Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!orion!houca!kdh From: kdh@houca.UUCP Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: YASTF (Yet Another Star Trek Flaw) Message-ID: <139@houca.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-Jun-83 09:22:47 EDT Article-I.D.: houca.139 Posted: Wed Jun 29 09:22:47 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 29-Jun-83 20:53:20 EDT Lines: 22 Mentioning the Skalosian Water episode brings to mind a flaw in that episode which I picked up the first time I saw it. When first confronted with the woman on the bridge, Kirk attempts to stun her with his phaser. Naturally, the beam proceeds rather slowly, and she side-steps. What I wondered about was the fact that the beam stopped (did not pass her) and then the trailing end caught up to it when (presumably) Kirk released the trigger. The beam should have proceeded and hit the wall. Also, why did the crew on the bridge not see the phaser flash? (Or was it too short? Hmm... at ~1 ft/nanosec (pardon me, 1/3 meter) that would have been only a coupel of nanosec's. Ah well.....) Also, if Kirk and the others are so speeded up (sped up?) that this could occur, how long would Kirk have lived? Making a rough guess wrt the beam speed, Kirk would have been sped up between a million and a billion times. That would have reduced his life expectancy to something substantially less than an hour, assuming the usual life expectancy was about 100. (Course the episode only lasted 45-50 min...... :-) ) Isn't it fun picking shows apart? Kevin Hunter