@mavica_again "Next time on Star Trek: The Next Generation."
*logo fly-out*
"The Enterprise away team beams down to a Federation outpost in distress."
*Riker, Data, & an extra beaming off the Enterprise*
"But Data has less data."
*Data holding up a JPEG-compressed hand with only one finger, remarking "Intriguing."*
"Can Data save the outpost? Find out, on the next Star Trek: The Next Generation."
*logo fly-in*
you know how in tng you see the transporter effect linger more around the torso
you know how jpeg compression uses less cosine transforms where there is less data
what if transporter compression really fucks up your limbs where there's less "data" as in tissue complexity than where there's a bunch of organs
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