From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: anim8rfsk{at}cox.net
Subject: Re: STAR TREK THE WRATH OF KHAN: was What Did You Watch?
2013-06-01 (Saturday)

In article ,
 Dimensional Traveler  wrote:

> On 6/5/2013 6:01 AM, anim8rFSK wrote:
> > In article ,
> >   Dimensional Traveler  wrote:
> >
> >> On 6/3/2013 10:36 PM, JRStern wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 14:23:10 -0400, "Obveeus"
 wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>>> That reminds me of one of the other real
laughers of dialog in this
> >>>>>> film:
> >>>>>> The 'Phase 2' underground cave system they
made...where Federation
> >>>>>> miners
> >>>>>> took 6 months to carve out the tunnel system.
 Um...couldn't the
> >>>>>> transporters be configured to beam out an
area of rock and leave 
> >>>>>> behind
> >>>>>> a
> >>>>>> cavern 'instantly'?  Yes, I know that they
wanted to juxtapose the 
> >>>>>> hard
> >>>>>> work
> >>>>>> of the Federation team's carving devision
with the instant glory of 
> >>>>>> the
> >>>>>> Genesis device, but still...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Yes, apparently the Star Fleet Corp of Engineers
are idiots, too.  But
> >>>>> mining techniques weren't much better in DEVIL IN THE DARK.
> >>>>
> >>>> I really liked the Horta episode.  I don't recall if
they just explained
> >>>> the
> >>>> mining operation as being too poor for transporters
(which would make no
> >>>> sense) or if it was some issue of
stability/interference that prevented
> >>>> them
> >>> >from using a transporter as the mining device.  Maybe
they skipped 
> >>> >offering
> >>>> up any explanation at all.
> >>>
> >>> How about transporters are a very expensive way to move around a
> >>> couple of hundred pounds, a bunch of poor miners moving
thousands of
> >>> tons couldn't begin to use them.
> >>>
> >> What expense is there in using a transporter?  It needs power but
> >> they've matter-antimatter power so that's not really an issue.
> >
> > Oh, it still could be very expensive.  Maybe the Illudium Q-36 Explosive
> > Space Modulator wears out every 78 transports and costs 300 quatloos to
> > replace.  That gives you a cost of almost 4 quatloos per transport,
> > before shipping and installation fees.
> >
> Of course you're right.  I must have been thinking of TNG transporters 
> from that no money Federation.

And that gold pressed latinum that couldn't be replicated, but could be 
transported ...

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