One thing I like about Enterprise is how nervous they are, especially at first, about the transporter. They never do use it regularly, like in the other series. The default is the shuttle pod. It feels like a very realistic reaction to the new technology.
We would just never know. Hell, the suspicious people are basically proved right by the endless amount of transporter accidents there are. Especially the case of William Thomas Riker.
Tldr there’d be absolutely no way to verify the transporter isn’t actively killing everyone it transports and making perfect clones of them.
One thing I like about Enterprise is how nervous they are, especially at first, about the transporter. They never do use it regularly, like in the other series. The default is the shuttle pod. It feels like a very realistic reaction to the new technology.
It’s not even remotely unrealistic to have people in the 24th century actively avoiding transport, despite it’s obiquitousness.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletransportation_paradox
We would just never know. Hell, the suspicious people are basically proved right by the endless amount of transporter accidents there are. Especially the case of William Thomas Riker.
Tldr there’d be absolutely no way to verify the transporter isn’t actively killing everyone it transports and making perfect clones of them.