Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!cwruecmp!atvax!ncoast!bsa 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 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Dec-84 02:05:08 EST References: <1@decwrl.UUCP> <1271@hplabs.UUCP> Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Organization: Unix-like Operating Systems Consultant Lines: 27 Summary: > Article <1271@hplabs.UUCP>, from jin@hplabs.UUCP (Tai Jin) +---------------- | 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? :-) --bsa -- Brandon Allbery @ decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!bsa (..ncoast!tdi1!bsa business) 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio 44131 (216) 524-1416 <<<<<< An equal opportunity employer: I both create and destroy bugs :-) >>>>>>