Early Star Trek Tech

[wolven7]

Have you ever thought about what the process for working out Star Trek Universe teleporter technology was?

Think about the kind of fuck-ups that had to have happened, especially with things like the teleporter pattern buffer:

"Okay, Steve, get ready... Energize!

"... Steve...? Steve?!"

*Four Days Later*

"[Teleporter Noise] OH THANK GOD! Where was I?! What happened?!"

*Five Minutes Later*

"[Teleporter Noise] OH THANK GOD! Where was I?! What happened?!"

*Five Minutes Later*

"[Teleporter Noise] OH THANK GOD! Where was I?! What happened?!"

*Five Minutes Later*

"[Teleporter Noise] OH THANK GOD! Where was I?! What happened?!"

Eventually, Frank, the teleporter technitian, just gets an axe and has to chop the damn thing to pieces, to stop the deluge of Steves. Then the Federation Operative comes into the room of twelve Steves and says, "Hey, uh... Steve.S. We, uhm... Can't realy afford to pay all of you guys, or, um feed you? So... *tosses a knife into the middle of the room* Bye!" *runs out and we hear the sound of several locks being thrown*

And then all the Steves have to figure out the rules of the fight, and they're like "HEY! Only One of us can be the winner, here, and I get that, really, I'm sure we all do. But ONE of us has to be the winner. So! If you, for example, get stabbed in the stomach, do NOT stab the Steve who stabbed you, in the stomach! No Revenge Killings. You get stabbed, then you go to the corner and you die! Them's the Rules!"

These ruminations brought to you by the fact that people are finally coming to recognise that I was right about quantum entanglement, four years after I said it.

I swear, if you don't have some fancy schmancy PhD in Quantum Mechanics, it's like your ideas don't count for shit. :\

Comments

[momentai.livejournal.com]

Have you seen or heard of the movie Primer? If not, I highly recommend you get it from somewhere as I think you would like it. It's a science fiction movie that deals with the science of time travel as opposed to the fiction.

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

I remember wanting to see that, though I never got to. For some reason.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

>_< XP

[momentai.livejournal.com]

Underpants gnomes.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I've heard of it, but I never actually got to watch the damn thing, for some reason :\

[l-the-fangirl.livejournal.com]

In a screwball sci-fi comedy I wrote, the main characters were trying to figure out how to use a "transmaterial apportation ray" ("You mean a transporter beam?" "...yes.") that didn't quite work.

(By which I mean "The pig came here inside out. Then it exploded.")

The heroes eventually hit on it's weapon potential - beaming the black hats hull into another part of the hull, and sitting back with popcorn at the resulting explosion.

And now for a comment relating to what you said: This is some nifty new science... a shame that it took this long to be taken seriously.

Unfortunatley, this is very common: the person who found the bacterium responsible for ulcers had to infect himself and cure himself with bismuth to get anyone to accept his findings...

[salrushdy.livejournal.com]

even is you do have some fancy schmancy PhD in Quantum Mechanics
you ust be in conventional stream
like in any other fields , I guess
only in physics it is outstanding extremely
less degrees of freedom than philosophy for instance

Hey! Who turned out the lights?

[karishi.livejournal.com]

The repetition and growing danger of the situation remind me of the end of an episode of Doctor Who, entitled "Silence in the Library." Look it up, some time.
But not without looking up "Forest" of somethingorother. Can't remember that full title. But if you, say, torrent "Silence," you'll be angry with me, because it's a two-parter.