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From: ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net
In article <4a185fa2$0$192$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
"Wouter Valentijn" wrote:
> Tim Bruening wrote:
> > Kevin Reilly wrote:
> >
> >> This is why the Narada situation is unique and pretty much
> >> unsolvable. If someone goes back using almost any of the established
> >> Star Trek time travel techniques they will be *changing* the
> >> history of the second timeline, with all of the ethical
> >> implications. On the other hand if they use the Red Matter method --
> >> assuming it's even possible to fine tune it in such a way -- they
> >> will be creating a third reality that's almost but not quite exactly
> >> like the Prime reality, while leaving the second reality intact with
> >> a smoking hole where Vulcan used to be.
> >>
> >> Either way it's ultimately futile. You either can't save the
> >> inhabitants of 'alternate' Vulcan, or you can only do so by
> >> destroying 25 years of galactic history. IMO that's just too great a
> >> price to pay.
> >
> > What we and Old Spock need is a cloaked ship with a super duper
> > transporter capable of beaming up 6 billion Vulcans and at least one
> > human (Amanda) in the nick of time. Might Scotty be capable of
> > designing such a transporter?
>
> That reminds me of the story of one of the old Gold Key comics. :-)
> Not only an entire population, but also an entire planet was beamed into
> some pattern into a storage device to be relocated elsewhere.
Trouble is, that made the ship very very very very heavy.
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