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From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Re: Star Trek II question
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Date: Mon, 12-Mar-84 15:25:15 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 12 15:25:15 1984
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To state my views once again, I do not think Kirk could have used the
Enterprise's transporters to destroy the Genesis device.  If you look at the
reference line to this article you'll see this discussion has been going on
a long time . . .

>>	The Enterprise has been very badly damaged by Khan's attack in
>>	the Mutara nebula.  The ship probably did not have enough power
>>	to operate the transporters without putting the main engines
>>	back on line.

Doubtful, because Kirk told Uhura to signal Reliant to prepare to be boarded.
That almost certainly means using transporters within the next few minutes.

>>	They could pick up the energy being released by the Genesis device
>>	because of the large amount of energy it put out,  but probably could
>>	not locate it accurately enough to use the transporters anyway.

Possible, but sensors have been demonstrated before to be quite accurate at
locating sources of energy.  Nevertheless, it's a pretty good point.

>>	Kirk just didn't think of it. :-}
>>	Jon Biggar

Well of course that's the real reason.  Put another way, they didn't write it
into the story because it was more interesting the way they DID film it.
	Roger Noe		ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe