makaren@alberta.UUCP (Darrell Makarenko) (08/06/84)
gulp It seems unlikely to me that members of a Starship of the Federation of Planets would have to charge their hamburger and fries to different charge accounts. With the billions of $ that the ship must have cost to build there is no way Kirk has to pay $.75 for his glass of juice. I think we've been hanging around too many University cafeterias.
eder@ssc-vax.UUCP (Dani Eder) (08/06/84)
>From: makaren@alberta.UUCP (Darrell Makarenko) > >It seems unlikely to me that members of a Starship of the >Federation of Planets would have to charge their hamburger >and fries to different charge accounts. With the billions >of $ that the ship must have cost to build there is no way >Kirk has to pay $.75 for his glass of juice. I think we've >been hanging around too many University cafeterias. What about passengers that are carried periodically? What about special vitamins for crew of race xyzzy? What about knowing what a guy ate, so when he(she) gets sick, the doctors have some idea why. Or calorie counting. Note these little slabs were used in the transporter room and communications and science consoles. They may function as the future equivalent of keys. You don't want just anybody using the transporter or subspace radio. Besides, the bean counters of the world probably DO want to keep track of every glass of OJ. Ask someone who has worked on a government contract. Anyone out there served on a Navy ship? Do they charge by the meal? Dani Eder / Boeing Aerospace Company / ssc-vax!eder
wrs@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA (Walter Smith) (08/09/84)
The little slabs are indeed used everywhere. The Technical Manual seems to indicate that they are data recording media. Also, when Spock needs to record something (e.g. bizarre alien radio transmissions), he sticks a little slab into a slot and pushes a button, then removes it when it's over and tells someone to take the little doohickey (sorry about the technical language here) to the lab. It seems like a very simple matter to read the title of one of these things (when they are used to store books, another function of these amazing little red pieces of plastic; remember the episode where Nurse Chapel shows a patient a little red thing and says it is McCoy's prescription with one word on it: Eat. McCoy later looks at it and reads off a long medical title), but I've never been able to see any labeling at all on them. Strange. On another subject, why is it that the travel time of the turboelevators is always exactly as long as the conversation going on within them? - Walter Smith (wrs@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA, I don't know what on Usenet yet)
chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (08/10/84)
Isn't it obvious? They're TU-58 cassettes!
No, wait, stop!
AAAAAAACK!
*thump*
He's dead, Jim.
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