kwmc@hou5d.UUCP (06/16/83)
I don't remember which episode this occurred in , but some members of the crew were stranded on a planet with a very cold night, because the transporter mechanism was out of order. They used phasers to heat rocks to keep them from freezing but were suffering from severe exposure when the transporter was fixed and beamed them up ( just in the nick of time as usual ). My question is why didn't Kirk just send down a shuttle craft to pick them up? It seemed so obvious ! Ken Cochran hou5d!kwmc
sher@rochester.UUCP (06/19/83)
The one where the transporter was spitting everything into violent and nonviolent parts was one of the most screwed up shows. I believe I saw some discussion of its inadequacies in net.sf-lovers before the existance of net.startrek. Even if the shuttlecraft did not exist they could have beamed down blankets to the planet. To quote a long gone article "Even if the blankets came down tied in knots they still would serve for their primary function, providing insulation." But if we are talking about screwed up shows who can forget Spock's Brain! The wierd and wonderful screwups in that show are too numerous to mention in this article. The best involved Mcoy's (spelling?) operation of the brainless Spock body. -David Sher (ofttimes AI project)
donald@utcsrgv.UUCP (Don Chan) (06/19/83)
The episode where a landing party is caught in a blizzard is the same one where the transporter malfunctions and Kirk is split into two. Of course they can't beam the party up because of this. One might argue that a shuttle wouldn't be able to make it through violent atmospheric storms without damage. However, why couldn't they beam DOWN supplies (blankets, tents, phasers, etc.), since presumably inanimate objects would not be altered significantly? Or if the transported wouldn't work at all, they could use the ship's phasers to heat up a spot near the landing party (we know the ship's phasers have that precision: cf. the episode with Apollo, or "A Piece of the Action"). Don Chan
kalash@ucbcad.UUCP (06/20/83)
#R:hou5d:-54800:ucbcad:6100001:000:118 ucbcad!kalash Jun 19 13:21:00 1983 They didn't send a shuttle craft, because this was early in the first season, before they HAD shuttle craft. Joe
leichter@yale-com.UUCP (06/21/83)
re: landing party caught and freezing on planet surface: There IS an attempt to beam a heater and supplies down to the party; it fails (the stuff arrives non-functional). As to heating the area with ship's phasers: Careful watching reveals that phasers have several modes of operation: stun; heavy stun; something like stun with no name that kills the person with no externally visible effects (Anton (?) Coridian dies this way in "The Conscience of the King"); disintegrate object (makes the "object" hit flash and disappear; the object is NOT burned up, since things near it are not affected); heat object shot - mainly rocks, metal doors, and suchlike stuff; and some other undescribed effect that causes a ship to shake when hit by phasor fire. It appears that ship's phasors do not have a heat-objects setting. In the TV shows, at least, their effect is always of the disintegrate or just generally damage ship class. (In TWOK, ship's phasors seem to heat things up; maybe the design was changed...) -- Jerry decvax!yale-comix!leichter leichter@yale
dje@5941ux.UUCP (06/22/83)
Here's another error from THE ENEMY WITHIN (the episode wherein Kirk is split by the transporter into "wolf" and "lamb" halves). When the "wolf" Kirk attacks Yeoman Rand, she scratches him on the left side of his face. Later on, in the final confrontation between the two Kirks (on the Bridge), the scratches have migrated to the RIGHT side of his face.
tad@aplvax.UUCP (06/29/83)
One for the artists: Whenever we see the interior of the shuttle bay, the doors always appear about three times the size of the shuttlecraft. However, when the shuttle approaches the outside, the doors barely fit the craft. Terry at APL (tad@aplvax)
mindy@sdcrdcf.UUCP (07/01/83)
My favorite Star Trek error was in the episode "A Taste of Armaggedon".
(The episode where two planets waged a war with computers!!!!!)
The Enterprise is in orbit around planet Eminiar VII. The computer
declares the Enterprise a battle casualty and the crew has 48 hrs.
to report to a desintigration station. When they do not report, the
planet opens fire on the Enterprise with its Sonic Disruptors. Now,
assume the Enterprise, when orbiting a planet, is not within the
actual atmosphere of the planet. This would mean they are in the
"vacuum" of space. Now, if I remember my elementary Physics correctly,
sound does not travel in a vacuum, does it??? Therefore, the Sonic
Disruptors should have had no effect on the ship!!!
This is also the episode of my favorite line of Spock's:
"Sir, there is a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder!!!"
Mindy Morrill