On Apr 24, 2:11 pm, "80 Knight" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
> "David Johnston" <da...@block.net> wrote in message
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> > On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:19:36 -0700 (PDT), "trigonometry1...@gmail.com
> > |" <trigonometry1...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>On Apr 24, 9:18 am, David Johnston <da...@block.net> wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:40:01 -0700, Tim Bruening
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> >>> <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?
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> >>> Giving Enterprise a transporter at all was a mistake.
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> >>They should have dropped the transporters, I agree.
> >>And they should have had shields
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> > They did have shields. Worked exactly like the ones in the rest of
> > Star Trek. Just called them by another name.
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> The NX-01 had "hull plating", not shields.
There were long threads on this topic 'back in the day' on this forum.
Hull plating than seemed to behave like shields when dipicted on
the show. Maybe the writers didn't read the memo ;-)....
that was tongue in cheek comment.
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