• teft@piefed.social
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      And what idiot always ties the damn transporter systems to the holodeck systems? Seems like people who believe in tertiary backups would have firewalled every system so when the holodecks go all Moriarty-y you can still beam people out.

      • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip
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        Firewall?

        One of the earliest commercially successful firewall and network address translation (NAT) products was the PIX (Private Internet eXchange) Firewall, invented in 1994 by Network Translation Inc.

        Star Trek TNG: 1987-1994

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          I mean tied together in the way that often when the holodeck is messing up the transporters also fail so they can’t just beam people out. I know it’s plot reasons but in universe that engineer should be fired.

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            I don’t know. If holodeck tech is constantly manifesting and removing matter from the holodeck I can imagine having an external transporter system trying to resolve stuff in that shifting mess would be quite tricky even with those Heisenberg compensators.

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        I only remember having that happen once, and only because the transporters failed and cardie engineering dumped their patterns to the only place that had enough memory

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        When I was just a child I received a small metal Enterprise D as a Christmas present. The saucer section did detach… once. After that it jammed and literally nobody in my family could get it apart again.

        At least it was accurate to the show?