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There's an Outer Limits episode with a transporter-like device, but it merely makes an exact "copy" of the person and the machine automatically destroys the "original".

I don't recall the episode name off-hand, or want to give away too much of the plot, but I thought that was better than the duplicate Rikers.

Also: two Crichtons in Farscape, although that wasn't due to a transporter-like accident but a "normal" clone.

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It's "Think Like a Dinosaur", based on the short story by James Patrick Kelly [0]. It deals more or less with the transporer issue described in the linked article.

I remembet having read it when it was first published in Asimov's SF magazine. God I'm old.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Like_a_Dinosaur

The Prestige (major spoilers to follow) has the same idea. A stage magician invents a trick that appears to instantly teleport him across the room and nobody knows how he does it. The "trick" is that a duplicate is created and the original is dropped into a locked container of water to drown.

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