• limelight79@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    There’s a line in the episode around that point:

    “At what point did he become an individual, and not a transporter accident?”

    But that’s the whole point of the episode - it’s a moral quandary with no real “right” answer. It’s Hugh of Borg all over again.

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      11 months ago

      The episode did its job challenging viewers with the question, because people still argue about this today. But to me there’s an actual, unambiguous answer: 4.823 seconds after transport autosequence initiation, when the emitter array completed the materialization cycle.