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From: neutron@hpfclg.UUCP (neutron)
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Thu, 16-May-85 20:17:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 16 20:17:00 1985
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>> The enterprise is recieving transmission from the base.
>> They show the Romulan ship coming in for another attack
>> 	(presumably being relayed from the base)
>> Blinding light, and the base is destroyed.
>> They show the Romulan ship fading out -- that is, turning on its cloak.

I always thought that, instead of working like modern TV transmitters,
the Federation technology worked by somehow creating a link from the
point of transmission to the point of reception.  The transmitting "camera"
is only required for creating & removing the link, not for maintaining it.
So it really went like this:

1) The base creates a hyperspatial link to the Enterprise receivers.
2) The Romulan ship comes in and destroys the base.
3) The link remains, because nobody removed it (perhaps it erodes naturally?)
4) The Enterprise watches (through the link) the Romulan ship leave.

There was a similar scene in the first ST movie where V'ger destroys a
federation remote communications (spy?) base.

				-Jack Applin
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