Sure, but they screw with things in transport all the time.
There’s an infection? Omit it on the beam up. There’s a weapon discharging? Disable it. Have a hard time beaming someone up? Beam them up twice and if one copy bounces back to the planet… Oh well. I seem to recall an instance of them doing surgery while in the pattern buffer too, which makes you wonder why they don’t just use the transporter buffer to do all medical treatment. If you are beaming up a critically injured person, don’t beam them directly to sick bay, just tweak them in the buffer.
Also, what all does the “pattern” contain? After someone has been “restored from backup” in these incidents, they always seem to retain the memory of how they were after the mess up. So clearly they keep their memories as they get merged/tweaked back to the pattern on file.
Sure, but they screw with things in transport all the time.
There’s an infection? Omit it on the beam up. There’s a weapon discharging? Disable it. Have a hard time beaming someone up? Beam them up twice and if one copy bounces back to the planet… Oh well. I seem to recall an instance of them doing surgery while in the pattern buffer too, which makes you wonder why they don’t just use the transporter buffer to do all medical treatment. If you are beaming up a critically injured person, don’t beam them directly to sick bay, just tweak them in the buffer.
Also, what all does the “pattern” contain? After someone has been “restored from backup” in these incidents, they always seem to retain the memory of how they were after the mess up. So clearly they keep their memories as they get merged/tweaked back to the pattern on file.