This leads me to wonder what Ferengi think of pierced ears.
This community is for in-depth discussion. While this is a pretty good joke, if it doesn't further an in-depth discussion of the matter at hand, it's not appropriate here.
Edit: stupid procedural memory, this isn't a subreddit at all!
Did you mean to make this a top-level post? It sounds like a reply to another comment.
Here's the thing: Does Tom Riker actually prove that? That's the explanation suggested in the episode, but the preponderance of information about the mechanisms of transporter technology, as given both before and after, conflicts with it. But there's another hypothesis, a simpler one, and one that we know for a fact transporters are capable of, because it's a recurring element in Star Trek: Thomas Riker is from another universe, brought to the Prime universe by similar means as many of the various visits to and from the Mirror universe.
It's not just effectively identical, it's completely identical. The same matter, the same quantum state, the same consciousness.
The simplest answer would be because it doesn't ordinarily work that way.
No the fuck it isn't. Dualism is clearly true in Star Trek's universe and even if it weren't we see consciousness is maintained while beaming but is normally too brief to be perceived. (TNG: "Realm of Fear")
Beaming is no more death than sleeping, or existing for longer than a single Planck unit of time is.
Or sometimes "Ahead", in the same way Picard gets two.
I am confused by the choice to have the Klingons look like the redesign. This is TOS era so surely they should look like TOS era Klingons, no?
Gene always said that TOS Klingons would have had ridges the whole time if they'd had the budget for more elaborate makeup. Kor, Kang, and Koloth had the redesign. There's no proof that anyone outside of a handful in that Enterprise arc ever lost their ridges-- and would you really put it past the Klingons to lethally enforce a quarantine?
Nothing ever ends, Adrian.
in this version of Star Trek, science is magic
Science is magic in every version of Star Trek. TOS has Mind Melds and Greek Gods. Throughout the TNG era is the implication that evolution has a will of its own that can't (or mustn't) be subverted. DS9's main character eventually learns he's a demigod.
That is how the rules of this community work, yes.