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


"anim8rFSK"  wrote:

> In article , "Obveeus"

> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Dirt should be easier than whales, since you don't care what it looks
> like on the receiving end.

One would think.  After all, you wouldn't want the whale turning out like 
Kirk's ex-wife in STAR TREK:  TMP.

> And even if there's some reason not to use
> transporters, "It took the Starfleet Corps of Engineers ten months in
> space suits to tunnel out all this" is just silly.

Yep. 


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