The cost is due to those new transporters that require so much power from the dilithium crystals...
IAC, since the new transporters are only 12% successful at present, using them for a few hundred thousand migrant invaders will provide the data to get them redesigned...
17 posted on 09/11/2019 8:04:39 PM PDT by SuperLuminal
(Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)