This article is from the Star Trek Tech FAQ, by Joshua Bell inexorabletash@hotmail.com with numerous contributions by others.
Heh. Well, if you've already decided that Star Trek transporters and
souls don't get along, then accept that your position has been made
abundantly clear in the past, and don't bother to follow-up. Souls
aren't precluded by transporters, they just require that somehow,
souls can (1) "tag along" with the physical body through transport,
(2) stay in stasis along with a body, and (3) be duplicated. Since
there isn't (and many maintain, there can't be) any way of analyzing
this hypothetical "soul", it makes little sense to argue about what it
can and cannot do.
 
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