Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!fluke!ssc-vax!adolph From: adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark Adolph) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Photon torpedoes Message-ID: <33@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 21:45:19 EDT Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.33 Posted: Mon Jul 8 21:45:19 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 10:52:27 EDT References: <812@rayssd.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 20 *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** > Why don't they have some sort of guidance system like a > missile instead of a straight line trajectory? According to the novelization of STII:WOK, photon torpedoes DO have a guidance system. If I'm not mistaken, Saavik is the one who changed the programming on Spock's tube so that it would soft land instead of burning up in Genesis' atmosphere. If Robin Curtiss had talked to Kirstie Alley before she attempted to masquerade as Saavik, she wouldn't have been so surprised in STIII. 8-) On a more general note, locking on to a target does not imply straight line flight. It only implies that the ship has to uniquely identify the target to the missile before launching it. -- Mark A. ...{uw-beaver|fluke}!ssc-vax!adolph "1 + 1 = 1, for sufficiently small values of 1..."