From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: davidjohnston29{at}block.com
Subject: Re: STAR TREK THE WRATH OF KHAN: was What Did You Watch?
2013-06-01(Saturday)

On 6/4/2013 10:12 PM, 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.
>
>

Antimatter is a really compact way to store a lot of energy but they 
never indicated that it's just lying around like coal.
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