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From: corwin@hope.UUCP (John Kempf)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: The Enemy Within
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Date: Fri, 28-Mar-86 21:02:03 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 28 21:02:03 1986
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> 
> 	In "The Best of Trek #5", eds. Irwin & Love, there is an attempt to
> answer the question "Why wasn't the shuttlecraft used to get Sulu and the
> others off the planet?"
> 
> Answer: The upper-air turbulence of the storms on the icy planet was so
> strong that a shuttlecraft would have been risking destruction to venture
> into it. As it would have been foolish to almost certainly lose more lives in
> a futile attempt to rescue Sulu and Co. in that way, Kirk and Spock did not
> even consider it.
> 
I have always wondered about that one.  The answer is rather falacious.
a shuttle craft has a reasonable amount of fuel.  Are they trying to 
say that there was upper air turbulance over the *entire* planet?  Including
the poles?  Besides, shuttle craft do have some deflector screens.
-cory