More likely answer : "The shuttlecraft hadn't been invented until
the "Galileo 7" was written."
Tim Takahashi
> I have always wondered about that one. The answer is rather falacious.
> a shuttle craft has a reasonable amount of fuel. Are they trying to
> say that there was upper air turbulance over the *entire* planet? Including
> the poles? Besides, shuttle craft do have some deflector screens.
Sure, they have deflector screens, and then the turbulance would boff the
screens around which would boff the shuttlecraft in turn. The only explanation
*I* can forward is that the turbulance was as low as the mountain peaks, and
a shuttlecraft stood a chance of being blown into a mountain. Weak, but...
-Spock! (Christopher J. Ambler, University of California, Riverside)
-"Captain, I see no reason to bother Starfleet..."
As near as I understood it, the situation was that the transporters
weren't safe for human use, but DID function. Why didn't the big E
just beam down parkas, down filled sleeping bags, a thermo-concrete
shelter, 50 hand phasers to keep all the rocks red hot, a Bar-B-que,
etc, etc, etc.
Also, if the shuttle craft couldn't land, how come he couldn't at
least air drop parkas, etc.
Either Captain Kirk was too slow on the uptake or he didn't give a
damn about his men.
Kahless tai-Hazar