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[–] 5 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Let's say you're given two ways to travel faster than light:

Star Trek Teleporter/Matter Reassembler

And

Shuttle through the Wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant

Which would you prefer and why?

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    the wormhole seems safer, since its the prophets artificial wormhole and its stable, made more stable later in the series, not so for other wormholes, they seem to have the same dangers as random transporter malfunctions . The transporter seems fickle , numerous incidents where it had cloned, killed, merged 2 people into one, depending on the plot of the episode, or it cant transport fast enough when someone is shooting a disruptor weapon at you, ends up killing the person, or the transporter picks up some wierd pathogen/lifeforms. plus the wormhole doesnt require energy to use, so no problems activating it.

    honorable mentions, is other than the ICONIAN gateways which is probably the best ftl type of instananeous rift travel, subspace catapults, or even the caretakers intergalatic ftl dimensional rift generator/teleporter, other forms of transporters/rift/interdimensional teleporters are pretty complicated and somewhat dangerous.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Either way works for me. Better than the options currently available on planet Earth at this point in history.

    Furthermore, any civilization able to have matter reassembly and wormhole travel available as convenient means of travel will be amazing to experience and live in.

    Beam me up, Scotty!

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