Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site trwrba.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrba!mnw From: mnw@trwrba.UUCP (Michael N. Washington) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Cloaking Message-ID: <771@trwrba.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Jun-84 10:44:09 EDT Article-I.D.: trwrba.771 Posted: Fri Jun 1 10:44:09 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Jun-84 06:52:40 EDT Organization: TRW EDS, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 15 I suspect that the Federation does not use a cloaking device for a couple of reasons. First, the power drain would be enormous and not worth it. Second, since the Federation stole the cloaking device from the Romulans for the simple reason (I think) to figure out how to track a ship so equipped. Since the Romulan commander did state that eventually they would figure out how to track a ship using the device, why bother equipping your ships with such a device. Michael N. Washington TRW E&DS Redondo Beach, Calif. 90278 trwrba!mnw