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From: tainter@ihlpg.UUCP (Tainter)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: The Spoars...A Medical Breakthrough
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Date: Wed, 26-Mar-86 17:52:37 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 26 17:52:37 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.
> 	mike k
This relies on a corellary to the Douglas Adams' Theory of Discovery:
    If anyone discovers what the universe is really for it will instantly
    disappear to be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable
The corellary:
    If anyone discovers anything massively useful it will instantly disappear
    to be replaced by something discovered in another episode.
--j.a.tainter
"It just told me what I new all the time.  I'm a really neat guy!"