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Could Scotty’s loss of Porthos during that experiment have been the actual divergence point? (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 days ago by LillyPip@lemmy.ca to c/tenforward@lemmy.world

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Captain archer was linked with his own future, and he was almost religiously against transporter tech straight out of the gate, to a degree that seems weird if he didn’t have a reason to be.

I understand the narrative reasons for this, but looking at him as a person, he seems overly Luddite with respect to this specific tech, in a way he isn’t with most others we can see. He’s actually pretty progressive with respect to his society in many facets.

That’s a bit weird, unless we consider his life includes time travel as a core concept, so he knew Scotty would lose Porthos, and though he couldn’t do anything about that, he had an almost innate distrust of transporters.

Does that make sense?

(I mostly mean the events of ENT and some TNG, VOY, all new movies since 2009, etc in that timeline, but perhaps the other, too)

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[–] FlatFootFox@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The first time they use the transporter is to save Archer during the pilot. Its second use is two episodes later when Archer himself orders a crewman to be beamed up for the first time. That person instantly gets fused with the local flora and dies. The captain has plenty of reasons to be skittish about the tech.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You would think they’d have the bio-filters tuned to absolutely erase any kind of flora after that but nope and now there’s a Tuvix

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

ENT Explanation: Oh snap, we should DEFINITELY add some kind of filter for biological things so that never happens again.

VOY Explanation: A specific plant confused the LLM that filters shit out and it hallucinated a Tuvix.