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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
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Posted: Fri Jun  1 10:44:09 1984
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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

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