rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe) (06/13/84)
> When the Klingons allowed him to speak to his son and the others, > why didn't he lock on to their coordinates and beam them up immediately Their transmission was via Klingon communicator up to Klingon ship, then ship- to-ship to Enterprise. Also, the transporter room was unmanned. > since he made radio [sic] contact with the Klingon captain himself, and > their craft was small, why didn't Kirk beam the entire crew from the > Klingon vessel to the enterprise. That's never been allowed, it's just too easy. Besides, you can't transport through shields. Also, how are you going to know where each and every crew member is? -- "The more they overthink the plumbin', the easier 'tis to stop up the drain." Roger Noe ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe
hutch@shark.UUCP (06/13/84)
[ just imagine how they could open startrek 4 with a Busby Berkley number ] | > When the Klingons allowed him to speak to his son and the others, | > why didn't he lock on to their coordinates and beam them up immediately | | Their transmission was via Klingon communicator up to Klingon ship, then ship- | to-ship to Enterprise. Also, the transporter room was unmanned. Almost right. A starship's sensors can locate radiation sources much less coherent than a Klingon communicator. However, there WAS nobody in the transporter room, so they wouldn't have been able to do it. . . Hutch