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Michele submitted this idea :
> P.S.
> "Computer, ..." Star Trek TOS

 [Plexicorp Factory - Nichol's office]

SCOTT: Well, this a fine place you have here, Doctor Nichols.
NICHOLS: Thank you. I must say, Professor, your knowledge of 
engineering is most impressive.
McCOY: Back home, we call him the miracle worker.
NICHOLS: Indeed. ...May I offer you something, gentlemen?
SCOTT: Doctor Nichols, I may be able to offer something to you.
NICHOLS: Yes?
SCOTT: I notice you're still working with polymers.
NICHOLS: Still? What else would I be working with?
SCOTT: Ah, what else indeed? I'll put it another way. How thick would a 
piece of your plexiglass need to be, at sixty feet by ten feet to 
withstand the pressure of eighteen thousand cubic feet of water?
NICHOLS: That's easy, six inches. We carry stuff that big in stock.
SCOTT: Aye, I've noticed. Now suppose, ...just suppose, ...I was to 
show you a way to manufacture a wall that would do the same job but be 
only one inch thick. Would that be worth something to you, eh?
NICHOLS: You're joking?
McCOY: Perhaps the professor could use your computer.
NICHOLS: Please.


SCOTT: Computer... Computer!


(McCoy hands him the computer mouse which Scott tries to use as a 
microphone)


SCOTT: Ah! Hello computer?


NICHOLS: Just use the keyboard.


SCOTT: The keyboard. ...How quaint.


(Scott rapidly types a formula into the computer that appears on the 
monitor screen)
NICHOLS: Transparent aluminum?
SCOTT: That's the ticket, laddie.
NICHOLS: It would take years just to figure out the dynamics of this 
matrix.
McCOY: Yes, but you'd be rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
SCOTT: So, is it worth something to you? Or should I just punch up 
'clear'.
NICHOLS: No! No! (a female employee comes into the office) ...Not now 
Madeline! ...What exactly did you have in mind?
McCOY: Well, a moment alone, please. ...Do you realise of course, if we 
give him the formula, we're altering the future.
SCOTT: Why? How do we know he didn't invent the thing!
McCOY: Yeah!

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