killall-q@kbin.socialtoStar Trek@startrek.website•Why the galactic barrier and transporters don’t match real science, and why warp drive might
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1 year agoBecause teleportation is murder. Whatever comes out on the other side may look and act like you, but isn’t you, because you’re now dead for having been disassembled by the teleporter.
It is common in wars to fight and talk at the same time. Sometimes talking is done via secret back channels which the public will not find out about until many years after the war.
It is not possible to only talk when fighting has stopped, because for fighting to stop, you either need to negotiate a ceasefire by talking, or one side has to be annihilated, and then there is no one left to talk to.