Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site trsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!trsvax!iv From: iv@trsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Re: Enterprise destruct, antimatter - (nf) Message-ID: <54700010@trsvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 15:46:00 EDT Article-I.D.: trsvax.54700010 Posted: Mon Aug 20 15:46:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Aug-84 01:14:42 EDT References: <2177@ihnss.UUCP> Lines: 22 Nf-ID: #R:ihnss:-217700:trsvax:54700010:000:740 Nf-From: trsvax!iv Aug 20 14:46:00 1984 #R:ihnss:-217700:trsvax:54700010:000:740 trsvax!iv Aug 20 14:46:00 1984 In reference to: /***** trsvax:net.startrek / ritcv!jeh / 6:48 am Aug 11, 1984 */ Ha! I, with my limited knowledge finally get to pick apart something! "Low fuel" is not an issue with the Enterprise; it is self-regenerating (explain that one). I heard Kirk tell someone that in one of the TV episodes. Jim Heliotis ritcv!jeh@Rochester /* ---------- */ Actually as I understand it, it is (was) the Enterprise's *power* which is regenerated, not her fuel. The matter and anti-matter are carefully combined, yielding energy which is used to power the ship and recharge the batteries and so on. IV (aka John Elliott IV) Tandy Systems Software; Fort Worth, TX ...{convex!ctvax,microsoft}!trsvax!iv