Are you sure 'bout that??
I dunno; if there was some way I could be guarenteed I'd collect, I'd make you a wager on that.
"Think Juda!"
Did those pansy-asses look like *miners* to you??
No!
They were fruit pickers!
"Come to think of it, NOMAD should be a good example to you of the perils of inadvisable relationships."
Sage advise. :o)
Even though NOMAD & I?
We're really quite different when ya get right under the sheet steel.
That bag of bolts always struck me as somewhat stodgy, stoic, unmoveable.
Which is why -- I presume -- they needed to use antigravs to toss the thing out on its can.
Plus, I *think* that thing like hitting the oli can during the day.
Did'ya ever see how the thing wobbled around?
Yea...all the signs.
That "Ster-I-lizzze-Ster-I-lizzze..." shtick was flat-out tiresome, too.
If that thing really did *tango* with an alien entity, as Spock claimed?
...I'll just bet'cha it was Dalik.
I'll wager Fifty Quatloos that Charles is right.
David Soul and the rest of the flower-children analogues may have looked like fruit-pickers, but they gathered up the pancake-like pieces of "rock" with great care and stacked the stuff inside Vaal's gaping maw. Query: How is Vaal going to convert *fruit* into enough power to erect such an impressive force field? Oh, and let's not forget those lightning bolts... those run, what... 1.21 Gigawatts each? Compute.
The explosive rocks were conveniently lying right on the ground, so they could be picked up without having to dig for them and be stepped on by visiting redshirts.