• Naz@sh.itjust.works
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    12 hours ago

    Let’s say you’re given two ways to travel faster than light:

    Star Trek Teleporter/Matter Reassembler

    And

    Shuttle through the Wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant

    Which would you prefer and why?

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      9 hours ago

      the wormhole seems safer, since its the prophets artificial wormhole and its stable, made more stable later in the series, not so for other wormholes, they seem to have the same dangers as random transporter malfunctions . The transporter seems fickle , numerous incidents where it had cloned, killed, merged 2 people into one, depending on the plot of the episode, or it cant transport fast enough when someone is shooting a disruptor weapon at you, ends up killing the person, or the transporter picks up some wierd pathogen/lifeforms. plus the wormhole doesnt require energy to use, so no problems activating it.

      honorable mentions, is other than the ICONIAN gateways which is probably the best ftl type of instananeous rift travel, subspace catapults, or even the caretakers intergalatic ftl dimensional rift generator/teleporter, other forms of transporters/rift/interdimensional teleporters are pretty complicated and somewhat dangerous.

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        10 hours ago

        Y’all thought Picard’a brother was the bad guy.

        Man just wanted to live and drink wine. C’est la vida loca