"Fluff" in the same way what collects under the sofa is fluff.
All is peaceful in locked-down Canterlot. Just a question of waiting for Commander Tempest to get back.
Not that the Storm Guard know the plan, of course. They just follow orders, trusting that the King knows best.
While following these orders and keeping an eye on everything, two Storm Guard have a conversation, just to pass the time.
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Would be interesting to see more of you writing storm guard stuff. We never did find out what happened with them after the invasion.
For those playing at home, the transporter from Star Trek works exactly as described (Scotty refuses to use them because he knows how they work), and in at least one episode malfunctioned exactly as described.
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Apparently you see one or two just sort of standing around in the crowd towards the end. In my head I figured that some would have got folded into life - which would be the meat of any such followup story - while the rest got...back home...somehow...
I really did like them though. That one guy who snipped the balloons was my favourite.
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Is that genuinely how they work? Holy crap, I thought people were joking. That's a philosophical can of worms!
Knew about the episode with the double though. That was Riker, wasn't it? I figured there was some technobabble excuse for why they created a copy. Crosswaves or tachyons or whatever. Didn't they scrap the double without a thought? Seems like a misstep to me.
Star Trek is always at its best, I think, when its basically just taking an idea, dressing it up in cheap sci-fi set dressing and then talking about it for an hour. Love it.
That said, I'll take Culture displacement over a transporter...
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Nah, Riker no.2 was stranded on some planet for like ten years or summat because they left with the copy, not knowing that there was another Riker still on the surface. So from his perspective the Enerprise just suddenly up and sodded off for no reason at all. Very rude that, if one is being marooned there ought to be some reason given, "we don't like you" at the very least.
Anyway, a while later they came back and found him, there was much drama as you might expect, and then Riker no.2 was free to go whiffling off into the galaxy in search of his own place in the universe. I think he eventually got married or something.
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Yeah, they scrapped it without a thought because it was supposed to be scrapped without a thought, and the scrapper initially malfunctioned.
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Well I guess that's a plus? I guess?
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Man, that's really not very Star Trek at all...
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It was always McCoy who was grouchy about the transporter, I was fairly certain.
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Given the several Transporter Clone incidents in the show, it is how they appear to work, but the Treknobabble employed in describing them claims otherwise. Supposedly one is disassembled, converted into energy, transmitted, and reassembled at the far end. This still raises troubling questions in the continuity-of-consciousness and grandfather's-axe sort of space. Also it doesn't suggest a ready way to end up with these Transporter Clone incidents--one would have to ask where the extra matter came from.
Also, creating a coherent transmission out of the mass-energy equivalent of, say, 80 kilos over the course of, say, 3 seconds, would be like directing about 135,000 times human civilization's current global power output. I am reminded of the Kzinti Lesson when contemplating the casual conversion, direction, and deconversion of that much matter to energy.
Much hedging and bending over backward is also invested in keeping the replicators from being cloning machines.
Oh right, lovely little vignette, too. They're a good bunch of henches, they are.
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Subspace. It creates the extra mass out of subspace. Somehow. Maybe. Particle waves.
Isn't subspace also the answer for why disintegrating someone with a phaser doesn't annhilate everything for miles around? I'm not a huge Star Trek guy, though I am enjoying watching DS9 again. Mostly it just seemed very contrary to the Federation's ethical stance to have something that doesn't move you but copies you and murders you.
But eh, the thought experiment part of it is the fun part. Philosophical wank is endless fun, I find.
Next up Theo and Quinten get into an argument over whether it's justifiable or not to pull a lever and send a runaway tram into one person let it roll into more than one person. And then after that we do a Galaxy Quest crossover.
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Subspace is also how Odo manages to change his mass.
I don't think it has ever been canonically addressed how a phaser on disintegrate doesn't dump, at a minimum, all of the chemical energy from all of the various fats, proteins, etc, into the immediate surroundings. Causing someone to briefly become a very large torch seems like more of a Klingon or Cardassian idea. Probably the Federation specifically designed the phaser to shunt all that mess into subspace as a matter of good taste.
I don't think there's a method of teleportation short of a man-scale wormhole that doesn't cause problems. If it's got to disassemble and reassemble you, it can or possibly does copy you. I suppose mother was right--you'd better watch where you're walking, cause if you can't, you might not be you when you get there.
Quinten has all the answers. Also, Galaxy Quest sounds like a good framework for an alternative take on the relationship between Daring Do and A.K. Yearling.
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A Galaxy Quest rip featuring A. K. Yearling? That would be amusing, I recall that they mentioned a tone shift after her first few books. Perhaps she got dragged into real adventures after someone took her stories seriously?
Really enjoyed this little vignette. The idea of a pair of StormGrunts engaging in deep philosophical issues while on duty (or trying to at least) is amusing. Really would love to see more of Quentin and Theo
There was an episode of The Outer Limits (1995) series that used the teleporter idea. And like in the speculative story, it goes wrong. However, in that version, the main character is told to destroy the original. (link to the wikipedia article is here.)
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It did just rather tickle me to picture the dumb muscle being articulate in their own tongue. I'm easily amused.
And I finally got to use "I say, Quinten" in something. This delights me for highly specific reasons.
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Just take the 40k route and briefly detour through hell. You might not end up half in a wall!
Or Culture displacement where you...quantum...something...the grid?
"I say, Quinten, do you know the meaning to this war?"
"Hmmm...?"
"I mean... what is the whole point? It cannot be for the land because everything is burned, bombed, or polluted. It cannot be for the money because there is not anything left to spend it on. So what is it? Religion? Why do we continue to fight?"
"To win the war."
"Meh... Works for me"
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Oh that takes me back
There’s a rather gruesome story based on that premise about teleporting called Blink.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/341279/blink
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It was actually only eight years he was stranded, and the incident occurred before Riker's posting to the Enterprise-D (before it had even launched, in fact) and had been serving on a different ship at the time. Riker 2 did not marry, but Picard did get him a posting on another Starfleet ship (as him staying on the Enterprise was agreed to be just too awkward) so to continue a career in Starfleet. Couple of years later, he was revealed to have joined the Maquis, hijacked the Defiant from DS9 in an attempt to catch the Cardassians at foul play, got caught, and voluntarily surrendered himself to the Cardassians where he was last seen being given a life-sentence on a Cardassian labor camp. He's presumably still out there somewhere in the Trek galaxy, but despite indicating it was open to the idea, the franchise has yet to officially revisit him.
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You know, I was re-watching DS9 lately (or watching it properly, seeing as how the last time I watchd it I was a little babby) and I saw the Riker2-napping-the-Defiant episode and I was like "Oh! He took off the facial hair! It's that guy!"
And they really do just set him up as something to come back to and just...never do...
Poor guy.
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Ah yes, that'd be it. I hadn't watched those episodes in years, so you can see how poor my recollection was. Thanks for the refresher.