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Date: Tue, 20-Nov-84 13:48:00 EST
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Nf-From: uok!bruhgraw    Nov 20 12:48:00 1984

About "Wink of an Eye":

1.  How did the transporter (and other mechanisms) work for the sped-up people
on the ship at THEIR speed, and still work normally for those at the slower
rate?  And if the transporter worked faster, why didn't Kirk's phaser?

2.  On the subject of the phaser, why didn't it blow a hole in the wall when
he fired it, or leave scorch marks, or at least be visible to the rest of the
crew?

3.  Could somebody explain why a person ages incredibly fast when he/shegets
"cell damage"?  Just rubbing your hands together kills thousands of cells.
Why wouldn't that be fatal too?

4.  At the end, why didn't Kirk give the antidote to the Scalosians?  Then they
would have been saved, and that would have been that.


				!ctvax!uokvax!uok!bruhgraw

Message-ID: <8400098@uok.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 00:27:00 EST
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Nf-From: uok!dwhitney    Nov 20 23:27:00 1984

This is my best estimate of how to answer your questions.  Arguments
welcome.

1.  The female leader informed Kirk that she "beamed up" with him on their
    transporter, "a terribly slow process" or words to that effect.  After
    boarding, they simply modified it as necessary to work at their speed.

2.  The phaser had not been modified as the transporter had.

3.  The connotation I have about the "cell damage" was that a scratch, an 
    actual open wound, was what did you in; not just the rubbing of hands, etc.

4.  Why no "burn marks?"  Well, being able to see the shots coming (from
   their perspective, very slowly) they could simply block them.  No hit,
   no burn marks.

5.  The antidote was useless to the Scalosians was, if I inferred correctly
    ineffective on Scalosian people.  I assume their scientists had already
    devised a similar one, which failed.

    Oh, well, just some thoughts...

David Whitney
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Message-ID: <424@wlcrjs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 23:41:19 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 26 23:41:19 1984
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Summary: 

One would assume that since the transporter works only if one is standing still
than it would work on anyone with the willto stand still thatlong but
the wuestion occurs to me

even though the Thalosians and Jim and later Spock were accelerated  why
did they not become visible just by standing in one place with out moving 
for one of their hours or so. Say like sleeping.

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Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 16:17:12 EST
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The Scalosian incident brings back to mind several items of the
Federation discarding acquired knowledge:

Since an antidote to the Scalosian water was known, why wasn't the
effect of the Scalosian water exploited for such things as repair work
(or espionage or fighting the Klingons or...)?

Also, why was the psychokinetic power available from kyrany withheld?
Can you imagine the Klingon Commander's reaction when Kirk (or Spock)
starts having some fun with the Klingon cruiser?

For #3, for physical vegetables such as Pike, why not use the life-
energy transfer device on Camus II (Turnabout Intruder)? Finding a new
host body might be a bit of a problem...

And, of course, who dismantled the Kelvan improvements (e.g., Warp 11)?
-- 
		The Ice Floe of Larry Bickford
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You can't settle the issue until you've settled how to settle the issue.

Message-ID: <448@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 22:51:32 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 28 22:51:32 1984
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 >  Article <8400097@uok.UUCP>, from bruhgraw@uok.UUCP
+----------------
| 
| 4. At the end, why didn't Kirk give the antidote to the Scalosians? Then they
| would have been saved, and that would have been that.
| 

As I remember it, the Scalosians told him early on that they had an antidote,
but by the time they'd found it, they were into some later generation
and could no longer use it without dying.

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Message-ID: <281@spp2.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 13:59:10 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 29 13:59:10 1984
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Reply-To: brahms@spp2.UUCP (Bradley S. Brahms)
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Summary: 

 > One would assume that since the transporter works only if one is standing
 > still than it would work on anyone with the willto stand still thatlong but
 > the wuestion occurs to me

Nope.  There are several instances where people are moving around when they
are transported.  Example:  In "The Cloud Miners", Kirk and the High
Chairman (I don't remember the person's name or title) are fighting in a
mine when they are beamed up to the Enterprise.

			-- Brad Brahms
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