Transporter Death in other Sci-Fi
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The duplicator used in "Moloch" was based on a slightly different mechanism. No explanation as to how either the Liberator's or Scorpio's teleportation systems was ever given.Stark wrote:Didn't Moloch show that you could use the teleport tech as a replicator? Or was it unrelated and I'm imagining things?
Since I think the B7 teleporters explicitly used 'reconstruction' that's transporter death too. So they killed Servalan after all.
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I think that may have to do with a brainbug from the era that people exploded in low pressure environments. This may have been spawned by the fact that deep sea fish brought to the surface will explode (though obviously quite not so dramatically as people exploded in these sci fi stories).Patrick Degan wrote:On two occasions, persons were deliberately teleported into open space, which somehow caused them to explode.
And got themselves killed more than once.Stark wrote:Since I think the B7 teleporters explicitly used 'reconstruction' that's transporter death too. So they killed Servalan after all.
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Actually, I've encountered that several times in science fiction, although it's been long enough that I can't recall specific books and series.18-Till-I-Die wrote:Indeed, i cant think of any form of teleportation besides ST which is known to be a literal "kill you/clone you" method.
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