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  • GFR is like the journalist article version of Midnight’s Edge. Literally does nothing but report on non-sense and inject it with extraordinary amounts of vitriol and bad faith arguement.

    I actually wrote up a pretty strong disagreement for that post between the moment it appeared and when it got taken down, because the author clearly has a chip on their shoulder and wants to complain that anything that isn’t Picard S3 or SNW is done by people who “don’t get Trek” and that both shows “aren’t a good fit for the universe.” Neither of these things are true, considering Disco was created by long-time Berman-Era Trek contributor Bryan Fuller, and Prodigy is quite possibly one of the Trekkiest shows around.

    They just don’t like anything marginally different from their 90s comfort nostalgia formula that sent us straight into our wilderness years after franchise fatigue with Enterprise.

    The mods would have had auto-mod blocklist that domain over on r/startrek, so it shouldn’t be a surprise it gets removed here either.











  • This is refuted by in-universe POV accounts. We have traveled through the transporter with several characters, and not once is their stream of consciousness or even vision broken.

    Barclay even observes creatures slightly out of phase in the transport stream and manages to pull them in. (TNG, “Realm of Fear”)

    I know it’s described as disassembling and reassembling, but in practice it looks more like they’re being adjusted out of phase, pushed to their location using the annular confinement beam, and resequenced into phase with the rest of the universe. This is what happens with Geordi and Ro in TNG, “The Next Phase.”

    It doesn’t explain transporter clones or most transporter accidents, or even TNG, “Relics” but the transporter as a whole is kinda sorta space magic anyway.