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actiomax said..
No seriously it's a massive hole in the plot of Star Trek.
When you teleport your original is so completely scanned it's destroyed & then your reassembled out of the available atoms at a different point.
So it would be easy to assemble you without diseases or injuries
So why do they need a sick bay & doctor's?
I thought it was very interesting to hear an Australian history professor & stand up comedian say the whole concept of Star Trek was based on captain cook & his voyages
Well, I am still stuck with the same issue that the characters in Breaking Bad talk about. The transporter is effectively killing your original version as it reassembles the new you somewhere else. Does this mean its bad because its killing people all the time? Do the original people feel this death? Is it ethical to kill off someone because you create a copy of them somewhere else?
Then you have to consider how a transporter works. With all the cells in a human body, is there sufficient time to analyse the stream and fix up mistakes, or does it just stream out what it reads in and replicate it somewhere else? If you consider it is creating new atoms from old atoms, that's a huge amount of information, and how do you know when Atom type B is part of a defective part when all you are looking at is individual atoms?
It's like looking at a complete ship bolt by bolt but not being able to see the overall structure. How would you fix a defect in it if you can't see the whole thing?
I suspect this sort of discussion has been done to death on some Star trek forum somewhere.