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   From: ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net   
      
   In article <4a1972a5$0$191$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,   
    "Wouter Valentijn"  wrote:   
      
   > Anim8rFSK wrote:   
   > > 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.   
   >   
   > No, you could carry that case in your hand with great ease. It was shaped   
   > like a small sphere.   
   > It was the target of thieves however and a beautiful young woman came on   
   > board that seemingly seduced Spock.   
      
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