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Your original description of the star trek teleportation method is inaccurate.
The original is not scanned, transmitted, recreated from stock matter and the original destroyed. The body is scanned, matter is converted into energy, energy is transmitted, and the same energy (in whatever form star trek boffs decided it exists) is then reconverted into matter at the other end. Consequently there is no cloning, no need to "kick start" the body (as the original matter is recreated in its original energy state.
Hence such jolly adventures as Lt Barclay's awareness of creatures in the energy stream in the eposode
Realm of Fear, which would not be (and I use the word hesitantly) feasible if it was just an algorithm which was being transmitted.
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