Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihlts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe @ N41:48.5, W88:07.2) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: The Enemy Within Message-ID: <365@ihlts.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 10:30:53 EST Article-I.D.: ihlts.365 Posted: Thu Feb 16 10:30:53 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Feb-84 03:13:27 EST References: <5453@uiucdcs.UUCP> <282@oliveb.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 28 >> Sulu and some others are on a planet on which the >> temperature is dropping and the transporter is out (I think this is the >> episode where Kirk is split/duplicated). The problem they face is how >> to get Sulu and party off the planet before they freeze to death. The >> obvious sollution is to send a shuttle down for them. The Enterprise >> seems to carry several but there is no mention of them. Not even a "if >> only the shuttle was working". The writer of that script seems never >> to have heard of shuttles. Of *course* the writer hadn't heard of shuttles! "The Enemy Within" was made well before the idea was added to Star Trek. >> Another option not considered was using the >> ships phasers. Sulu uses up his phaser warming rocks which they huddle >> around. The ships phasers could be used to heat an area up-wind giving >> at least some relief from the cold. Feats of greater precision were >> done with the phasers on other shows. Also why didn't Sulu use his >> phaser to hollow out a cave as was done on other shows. Changing the weather of a planet with which one is not very familiar would probably be a VERY tricky business. Warming up a rock or two is something different. We also have no indication that ship's phasers have a "heat" setting, as do hand phasers. Hand phasers are clearly not powerful enough to hollow a cave out of rock. Remember the "laser cannon" in "The Cage"? It used ship's power while on the planet but only did a small job of blasting away rock, just barely enough for a small cave for a few people. -- Roger Noe ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe