wanttaja@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ronald J Wanttaja) (12/20/84)
<Brought to you by "Netters against 'RE:RE:RE:RE:RE XXXX' titles"> > The actual problem with the destruction sequence was when the ship > entered the atmosphere and started breaking up, the anitmatter would > have been unleashed and a great explosion should have ensued. Of > course this would have destroyed the Klingon ship and the planet! > Harve did not handle this quite right. Also, I don't believe that > the Enterprise would have been close enough to the planet to fall > into it's atmosphere. If I were going to destroy my ship and had > to beam down to the planet, I would definitely have the ship pointed > away from the planet! > Michael N. Washington Hmmm, seems to me he has a point there (and if he wears a tall hat, no one will see it :-) ). Going under the points in my last posting on this subject ("Hot Potatos not conforming to Star Fleet Regulations", available on all better disk drives), the armored/protected antimatter safety bottles would reenter. Assuming they survived the reentry and impact, once the batteries that powered the magnetic bottle were exhausted, BLOOEY! No more planet, or half of it anyway. One bit of mail I received suggested the antimatter bottles could be protected by shields powered by the anitmatter itself... this could maintain the shields until the anitmatter was exhausted- at which point the shields could be allowed to collapse. I'd want to have some small batteries to maintain the shields a little longer, just to be on the safe side. As to the subject of pointing the ship in the right direction before pulling the plug, I think the situation is analogous to a pilot ejecting. If there's enough time, he'll try and point the plane in a safe direction. If there isn't, it's just pull the handle and go, and the heck with the hardware. Go ahead and flame, *I'm* leaving on vacation now... Ron Wanttaja (ssc-vax!wanttaja) "We pray for one last entry, on the terminal back at work; from the finance files, transfer miles and miles, Of the cool green bills of earth..."