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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Spock didn't have to die...
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Date: Fri, 11-May-84 13:15:31 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 11 13:15:31 1984
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<Eat this line.  Make my day.>

   First of all, an apology is in order, just in case my first abortive attempt
to submit an article succeeded in generating an empty article.  I apologize.

   Secondly, Spock really did have to die.  Even if sensors could lock onto the
Genesis machine and beam it aboard the Enterprise, what could be done with it
then?  At most, they could beam it a few hundred (thousand?) miles away.  I've
never seen transporters used at ranges much farther than that.  The genesis
wave, in order to scrape up enough dust from the cloud they were in to create
a planet and a sun for it would have had to extend for a range of at least
several light hours, probably more.  Thus, the ONLY way for anyone on the 
Enterprise to survive was to warp out of there.  


			Jeff Sonntag