To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com
From: DarkHrzn91701{at}aol.com
Reply-To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com

In a message dated 6/17/03 4:36:10 PM CDT, tesral{at}comcast.net writes:

> See My rules for G-trek.
>
>  3) "Transporter failures have been done to death, therefor
>  we will not do any."

Amen to that, brother Garry.  In my mind the transporter has always been a
piece of Trek "magic" used as a storytelling device to avoid the
drudgery of shuttle transport.  And when something is essentially magic,
the least said the better.  Let it operate as the device it is--- not
become part of the story.  Do people of today talk about the inner workings
of the cross-town bus they ride?  Hell no.  You get on the damn thing and
take it across town.  Trek should take the same attitude toward the
transporter.

>  Having these incidents again and again makes the people
>  of the 24th centuy look stupid.
>         If you have to break sound real life practices to get a good
>  story, it's not a good story. You just created a five minute plot. We
>  endeavor to do better, and assume that our characters are not stupid or
>  suicidal.

Exactly.  Just because it's science fiction, or Trek, doesn't mean the
characters can be stupid just so the writer can feature some neato,
whiz-bang "tech" thing.

I would consider doing a story about my concerns in earlier posts about
this "copying" thing, but frankly I don't think it would leave
the Trek universe intact, so there's not much point in it.

The transporter is the Trek equivalent of a bus or plane and the more it
remains so, the better.

-Michael Gray
Star Trek: Dark Horizon
http://hometown.aol.com/darkhrzn91701/main.htm

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