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[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The one ring is sitting on the transporter room floor

"Mr. O'Brien, beam it into the fires! Destroy it!"

"No"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

It is... Precious to me.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago

"Captain, this seems like a gross violation of both the Prime Directive and the Temporal Prime Directive"

[+] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

nope. it simply wouldn't be able to get a lock.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

conversely if they are able to transport it, the act of disassembling it would unmake the spirit sauron poured into it, being remade somewhere else will not have the same ...sparkle.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

First, I agree with all of the above: within existing lore it seems obvious that the transporter wouldn't be able to transport the one ring for several reasons having to do with magic.

But also, this is just a reminder that I think the transporters in Star Trek are so narratively uninteresting. I like Trek, but pretty much in spite of the tech writing. The degree of magic in their technology just does nothing for me. I wish we had more fiction that was like a cross between Star Trek and The Expanse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

So transporting it should remove any magic

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Wouldn't this violate the prime directive? Or if the captain fucks an elf is it ok then?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

Starfleet makes an exception for elf romance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

What do you think the Elven ships are?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

It's more of a prime suggestion

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

better flush the pattern buffer a couple of times just to be sure

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Depending on how far it was to Mt Doom, they totally would've searched for a scifi way to destroy the ring first. Probably involving reversing polarity and inverting tachyons.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Trois would be too exposed to the influence of the ring. If she got a hold of it there's a real chance they'd fail miserably even with teleporters.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Eject the core!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Don't they have some device that can conduct heat as hot as mt doom?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In the books they pretty much confirm it takes more than just heat to destroy the One Ring.

Good forges burn hotter than lava, and dragonfire even hotter still, yet Gandalf said that the biggest, baddest dragon who ever lived Ancalagon the Black (who makes Smaug look like a whimpy little butterfly in comparison) wouldn't be able to harm the One Ring.

It's the magical tie to Orodruin/Mount Doom that allows for its destruction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

and dragonfire even hotter still, yet Gandalf said that the biggest, baddest dragon who ever lived Ancalagon the Black (who makes Smaug look like a whimpy little butterfly in comparison) wouldn't be able to harm the One Ring

I don't remember this. Where was this mentioned? Council of Elrond?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

True, the matter-antimatter reaction in a warp core would probably do the trick

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Captain, scanners detect a silver ship with a bright light beacon approaching