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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] The speed in "Metamorphosis" was given as warp two initially (but of course Spock could have ordered an acceleration when we weren't looking, and Kirk would have compensated for that). In "The Galileo Seven", the shuttle was lost mainly because of the interference of the quasarlet on the ship's sensors. I suspect the shuttle was sent out for that very reason (and later the Columbus was sent to search for the Galileo): the ship's sensors weren't working very well, so the heroes had to get up close. And the ship herself couldn't be risked because she was carrying a priority shipment. In "Metamorphosis", the shuttle was supposedly traveling between Epsilon Canaris and Gamma Canaris or something, suggesting two separate star systems. We could be talking about a close binary here, though. The 'roids were in the Gamma Canaris "region" (so probably within the said star system). However, we were given no good reason why the captain was using a shuttle instead of the ship. The Big E wasn't engaged in other activity or anything. So one possible logical explanation would be that the ship couldn't penetrate the asteroids safely, so Kirk took the shuttle for that part of the journey and intended to rendezvous with the ship outside the system. The 'roid hazard was also slowing down the search. Incidentally, if the GC system is that hazardous to big ships, it would be a prime candidate for a fighter-based defence... Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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