On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:37:13 -0700, Tim Bruening
<tsbrueni@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
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>80 Knight wrote:
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>> "David Johnston" <david@block.net> wrote in message
>> news:fip1141nrsvum7ltmfi8n9kcqmd439hgvo@4ax.com...
>> > 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.
>> >>
>> >>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?
Technobabble terms, really. The only thing you can do with deflectors
you can't do with hull polarizers apparently is hide the ship from
20th century radar scans. Supposedly polarizing the hull made it
stronger and take less damage from energy weapons somehow. But
substitute the word, "shield" for "hull polorizization" in the script
and the only difference is the writers have to pad a tiny bit more to
fill the allotted airtime.
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