• OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    37·
    10 hours ago

    The one ring is sitting on the transporter room floor

    “Mr. O’Brien, beam it into the fires! Destroy it!”

    “No”

  • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    20·
    9 hours ago

    Since the beam reduces the objects into particles and reconstructs it, doesn’t it imply that it’s able to destroy the ring in the first place? I guess it’s necessary to get rid of the particles to make it so they can’t re-build it again. But that does raise the question: Would the ability to reconstruct the ring affect one the same way the ring itself would? Or does the ring need to exist to exert its power?

      • Andy@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        First, I agree with all of the above: within existing lore it seems obvious that the transporter wouldn’t be able to transport the one ring for several reasons having to do with magic.

        But also, this is just a reminder that I think the transporters in Star Trek are so narratively uninteresting. I like Trek, but pretty much in spite of the tech writing. The degree of magic in their technology just does nothing for me. I wish we had more fiction that was like a cross between Star Trek and The Expanse.

      • crawancon@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        9 hours ago

        conversely if they are able to transport it, the act of disassembling it would unmake the spirit sauron poured into it, being remade somewhere else will not have the same …sparkle.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    38·
    10 hours ago

    “Captain, this seems like a gross violation of both the Prime Directive and the Temporal Prime Directive”

  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    11 hours ago

    Depending on how far it was to Mt Doom, they totally would’ve searched for a scifi way to destroy the ring first. Probably involving reversing polarity and inverting tachyons.