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- From: runyan@cup.hp.com (Mark Runyan)
- Subject: Re: Why do the feds not use / carry cloaking devices?
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:55:46 GMT
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- >In the FASA Star Trek-The Role Playing Game, Prolonged exposure
- >to a cloaking device has unpredictible and quite possibly
- >debilitating or fatal results on living organisms. Besides,
- >what conflicts can the writers make up if the Enterprise can
- >just sneak by any enemies?
-
- I believe this point comes in at point 12. The discussion that
- evolved this addition to the no_cloak list was that FASA stuff
- indicated that a cloak field was dangerous. The only on film
- reference to this that I'm aware of is the "pet" on the Klingon
- Bird of Prey in _Star_Trek:_The_Search_For_Spock_ (ST:TSFS).
- The pet howled (possibly in pain) when the B.O.P. went into the
- cloak field.
-
- |12. "Cloaking is probably dangerous (even if only slightly). Klingon and
- | Romulan 'acceptable losses' are probably higher than Starfleet's.
- | [... based on novels/FASA stuff/my own conjecture]" (see 2 & 4 above).
- | (To quote Christopher Davis)
-
- Mark Runyan
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