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From: ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (Kevin Chu)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Transporters
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Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 20:05:50 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 22 20:05:50 1985
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	The discussions on transporters should be moved to the heading
	of "Inconsistancies."  I think that the transporter was used more
	as a Deus Ex Machina (so I flunked Latin) in that it was used to
	solve script problems.

	The only concept of the transporter that stays consistant with each
	episode and the movies is that someone says "energize."
	Other than that, the properties of the transporter seem to just
	fit the script.

	Consider this list of transporter capabilities:

     o  Convert living matter into enery, move it through space and
	other matter, then reconstruct it exactely as before and
	still keep the "life force."

     o  Split the human persona into two parts, and produce two human
	bodies to put them into.  Thus, creating twice as much mass
	from which it started with.  (I believe this violates one of
	those "conservation of mass and enery" laws they teach here
	at Davis.)

     o  Create a passage way into a mirror universe.  Just add a small
	ion storm.

     o  Always break down in a crisis.  Have the transportees fade in
	the fade out again, then with alot click a whirrs, rematerialize
	the party without *any* harm, even though the transporter core
	was melting down during it all.  (Makes you wish you had a disk
	drive that could spit out flawless info while breaking down.)

   All in all, net.startrek has put in more thought about the transporter
   than Gene Rodenberry and Co. ever did, and we have probably given it
   much more time and thought than it deserves, I know I have.

		Kevin Chu
	    ...!ucbvax!ucdavis!vega!ccs020


   Director to James Doohan:

    "Just play with the switches and look like you know what you're doing!"

/ex