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

On Wednesday, June 18, 2003 Jay wrote:

> It sounds like a lame excuse to introduce a neat macguffin
> and then not have Geordi install one on the E's transporters.

Or, it's an open license for abuse.

In principle, an analog backup on the transporter data stream sounds like a
good idea.  Suppose during transport something like the accident in Star
Trek: The Motion Picture happens, and you could boost the degrading signal
by going to the tape backup.  As a safety, there's potential.

However, as presented in the story, there's also the possibility that
someone could use the backup to duplicate themselves or others.

Perhaps you'd want another kind of fail safe on the system.  After a
successful transport, the tape gets wiped.  Thus, if you have a transporter
failure, you can go to the tape, but if it's successful, there's no need
for the backup and its discarded.

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

The author would also  like to acknowledge the makers of comic book
villains  and  superheroes,   those  who  invented,   or  at  least
popularized,  the  notion  of  the  normal,   mild-mannered  person
transformed  into  mutant  by  freak  accident,   with  the  mutant
thereafter driven by a strange hybrid of the most rancid bitterness and 
the  most  outrageous  hope  to  the  very, very odd and silly things, 
many times in the name of Good.  The makers of comic books seemed to be
onto something there.
   -- Dave Eggers, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius"


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