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From: mae@aplvax.UUCP (Mary Anne Espenshade)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: The World of Startrek--David Gerrold
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Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 17:05:05 EST
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Some Blake's 7 / Star Trek questions from David Rickel:
> I remember wondering when I saw the third or
> fourth show (when they introduced the teleporter) how they were going to
> avoid the Star Trek transporter problem.  The answer, of course, is that
> they weren't--they were going to discover the problem (and the same cheap
> solutions) for themselves.
Terry Nation specifically copied some things from Star Trek, one of
his favorite shows - look in particular at the logo in the opening
credits, unfortunately that doesn't mean he copied the best features.

> (and noone ever thinks of bringing along a backup weapon, but i guess that
> would be cheating).
Not only would it be cheating, Zen (the sentient computer controlling the ship)
won't allow it.  If someone holding a weapon attempts to pick up another one,
the second is red hot to that person, but anyone without a weapon can pick it
up.

--
Mary Anne Espenshade
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