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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] Because even if you dump the fuel tank, there's still a little bit of fuel left over in the engine itself. Plus, the nature of the warp core is that it's a [i]regulated[/i] reaction. If there's a failure in the core, that results in an [i]unregulated[/i] reaction �i.e. an explosion. And in those kinds of emergency situations, there's no time to do a careful shutdown of the system to purge out the antimatter and prevent a chain reaction. Also, remember "Disaster"? That time, the problem wasn't with the core itself, it was with the antimatter containment system. So we've seen both kinds of emergencies on the ship. Finally, in the 22nd century, it's entirely possible that [i]Columbia[/i] had been sent on a long-range exploration mission to a point where no one had any idea exactly where it was, there was no hope of immediate communications, and no hope of rescue. Think of the [i]Archon[/i] and the [i]Essex[/i], for example. I think this pictured situation could be quite similar. If the NX-02 were out of comm range, they lost their warp drive, and had limited fuel or life support, then landing in the desperate hope of saving the crew might have been their only option. (And then once the crew got away from the ship, something else disastrous happened to them, thus preventing anyone from surviving to tell the story several hundred years later. Talk about bad luck!) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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