The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteM to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world · 8 months agoAre transporters the fountain of youth?startrek.websiteimagemessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
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minus-squareClockworkN@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoThey regularly allude to the idea of “pattern buffers” that hold on to a copy of you for as long as the plot requires.
minus-squaregnate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoSure, but I don’t think those are used as a matter of standard practice. The idea of some immutable, archival pattern being used for each trip doesn’t track.
minus-squareMaggiWuerze@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoI thought you were read into the buffer until your pattern was wholly scanned and then replicated onto the target from it
They regularly allude to the idea of “pattern buffers” that hold on to a copy of you for as long as the plot requires.
Sure, but I don’t think those are used as a matter of standard practice. The idea of some immutable, archival pattern being used for each trip doesn’t track.
I thought you were read into the buffer until your pattern was wholly scanned and then replicated onto the target from it