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From: maurice@nmtvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Why have a transporter room?
Message-ID: <459@nmtvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-May-85 12:50:51 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  3 12:50:51 1985
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Reply-To: maurice@nmtvax.UUCP (Roger M. Levasseur)
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>There seems to be many problems with using the transporter. Scottie complains
>to the good captain that to transport him on the ship itself there are great
>complications (he may be transported into a wall without the precise coordinat
es).


     If that is such a problem at close range, then why do they always
get beamed onto the surface of a planet exactly (not knee deep or midair)?
The distance to the planet is on the order of several thousand kilometers
whereas the starship is only several hundred meters at most. If accuracy
is the question, shouldn't it be better closer in? They have a better
knowledge of the ships layout where the walls are. If they can find
a good place to park them on the planet (or a cavern deep inside a
planet (ST:TWOK)) when they beam them, they why should a starship they
are on be so hard?

    Roger Levasseur