Because the transporter is a nightmare fuel generator even when they are not using it to split two living beings that are literally bound by flesh, and even biologically synchronized to a high degree?
Outside of starships named Enterprise or Voyager they also seem to have a series of rules in place to prevent sending people to the wrong universe or merge them with their pet.
In one version of the ship. This was after they’d split in two by going slightly out of phase, but shared the same antimatter. The other Naomi Wildman survived the transport and was taken to the less doomed Voyager by the remaining Harry Kim. You know, the one that didn’t get spaced from a ruptured hull.
Another question: Why do they still do natural childbirth when they have transporters?
Because the transporter is a nightmare fuel generator even when they are not using it to split two living beings that are literally bound by flesh, and even biologically synchronized to a high degree?
And yet, somehow, people willingly step into it all the time!
Outside of starships named Enterprise or Voyager they also seem to have a series of rules in place to prevent sending people to the wrong universe or merge them with their pet.
Please, Neelix was more than a pet!
Because you should at least get a chance to be born before being replaced by a procession of short-lived transporter clones.
What makes you think that would… ever… be a thing?
The Rikers.
Or do you mean getting to live briefly first?
Just O’Brien related transporter shenanigans.
I’m just surprised the crew doesn’t beam the shit out of their colons on the regular.
Who’s to say they don’t…
Didn’t they do a teleporter birth on Voyager and it caused the kid’s cell membranes to dissolve?
In one version of the ship. This was after they’d split in two by going slightly out of phase, but shared the same antimatter. The other Naomi Wildman survived the transport and was taken to the less doomed Voyager by the remaining Harry Kim. You know, the one that didn’t get spaced from a ruptured hull.
I like to think it’s because healthy natural child birth is optimal for both the babys and the mothers wellbeing.