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From: ccrrick@ucdavis.UUCP (Rick Heli @ UC Davis, Davis, CA)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Transporters
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Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 20:41:29 EST
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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:
> 
...

Yep.  I always thought that in Spock's Brain (my least favorite
episode) they should have had Scotty use the transporter to beam the
brain back into Spock's head rather than have McCoy perform the 
amazingly unrealistic task of reconnecting the neurons on a trial-
and-error basis.
-- 
					--rick heli
					(... ucbvax!ucdavis!groucho:ccrrick)