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- From: myers@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Myers)
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:11:34 GMT
- Subject: Re: Help with transtators needed
- Message-ID: <7480101@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- > Probably you'll need to fab your own; this isn't supposed to be
- > too hard. Take a look at the Star Fleet Technical Reference, Supplement
- > 3A-0005 "Fabrication of Common Transtators In The Field". Fascinating
- > explanation of the reverse-flux-time process involved. The only risk
- > is that a minor error at one particular step can result in a massive
- > "bump" in the space-time fabric, but I didn't have any problems with
- > this at all. If you've successfully built a dilithium power generating
- > unit before (and who hasn't?), you'll have no trouble whatsoever.
- >
-
- Good comments, Dana, but you're a little behind in your reading. Appendix
- A of the 3.02 revision of 3A-0005 (now available from FleetTechPubHQ-Earth,
- or contact your Recreation, Entertainment, and Small Claims Court Officer)
- SPECIFICALLY FORBIDS the reverse-time-flux technique for field transtator
- fab, due to a recent unfortunate incident involving impact of a DeLorean of
- unknown origin with the outer-hull, starboard side heat sinks from the
- secondary hull waste recycler aboard the U.S.S. _Douglas_Adams_ during a
- refit in High San Francisco Spacedock. Persons who must due a field fab, as
- opposed to waiting the twelve years for an internal req to clear the Fleet
- Quartermaster's office, must now use the "bistable warp field" technique,
- which works just as well and has only the minor drawback of resulting in
- devices which smell strongly of garlic during normal use. On the other hand,
- no Fleet personnel have been attacked by vampires when using equipment
- incorporating such devices, proving the old Klingon proverb that "every
- dark cloud has an even darker, and hopefully very rocky and nasty, lining."
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- By the way, I have (of course) built many dilithium power units, but one recent
- minor slip-up resulted in an embarrassingly large crater where the town of
- Dead Cow, Wyoming used to be. Has anyone else had bad luck with this recent
- batch of Ferengi interlocks?
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- Bob Myers KC0EW Hewlett-Packard Co. |Opinions expressed here are not
- User Interface Tech. Div.|those of my employer or any other
- myers@fc.hp.com Fort Collins, Colorado |sentient life-form on this planet.
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