Imagine that there is a glitch in the system, so that the “original” Kirk fails to dematerialise when the “new” one appears, so we find ourselves with two copies of Kirk. Now Scotty says “Sowwy Captain” and zaps the “old” Kirk into a cloud of atoms. How in the world does that not constitute murder?
And here is something that bugs me in Sci. Fi. shows. It’s worse than ’Sound in space? Dammit!” Take Carter from Stargate. She has Asgard beaming technology and the Asgard core (computer). She can use this to create food, a Chelo for herself and Tritonin for Teal’c. The core function of the device is to take humanoid creatures and re-materialise them somewhere else. Why oh why do they not leave the originals behind and create a 50-Carter strong research team, a million strong Teal’c army and an entire wizard’s circle of Daniel Jacksons with whatever his mind-power of the episode happens to be? There are dozens of ways to clone SG1. The robot-SGI is the mundane example. The Stargates themselves have the capability and so do Wraith darts. The same applies to Kirk and his crew. But no. let’s just ignore the most obvious use of the core technology.
And here is something that bugs me in Sci. Fi. shows. It’s worse than ’Sound in space? Dammit!” Take Carter from Stargate. She has Asgard beaming technology and the Asgard core (computer). She can use this to create food, a Chelo for herself and Tritonin for Teal’c. The core function of the device is to take humanoid creatures and re-materialise them somewhere else. Why oh why do they not leave the originals behind and create a 50-Carter strong research team, a million strong Teal’c army and an entire wizard’s circle of Daniel Jacksons with whatever his mind-power of the episode happens to be? There are dozens of ways to clone SG1. The robot-SGI is the mundane example. The Stargates themselves have the capability and so do Wraith darts. The same applies to Kirk and his crew. But no. let’s just ignore the most obvious use of the core technology.