Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5a!hou5d!kwmc From: kwmc@hou5d.UUCP Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: startrek error Message-ID: <548@hou5d.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Jun-83 11:12:37 EDT Article-I.D.: hou5d.548 Posted: Thu Jun 16 11:12:37 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jun-83 21:52:57 EDT Lines: 11 I don't remember which episode this occurred in , but some members of the crew were stranded on a planet with a very cold night, because the transporter mechanism was out of order. They used phasers to heat rocks to keep them from freezing but were suffering from severe exposure when the transporter was fixed and beamed them up ( just in the nick of time as usual ). My question is why didn't Kirk just send down a shuttle craft to pick them up? It seemed so obvious ! Ken Cochran hou5d!kwmc