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  • 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.



  • 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.


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    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.