Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site umd5.UUCP
Path: utzoo!decvax!decuac!cvl!umd5!don
From: don@umd5.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: A Major Inconsistancy
Message-ID: <537@umd5.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-May-85 22:56:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: umd5.537
Posted: Tue May 28 22:56:39 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 29-May-85 22:59:37 EDT
References: <315@dolqci.UUCP>
Reply-To: don@umd5.UUCP (Don Preuss)
Distribution: na
Organization: U of Md, CSC, College Park, Md
Lines: 30

In article <315@dolqci.UUCP> mike@dolqci.UUCP (Mike Stalnaker) writes:
>	I was watching The City on the Edge of Forever last night, and 
>found a major inconsistancy.  At the end of the episode, Kirk, Spock,
>McCoy, Scotty, Uhura, and TWO REDSHIRTS beam back up to the Enterprise.
>Count the total number of bodies there.. Can anybody think of any other
>episodes where more than 6 were beamed at once? How about possible
>explainations.???

There happens to be a perfectly good explanation. The Enterprise has
more than one of those 6-person transporter stations (I think four).
So, Kirk & Co. minus one or both redshirts beam into one chamber
while the remaining people are beamed into another chamber off camera!


-- 
--==---==---==--
"Space, the final frontier ..."
What ?!!?     ^  No more ?!?
But it's a frontier of frontiers !!
--==---==---==--
___________      _____ ---- _____
       \        //---- IDIC -----
       _\______//_     ----
        ----------

  ARPA: umd5!don@maryland.ARPA
BITNET: don%umd5@umd2
 CSNET: don@umd5
SPOKEN: Chris Sylvain (transient user of Don Preuss' account)
  UUCP: {seismo, rlgvax, allegra, brl-bmd, nrl-css}!umcp-cs!cvl!umd5!don