From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!tektronix!richl Newsgroups: net.startrek Title: Re: ans2 Article-I.D.: tektroni.1066 Posted: Wed Apr 13 21:12:49 1983 Received: Sun Apr 17 08:53:11 1983 References: ariel.277 trw-unix.86 Boy, follow your own advice! In the book about ST-TMP, it clearly states that Scotty was working on a bypass circuit for the phasers; it just wasn't completed at the point they had gone into the wormhole. Why was it like that in the first place if it was so dangerous? To quote Bones: "You know engineers. They LOVE to change things." Rick Lindsley richl@tektronix ...!ucbcad!tektronix!richl