Re: FT: Thought on Orbital Bombardment...

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 ShldWulf@aol.com wrote:

> 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.
>

"The Apple"
 
> >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....

The Blish novelization of "Doomsday machine" was alot different than the
TV show as well.