To be fair, it was used the way in the TNG Episode Relics, when Scotty spent 75 years stuck in the Jenolan’s transport buffer, so quiite a long precedent.
SNW has been overusing it as a plot device. In TNG it was a one off gimmick to bring back Scotty. Still, I wondered why they didn’t buy Batel time from her Gorn egg infection by putting her in the pattern buffer. It seems like an idea that ought to have at least been discussed, but I don’t recall that it was.
To be fair, it was used the way in the TNG Episode Relics, when Scotty spent 75 years stuck in the Jenolan’s transport buffer, so quiite a long precedent.
Sure, but “Relics” had a built-in caveat (which I think was an intentional piece of writing): it had a 50% mortality rate.
That’s a fair caveat.
SNW has been overusing it as a plot device. In TNG it was a one off gimmick to bring back Scotty. Still, I wondered why they didn’t buy Batel time from her Gorn egg infection by putting her in the pattern buffer. It seems like an idea that ought to have at least been discussed, but I don’t recall that it was.