Like how Scotty sat for decades in the transporter buffer. How the doctors kid in strange new worlds was stashed in the transporter buffer most of the time.
Multiple TNG references using “last transport” as a reference point for Crusher to talk about mysterious space sickness of the day.
Sure, but I don’t think those are used as a matter of standard practice. The idea of some immutable, archival pattern being used for each trip doesn’t track.
They regularly allude to the idea of “pattern buffers” that hold on to a copy of you for as long as the plot requires.
Like how Scotty sat for decades in the transporter buffer. How the doctors kid in strange new worlds was stashed in the transporter buffer most of the time.
Multiple TNG references using “last transport” as a reference point for Crusher to talk about mysterious space sickness of the day.
Sure, but I don’t think those are used as a matter of standard practice. The idea of some immutable, archival pattern being used for each trip doesn’t track.
I thought you were read into the buffer until your pattern was wholly scanned and then replicated onto the target from it
Sounds right to me.