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From: nessus@nsc.UUCP (Kchula-Rrit)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Transporter
Message-ID: <2802@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 20:13:30 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  5 20:13:30 1985
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> 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
> 
> ...
> 
> 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...
> 
>                                 -Lautzy (Romulan)

     It seems to me that if the transporter could break down an object or
person into energy and reassemble same, that the reassembly info could be
dumped to a tape or disk or ???.  That way things like gems and diamonds
could be duplicated at will(such as when Star Fleet doesn't come up with
the paychecks on time :-).  But then, if this were possible, the Enterprise
wouldn't run out di-lithium every once in a while and the show would lack...

     Also, when some of the [expendable] crew members were terminated, they
could make backup copies from tape or disk; then again, I can't imagine that
cloning around would be tolerated on a military vessel...

				from the alter ego of--

				Kchula-Rrit