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Old 01-27-2020, 04:29 PM   #187
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I always got the impression that the transporters required a team of specialists to operate, even then it was pretty reckless and dangerous to use them. There were multiple major storylines revolving around transporter accidents.

I never really got how those damn things worked. Why not use them to create an army of soldiers? Cure diseases? Keep you young? Etc....
Pretty sure they did both of those, along with some accidental cloning and various other misuses of the technology.

And yes, again, eventually site-to-site transport became common which I'm sure was soul-crushing to Chief O'Brien.

"Nobody visits anymore...."

Then you could shoot people with teleporter tags and on and on it goes.
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