Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxp.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihuxp!wbpesch
From: wbpesch@ihuxp.UUCP (Walt Pesch)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
Message-ID: <1110@ihuxp.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-May-85 18:20:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihuxp.1110
Posted: Mon May 20 18:20:51 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 21-May-85 07:11:43 EDT
References: <-1051600@brunix.UUCP> <23600001@hpfclg.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Lines: 26

> 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.
> 
> There was a similar scene in the first ST movie where V'ger destroys a
> federation remote communications (spy?) base.
> 
> 				-Jack Applin
> 				{hplabs,csu-cs,hp-pcd,nwuxd}!hp-dcd!jack

Or perhaps we have a few satellites sitting around with cameras in
them.  Uhura, being the highly efficient officer that she is, switches
to the secondary cameras once the primary ones are destroyed.  This
explains the light seen as static of some form.

Or perhaps they have an AI application that selects the most effective
view based on available cameras (This is the same one that runs the
viewscreen . . . )



-- 
Walt Pesch
AT&T Network Systems
ihnp4!ihuxp!wbpesch