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Originally Posted by Stuart
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In short, replicators work fine for simple things and crude work (they can't, for example replicate caviar either) but anything that requires precision, skill or complexity is out.
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Not al all. replicators work to suit the plot. if they could replicate anything at any time as logic would say they can, (heck, whats to stop them combining the replicators, transporters and the holodeck.) Then there would be very little plot or dramatic tension and you would be the first one to complain.
As far as I can see there is nothing to stop them holding a pattern in the transporter buffer and just recreating anyone who was killed on an away mission. He would be identical and would assume he just never got transported, but wheres the drama in that?