TNG s6e7 “Rascals”
That episode was about a transporter mishap that turned Keiko, Ro and Guinan physically into 12-year-olds but mentally they were still adults. At the time I thought it was pretty lame to make anything “pedo” out of that situation. Keiko was an adult woman, married to O’Brien, presumably having a normal amount of sex, and suddenly she has a lot smaller body. How the two of them coped with this in their relationship was between them IMO. But people sure did go to town on it. One writer called him PedO’Brien, also calling a scene “particularly cringe-worthy” where Guinan and Ro decided to embrace their inner child and jump up and down on a bed. I dunno what’s wrong with people.
There was a Stargate SG-1 episode where Jack O’Neill got regressed back to a 14 year old (actually he was cloned by an rouge Asguard) and eventually they released him into a public high school with all his adult memories intact. A bit problematic, now that he’s an adult man in a child’s body presumably banging other teenagers.
Weird that they would invalidate his existing high school diploma.
Another weird one is when writers think it makes sense for vampires who are hundreds of years old to spend their days in high school because they have teenage bodies. And they’re immortal so presumably they are doomed to spend eternity in high school. What kind of hellish fate is that?
Here’s my question, why was the malfunction not replicated and monitized by the Ferangi as a beauty produced? “Look 10 years younger because you will be 10 years younger”
Or when they de aged Pulaski to her “proper” age, they could have just gone a few years younger.
Or when they are aged the people in this episode, maybe only age them into their early 20s.
The transporters open up all sorts of scenarios that they clearly show as possible, but no one ever uses it that way on purpose somehow…
It’s been a while since I saw that episode but weren’t they only able to do that because they had her most recent pattern stored in the buffer or something like that?
Sure, but they screw with things in transport all the time.
There’s an infection? Omit it on the beam up. There’s a weapon discharging? Disable it. Have a hard time beaming someone up? Beam them up twice and if one copy bounces back to the planet… Oh well. I seem to recall an instance of them doing surgery while in the pattern buffer too, which makes you wonder why they don’t just use the transporter buffer to do all medical treatment. If you are beaming up a critically injured person, don’t beam them directly to sick bay, just tweak them in the buffer.
Also, what all does the “pattern” contain? After someone has been “restored from backup” in these incidents, they always seem to retain the memory of how they were after the mess up. So clearly they keep their memories as they get merged/tweaked back to the pattern on file.
Of that’s the case, you could store the pattern for whatever age you want and always return to it in the future. I don’t really see that as an issue to the concept. Just more of a hassle, and obviously you can’t return to before you decided to start storing that.
I like to believe there are strict ethical laws in far future that are actually enforced, and built into the hardware. Like maybe an ethical local AI
But like everyone has the technology. I’m highly skeptical Ferengi would stand in the way of de-aging out of an ethical concern.
“How do you like your coffee?”
“Hot and black. Like my men.”
Ah yes, the best quote out of context:
I mean, of course you’re my wife. But you’re also ten years old.
“We haven’t lost everything Miles, you can still work engineering miracles, and I can still criticize you for not being home often enough.”
