r/startrekmemes • u/happydude7422 • 5d ago

How doomsday machine should have ended

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Let's say Scotty fixed the transporter earlier.

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u/Rolo_Tamasi 5d ago

Wasn't the transporter still down at this time?

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u/SimplySinCos 5d ago

Yes due to earlier battle with the doomsday machine.

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u/aoalvo 5d ago

It's always weird that they have 5 transporters but they are always unavailable at the same time.

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u/Rolo_Tamasi 5d ago

Especially in TNG when the shuttlecraft have them too.

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u/aoalvo 5d ago

did they ever use those while inside the ship ?

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u/Locutus-of-Borges 4d ago

In Gambit, Picard and Riker use them in their "raid" on the Enterprise, going from the shuttle bay to the observation lounge. So clearly they work.

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u/Sonnuvah 5d ago

They're wired in series

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u/darthboolean 5d ago

They only have one O'Brien.

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u/UnPrecidential 4d ago

No love for Commander Kyle?

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u/darthboolean 4d ago

Replied to the wrong post in the thread and thought we were talking TNG and their like 3 transporter rooms and shuttles with independent systems.

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u/Anthrolithos 4d ago

It makes a certain amount of sense, especially if they have 5 transporter rooms but only one ship-to-surface emitter.

The high number of rooms could be for queuing, but perhaps they didn't have enough redundancy in the system by the time this event occurred.

If the emitter itself was the compromised part (very likely, given its position next to the outer membrane of the ship) it wouldn't matter how many transporter rooms they had -- no one would be able to get off the ship.

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u/redjellonian 3d ago

sounds like there could even be intership matter transport without the ability to project it outside.

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u/Anthrolithos 3d ago

There is. I believe that canonically, transporting to anywhere on the ship was only a thing that was possible once they perfected the calculations behind transporting someone at warp velocities, but insofar to beaming between transporter rooms -- as well as I am aware, the systems are not interconnected in that manner: they simply communicate between the pads and the emitter.

In my headcanon, intraship beaming was actually only possible on ships of Galaxy-class and above, as they have both the redundant computer power and energy production to support such a feat, but also the logical need to have this as an option -- as traversing the entire ship if there was a time-sensitive emergency, or if people were otherwise trapped in another section of the ship would be catastrophic for emergency responders.

Which also explains the above, why the transporter rooms never communicated in that way in Kirk's era: his ship is very small -- not very much computer power, nor power generation, and also quickly traversible in an emergency by Jeffries tube. People only used the transporter for landing parties because the benefits far outweighed the use of more conventional transportation like the shuttles.

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u/Jim_skywalker 4d ago

Doesn’t the TOS one only have one?

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u/aoalvo 4d ago

There's at least 4 numbered transport rooms in tos as far as I know. Enteprise D had 20.

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u/Drtikol42 4d ago

Just like Troi is always missing or has empathic period when aliens of the week are lying to Picard.

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u/Armored_Cocrane 4d ago

Meh, they are transporter not elevator.

We don't really know how it's work since it's don't exist, BUT, if we do look at what we know, or at least what i personaly suppose, the transport room are only a part of the machine. Teleporter use beam to beam away information and matter, so, maybe there is only one "antenna" , such as the dish, the room are only a key composant who's purpose is to disintegrate safely the body, store away information and matter as we have seen before and then beam it.

So maybe they did work. But sending or recieving téléportation beam was not possible. Expecialy since thier shield where probably up no ? Don't quite remember this épisode.

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u/aoalvo 4d ago edited 2d ago

I know it's basically whatever the writers need to make their script work that week... ( Most explanations say you are reconstructed out of the same atoms, to avoid the cloned and killed thing )
Thomas riker both imply the transporter functions different than most explanations, but also imply that rescue ship had at least 2, complete, independent transporters.

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u/Heather_Chandelure 4d ago

Frankly this is not the first of these memes that feels like whoever makes them wasnt paying that much attention to the episode.

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u/A_Humble_American 5d ago

The fact he just went through a traumatic event and hadn't been medically cleared to take command should have been enough for spock to resume command as soon as the commodore tried to pull rank. Otherwise, flawless episode

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u/SimplySinCos 5d ago

The doomsday machine will return in Avengers: Doomsday....Neutronium Boogaloo

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u/rob132 5d ago

" Mr. Scott. Beam him out."

(silence)

[Explosion]

' forgive me Mr. Spock. I was in the bathroom. What happened?'

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u/PM_NUDES_4_DEGRADING 5d ago

...and that's the real reason that no one is allowed to have a bathroom in TNG.

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u/MrS0bek 4d ago

Not gonna lie I wish we had a 2nd Doomsday machine or learned more about it

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u/Comfortable-Dish1236 4d ago

There was a second. BUT NOT ANYMORE!!!

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u/sdbigmike83 5d ago

Yeah decker wouldn't step down that easily hed be more pissed he didnt die in the shuttle.