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<blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 7611151" data-attributes="member: 40176"><p>It was in the movie. In the first movie Spock explains to Scotty that the transporter formula he's using is one that he <em>will</em> invent in the future. He doesn't specify when, but as you pointed out, they weren't using transporters that way during any of the subsequent TV series, so we'd have to assume it was after them.</p><p></p><p>And then, in the second movie, after Khan uses a transporter to beam to the Klingon homeworld, Scotty complains loudly about how Khan got hold of his transporter beaming equation, letting us as the audience know that this is how he was able to make such a long-range transport.</p><p></p><p></p><p>It applies to any and all systems of sufficient complexity. It certainly applies to genetics, whose building blocks are specific, but whose outcomes very enormously depending upon initial conditions.</p><p></p><p>Nudge those initial conditions even slightly, and a different spermatozoon fertilises the same egg. Genetic result: A person who, if you ran a genetic comparison to their original-universe counterpart, would show as being a twin sibling. At the very least, it's a straight coin-flip whether a person's alt-universe counterpart would be the same sex as they are.</p><p></p><p>Vary them more (and the vagaries of cellular formation mean that, for anyone conceived more than a few months after the propagation of the triggering event, not only the sperm but also the ovum will be effectively different than their original-universe equivalents), and a genetic comparison to their original-universe counterpart would peg them merely as siblings, not even twin siblings.</p><p></p><p>And that's assuming that peoples' lives continue to proceed so nigh-identically that the dates of those conceptions tally up identically to those dates in the original universe. Pretty soon, they won't - even tiny changes in initial circumstances will lead to massive accumulations of differences to how peoples' daily lives play out - and the result will be kids born at different times, in different circumstances, and some being born who wouldn't exist in the original universe, and vice versa.</p><p></p><p></p><p>But, as I said, that's just how it would work in reality if such a thing were possible. In TV-land they don't want it to work that way, because they want to explore the different ways their cast's lives would play out, not the lives of the complete strangers who replaced them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MarkB, post: 7611151, member: 40176"] It was in the movie. In the first movie Spock explains to Scotty that the transporter formula he's using is one that he [i]will[/i] invent in the future. He doesn't specify when, but as you pointed out, they weren't using transporters that way during any of the subsequent TV series, so we'd have to assume it was after them. And then, in the second movie, after Khan uses a transporter to beam to the Klingon homeworld, Scotty complains loudly about how Khan got hold of his transporter beaming equation, letting us as the audience know that this is how he was able to make such a long-range transport. It applies to any and all systems of sufficient complexity. It certainly applies to genetics, whose building blocks are specific, but whose outcomes very enormously depending upon initial conditions. Nudge those initial conditions even slightly, and a different spermatozoon fertilises the same egg. Genetic result: A person who, if you ran a genetic comparison to their original-universe counterpart, would show as being a twin sibling. At the very least, it's a straight coin-flip whether a person's alt-universe counterpart would be the same sex as they are. Vary them more (and the vagaries of cellular formation mean that, for anyone conceived more than a few months after the propagation of the triggering event, not only the sperm but also the ovum will be effectively different than their original-universe equivalents), and a genetic comparison to their original-universe counterpart would peg them merely as siblings, not even twin siblings. And that's assuming that peoples' lives continue to proceed so nigh-identically that the dates of those conceptions tally up identically to those dates in the original universe. Pretty soon, they won't - even tiny changes in initial circumstances will lead to massive accumulations of differences to how peoples' daily lives play out - and the result will be kids born at different times, in different circumstances, and some being born who wouldn't exist in the original universe, and vice versa. But, as I said, that's just how it would work in reality if such a thing were possible. In TV-land they don't want it to work that way, because they want to explore the different ways their cast's lives would play out, not the lives of the complete strangers who replaced them. [/QUOTE]
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