DELTUVIA@RU-GREEN.ARPA (04/07/84)
I was watching ST II again the other day, and a method of saving the Enterprise without Spock's death occured to me. Kirk wanted to beam aboard Reliant and shut off the machine, but David said it couldn't be shut off. -Remember the ST TV episode with 'Jack the Ripper'? They got rid of him by beaming him out at 'maximum dispersion' so that he was disin- tegrated. Why couldn't they do that to Genesis?? Beam it aboard, then out into the nebula, disintegrated?? Did Captain Spock die in vain? -John Deltuvia -------
jmike@uokvax.UUCP (04/25/84)
#R:sri-arpa:-1242100:uokvax:5400052:000:594 uokvax!jmike Apr 25 12:13:00 1984 Well i thought of that too but shot it down with this explanation. Since sensors couldn't lock onto the Reliant (a massive object) they probably couldn't lock onto anything smaller such as a person or bomb if that person or bomb were in the nebula outside the Enterprise. And you can't use the transporter without locking onto the object. Therefore that idea doesn't work. Now maybe you could've beamed aboard the reliant and used its transporter but was it working? Well they can't think of everything... That would make the movie too easy. mike stanley ...ctvax!uokvax!jmike
sander@aecom.UUCP (04/30/84)
> Why couldn't they do that to Genesis?? Beam it aboard, then > out into the nebula, disintegrated?? Did Captain Spock die in vain? Spock died for a very good reason: Nemoy demanded his death as pre-condition to signing his contract to ST II. I remember reading about this about 5 mon. in advance of the film in the Wall Street Journal. They claimed that Nemoy is tired of people calling him 'Spock' all the time.... -- Jeremy Sanders {spike|rocky2|philabs|pegasus|esquire|cucard}!aecom!{sanders|jsanders|sander}