Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!donald From: donald@utcsrgv.UUCP (Don Chan) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: startrek error Message-ID: <1566@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Jun-83 12:58:20 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.1566 Posted: Sun Jun 19 12:58:20 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jun-83 13:28:31 EDT References: <548@hou5d.UUCP> Organization: CSRG, University of Toronto Lines: 15 The episode where a landing party is caught in a blizzard is the same one where the transporter malfunctions and Kirk is split into two. Of course they can't beam the party up because of this. One might argue that a shuttle wouldn't be able to make it through violent atmospheric storms without damage. However, why couldn't they beam DOWN supplies (blankets, tents, phasers, etc.), since presumably inanimate objects would not be altered significantly? Or if the transported wouldn't work at all, they could use the ship's phasers to heat up a spot near the landing party (we know the ship's phasers have that precision: cf. the episode with Apollo, or "A Piece of the Action"). Don Chan