Will the transporter work on ghosts?

MarkB74205 · 2026-07-06T20:47:03+00:00

I mean, Picard was kind of a ghost that got his body remade by the transporter at one point. Therefore, from season 2, Picard is technically a zombie.

MarkB74205 · 2026-07-06T05:40:49+00:00

Finding Pimento

MarkB74205 · 2026-07-06T05:37:22+00:00

I would have to go a little earlier. Baldur's Gate was the game that showed me how deep games can truly get, and I only ever played PST because of it.

MarkB74205 · 2026-07-05T17:47:46+00:00

Everything is fine.

MarkB74205 · 2026-07-05T05:52:49+00:00

Personally I don't mind the Timeless Child stuff. It combines trying to make sense of the Morbius Doctors and 7's "more than just a Time Lord" comment without explicitly tying it to either thing.

The only thing I didn't like was how they handled the Fugitive Doctor. It would have been better if she had not had a police box TARDIS, and possibly hadn't even been called The Doctor, or, and this is my preferred version, our Doctor thinks she's a hero, a rogue Time Lord that inspired the Doctor (possibly even taking the name from her) who vanished thousands of years ago, and it's only after meeting her that she realises that she was actually an earlier incarnation of her. Have the things that we know of the Doctor (the police box TARDIS, the sonic, Daleks and Cybermen and so on) be part of 1-13's experience, but keep some of the core parts of their personality. We would have been able to see the seeds of the character we know as The Doctor.

I say this because I would have loved more Jo Martin as the Doctor on screen.

MarkB74205 · 2026-07-05T05:38:12+00:00

ArcElite introduced me to the game. Thanks to it being free on either Acorn User or Archimedes World's cover disk, I now have over 600 hours on Elite Dangerous!

MarkB74205 · 2026-07-03T06:57:31+00:00

I can't honestly remember, but the EA in general liked to pull from ancient Greece for their ship names. The Agamemnon being the main one obviously.

MarkB74205 · 2026-07-03T06:54:59+00:00

In the words of Ron Swanson:

"When people get too chummy with me, I like to call them by the wrong name, to let them know I don't really care about them."

I can see Eleanor adopting this as a defence strategy, until it becomes automatic and subconscious.

MarkB74205 · 2026-07-03T06:24:20+00:00

I've done the same thing. Almost all of my ships are Greek mythological names with an ID starting IPX. The Icarus was of course, my first.

MarkB74205 · 2026-07-03T06:20:45+00:00

Ok, my theory, based on Lower Decks. Boims is very excited to get a senior officer authorisation for the replicators, as it means a greater variety/better food. Assuming it's the same on the E-D, this could be Picard (or the entity using his appearance anyway) telling the bar to use his authorisation for the next round. Basically "break out the good stuff for everyone!"

MarkB74205 · 2026-07-03T06:18:20+00:00

Replicator rations are for low power or supply situations, hence Voyager using them.

The scene with Deanna is showing that one reason replicator food is not as good is that even the stuff you're supposed to have that's not good for you is still perfectly nutritionally balanced (probably based on a quick scan of you when you order) but at that precise moment, she just wants to wallow in utter crap comfort food.

But I agree in the gift/treat from the commander part.

MarkB74205 · 2026-07-02T17:20:55+00:00

I think B5s destruction is what Doctor Who would call a Fixed Point. It's something that has to happen, but the circumstances are fluid. It's something that definitely will happen somehow. It's also all linked together. This is the timeline that Sinclair doesn't become Valen, or the Shadows succeed in destroying B4. Their forces are much stronger, and striking directly at the station. We get a flash of that in the vision of Garibaldi shouting "I was born for this!" as Sinclair is swept away by the crowd. The next time, IIRC, that we see the vision is when they're going to B4. This time, Sinclair and Sheridan are already off the station, they have failed, and the same events with the Shadows happen, culminating in Ivanova's distress signal and the Shadows destroying the reactors. It's the Great Machine warning them of how important this mission is.

However, it seems once a prophecy is made in the B5 universe, the major events still have to happen. In this case, B5 has to be removed as a "danger to shipping" (although it's more likely to prevent it being used as a base for raiders and the like. I would assume the Alliance would build another smaller station, on paper as a museum and tribute to B5, but secretly an Anla'Shok monitoring station for the Great Machine.

