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To: Greysard
"In this aspect it is interesting that in ST:TNG transporters are used for transportation, but never for medical purposes."

There is one episode of the New Generation where Dr. Crusher uses the transporter to cancel the effects of some sort of subspace illness that causes its victims to age quickly.

That's all I remember.

Star Trek started getting too silly near the end with all of the deus ex machina that were laying about to solve all of the problems in an instant: replicators, transporters, tachyon beams. Star Trek Voyager was especially keen on using tachyons to reverse time in order to cancel the effects of a disaster and get them out of impossible situations.

Curing all diseases by transporting a person with all of his parts but just minus the disease (e.g. cancer cells, etc.) would eliminate all of the drama.

31 posted on 04/05/2013 11:52:20 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
Star Trek Voyager was especially keen on using tachyons to reverse time in order to cancel the effects of a disaster and get them out of impossible situations.

That's the main reason I gave up on ST:V early in it's run.

The overly-PC crew? Fine, whatever, this is Roddenberryverse, so it's par for the course.

Janeway summoning all of her indignation to produce... a bleat? Whatever.

Resolving the crisis of the week with "temporal anomalies" two ****ing weeks in a row??? Now you're just insulting me.

35 posted on 04/05/2013 12:00:32 PM PDT by kevkrom (If a wise man has an argument with a foolish man, the fool only rages or laughs...)
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