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From: spock@hope.UUCP (Chris Ambler)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: ST/Tomorrow People
Message-ID: <179@hope.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Mar-86 16:39:07 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 20 16:39:07 1986
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> Subject:  ST/Tomorrow People
> Newsgroups:  net.startrek
> From: madd@bucsb.UUCP (Madd(ly) lost in the Net....)
> 
> Forgive me for my ignorance, (I am new here), but what is the transporter
> dilemma?  There are obvious problems with transportation that requires
> devices that can be taken off, but all I an find about ST's transporters
> is that it must be done from the ship.  Any form of communication can be
> used to tell someone to beam you to the ship.

Well, to further clarify (i hope not to the point of nausea...), There is a 
transporter net (:-)) that covers the entire planet. If you can get in touch
with any remote station, you can be transported anywhere, although it might
take a few trips (Remember Uhura's job in Trek III?). The only problem is that
it is very expensive, so most people opt for other means of transportation.
Of course, if you are SF, they pop the bill...

-Spock!  (Christopher J. Ambler, University of California, Riverside)
         -"Captain, I see no reason to bother Starfleet..."