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This was inevitable. (startrek.website)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There's a line in the episode around that point:

"At what point did he become an individual, and not a transporter accident?"

But that's the whole point of the episode - it's a moral quandary with no real "right" answer. It's Hugh of Borg all over again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

The episode did its job challenging viewers with the question, because people still argue about this today. But to me there's an actual, unambiguous answer: 4.823 seconds after transport autosequence initiation, when the emitter array completed the materialization cycle.