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76 "So was Scotty conscious for 75 years?" ("Relics" [TNG]) (Transporters - Star Trek)




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This article is from the Star Trek Tech FAQ, by Joshua Bell inexorabletash@hotmail.com with numerous contributions by others.

76 "So was Scotty conscious for 75 years?" ("Relics" [TNG]) (Transporters - Star Trek)

Nope, or he would have starved - if your brain is working, your heart
must be pumping blood, and it needs energy from somewhere. There are
three possibilities for how this was accomplished:

1) All transporters have an optional "stasis" switch, that locks the
pattern of the subject during transport. In other words, they are
frozen on a quantum level.

2) Old-style transporters, as seen in TOS, always transported the
subject under stasis. From watching the show, we can see the two
stages in a bream-out. First, a sparkly pattern appears over the chest
of the subject, and spreads to cover them. They are sometimes seen to
move during this process. Then they start to have these yellow blobs
appear as they fade out. They don't move during this second stage. We
can speculate that there's a stasis field employed for some reason
(technological limitations, safety, etc) during the actual transport
stage with old technology. This style of transporter was present on
the Jenolan ("Relics"), but is now obsolete.

3) Putting the transport controller in a diagnostic loop imposes
stasis on the subject, as a byproduct of the process by which
degradation is minimized.

Choice (3) is the most appealing to me.

 

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