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From: jak@talcott.UUCP (Joe Konstan)
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Subject: Re: Transporters:a question
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Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 19:01:53 EDT
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> A few nights ago, I watched "A Piece of the Action" with a friend. We 
> began wondering: when the Enterprise beams one of the crime bosses over
> to where Kirk is, why doesn't the phone that the crime boss is holding
> beam with him?
> 
> Our best explanation was that things that are attached to other things do
> not beam up. 
> 
> Anybody else have any ideas???

That wouldn't make much sense at all, since not only does clothing get
transported, but phasers, communicators, tricorders, daggers, filter
masks (ad infinitum) also do.

Mithrandir
jak@talcott