Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihlts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Enterprise destruct, antimatter Message-ID: <531@ihlts.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Aug-84 12:32:02 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlts.531 Posted: Tue Aug 7 12:32:02 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Aug-84 19:43:05 EDT References: <2177@ihnss.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 23 > But the explosion should have been bigger -- in some TV episode > Scotty said you'd get a pretty good super-nova bang if you mixed all > the fuel at once, and the comic book of ST:TMP had the [Enterprise] > crew fixing to blow up Vger that way The movie ST:TMP also had that. (Quick, trivia fans, what Starfleet General Order did Kirk tell Scott to implement on his command in ST:TMP?) But what makes you think that the self-destruct sequence implemented by the computer would bring all its matter and antimatter together at once? Why must there be only one way to destroy a starship? They had to find another way in "The Doomsday Machine" because that starship's computer was inoperative. > "Are ye tryin' ta say that in the 20th century, they kept satellites in > orbit without usin' any power?" Yes Scotty we do it all the time. No, we don't. Skylab is an example of what happens to satellites left up a long time without sufficient maneuvering power. Also, I doubt many satellites would stay up long after experiencing an explosion of the same relative magnitude as a starship's primary hull exploding. -- "It's only by NOT taking the human race seriously that I retain what fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess." Roger Noe ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe