Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wjvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!oliveb!ios!pesnta!wjvax!ron From: ron@wjvax.UUCP (Ron Christian) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Death of the Enterprise Message-ID: <266@wjvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 13:10:08 EST Article-I.D.: wjvax.266 Posted: Tue Dec 11 13:10:08 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 03:45:48 EST References: <1256@uscvax.UUCP> Organization: Watkins Johnson, San Jose, Calif. Lines: 19 >One of the things that bothered me about the scene >was the lack of destruction. If you're going to implement a self-destruct >mechanism, you'd make sure that it would *DESTROY* the ship. If you set of >an uncontrolled anti-matter/matter reaction, it should be equivalent to a >fair sized nuclear warhead, which should be enough to easily pulverize the >ship. But in the movie, we see about 50% of the ship spiral in. >Tony Li ;-) Usc Computer Science Yeah, that bothered me too. Perhaps because all of scotty's control patches had been zapped, he was not able to bring about the matter-anti-matter explosion. Maybe there is a backup destruct circuit using normal explosives that only destroys the command center and other sensitive areas? Anyone else have thoughts on this? -- "Where can you find Ron Christian a stale work environment Watkins-Johnson Co. with excellent pay?" San Jose, Calif. --bay area newspaper {pesnta,twg,ios}!wjvax!ron