I think you're reading too much into it, though you're undoubtedly not the first; I wouldn't be surprised if it's come up in one of the spin-off variants or something. The original, basic idea is that a person is converted into energy, which is then beamed to a location and converted back to matter. It's why they couldn't transport through shields, designed to repel energy beams. You don't get destroyed and then become an exact copy.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
