Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rochester!cornell!svax!belmonte From: belmonte@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Matthew Belmonte) Newsgroups: net.startrek,rec.arts.startrek Subject: Re: Star Trek IV Message-ID: <773@svax.cs.cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 28-Nov-86 13:42:25 EST Article-I.D.: svax.773 Posted: Fri Nov 28 13:42:25 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Nov-86 07:09:11 EST References: <50@samira.UUCP> Reply-To: belmonte@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Matthew Belmonte) Distribution: net Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept. Lines: 31 Keywords: STIV Summary: ''Re: Transporters'' Xref: mnetor net.startrek:4554 rec.arts.startrek:20 SPOILER FOLLOWS, OF COURSE... In article <50@samira.UUCP> kahless@samira.UUCP (Lord Kahless) writes: > About possible time contamination: Chekov left behind a working >communicator on the Enterprise, plus a broken phaser and who knows >what else. Kirk was upset when a working communicator left behind >on Iota, and the Iotians are considerably less technically sophisticated >and immitative than late 20'th century Earthers. From the communicator, >they could figure out the basis of the transtator, and that would give >Earth transporters and other things they shouldn't have for a long time. To quote Scotty, how do we know he didn't invent it? To all you "Re: Transporters" fans, here's your answer. NOBODY really invented the transporter. The U.S. Navy somehow acquired the central technology for the transporter in the year 1986. Of course they kept it under wraps for awhile. The first major use of the transporter on Earth was to lock onto and dematerialise all the missiles on the day when we finally got stupid enough to fire them. With the decline of the individual states on Earth and the rise of unity in the Federation, transporter technology became more widely available, at least to the military. The big problem on into the 23rd century is that since nobody really invented the transporter in the first place, nobody really knows what to do to it when it goes wrong (except people like Scotty, who've gleaned alot of empirical knowledge of transporter technology). -- "When you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow." -- a member of the Nixon administration Matthew Belmonte ARPA: BITNET: UUCP: ..!decvax!duke!duknbsr!mkb