On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:32 PM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

It's much easier to simply put a relatively-low upper limit on the effectiveness of your commonly available technology. Leave perfect tech stuff as the rare impossible-to-reproduce and tends-to-burn-out-after-a-few-uses plot device.

You know . . . it strikes me that part of the attraction of the J.J. Abrams Star Trek movies is that the tech *isn't* prefect. The universe is much grittier, with the characters forces to create tech solutions (such as Scotty re-inventing his own future transporter innovations) as they go along.

Richard Aiken

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