"Tim Bruening" <tsbrueni@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote in message
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> 80 Knight wrote:
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>> "David Johnston" <david@block.net> wrote in message
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>> > On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:19:36 -0700 (PDT), "trigonometry1972@gmail.com
>> > |" <trigonometry1972@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.
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> What was the difference between those two?
one is plating on the hull that a current was applied to polarize said
plating to be more effective at combating the effects of energy weapons
(etc) and the other is an energy shield projected around the hull and not
part of it.... not really that hard to figure out.... they both however
share the common attribute of being fictitious...
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