He shows such mercy
He shows such mercy
Really, what do they expect? Mental Healthcare is more or less nonexistent everywhere he goes.
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Is a person caught in a transporter buffer aware of anything? Does time just stand still for them as they've been broken down into whatever it is they're existing as (energy)? Or are they caught in some sort of eternal hell waiting to be transported. I feel like this was the plot for a TNG episode at some point and maybe they're not aware of time when they're caught in it.
In one episode, Scotty and another crewman were intentionally caught in the buffers to save themselves for something like 80 years, and in that time the patterns had degraded enough that the other crewman couldn't be saved.
It's been awhile since I've watched it, but that was the gist.
They don't have awareness IIRC
Didn't the transporter monsters / crew that Barclay saved have awareness? I'm sure they were trying to get out by grabbing people in the transporter stream.
In that they treknobabble it with "plasma streamers" and "ionization" and some kind of energy microbes, but the worm things were crew members from the Yosemite.
I know they were the crew, but what I mean is, weren't they actively trying to get out of the transporter stream, suggesting that they were aware of their situation?
Ah, gotcha.
I guess it could be argued they were moving with their own will, but it could also have been random movements in plasma.
I don't remember any explanation of if they were conscious of their movement or not.