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

On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 07:14:04 -0400, "Obveeus"  wrote:

>> Why else have these little personal-size transporter pads.  Maybe a
>> bigger pad tends to implode or split your personality or something.
>
>Notice that, despite the individual pads, they transported larger objects as 
>needed for the plot as well.  Heck, in the whale film they transported a 
>cubic area of water and whales with no trouble at all...and with one of 
>those cheap foreign transporters  If they can do that, then why would it be 
>more difficult to have transported out sections of mining tunnel?

Again, for a one-time event, mebbe.

Also that was a somewhat later version of the transporter, fwiw, and
maybe with no safety margins, not that they'd want to deliver a
mashed-up whale under the circumstances but you gotta take risks.

So it's not *always* just a deus ex machina, ... but almost.

J.

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