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From: edtking@uw-june (Ewan David Tempero)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Dilithium
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Date: Wed, 26-Dec-84 20:27:27 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 26 20:27:27 1984
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I thought Dilithium was some sort of high energy element that when excited
produced a high level of usable energy ( this sentence doesn't make much
sense......humour me) . I remember Kirk and Spock getting some sort of
implants with dilithium that were to be used for tracing them ( Kirk and
Spock, not the implants ). When imprisoned ( I think it was the one with
the Nazi like development ) they dug them out ( don't ask me how ) and used
them to turn an electric current from a light socket into a laser-like beam
which they then used to burn their way out. 

Maybe the crystals are used to convert the raw energy from the 
matter/anti-matter reaction into a more convenient form of energy for the
engines?


			Ewan Tempero
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