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    I guess you'd have to look up how many times dilithium and latinum have been transported. (if at all) You're more than likely going to have an episode where a Ferengi pockets latinum and then transports somewhere but that could be easily classified as writer oversight.

    When you think of Ferengi greed alone, getting a hold of one of these things would make getting rich a useless venture. They could just replicate their latinum and as a result the entire Ferengi Alliance's economy would destabilize before too long and it would be as worthless as gold.

    Given a choice, I'd limit quantum level resolution to the three standard dimensions. The only problem with one of these getting into the wrong hands would be replicated frauds of original works of art, etc. Not as risky as sending the whole Ferengi Alliance into bankruptcy.

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    Dilithium has always been transportable (in the transporter sense), right from the very beginning. It's transported in Mudd's Women (when it was still known as "lithium crystals"), and again several times in TOS, including Elaan of Troyius, in which the Dolmann wore raw dilithium crystals as jewelry.

    Latinum similarly has been transportable right from the first. The Cardassians in Emissary transport over to their ship with a bag full of what they think is gold-pressed latinum - in reality it's Odo, but they didn't know that.

    There's a fundamental difference between a transporter and a replicator - a transporter transfers a direct one-to-one copy of every quantum particle in every atom.

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    Originally posted by Protius:
    I guess you'd have to look up how many times dilithium and latinum have been transported. (if at all) You're more than likely going to have an episode where a Ferengi pockets latinum and then transports somewhere but that could be easily classified as writer oversight.

    When you think of Ferengi greed alone, getting a hold of one of these things would make getting rich a useless venture. They could just replicate their latinum and as a result the entire Ferengi Alliance's economy would destabilize before too long and it would be as worthless as gold.
    Mind you the above idea would make a great 'Maurader Mo' type episode where the new technology is discovered and exploited by an evil Ferengi (Possibly one with a diabolical scheme and Hypurian Assassin called Oddjob)...

    begin music
    Latinum Finger...
    He's the Ferengi, the Ferengi with a Nagus touch...
    A spiders touch...
    stops music forcibly

    At least this is a good possible episode exploring the extent of the characters greed over patriotic pride, for a Ferengi episode...

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    We had a problem with haveinh the command crew going on the away missions to. Our solution was to use the concept of the RRT and combine it with the Special Forces 12 man A-Team. The team consisted of officers and ncos from several departments recieving rrt training. The team was always on standby for operations, and the acted as the OICs and Dept heads on Delta shift. This worked out great, the players got to run the ship, go on dangerous away missions, and assisted the command staff during normal away missions. The campain was placed along the Federation Border doing patol and interdiction missions, often action as boarding parties to locate contraband. Holo-decks was also used alot for combat training.

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