It’s the 24th century. No-one cured baldness because they’re past caring about such nonsense

I’m more interested in what’s in this Latin American section? No tesco near me has this

The episode could’ve been called Shades of Cave(s)

True. Unfortunately, holding people in the transport buffer is one of those things you have to entirely forget exists if you want to tell certain stories. The transporter in general could trivialise a lot of story beats.