Afaik it canonically can. We’ve had people rebuilt from the buffer, so it literally has done most of those things. The downside to most of those is that you would lose your memories of everything that happened since you were last scanned. Also, it’s illegal to rebuild people from buffer. Also, the body is implied to be so complex that you can’t just edit one, like curing their cancer. You have to rely on a scam, so you would need a scam of that person without cancer. For simpler things, you can just edit them without needing an original scan, and that’s how their food makers things I can’t remember the name of work. It’s literally the exact same tech as the transporter.
Their food makers are called replicators, and technically, they aren’t just food makers. While they are primarily used to create food and drinks, they also replicate the plates and glasses, clothes, mechanical parts, and pretty much any matter, with few exceptions.
Not exactly, it does a lot of extra stuff in between; it stores your entire molecular structure in the buffer (basically downloads you into RAM), filters out foreign pathogens like viruses (except when it doesn’t), apparently keeps your molecular structure log after each transport (which is somehow different from being kept in buffer), sometimes accidentally merges you with another species if you happen to have a certain flower with you, etc.
The transporter tech is the exact same as the replicators they produce food with, but can work at a distance (although they don’t acknowledge this?). So yeah they can do whatever.
Except it has been shown to be able to selectively remove things like weapons. So the question is if it can be expanded to apply to things inside the body.
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Yeah, I agree, which is why I only think in terms of small things. Like poop filtering.
Afaik it canonically can. We’ve had people rebuilt from the buffer, so it literally has done most of those things. The downside to most of those is that you would lose your memories of everything that happened since you were last scanned. Also, it’s illegal to rebuild people from buffer. Also, the body is implied to be so complex that you can’t just edit one, like curing their cancer. You have to rely on a scam, so you would need a scam of that person without cancer. For simpler things, you can just edit them without needing an original scan, and that’s how their food makers things I can’t remember the name of work. It’s literally the exact same tech as the transporter.
Their food makers are called replicators, and technically, they aren’t just food makers. While they are primarily used to create food and drinks, they also replicate the plates and glasses, clothes, mechanical parts, and pretty much any matter, with few exceptions.
diseases: it does. they mention this numerous times over the years.
wounds: tricky to differentiate between body modifications and scars (for example). safer to go to a doctor than rely on a computer.
immortality: same thing, basically.
Given the explanation of how it works, it just vaporises you and constructs a copy elsewhere.
Not exactly, it does a lot of extra stuff in between; it stores your entire molecular structure in the buffer (basically downloads you into RAM), filters out foreign pathogens like viruses (except when it doesn’t), apparently keeps your molecular structure log after each transport (which is somehow different from being kept in buffer), sometimes accidentally merges you with another species if you happen to have a certain flower with you, etc.
The transporter tech is the exact same as the replicators they produce food with, but can work at a distance (although they don’t acknowledge this?). So yeah they can do whatever.
Except it has been shown to be able to selectively remove things like weapons. So the question is if it can be expanded to apply to things inside the body.