You Don't Want a 'Star Trek' Transporter Because Using It Would Kill You

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]quote]There's a disturbing secret hiding in plain sight in Star Trek. Everyone you love in the show, everyone you've loved on the show, has died. They've died over and over. They've died twice or three times or even four times in a single episode. They're back the next week, only to die again. All those times Reginald Barclay hated the transporter? He was right. He went in. He died. So wait, what? A great little video from CGP Grey explains teleportation works, at least in Star Trek terms. The transporter on the ship breaks down the atoms of each person and thing that steps in, reassembling them on the other side. But that original? That original dies. It's sort of like the replicator. There's not[/quote]