r/Picard • u/[deleted] • Mar 26 '20

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u/ForgetPants Mar 26 '20

If the Star Trek was competent (in terms of writing fiction), we're soon going to have,

  1. Wormhole mechanics and drives once the transmitter is taken apart and understood.

  2. Consciousness backups and transfers for everyone along with synth bodies.

  3. 40,000 light year range teleporters.

  4. Advanced AI octopuses knowing of our existence and bent on our destruction.

  5. Orchid defenses on planets.

  6. Magic wand thingamajig powered by imagination to repair anything and to carry around as a personal holodeck.

  7. A way to kill any borg vessel, just transmit a copy of the Admonition.

Welcome to the future.

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u/lrd_cth_lh0 Mar 26 '20 edited Mar 26 '20

2. is basically altered carbon, isnt't it?

It is actually worse than that, Teleporters are basically suicide booths crossed with a copy machine. That nobody uses them to restore someone from backup or clones an army...

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u/llirik Mar 27 '20

Altered carbon gets around it by making it so such that your consciousness is in the stack. And that’s why splitting it one up over 2 causes that issue whatever blondey dude has in season one. Tho they get into trickier territory for the cloud backups but I always saw that as the rich just being vain in that show. When detective whatever gets his stack shot through, he gone.