Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucdavis.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!ucdavis!ccs020 From: ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (Kevin Chu) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: More Transporter Trivia Message-ID: <207@ucdavis.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 17:19:26 EST Article-I.D.: ucdavis.207 Posted: Thu Oct 31 17:19:26 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 03:29:52 EST References: <10854@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 22 [...] > > And now for something completely different. > > In "The Enemy Within", the transporter malfunction caused there to > be two different, yet identical Kirks. Where did the transporter > get the mass to materialize this Kirk? Did it only materialize > one half of the "Good Kirk", leaving the rest to form the "Bad Kirk", > in which case each Kirk would only weigh half as much as the original? > Or did it perhaps tap into the warp engines to get the energy > (a whole lot!) to convert into matter? > > The New Number Who, okamoto@BERKELY.EDU > Jeff Okamoto ..!ucbvax!okamoto The subject of transporters was run into the ground last spring. PLEASE don't resurrect it again. It was decided that the transporter is the biggest Star Trek inconsistancy of them all. -- --Kevin Chu ..!{ucbvax,lll-crg,dual}!ucdavis!vega!ccs020