Posted by Lieutenant Mikel Petrov (Chief Engineer) in Engineering, main timeline
Mikel went to his office. He did not begin working on the solution to the transporter because mainly he was waiting for the medical scan info. More so because he wanted to think on how to come out on top of this whole situation. As the ideas formed and were dismissed he came across one that might work. Eliminate one or more of the people he needed to send into the buffer and reorganize the particles correctly. Just disregard those inputs and buffer that “data” ie..”person” out. It would require less computing and resources. For every person eliminated then the less resources necessary. He could suggest they could reorganize the data in the buffer and reproduce the person or persons later but personally doubted that would be possible. However he could offer it as possible. The Captain would bite on the idea if things became worse. Which meant he had to just wait until that happened. Obviously the COS would be the natural choice to be removed.

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The computer answered that eliminating one person still used about the same power requirements, because decompiling three people into two people was in effect no different from decompiling three people. The computer also stated that materializing one person instead of all three would result in only using half of the deuterium fuel used to power the fusion reactors on the ship – which could be easily replaced if they found a nebulae or gas giant.

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