Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site shark.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!tektronix!orca!shark!hutch From: hutch@shark.UUCP Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Another Star Trek inconsistency Message-ID: <811@shark.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 03:22:22 EDT Article-I.D.: shark.811 Posted: Wed Jun 13 03:22:22 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jun-84 01:26:45 EDT References: <491@ihlts.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 15 [ just imagine how they could open startrek 4 with a Busby Berkley number ] | > When the Klingons allowed him to speak to his son and the others, | > why didn't he lock on to their coordinates and beam them up immediately | | Their transmission was via Klingon communicator up to Klingon ship, then ship- | to-ship to Enterprise. Also, the transporter room was unmanned. Almost right. A starship's sensors can locate radiation sources much less coherent than a Klingon communicator. However, there WAS nobody in the transporter room, so they wouldn't have been able to do it. . . Hutch