Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cornell.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!ddw From: ddw@cornell.UUCP (David Wright) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Fun with Transporters Message-ID: <4925@cornell.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Aug-83 21:15:18 EDT Article-I.D.: cornell.4925 Posted: Mon Aug 1 21:15:18 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Aug-83 10:55:11 EDT Sender: ddw@cornell.UUCP Organization: Cornell Computer Science Lines: 21 From: ddw (David Wright) To: net-sf-lovers Hey, in the Star Trek universe, the transporter \could/ store people, at least temporarily. Remember "Day of the Dove?" The Klingons force Kirk to beam them up to the Enterprise. Kirk craftily presses some panic button on his communicator and all the Enterprise people appear in the chamber first, exit, and then the Klingons appear once the Enterprise folks have the heavy guns trained on 'em. (Arguments that the Klingons were beamed up in a separate pass do not hold water, as they would most certainly have scattered, knowing they'd been had, if they saw all the Enterprise people beaming up first.) Trying to tie "Star Trek" to reality is, of course, silly, but these arguments can be fun. David Wright {vax135|decvax|ihnss}!cornell!ddw ddw.cornell@udel-relay ddw@cornell