Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 / QGSI 2.0; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!sun!idi!qubix!lab From: lab@qubix.UUCP (Q-Bick) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: C.O.T.E.O.F. Message-ID: <1529@qubix.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 15:26:24 EST Article-I.D.: qubix.1529 Posted: Fri Nov 9 15:26:24 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Nov-84 20:51:06 EST References: <4019@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: Quadratix ... Quartix Lines: 20 *** REPLACE YOUR MESSAGE WITH THIS LINE *** > Scott W. Collins > You're correct, however I didn't say Bones beamed down with > the search party. He did beam up with them, which makes seven. I have > pics that document this. Maybe the answer is that the seventh person > is held in transit until the first six materialize, and then is beamed > on the transport pad once cleared. Or consider "Day of the Dove": Scotty dematerialize 4 Feds & 5Ks in one swell foop. The Feds materialized first while Scott had the Ks still locked inside the transporter. (Hmmm...I wonder why Scott had to *ask* who the others were - couldn't the sensors tell?) I said "No tricks AFTER we got on board!" -- The Ice Floe of Larry Bickford {amd,decwrl,sun,idi,ittvax}!qubix!lab You can't settle the issue until you've settled how to settle the issue.