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edenfallingI present, for your consideration, a logic problem:
Okay. We know that motion and gravitational forces can affect transporters, by making it difficult to get a lock on the person or object to be transported. Transporting without a lock is a bad, bad idea, because presumably it means you haven't been scanned right and would either not materialize at all, would materialize missing important pieces of yourself, or would materialize scrambled like an egg. None of these fates is desirable.
It is a big thing that Chekov can get a lock on Kirk and Sulu when they're falling to Vulcan's surface. Presumably he fails to get a lock on Amanda because the gravitational forces have gotten noticeably more wonky as the black hole develops in Vulcan's core, and because she probably gets buried with a ton of rock instead of being in thin air and thus easier to isolate. I can mostly handwave that.
But. How is it that Scotty is able to beam Kirk, Pike, and Spock back to the Enterprise at the climax of the film? He's beaming people from two moving ships (going in different directions at different velocities) onto a third moving ship. There's a lot of motion and probably some artificial gravity involved there, especially when you consider that Spock is sitting, what, all of ten meters away from a giant ball of red matter. There's also a lot of interference from other objects; the situations are more comparable to being surrounded by rockfall than being isolated in freefall. So how is it that nobody thinks to question his ability to beam them back at all?
Yes, he says he never beamed three people from two places to one pad before, but the motion and the gravity and the interference? Psssh! Everybody seems to assume intership beaming is standard stuff, piece of cake, practically textbook, could do it in your sleep.
And that makes me even more pissed off about the arbitrariness of Amanda's death.
I'm just saying.
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On a totally unrelated subject, we had a thunderstorm in Ithaca around 5pm, which included ten minutes of hailstones averaging as big as my thumbnail. Which translates to... *finds ruler, measures* ...half an inch in diameter.
My landlords' cat dashed onto the porch, crawled under a handy stroller, and projected a general aura of Distinct Unamusement. :-)
Okay. We know that motion and gravitational forces can affect transporters, by making it difficult to get a lock on the person or object to be transported. Transporting without a lock is a bad, bad idea, because presumably it means you haven't been scanned right and would either not materialize at all, would materialize missing important pieces of yourself, or would materialize scrambled like an egg. None of these fates is desirable.
It is a big thing that Chekov can get a lock on Kirk and Sulu when they're falling to Vulcan's surface. Presumably he fails to get a lock on Amanda because the gravitational forces have gotten noticeably more wonky as the black hole develops in Vulcan's core, and because she probably gets buried with a ton of rock instead of being in thin air and thus easier to isolate. I can mostly handwave that.
But. How is it that Scotty is able to beam Kirk, Pike, and Spock back to the Enterprise at the climax of the film? He's beaming people from two moving ships (going in different directions at different velocities) onto a third moving ship. There's a lot of motion and probably some artificial gravity involved there, especially when you consider that Spock is sitting, what, all of ten meters away from a giant ball of red matter. There's also a lot of interference from other objects; the situations are more comparable to being surrounded by rockfall than being isolated in freefall. So how is it that nobody thinks to question his ability to beam them back at all?
Yes, he says he never beamed three people from two places to one pad before, but the motion and the gravity and the interference? Psssh! Everybody seems to assume intership beaming is standard stuff, piece of cake, practically textbook, could do it in your sleep.
And that makes me even more pissed off about the arbitrariness of Amanda's death.
I'm just saying.
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On a totally unrelated subject, we had a thunderstorm in Ithaca around 5pm, which included ten minutes of hailstones averaging as big as my thumbnail. Which translates to... *finds ruler, measures* ...half an inch in diameter.
My landlords' cat dashed onto the porch, crawled under a handy stroller, and projected a general aura of Distinct Unamusement. :-)
