• kaitco@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    How does a Tom Riker happen then? How are you able to completely duplicate an entire being if the original isn’t being “killed” and then a new copy created in the new location.

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      3 days ago

      Two transporter beams, a weirdly reflective at.osphere that only exists in a single planet in the known universe, and plot devises intended for the sole purpose of that one story.

      Most of which are explained in that same episode if you’d actually pay attention to it.