I see people talk about how Star Trek transporters kill you and like, you can argue that but not for the reasons I've been seeing.
See, the Transporter in Star Trek does not "destroy" your atoms and make a new you. Rather, it scans every molecule in your body and then converts them to energy, memorizes the exact pattern of those molecules, then fires that energy at the target location and converts it back to the same matter that it was to begin with.
So, yeah, you kinda die, but also you don't. They have shown repeatedly that somehow during transport your consciousness remains active. For a short period, you are a conscious being of pure energy, confined in a very careful beam of other energy, before being made a physical entity again.
And, wildly, the computer and ship can temporarily *store* that pattern and the energy, and hold you for a while if necessary. But the pattern degrades over time, so it's not optimal.
"But Kat!" I hear you say, "You can't measure an electron's location and velocity at the same time!" And normally, you'd be correct! Except the Next Generation writers knew this and wrote in the "Heisenberg Compensator" to account for this.
And even more, the replicators! This is even wilder- remember how I mentioned your molecular pattern was temporarily saved in the pattern buffer? Fun fact, that's apparently only because of the overwhelming complexity of producing a living organism!
Replicators take energy and, using a molecular pattern stored in the computer, create matter in the same way as the transporter!
One can extrapolate from that that replicated items are a far simpler molecular pattern than, say, a living being meaning the pattern doesn't degrade over time.
The amount of energy being discussed is insanely astronomical. Even small amounts of matter being converted into energy would be absurd to even contemplate, and these fools are out here using it to whip up their morning coffee.
So, yes, the transporters don't kill you perse, but turn you into a temporary cosmic being before sticking you back in your stupid squishy meat robot.
That's just Tuesday in Star Trek.