Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!decvax!cwruecmp!atvax!ncoast!bsa From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (The WITNESS) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Immunity Syndrome? Message-ID: <262@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 22:08:53 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.262 Posted: Wed Aug 15 22:08:53 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 03:38:14 EDT References: <3395@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: North Coast XENIX, Cleveland Lines: 25 [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? --bsa -- Brandon Allbery: decvax!cwruecmp{!atvax}!bsa: R0176@CSUOHIO.BITNET ^ Note name change! 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, OH 44131 <> (216) 524-1416 "The more they overthink the plumbin', the easier 'tis tae stop up the drain."