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From: guads@nmtvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Transporter
Message-ID: <493@nmtvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-May-85 20:11:09 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  8 20:11:09 1985
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Reply-To: guads@nmtvax.UUCP (Steven Lautzenheiser)
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Summary: 

In article <> andrews@yale-comix.UUCP (Thomas O. Andrews) writes:

>	I don't remember much of my Star Trek trivial, but couldn't
>all of this mess be explained by saying that the transporter was
>a gift from the Organians (I believe that is the name of the race.)
>This would explain why the Federation scientists can't use it to
>make a limitless source off diamonds, people, etc. 
>
>					      Thomas Andrews

The transporter couldn't be a gift of the Organians' because the Federation
had it long (?) before they even knew of the Organians.  Remember: Spock and
Kirk had to beam down to Organia (on an "Errand of Mercy," which is the title
of the episode with the Organians).

On another point, you mention that Federation scientists can't use the 
transporter to make diamonds and such, but in "The Squire of Gothos" when
Trelane (the alien who turns out to be a wimpy kid) offers the Federation
officers gems and gold, Kirk tells him that they can make as much of the
stuff as they want.  Was he lying or what?  They may not be able to make it
in the transporter, but assuming he wasn't lying, they can make the stuff.
Anyway...

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