Transporter Buffer Error caused by trying to do a workaround for inability to get a lock on due to interference.
An unusual distortion field meant the Potemkin had difficulty beaming him up. A second confinement beam was initiated to overcome these difficulties, with the intent of reintegrating the two beams in the transporter buffer. This was unnecessary, as only one beam was successful at transporting Riker; the modulation of the distortion caused the second beam to be reflected back down to the surface, materializing the two Rikers, one on the ship, and one on the planet’s surface.
If the transporter is actually moving matter from one place to another, instead of (destructively) recording a pattern then copying it, then how could there be enough original matter to create two Rikers?
Explicitly don’t work like that, the Transporter Problem Thought Experiment was “what if they worked like that”
But in Star Trek it’s a streaming connection, kept in the Transporter Buffer
Ok, then explain Thomas Riker
Transporter Buffer Error caused by trying to do a workaround for inability to get a lock on due to interference.
If the transporter is actually moving matter from one place to another, instead of (destructively) recording a pattern then copying it, then how could there be enough original matter to create two Rikers?