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From: ron@wjvax.UUCP (Ron Christian)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Death of the Enterprise
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Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 13:10:08 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 11 13:10:08 1984
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>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?
-- 

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