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 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 22:18:39 -0600, David Johnston
 wrote:

>>> 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.

Transporter might cost a lot to build and we know they're finicky and
can fail, maybe the parts have to be replaced after an hour and
sometimes fail even earlier.

Why else have these little personal-size transporter pads.  Maybe a
bigger pad tends to implode or split your personality or something.

J.

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