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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (The WITNESS)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Immunity Syndrome?
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Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 22:08:53 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 15 22:08:53 1984
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[The world is a Klein bottle]

> From: swc@cbscc.UUCP (Scott W. Collins)

> The Enterprise was being drained of all her power by the "single-celled
> organism".  How is it that as soon as the thing was destroyed, power
> seemed to be restored immediately on the ship (and the shuttlecraft where
> Spock was dying due to no life-support system capability.  How does
> restored power help him breath/live? I suppose it would restore cabin
> pressure and recycle the CO(2) ).  The ship was "keeping her distance"
> which appeared to be the source of the drain. Maybe the dilithium (sp?)
> crystals are magic.

I got the impression that the giant amoeba was either blocking or absorbing
(probably the latter) energy before ship's systems could get it; once it died,
nothing was absorbing/blocking ship's power and all systems immediately reco-
vered.  Not impossible; how do WE know how that doggone amoeba metabolized?

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