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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Kobayashi Maru
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Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 09:31:04 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 11 09:31:04 1985
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>From: hkr4627@acf4.UUCP (Hedley K. J. Rainnie)
>Message-ID: <1660008@acf4.UUCP>
>
>GT:  Amazing!  I was about to suggest SMD but I was afraid that it would
>have been too trekkie-nerdie!  How silly of me!  (I remember someone saying
>something like "The shuttle just went into warp drive" and Kirk saying
>that none of the shuttles had warp drive (I was a LONG LONG time ago that
>I read the book, and I never really did understand it))

In SPOCK MUST DIE, the replicate Spock specially modifies a standard
shuttle so as to allow it to have a warp dirve. As I recall, it was an odd
procedure that did not use matter and antimatter. (I think it might have
used interstellar hydrogen.)

>Here's an extension of the shuttle idea you suggested.  Instead of just
>one shuttle, send 'em all out, each with a transporter.  Just relay the
>people over like a bucket brigade.
>
>Whoops, how many shuttles did the enterprise have besides the Galileo and
>the Columbus?

Even so, given the range and reliability of a transporter, would *you* want
to have your atoms scattered that many times over that long a distance.
Besides, just given the reliability of the transporter, one good shot from
a baddie and one or more links in the chain would be broken.

>Furthermore, I used to have the Enterprise blueprints and they indicate
>that there are onlyt four transporter rooms on the enterprise.  (Although
>there are emergency large-capacity transporters on deck 10 or 11.)  Scotty
>might be hard-pressed for parts.

According to the blueprints, there are four "standard" (as seen on TV)
transporter rooms in the saucer section. There are three mass transporters
(capacity something like 36) on the lower decks and two or three cargo
transporters. (As I recall from SPOCK MESSAIH, you don't want to be beamed
up in one of the latter.)
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