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From: davis@ichaya.UUCP (Andrew J. Davis)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Shields & Transporter Question
Message-ID: <114@ichaya.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 08:44:12 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 21 08:44:12 1985
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> Recently I watched the Armageddon episode.  In it, Scotty refused
> to bring down the shields as the hoodwinked ambassador had demanded.
> This was justisfied since the bad guys were ready to make noise
> all over the ship if Scotty did.  Later, though, the ambassador
> and his sidekick beam down to the planet.  My question: I thought
> the shields had to be down in order to beam someone down.  Thus
> it seems that either Scotty backed off for a moment and got lucky
> (pretty dangerous), or that I am misinformed, or that this is 
> another example of something we aren't supposed to worry about.
> After all, it is only a tv show.

> Any comments?

You are quite right.  In more that one episode we are told that the
landing party can not be beamed aboard at the present time because the
shields were up because the Enterprise was currently engaged in phaser
attack with a random enemy.  I assume that since this is true the reverse
application of beaming DOWN with shields up is also true.


					Andrew J. Davis

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