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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Destruction of the Enterprise
Message-ID: <510@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Dec-84 16:54:24 EST
Article-I.D.: ncoast.510
Posted: Sat Dec 22 16:54:24 1984
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References: <1@decwrl.UUCP> <1271@hplabs.UUCP>
Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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> Article <1271@hplabs.UUCP>, from jin@hplabs.UUCP (Tai Jin)
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| the "big bang" you mention...isn't that the corobomite bluff?  so i thought
| it wasn't for real.  anyway, isn't their power derived from the dilithium
| crystals?  i don't know the mechanism, but i think the antimatter is derived
| from the crystals.  does anybody know?

Wrong.  The ``big bang'' is from "The Deadly Years", *not* "The Corbomite
Manoeuver".  Actually, I have a sneaking suspicion that someone decided
that something like corbomite might come in handy, developed it, and put
it in/on the Enterprise's framework when they refitted her... and we
saw *that* go off in ST:TWOK.  Not unlikely.

Dilithium does *not* create antimatter (or has the stuff posted both
here and in net.tv.drwho warped some minds?  :-); it *regulates* the
matter/antimatter reaction.  But I'm damned if I can remember where I
learned that bit of information.

(Speaking of tie-ins:  in the animated episode "The Terratin Incident",
dilithium is likened to organic material... and it's pinkish when it's inert. 
Shades of tie-ins; you think maybe they discovered it on Arisia?  :-)

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