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From: sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Transporters:a question
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Date: Tue, 21-May-85 20:17:37 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 21 20:17:37 1985
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Reply-To: sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey)
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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?

My understanding was that the transporter is computer controlled and
selective about what it decides to transport.

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-  Sean Casey				UUCP:	{cbosgd,anlams,hasmed}!ukma!sean
-  Department of Mathematics		ARPA:	ukma!sean@ANL-MCS.ARPA	
-  University of Kentucky