Re: FT: Thought on Orbital Bombardment...

In a message dated 2/8/03 2:41:37 PM Mountain Standard Time, 
ias@sprintmail.com writes:

> >For example, can you do orbital bombardment in Star Trek? Why sure!
And
> quite >accurately too! You can stun ONLY a single city block from
'standard'
> (Note they never >gave a good idea how high this was :o) and you can
take
> out a single building with the full >force of the ships weapons and
even
> carpet bomb and small area with fire without >endangering your landing
> party!
> >(Extra points for naming the episodes :o)
> 
> "A Piece of the Action" if I remember correctly...
> 
> 

Yep that's one of em....

devans@nebraska.edu said:
>Wasn't more wierd than that? Stunned the block EXCEPT for the room in
>which they were sitting?

Again, yup :o)

s666@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca said:
>The single building was "Who Mourns For Adonis?". They take out 
>Apollo's temple.

And another one where they blasted the "Snake head Temple" but the name 
escapes me.

>As for the carpet bombing incident, even a ravening Star trek geek like
>myself is not sure. If he's referring to "Arena", that was some sort of
>mortar, and not fire from the Enterprise.

True. I'd mis-remembered. I recall the 'book' form had the Enterprise 
attacking the surface to cover the landing party. But I could be wrong
there 
too. Still.... If you can stun a whole City block except for the room
your 
landing party is in....

Randy