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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s been shown multiple times before that there’s no technological reason you can’t put someone in the buffer and take two out. Thomas and William are proof of this.

The Voyager crew likely had access to the records of the Thomas case, having happened a decade earlier. Though I admit I don’t know if the information would have been classified or withheld for some reason.

Assuming they had the information, they could have likely attempted a duplication, and unmerge one of the two resulting Tuvix’s.

I found myself so pissed off this wasn’t even considered during the episode. It’s like they just forgot duplication was a possibility, even if it wasn’t a super sure fire solution.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That solution would require transporters to have a consistent set of abilities across series, when somehow the way they work changes even within the same series

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Firmware updates fix some bugs and introduce others.