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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] I haven't seen it yet, of course, but while I enjoy getting my hate on as much as the next guy, there is enough of a difference between the hydrogen you find floating around in an atmosphere (or an ocean) and the kind you would need to top off your engine to make processing it a worthwhile enterprise. And though I would agree that Voyager never quite addressed the issue in a really satisfying way, refueling should be, for any show about a lone ship far from home, an interesting topic. Consider: how did Earth plan on refueling Enterprise in the original mission plan? Waiting for deuterium/antideuterium tankers to arrive and preselected positions way out in deep space hardly sounds likely. (Why bother with the Enterprise at all in that case?) And trusting the Vulcans to do it can't be the most desirable option. We don't know how much fuel Enterprise carries, but it would appear to be a smaller amount than a similarly sized ship of the Federation. So having the ship come back when it was half empty (or less than that, since you'd have to leave a safety margain) would severely limit her range. (Just taking this episode as a guide, the ship would have had to turn around sometime after "Sleeping Dogs.") [/QB][/QUOTE]
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