On Apr 24, 9:18 am, David Johnston <da...@block.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:40:01 -0700, Tim Bruening
>
> <tsbru...@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> >In this episode, Trip is stranded on a moon with an alien named Zorgon.
> >It gets up to 170 Centigrade on that moon in the day, so Trip and Zorgon
> >must get themselves rescued before they bake. Even worse, the alien
> >doesn't sweat, so he's more vulnerable to the heat than Trip. When Trip
> >establishes contact with Voyager, why doesn't he ask Voyager to beam
> >down a lot of water containers?
>
> Giving Enterprise a transporter at all was a mistake.
They should have dropped the transporters, I agree.
And they should have had shields; the reason being
if interstellar travel is ever to be possible magnetic
shielding of some sort will be essential. Granted
the sheilding of the tales of the other series indicate
it was something more than just magnetic shielding
to deal with cosmic rays, etc.
The aluminium can space craft of our era are really
limited to taking man to the moon given both
their relatively weak method for having drive and
their complete lack of meaningful shielding.
Getting to Mars or dwarf planets of the asteroid belt
( a better goal than either the Moon or Mars)
requires a larger ship with magnetic sheilding
and advanced nuclear drives.
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Tim Bruening
