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From: ddw@cornell.UUCP (David Wright)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Fun with Transporters
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Date: Mon, 1-Aug-83 21:15:18 EDT
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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

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