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From: knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP (mike knudsen)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: The Spoars...A Medical Breakthrough
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Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 13:51:41 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 25 13:51:41 1986
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> One of the things that always bothered me about Star Trek is that they
> discovered many such useful things  (a drink that makes people move faster
> than light, a way to turn people into VERY powerful telekinetics) which
> are completely ignored once the story is over. If they kept all this stuff
> they would have had a ship full of superheroes. Of course, by the third
> season, everything would have been so easy for the crew that the show
> would be pretty boring to watch ("Do you want to telekinetically destroy
> the 4000 attacking klingon ships, Captain, or shall I?", "The engines
> have been completely destroyed, Captain. It'll take at least 12 milliseconds
> to rebuild them by hand.")
> 
> 			Scott McEwan
> 			{ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan
> 
Right... it always bothered me how they just forgot or
threw away all those wonderful gadgets and powers,
even when they weren't destroyed.
Remember "That Which Survives" where this little
ceiling-mounted computer is projecting these beautiful
women?  Scotty phasers the thing just enuf to stop it,
but nobody takes it apart ot find out how it
threw the Big E 999 lite-years across the galaxy...

Some scientist Spock is.  He should order "Scotty --
reverse-engineer that thing if you want your salary
doubled!"
	mike k
Oh yeah, Nomad improved the engines' efficiency until
the ship almost fell apart, and some aliens
modified them for intergalactic travel*, and ...
jeez what a waste!

*The closing never mentioned what Scotty was going to do
about those souped-up engines  "It'll take me three days
ta put all the smog controls back on!"