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> a YouTube video CGP Grey: The Trouble with Transporters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYI Steve Shives: Is Star Trek's Transporter Actually a Murder Machine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-8zEkIaB0c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-8zEkIaB0c > why wouldn’t they just https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/Story-Breaker_Power https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/Story-Breaker_Power For purpose of storytelling, these powerful side effects of transporters need to be restricted. Hence, as an in-universe explanation, a pattern buffer ∙ is a physical phenomenon that cannot be (fully) expressed as information ∙ deteriorates over time, so needs to be rematerialised soon. For the exception, see https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Relics_(episode) https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Relics_(episode)