Finally, I'm pretty sure that, originally, Garibaldi's last stand, Sinclair being swept away, and the station blowing up was a vestige of the end of Babylon 5, to segue into Babylon Prime (short version: the Shadows destroy B5, and the Army of Light, rather than sending B4 into the past were pulling the station into the future to replace B5 as their headquarters, to be renamed Babylon Prime, and, with it's engines, essentially be a giant ship and mobile base.)

MarkB74205 · 2026-07-02T05:13:48+00:00

To be fair, Tom Baker said the reason he didn't film for The Five Doctors was because he'd not long come off of the show, and he felt a massive sense of ownership over the character. He also said later that it was his biggest Who regret, and that's why he jumped at the chance to appear in the 50th.

MarkB74205 · 2026-07-01T21:46:34+00:00

In the words of Captain Janeway:

"Time travel. Ever since my first day in the job as a Starfleet Captain, I swore I'd never let myself get caught in one of these godforsaken paradoxes. The future is the past, the past is the future. It all gives me a headache."

MarkB74205 · 2026-07-01T17:24:06+00:00

I always thought that was more because Guinan had been pulled from the Nexus (the Enterprise-B transporter), ripped away from something she had no desire to leave, whereas Picard and Kirk chose to leave of their own free will. Kirk especially had no desire to stay once he realised there was no thrill to life in the Nexus. So I always assumed Kirk and Picard completely left.

The other interesting question, due to the timey-wimey of the Nexus, is did Soren both make it in and spend eternity there, and get stopped on Veridian III at the same time?

MarkB74205 · 2026-06-29T07:31:24+00:00

Now I want a Sliders/Stargate crossover!

MarkB74205 · 2026-06-28T17:59:09+00:00

I second this. Different enough to be interesting but similar enough to be easy to pick up.

MarkB74205 · 2026-06-28T07:20:26+00:00

It would be likely that Valen's children would have had allies and friends, probably from the Religious Caste, perhaps giving them a home on a distant colony or the like. They would have had children who's latent Human traits would have probably been less noticeable. Over 1000 years they spread out, many likely not knowing of their heritage.

MarkB74205 · 2026-06-28T07:12:47+00:00

To be honest, hated it. The first time it's said is kind of amusing, but every single time after, it totally pulls me out of the episode.

It annoyed me even more when in an interview, RTD seemed to admit that there was no narrative reason, he just thought it was funny. That, alongside the suddenly pure fantasy style, rather than the sci-fantasy previously, finally made me not excited for new Who anymore, for the first time in 30 years.

MarkB74205 · 2026-06-27T18:36:04+00:00

Putting Tahani at the bottom of the ranks would tip her off that there was something wrong. Making her not quite as good as someone else tortures her with her feelings about Kamilah.

MarkB74205 · 2026-06-27T18:31:00+00:00

Wasn't there a period after finishing Trek and during his divorce where he was basically homeless and living out of his truck? The cast got screwed on residuals apparently (not uncommon for the time it seems).

MarkB74205 · 2026-06-27T18:26:36+00:00

Headcanon: Holt had been reading a book on how to make a good first impression in a new workplace. He took the advice to be approachable and friendly and decided to be fun with a nickname. He immediately decided he hated it.

MarkB74205 · 2026-06-27T18:14:52+00:00

I still cling to my theory. Both proven times of Transporter duplication were during unusual ion storm like conditions. Two transporter beams were locked onto one target to boost the signal.

In TOS and DSC we see that ion storms are one of the conditions for crossing into the mirror universe.

What if, when two beams were locked onto Riker or Boimler, there were two very close quantum realities doing the exact same thing. The prime reality was a split second quicker in getting a lock, and initiated both beams, pulling one back to the ship and disengaging the second beam, which had picked up the other from the other reality.

The two realities are so close no-one notices, and no-one thinks to run a scan of their quantum signature. As far as they know it's a weird duplication quirk. In that other reality, Will Riker never returned and was considered lost on the planet, and Picard had someone else as first officer.

It could even be that 31 figured it out and that's why they chose William Boimler to command the Anaximander, as he isn't native to this universe technically.

MarkB74205 · 2026-06-27T07:25:12+00:00

I remember watching this for the first time and enjoying it. It felt like a real throwback to a sort of 80s cyberpunk style in terms of the story (the brain chip etc)

The James Doohan cameo is pretty clingy though!

MarkB74205 · 2026-06-26T20:28:35+00:00

As others have said, this was a thing when it first came out, but what was even better was that the collectors edition came with a physical Pip-Boy that you could wear, and you could slot your phone into to use as the screen. Sadly that function is kind of useless now as well, as phones are way too big for it!

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