nlt@duke.UUCP (06/17/83)
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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
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I recall wondering the same thing. I've been told that the shuttle
craft had not yet been invented by the makers of Star Trek. This was
one of the earliest episodes filmed, and they wanted to see whether
the show could "make it" in the ratings before investing in more
expensive special effects -- such as shuttle crafts.
N. Tinkham