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: Enterprise destruct, antimatter Message-ID: <255@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 21:45:50 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.255 Posted: Tue Aug 14 21:45:50 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 03:28:46 EDT References: <2177@ihnss.UUCP> <1198@ritcv.UUCP> Organization: North Coast XENIX, Cleveland Lines: 22 "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. --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."