XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: news@gwinn.us   
      
   While intrepidly exploring alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise, Steven   
   Litvintchouk rolled initiative and posted the following:   
      
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   > Fitzdraco wrote:   
   >   
   >> "Stan Jensen"  wrote in message   
   >> news:3rpsa0p980ur15h0u1muh88la0m3mscfms@4ax.com...   
   >>   
   >>>Fun Things to Do With a Transporter   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> This list is exactly what is wrong with Star Trek. While we   
   >> might get the technology, the pranks people could pull and   
   >> would pull would make life a living hell. Human kind just   
   >> doesn't mature that fast.   
   >   
   > Sure, but in the Star Trek era, it doesn't seem like every home   
   > in the Federation is equipped with its own personal transporter.   
   >  The transporter is used mostly by the fleets of the major   
   > powers:  the Federation, the Klingon Empire, etc.   
      
   In Star Trek III, they had transport stations Earthside. Otherwise,   
   it would have made much more sense to just beam up to Enterprise   
   from Kirk's closet rather than make Uhura have to stick that dweeb   
   in the closet.   
      
   Granted, I enjoyed seeing the dweeb wet himself.   
      
   --   
   Derek   
      
   Much work remains to be done before we can announce our total   
   failure to make any progress.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)