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_If_ we manage to create transporters at all (never mind the next decade), the impact on religion and legislation would be far greater than on the transportatio
by magic_haze 13y ago
_If_ we manage to create transporters at all (never mind the next decade), the impact on religion and legislation would be far greater than on the transportation industry. If your body is destroyed and reconstructed, are you still the same person? What if you could make copies? It's just information, after all. And so on...
Do any of the Star Trek episodes investigate this aspect of the transporters?
- delinka 13y agoI do not recall any real attention paid to such aspects of the transporter. I do recall, however, the inventor of the device showing up in an episode of Enterprise[1] and referring to all the dialog that came up when the device was new; his comment? "Metaphysical nonsense." [1] - Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Daedalus" - Dr. Emory Erickson according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transporter_(Star_Trek) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transporter_(Star_Trek)
- nijk 13y agoSpock Must Die, the first novel, was about transporter duplication. Mirror Mirror was a wackier plot.