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From: gmp@rayssd.UUCP (Gregory M. Paris)
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Subject: Re: More Trivia
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Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 22:23:44 EST
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>      Technically speaking, Uhura was not beamed down in "The Squire Of
>      Gothos", "The Gamesters Of Triskelion", or "Plato's Stepchildren".
>      She was "zapped away" by the appropriate alien.  Of course if you
>      consider the aliens mode of teleporting as "beaming", then I guess
>      those episodes are correct.  However, when we say "beam down", I
>      interpret this to mean via a known mode of transporting (i.e. the
>      transporter on the Enterprise.)

I must differ with your assertions about "Plato's Stepchildren."
Logically we must assume that Uhura and Nurse Chapel were forced
to beam down rather than being wisked through space by Parmen's
telekenetic powers.
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