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From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian Hughes)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: READ THIS! O'Brien's Rank!
Date: 22 Jan 93 19:14:25 GMT
Reply-To: hades@Dartmouth.Edu
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Disclaimer: Personally, I really don't care who you think I speak for.
Moderator: Rec.Arts.Comics.Info

lamanna@acsu.buffalo.edu (Michael Lamanna) writes:

>	I don't recall the episode, but it was the one where the Enterprise
>was sent to find another starship that was going to attack a Cardasian
>'transport' vessel.  In this episode, Picard talks to O'Brien, because 
>O'Brien served on the other captains ship as the Tactical Officer.  I am
>sure the Tactical Officer position would be above that of Transporter Chief.

    The episode was called the Wounded. And yes O'Brien did serve as the
Tactical Officer on the star ship in question, but would you pass uop
the oportunity to be the Transporter Chief on the galaxy-class flagship
of the Federation? Well, apparantly, Miles O'Brien didn't either.

>	I don't think that rank and position have much to do with each other.
>One could have a job that requires a rank less than that of the one that 
>the person holds.
>	Besides the ensign position is the lowest of commissioned officers
>ranks that there is.  

    Yes, but it is also the case that CPO's hold many positions that
are also held by Ensigns and Lts. And that they are commonly put
in command of departments and actually have Ensigns, and possibly
Lts.(jg) working under them.

--
-Brian V. Hughes 
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From: umeister@leland.Stanford.EDU (Eushuk Hong)
Subject: Re: Where is TNG?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 08:14:22 GMT

In article <4829@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>In article <93022.140008AUMTS@ASUACAD.BITNET> AUMTS@ASUACAD.BITNET writes:
><Supposedly new TNG episodes are on Monday at 9 o'clock on fox networks.(15 in
><Phoenix ) new Ds9 Tuesday at 9 o' reruns of TNG Weds-Fri at 9 Ds9 reruns are
><on Sat at 6 pm.  St is on at 11 am and then reruns of TNG at 6 on Sundays.
>
>DAMN!!!!  Why can't net reader's get it through their thick skulls that TNG
>and DS9 are NOT on the Fox network.  Period.  Never has never will.
>

I'd be a little careful there.  Back home in Seattle, DS9 and TNG are on
KCPQ Ch. 13, which is a Fox station.  Maybe the Fox network itself doesn't
carry these shows, but people can get confused if the shows are carried by
a station which also carries the Fox network.  Give the guy a break.


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From: sh09@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STEVEN HIGGINS)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Starfleet Acadamy: Where is it really?????????
Date: 23 Jan 93 20:10:54 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1993Jan20.095755.7012@ericsson.se>, etllnfr@eddie.ericsson.se (Lyndo
n Fletcher) writes:
>
>Hi,
>   A friend of mine is running a "Starfleet Academy" Roleplaying game
>he's developed. Set at the time of TNG it has proved to be lots of fun.
>Recently he saw "The First Duty" and we where wondering if anyone could
>identify the park area used for Bothbys gardens.
>
>While it's obvious that the "Golden Gate Bridge" and some of the more
>distant buildings are Matte paintings, the gardens and some of the
>buildings closer in appear to be real. We think them to be either
>a public garden or possibly a real campus (Caltech???).

    I'm doubtin' it.  Caltech is in Pasadena  (LA).

    
-- 
~Steve
sh09@lehigh.edu
From: mklotz@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Klotz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: CHERYL (SP?) GATES MCFADD
Date: 22 Jan 93 14:14:06 GMT
Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing Atlanta -- Atlanta, GA

Gates McFadden starred as Jack's wife in Hunt for Red October.  She appeared
in both the cinema version and the home video version, at the beginning, and 
her spot was only about ten seconds long.
From: jbcb+@andrew.cmu.edu (James Christophr Bickley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Star Trek merchandise info...
Date: 24 Jan 93 15:25:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.sfMo5jq00WBNQ4iY1c
Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I am looking for any company that sells Star Trek merchandise. 
Specifically, I am looking for sheets (bed-type) that have some sort of
ST series (or movie) logo on them.  If anyone knows any companies that
might carry the above item, could you please email me with the name and
phone number.  Thanks in advance.

