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I remember starting a thread about this very topic a while ago. My question was exactly that; why dump the entire core when the problem would be the anti-matter in the storage pods?
I've just remembered, although it was never seen on screen, in 'Contagion', Geordi has a line something like "as you know in case of trouble the anti-matter pods can be ejected" (referring to the USS Yamato), "we know that ejection was started, then the computer halted the process and dropped all the containment fields". I haven't seen the epidode for some time so I'm quoting from memory.
A pity it wasn't shown. the explosion itself was quite spectacular-a little more realistic than we've seen more recently (except of course for the dissolving skin on the saucer).
[This message has been edited by JEM (edited September 13, 1999).]
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Yes. When they say they are losing antimatter containment, which is more likely? That all the pods lost containment at the same time, or that the core did?
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