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But wouldn't that also erase your memories?
If they can selectively remove pathogens during transport, I see no reason they couldn't selectively choose which parts of things to revert to a younger state and what to leave as is for things like memory preservation.
I'm already leaning towards transporters "actually kill you and clone you" and the extent to which they can manipulate the "you" that comes out is making me lean even harder lol
"Hey Scotty, when you beam me back up, can you give me a huge rodney?"
Here be your huge Rodney. Though you'll have a wee bit of trouble with the franchise compensator.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_McKay#/media/File%3ARodneyMcKaypic.jpg
This is a bigger Rodney, although the franchise compensator will have to work even harder:
Scotty, beam me back up and I want a bowl of guac in my hand when I arrive.
But a pathogen is an entirely separate life form, which they can apparently distinguish from one another. It wouldn't require editing the transport pattern itself. Just lock onto the pathogen, lock onto the person. Now transport the person with everything minus the pathogen.
Not sure if that's how it works but it seems like a different challenge than editing a person's memories or editing together two different transporter patterns.
For immortality, I would consider keeping a journal...
Assuming teleporters don't just kill and replicate you, as I kind of suspect they do
All the more reason to keep a journal! Lol.
You end up having a lot of journals.
They showed that in Doctor Who with Lady Me, who lived forever but had a mortal memory.
I think the fact that it kills you is more pressing.
No they are saying that since aging is the degradation of cells, being recreated by a transporter consistently would result in constant new cells that weren’t degrading like the old ones.
The flaw here is that the transporter recreates people in the same state they were in when they were destroyed to be tp’d, ensuring the cause for original degradation remains present and thus gaining continues
Unless, of course, the plot demands different. Notably in these episodes:
And of course the bio filters that explain why nobody gets any unexpected diseases when they visit planets.
Would childhood biological processes restart, if the cells were reset? Even if not, I feel like there would be complications if that was done to the brain, like sudden personality changes after your first teleport in a long time.
I'm not entirely sure how memories are stored in the brain but I feel like if all the neurons in a pathway were reset, it's affect the memory.