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From: mazina@pur-ee.UUCP (Der Kaiser)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Answers to trivia
Message-ID: <3264@pur-ee.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 20:46:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: pur-ee.3264
Posted: Thu Sep  5 20:46:49 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Sep-85 05:29:23 EDT
Reply-To: mazina@pur-ee.UUCP (Der Kaiser)
Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University
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In article <53@ucdavis.UUCP> ccrdave@ucdavis.UUCP (Lord Kahless) writes:
>> 	But why within the frame of Star Trek didn't they use the
>> 	shuttle to rescue Sulu and the others?  I suppose no one aboard
>> 	ship thought of it.  Or the hanger doors and transporter are
>> 	wired through the same circuits so when one goes so does the other.
>> 	Or the shuttle craft were all in the repair shop and none were
>> 	available.  Or Kirk had this bet with Sulu which he lost and now
>> 	had a cheap way to get out of it by letting Sulu freeze his buns off.
>> 	You tell my why, I can't think of a sensible reason myself.
>
>Federation shuttle craft stink!  They're just about impossible to land
>on rocky terrain, and as hard to get back again off the ground.  Kirk
>figured the chances of getting one down in one piece with supplies
>was nil.
>
>				Lord Kahless

They didn't send down a shuttle craft, because the show's writers had'nt
even thought them up yet!!!

					Thomas Ruschak
					pur-ee!mazina

"By the pricking of my thumbs,
 Something wicked this way comes... "
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