> Until energy shields are invented, the
> transporter and warp drive will be humanity's
> worst enemies. Think about it: put a cannister
> of gas in a transporter and send it to your
> enemy's house. A grenade, a man armed with a
> knife, even. It would mean the end of
> security. If two world powers got control of
> these technologies at once, a war of
> assassination would begin and would continue
> until both sides were decimated. If only one
> power gained them, then they would have the
> whole world at their mercy. "Thought police"
> could appear anywhere, anytime to enforce their
> regime. If someone tried to take control and
> rise out of the chaos that ensued, they'd wake
> up one morning to see the air above their bed
> shimmer and a live grenade fall onto the
> sheets. Sub-warp and stationary targets would
> be easy marks for warp-capable craft. It's no
> accident that the Federation is a utopian goody-
> goody society.
>
> 10"spider & web"Kan

Those seem like elaborate lengths to go to to use a transporter to kill someone. You could just beam them into the sun.

-Eric "What a morbid thought. I should not be thinking things like that." Sleator
Mon 17 Feb A.D. 2002