I like how Relics portrayed Montgomery Scott‘s use of the transport buffer for long term storage as novel, only to have every other show dabble in it in one way or another. Voyager used it to hide psychic refugees, Discovery hid the crew from galactic radiation for 10 minutes, Strange New Worlds used the pattern buffer to delay medical issues multiple times, etc. Even the Elite Force video game used pattern buffers to explain FPS protagonist inventories. It’s just too interesting a concept for writers to resist.