CERN Accelerating science

This website is no longer maintained. Its content may be obsolete. Please visit http://home.cern for current CERN information.



<!-- function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0 var i,x,a=document.MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a.length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++) x.src=x.oSrc; } function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0 var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array(); var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++) if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}} } function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0 var i,j=0,x,a=MM_swapImage.arguments; document.MM_sr=new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.length-2);i+=3) if ((x=MM_findObj(a[i]))!=null){document.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];} } //-->





 

Star Trek (continued)

Sometimes antimatter has figured quite prominently in the stories:

  • "The Naked Time" (TV episode) Affected by an alien virus, engineer Kevin Riley locks himself in the engineering bay and turns off the matter-antimatter engines. The Enterprise hurtles, out of control, towards a nearby planet. Scotty finally saves the day by managing to "cold-start" the antimatter engines.
  • "The Immunity Syndrome" (TV episode) The Vulcan-crewed starship Intrepid is swallowed by a giant space amoeba. The Enterprise investigates but is also sucked into the amoeba. The ship's engines start running backwards and the crew's life-force is steadily drained from them. Although close to death, Kirk and Scotty come up with a plan to kill the amoeba with an antimatter bomb: Scotty siphons some antimatter out of the engine and into a magnetic bottle. The bomb is fired into the amoeba's nucleus. Destroying the creature and freeing the spaceships.
  • "That Which Survives" (TV episode) A computer-created android sabotages the Enterprise's matter-antimatter integrator bypass control and flings the starship 990.7 light-years away from the planet on whose surface Kirk and some crew have landed. Scotty discovers the sabotage, just seconds before the matter and antimatter annihilate and destroy the ship in a blast of energy. He repairs the control and gets the ship back to the planet just in time to save Kirk and friends from the rampaging android.
  • "One of Our Planets Is Missing" (cartoon series) An extragalactic cloud-creature made of energy and antimatter enters our galaxy and starts eating planets. While the Enterprise is investigating, it is captured and bombarded with antimatter. Spock uses a force field box to capture some of the antimatter, and Scotty uses it to jumpstart the Enterprise's engines and escape. All ends well, as Spock manages to convince the cloud-creature to leave the galaxy, before it kills millions of people.
  • "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (motion picture) Spock is killed by the radiation from the Enterprise's leaking antimatter converter.
  • "Star Trek III: The Search For Spock" (motion picture) While surrendering the Enterprise to the Klingon crew, Kirk triggers a special computer command before beaming himself and his people down to the surface of the planet Genesis. The Enterprise's computer orders the matter and antimatter of the engines to mix, causing a huge explosion.
(Star trek - page 2 of 2)
< Prev |