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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Stardates, Phasers, and Photon Torp
Message-ID: <1061@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 15:05:10 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 14 15:05:10 1986
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Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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In article <-1273950@xenixsp> root@xenixsp writes:
>>
>>	In *The Making of Star Trek* photon torps are described as ball of  
>>matter and antimatter held in and separated by a force field until impact
>>with the target.  In the movies the force field was replaced by a metallic 
>>shell like the one used for Spocks body.  As to why the phasers looked like
>^^^^^ That sounds a little fishy..... Metallic insulation of a matter/antimatter
>interface? seems like that might go boom, or is there a metal that is netural
>to antimatter?
>
	Or perhaps the shell was merely a "platform" for mounting the
force field generator on and providing a method for handling the thing
in the ship. Then the anti-matter would still be force-contained, but
yhe visible external shell would be metal.
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				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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