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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6203333" data-attributes="member: 177">Ah, okay.  Well, it sure doesn't mean that to me.  The magical "Law of Sympathy" is by no means rational or scientific.  But if the author tells me that the rule applies to magic in the world, I expect the author to stick to that.  Well, that's your own problem <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Thing is, there's nothing all that inconsistent about the usual transporter shtick.  Transporters work, in general.  But they are mechanisms.  Mechanisms break, or fail in conditions they weren't designed to deal with. If your car can break down, or not make it up a really muddy hill, why can't a transporter have issues?And no, the "but if they were that unsafe, they wouldn't use them" argument doesn't hold much water with me.  Being in Starfleet at all is incredibly risky.  Ships get blown up, eaten, infested with alien fungus, and just slip away into the timestream with great regularity.  An occasional transporter malfunction in the highest-risk ships in the known galaxy is not really an issue, to me <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />In the most recent movie, however, is an instance of them breaking their own rules, and having it irk me considerably.  We are given to know that transporter have a limited range, so we need starships.  But then a villain, through no known effort, has a transporter that blows that range out of the water, in such a way that should reshape the fictional universe.  He can transport between star systems.  This feat is more important than any other event in the movie, as it means we no longer even need starships, and it is just glossed over.  The death of the very concept of Starfleet is at hand, but meh, who cares?</blockquote>

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