rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe) (05/14/84)
For all of you who are reading net.sf-lovers, you may wish to just post Star Trek-related articles to net.startrek. We can anticipate another flood of news around the release date of ST3, so let's not clutter up net.sf-lovers when we have a good place to put the specialized traffic. > recall the episode "Wolf in the Fold"... > The entity . . . body is then sedated and placed in the > transporter and beamed out into space at the widest possible angle! > Given that our only source of information about the Enterprise is > the series and previous movies, the genesis machine could have > been dispersed. > Randall S. Becker Well, Kirk did say to activate the transporter, "deep space . . . widest angle of dispersion" but nowhere is it really made plain that the body was dispersed. Remember that the entity could not be killed but would float in space, unable to do harm, until it EVENTUALLY died. The sedated body was only used as a "container" for the entity until they could get it out of the ship. What happened to the body itself was of no consequence since the entity did not need a body in order to live. It would die whether it was dispersed or not. And the entity could not be affected. No, we have no real evidence to indicate that the body (or the entity) was actually dispersed into separate molecules. Infer all you want, but if our only source of information is to be the TV episodes and movies, we cannot reasonably establish that the Genesis device could have been dispersed without harming the Enterprise. Roger Noe ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe