mknzycalhn                                        ICQ: 4342396

The Universe cries out to be explored; Unknown wonders hide in every nook,
Awaiting those who dare to break the chains Of their humdrum and ordinary
lives. But faced with an adventure that would stretch Your minds and souls
and bodies far beyond The paltry limits they now occupy,
You lock yourselves inside a metal shell, And stick your fingers in your
ears, and hum.
   -- Cameron Dixon, "Doctor Who: The Promise of the Daleks"


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