Pick one: Holodeck or transporter?

[bobws]

Transporter! no need for cars or car insurance and save the environment and go anywhere very quickly, maybe then i won't run late so much.

[Meule]

Holodeck. Transporter doesn't do anything you can't do now (pretty much). Just gets you places faster. Holodeck can take you anywhere you can imagine . . .

Transporter: no more car needed, no more insurance, no more taxes, not more gas. You just saved yourself a fortune right there. You wanna go on holiday? No more expensive plain tickets, another fortune saved. Not necessary, eh? Must be fun being a millionaire

[Mikey]

The transporter would have unexpected drawbacks as well -- if they were commonplace.

Suddenly there would be no more snowday's from work.

Alcoholics would get worse considering they're only a second away from any ginmill or liquor store.

You have no excuse to cancel when invited to parties, get-togethers and other functions you don't feel like attending.

Terrorists would have a field day.

[clemso]

Real world, no brainer, Transporter. My only hesitation would be .. The Fly

[raider5gt]

I would go for the transporter too,that means i won't have to ever go on a plane lol

Still have not been on one to this day (Mr T Phobia)

[Orion]

Holodeck would provide limitless fun and I wouldn't have to worry about my molecules getting mixed up in a transporter accident.

[HardyGirl]

I guess it's time I answered my own question. I would want a holodeck. Just think...I could meet (and be involved with) all the famous people I want, go anywhere in the world, (heck the universe!), I could go home to NYC in the 70s, see my family again, play w/ all the old school toys, and all w/o ruining the fabric of time!

[Riffster]

I would go for the transporter too,that means i won't have to ever go on a plane lol

Still have not been on one to this day (Mr T Phobia)

your afraid of Mr. T?


transporter for me, I hate driving in snow

[raider5gt]

your afraid of Mr. T?


transporter for me, I hate driving in snow

No Mr T didn't like to fly "I aint getting on no plane fool"

We have had lots of snow here also not very good driving

[Meule]

The transporter would have unexpected drawbacks as well -- if they were commonplace.

Suddenly there would be no more snowday's from work.

Alcoholics would get worse considering they're only a second away from any ginmill or liquor store.

You have no excuse to cancel when invited to parties, get-togethers and other functions you don't feel like attending.

Terrorists would have a field day.

It never snows that much here that you can't go to work

Alcoholics will find their way to liquor store no matter what. That still doesn't mean they suddenly have more money to buy more alcohol, so I don't see this getting worse. Look at like this: they get arrested by the cops and get immediately transported to rehab. No chance to protest, instantly transported.

Plenty of excuses left: death in the family, no baby sitter, basement got flooded, house burnt down, ...

The transporter can be set in a way that it doesn't transport weapons

[UnderdogDJLSW]

I hate to geek out here, but here goes. I believe one of the early episodes of TNG explained that the holodeck worked because of transporter technology. The walls and such were illusion, but the things like clothing, food, etc. were created via beam in of ships stores, etc.

Wish I could remember where I heard that exactly, but looks like everyone would want a transporter first

Though, Sharry, I agree it would be neat to be able to see the 70's again without worries!

[jds1911a1]

I didn't know the transporter was a cloning machine.

Hec Mike is making a reference to THE ENEMY WITHIN

[jds1911a1]

I hate to geek out here, but here goes. I believe one of the early episodes of TNG explained that the holodeck worked because of transporter technology. The walls and such were illusion, but the things like clothing, food, etc. were created via beam in of ships stores, etc.

Wish I could remember where I heard that exactly, but looks like everyone would want a transporter first

Though, Sharry, I agree it would be neat to be able to see the 70's again without worries!

Could have been encounter at Farpoint since it introduced the concept or The Big Goodbye the first Holodec centered story

[Gorn Captain]

I'd want a long-distance transporter.
Going from planet to planet. Because a lot of the time, the transporter is used on occasions when a simple shuttlepod would have done the trick, too. I'd travel the universe, no doubt about it.

I'd be careful with too much transporting, 'cause odds are you'll end up looking like Pike someday.

I'd go for the Holodeck when I'm older, and can't get around much anymore. Bring the universe to my living room. I wouldn't have to take my dogs for endless walks anymore. I'd program it to make a stretch with nothing but trees and lamp posts. Going in a huge circle. My dogs would come back to me, exhausted but satisfied.
I'd make a program that gives me every toy in the world. Wouldn't that save money....

[Mikey]

Technical question .......

But what do you guys think of the explained technology that everytime you transport you are actually killed and or disintegrated and a clone of you is "built" using local source matter at the destination you are going then your consciousness is beamed into the clone.

Technically everytime you transport you are a new clone.

If you read the tech books, your body is not actually disintegrated beamed and rebuilt ...
Your new body is made from local source matter at the destination.

So if you beam down next to a sewer, you just might be full of sh-t