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From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Another shuttlecraft question
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Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 08:30:41 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  9 08:30:41 1984
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>	the shuttlecraft wasn't used because they didn't know about it yet
>	How about "The Doomsday Machine", Huh, huh ??!!??
>		Ephrayim J. Naiman

I'll speculate that the starship which Kirk was stuck on did not have an
operational shuttlecraft bay.  Quite probably, they had also used up all
the shuttles on that ship (but not the Enterprise) trying to destroy the
planet killer.  Lastly, destroying the thing meant real close timing to
make sure it would swallow the "bait".  No sense in preparing to destroy
a starship unless you can be sure it will have the desired effect.  Such
timing was not possible if Kirk were to depart using a shuttle craft.

If anyone doubts that the other starship was so damaged as to make the
shuttle craft bay unusable, recall that the model they used was an Airfix
plastic model kit of the Enterprise after a mad model builder and a blowtorch
got to it.
--
"The more they overthink the plumbin', the easier 'tis to stop up the drain."
	Roger Noe			ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe