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It seems to me that most of the "impossible" things in Star Trek - all the shows, movies, etc - are solvable with adequate energy, technology, etc.
The things I think are likely unsolvable even with advanced technology - and a whole lot of energy - are:
- Remote sensors, such as being able to detect life forms from beyond a solar system, etc. Or even from orbit really, at least in terms of detecting life forms directly. Detecting gases that might SUGGEST advanced life forms with technology, etc, we can do now with gas chromatography etc. (In Star Trek they supposedly use "sensor beams" etc but I very much doubt that's workable; and even if it were, there's no evidence even in Star Trek that they use FTL technology which means that "scanning" our Solar System from deep space would require HOURS to get results.)
- Humans producing children with alien species, such as Vulcans, Klingons, Romulans... Of course, much of this "theorizing" in Star Trek simply comes from the reality that most "aliens" depicted in sci-fi are simply humans wearing makeup. Actual alien life seems certain to be far more different. But even if bipedal-type life is discovered on other planets, the chances seem vanishingly small that humans could successfully... "interact"... with them, in that way. Humans are genetically far more similar to other forms of life on Earth, than they are likely to be with any extraterrestrial life; and yet, humans cannot reproduce with any other life form on Earth.
I omit the transporter because I suspect that it might actually be possible to do something like that, although probably always with a receiving mechanism as well, but it would be a case of destroying the original and creating a copy. And if people are stupid enough to do that, fine. I'm not. But I don't think that makes it necessarily impossible.
Thoughts?
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Aww, don't ruin it for me. I prefer to think of the universe as chock-a-block with hot alien women.
That's my fantasy and I'm sticking to it!
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Well, maybe it is, but even if it is, my point is you couldn't have children with them, as shown on ST and elsewhere.
Whether that's a "bug" or a "feature" could be a separate argument.
But I really don't want to even think about "Arcturians." (Alien 2/Aliens)
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Thhppt. The energy required to generate flat planes of "force", or to replicate teacups, or do anything else in Star Trek besides those cool doors, implies those things are not possible in this universe. Forget technology, just stick with physics for a minute.
Manipulating a quadrillion-dimensioned quantum state with precision means filling out the Fourier
transformexpansion with extremely high frequency components. There's a reason gamma rays are the most intense radiation possible - if the wavelength becomes any shorter, the energy exceeds what space can handle, and it disappears behind an event horizon.We will never have teleporters.
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So, teleport through hyperspace.
Problem solved.
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That said, the transporter might be the next-least-likely. But I think remote sensors, and ET-reproduction, are even less likely than teleportation.
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