sdh@rabbit.UUCP (Yah Right ) (06/05/84)
Ok here's a question for you people who've seen ST III: When the bridge controls went dead, why didn't they go to auxilliary control? There was still power enough to run the computer for the self-destruct sequence, there was still enough juice for the elevator to get them to the tranporter room, and there was enough power to transport them down to the planet, So why the hell didn't Kirk send Scotty down to auxilliary to send one photon torpedo to blow the hell out of the Klingon scout ship? Don't try to convince me that there was no way you can launch things other than the bridge, because Spock's coffin was blasted away from the torpedo room (remember Scooty whaling on those bagpipes?) Ooops! The Enterprise probably didn't have to be sacrificed. "Life.. don't talk to me about life" -Marvin Steve Hawley <allegra,alice>!rabbit!sdh
gm@trsvax.UUCP (06/08/84)
#R:rabbit:-286300:trsvax:53700015:000:624 trsvax!gm Jun 7 20:58:00 1984 It wasn't that the Enterprise had lost power, Scotty had implemented a new computer system to control the functions that the other 490 crew members had previously had contol over. Remember, he tells Kirk, "Cap'n, I jury rigged this thing for a normal space voyage, I didn' expect to go into combat". I seems it was O.K. for controlling the normal functions of the Enterprise, but wasn't designed to control the phasers, photon torps, or evasive warp-speed maneuvers in addition to the regular stuff. So it got overloaded and blew up. George Moore Tandy System Software ...!allegra!convex!ctvax!trsvax!gm
daver@hp-pcd.UUCP (06/18/84)
If the Enterprise hadn't been destroyed on the Genesis planet they wouldn't have had the theme for Star Trek IV - The Search for the Enterprise. Dave Rabinowitz hplabs!hp-pcd!daver