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From: jonab@sdcrdcf.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Spock didn't have to die...
Message-ID: <1079@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-May-84 06:49:03 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 10 06:49:03 1984
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References: <433@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Reply-To: jonab@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Jonathan Biggar)
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In article <433@sri-arpa.UUCP> Ed Blanchett@RU-GREEN.ARPA writes:
>
>I don't think that the sensors couldn't lock onto the Reliant to beam Genesis
>aboard (V9, #75) is quite the right explanantion. Having just seen ST-II on
>cable last night (for the umpteenth time), the sensors were indeed working,
>and trained onto the Reliant (for Spock says that he is "picking up an unusual
>energy wave from the Reliant" - the Genesis Wave). If the sensors were working,
>it should have been very easy to lock onto Genesis to stop it from detonating.
>Another possible explanation might be that the energy wave might have been
>lethal to be around (there were lots of gases coming from Genesis when it was
>building up), making it somewhat difficult to be in the Transporter Room with
>it at the same time.
>

It is much easier to detect that something is there than to determine
exactly where it is.  If the sensors were so scrambled during the battle
that the Enterprise could not see the Reliant to fire at it, why should
they suddenly become clear after the battle?

Jon Biggar
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