Inspirational credit to OpenStars@piefed.social for their Blazin’ Bev snail reference, which reminded me of that weird meme from the bad place about an immortal snail whose touch meant instant death.
ST: First Contact
Inspirational credit to OpenStars@piefed.social for their Blazin’ Bev snail reference, which reminded me of that weird meme from the bad place about an immortal snail whose touch meant instant death.
ST: First Contact
You mean makes the immortal snail hypothetical easier or harder? Because, on one hand, yeah the snail could potentially catch a ride on the beam but on the other hand you can travel almost literally anywhere in mere moments.
Its actually a trick question, because the instant you step onto the transporter pad and beam out you die, making the snails chase moot.
Beat the “immortal snail is chasing you forever by vaporizing your body into data and having a new clone of you made elsewhere” with this one weird trick.
The real snails were the transporter deaths we met along the way.
But if you undo the curse like that doesn’t it also undo the immortality part?
Of course, but you’re already immortal in a TNG world. Transporters can easily modify your body to give you eternal youth, and of course cure any disease or injury. Just make sure your brainwaves/synapses are updated in near real time and refresh the rest of the body daily.
Why no one actually opts for it is beyond me.
(This, coming from the Picard golem)
It’s all fun and games until you survive atomization and slowly reassemble yourself for centuries.