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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (The WITNESS)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Enterprise destruct, antimatter
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Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 21:45:50 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 14 21:45:50 1984
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"Self-regenerating"?  Maybe the MATTER is, but the ANTImatter would not be
(and there was an animated episode where they had to refuel the Enterprise
and whee! was THAT shown to be fun!)  If the Big E were short on antimatter
there would not be much of an explosion.  Especially if Kirk had Scotty pull
out the stops on the way to Genesis (maybe he expected to hitch a ride on
Grissom?).

I still think the Federation actually FOUND some kind of substance like
corbomite (never underestimate a human!) and built it into the refitted
Enterprise of STTMP.  Look at the explosion scene for a good argument; the
structural bracing of the ship dissolved under the tritanium hullplates.
I suspect they mixed something into the metal they used to build her and
put a trigger somewhere forward of the bridge, considering the way she blew.
It would, once started, have spread backwards... but she hit atmosphere first.

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