However, what is beamed up isnt necessarily what is beamed down.
Simply put,Star Trektransporters, if they were real,would kill their users along the way.
Try it (dont try it).
What the devil am I doing here?
he asks when he reappears.
Hes clearly not quite the same man.
Ad content continues below
Mieville and Pargin appear to imply thatStar Trekcharacters dont know transportation kills them.
ButTreks crewmen have scientific training and live in a world that encourages philosophical thinking.
This would make a starship crewman a kind of cloned pretender.
That angle has certainly cropped up in episodes over the decades.
Are starship crewmen hyper-real people?
Made anew, carrying more thoughts and experiences than the first version of themselves to die?
After all, our cells are always renewing, our neurons changing.
They have a whole different view of what it is to be a person.
To them, living a life includes many endings and beginnings, via a multitude of consciousnesses.
A case in point: inVoyagerepisode Tuvix, another transporter accident happens.
After some conflict over ethics,Tuvix is eventually sacrificed.
Plus, when the pair of men return, Janeway sees them as the real deal.
Its good to have you back, she tells them.
Their journey through time and space continues anyway, like a relay race.
Each body, inStar Trek, is a tiny part of the story of a person.
Maybe youd die if you stepped into aStar Trektransporter.
