Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/26/83; site ihlts.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxi!houxm!ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Phaser that idiot! - (nf) Message-ID: <207@ihlts.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Sep-83 21:18:34 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlts.207 Posted: Wed Sep 21 21:18:34 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Sep-83 04:39:10 EDT References: <2898@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: BTL Naperville, Il. Lines: 11 They stated in the movie that destroying the Reliant would not destroy Genesis, rather it would trigger it. As far as transporting it somewhere, the range of the transporter in the TV series was only about 2.6e4 km, not nearly far enough. And in the series, the "widest possible angle of dispersion" was used on gaseous and liquid things, NOT solids. No, Genesis is not yet a trademark of Bell Laboratories, but UNIX is a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories -- Roger Noe ...ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe