And this was with war-capable vessels in the most hierarchical type of organization. Can you imagine what a shit-show the non-Starfleet federation is?
Probably depends a bit. Starfleet is not the only organisation with their own ships. We know a lot of alien worlds maintain their own vessels, like the Medusans.
Plus the first two seasons basically had the producers get fired, and a new person brought in partway through.
That would be bad for any show.
I think that’s their point. You wouldn’t have a choice again if Intel goes out of business.
It would end up creating some due to inefficiencies, which would contribute to the heat at the end.
Or chicken breasts. That’s how you end up a greentext.
“Why are you so lazy/clumsy?”
Basically any time I forgot something, misremembered an instruction, or didn’t read my mum’s mind to divine what she specifically wanted done, to her satisfaction.
Why yes, I do enjoy just crashing into things for fun, or making an awful racket/mess because I accidentally hit the table with my cup.
It’s still around. It just got replaced by the new banana for produce.
You can still buy Gros Michel bananas, they’re just harder to find compared to a Cavendish.
A transporter trace might not have existed to begin with, and depending on how the disease acted, any old traces might have been lost.
For example, if she had an illness that only started presenting itself long after she caught it, like Tholian shingles. There may no longer be a healthy trace to pull from, or the disease caused damage that a backup cannot sufficiently repair.
We do know that some health conditions generally preclude transport. It’s not very healthy for foetuses to be transported. Voyager did it, and the baby had to spend several days in ICU to make sure that being transported didn’t mangle their neurochemistry, which would suggest that’s also something a transporter cannot readily fix.
The entire point of a backup is to overwrite and replace bad data, though. If a backup was kept, it would logically follow that it would be possible to overwrite the damaged parts of the pattern, since we know that transports can succeed even if a portion if the pattern is lost.
Geordi specigically brings up it being impossible to materialise Franklin because his pattern had degraded too much, not that it was degraded at all, and would suggest that there’s a threshold before repairs are no longer possible.
Episodes like Threshold and that one where the Enterprise crew turn into children come to mind. The latter actually involves transporters.
They don’t usually revert the crew using the backup data, though. They just program it to make changes to their bodies, like removing things. It wouldn’t be any stranger than removing an alien pathogen.
The backup data, I think was only used for Pulaski when she got the ageing disease (where it might have been a reference pattern to correct errors, and they had to actually compare with a known good genome), and for Tuvix.
We do also know that a bad transport can’t just be retried either. The Motion Picture had a transport go wrong, and Starbase One couldn’t just restart the transport with backup data, or repair what they got back. Similarly, Scotty couldn’t just load up Franklin’s backup from the Jenolan’s computers and transport him in either.
You do see it sometimes, where people complain that dinosaurs are no longer fearsome giant lizards because we found out that they might have feathers and aren’t SUV height, on social media and places.
It generally becomes obvious that they have never met a goose, chicken, or been at risk of swooping before.
Let’s compromise and call them both fish.
It’s been that for a while. Tumblr’s had it a while, between the earlier days of the user base, and the site not being the most well-coded thing compared to Twitter or Reddit.
You also can’t exactly get ethical approval to put microplastics into people for the purposes of scientific experimentation. Or at least, it would be very difficult. More so when current evidence shows that it does have actively harmful effects.
To think we could have almost had the Octopus system Hong Kong uses.
They’re nice when they work. Problem is when they don’t.
Why are the new Myki readers so awful? I’d argue them to be worse than even the first-generation readers with a bad read.
The entire device basically gets locked out on a bad read for about a minute. If your Myki doesn’t read properly, or your phone is acting up, a few retries could lock out a big chunk of the station gates.
That would make sense, if they were doing something like tracking how often and what categories trigger their moderation filter.
Just in case an errant update or something causes the statistic to suddenly change.