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 6/3/2013 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.

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