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From: cjbiggin@watmath.UUCP (Colin Biggin)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Transporter
Message-ID: <14956@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 12:25:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: watmath.14956
Posted: Mon Jun 10 12:25:55 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 11-Jun-85 02:31:07 EDT
Reply-To: cjbiggin@watmath.UUCP (Colin Biggin)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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>> >	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.)
>> >
>> >					      Thomas Andrews
      
How can you possibly say this.  The first contact with Organians was
in 'Errand of Mercy' where Kirk and Spock BEAMED down to the planet.
   
If  (i) this was the first encounter with the Organians, they could not
        beam down to the planet since they would not have yet been 
        given the transporter...
   (ii) this was not the first encounter and they had been given the
        transporter by the Organians, then Kirk and Spock would have
        known that this was an advanced culture and not a bunch of
        'sheep'...
     
Hence, the Organians could not possibly have given them the transporter.
At least, from my knowledge of the episodes they haven't.  Perhaps there
is an explanation in one of the subsequent books...  
      
					cheers,
-- 

					Colin Biggin
                                        Univperversity of Wonderloo
                                        Waterloo, Ontario
  
"They were the best of times, they were the worst of times.
 No, I think they were probably the New York Times."