I don't believe the Star Trek analogy was correct. In the episode, Scotty had his pattern repeat in some sort of cycle that kept his pattern safe. He didn't sen

I don't believe the Star Trek analogy was correct. In the episode, Scotty had his pattern repeat in some sort of cycle that kept his pattern safe. He didn't send himself to a specific point in time, he could have pulled out of it at any point. In fact, his crewmate died because he wasn't pulled out soon enough and his pattern degraded. Scotty in the transporter was more like stasis and not a teleport to the future.