James Bickley
Carnegie Mellon University

   "Shields!  SHIELDS!!"  -Capt. Sulu      Star Trek VI
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Subject: Best Destiny, what's wrong with it?
From: <WITHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Tuesday, 26 Jan 1993 20:47:53 EST
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

To prevent my boredom serving jury duty, I picked Diane Duane's latest Trek
book, Best Destiny.  I tend to wonder why some members of this newsgroup says
that she is a bad writer.  Although the people who desecrated Probe should be
lynched, but in all Diane's style of _Destiny_ is well written, even if she
did not explain some plot holes <which I won't point out>.  Here's the basic
plot:
Diane takes us two years forward from her last novel "Enterprise" in the early
life of young trouble maker Jimmy Kirk.  With no goal in life, that's what
happened to him.  With his father in space all the time, who wouldn't be.
Right?  Well the father takes young Jimmy into space and that's where the young
Kirk's destiny lies.  Now there is a second part to _Destiny_ and it takes us
45 years into the future, after the events of ST:TUC, a distress signal sends
Kirk and his crew to assist a disabled ship, only to be heading to Kirk's
future and past.

    Duane intermesh the two timelines well (not great) but it made an
interesting point.  The differences of two fathers and two sons and how only
one father and one son learned about one another.  It was a very good book, too
bad it took me a day and a half to finish and I haven't even served on a jury
yet!  Surprise surprise, a worthwhile to read when you have something to think
about, like 'do not misunderstand the young...'
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: bigoness@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Ray Bigonesse)
Subject: Re: 53 Re: Marina Sirtis
Keywords: Marina Sirtis
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:44:17 GMT

Scott VanArtsdalen wrote:
>I admit it, I just want to see her breasts.  I wish I could have seen her
>on her honeymoon when she tried surfing and her bikini kept winding up
>at her ankles!

     I've seen them on a .GIF file.  Ahhh, the wonders of MacIntosh.
     They were OK, but I've seen much much better.  The picture was
     obviously of her when she was much younger, but she still looked
     pretty good.  Personally, though, I wouldn't go out to every video
     store hunting down a copy of some old movie...

-- 
          Ray Bigonesse - Purdue University Aerospace Engineering
 "When you kill one man, you're a murderer.  Kill many, and you're a conqueror.
                 Kill them all...you're a god!"  - Megadeth
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From: jwindley%cheap.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Jay Windley)
Subject: Re: I need help!!
Date: 25 Jan 93 16:34:08 MST
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept

johnnyp@HALDI.LCS.MIT.EDU (Johnny Piscitello) writes:
>jwindley%cheap.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Jay Windley) writes:
>>kevin@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Kevin Ernst Duckworth) writes:
>>>     Could anyone tell me the name of the piece being played on the
>>>piano in "The Masterpiece Society"?
>>
>>F. Chopin, Prelude in b minor.
>
>	The composer is indeed Chopin, but I think the prelude you are thinking
>of is Op. 23, number 4 - which is a prelude in E minor.

Yes, e minor is correct.  Both the e minor and b minor preludes have
an ostinato right hand with the melody in the left hand, and I got
confused. :-)


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                    jwindley@asylum.cs.utah.edu
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From: kbrill@GACSTL.UUCP (Kenneth Brill)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: ST VI
Distribution: world
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Date: 21 Jan 93 06:27:58 CST
Organization: GateWay Amiga Users Group of St Louis

Can someone explain to me the line in ST vI (I think)  'The undiscovered 
Country' where right after the meeting Kirk and Spock are talking and Kirk 
say 'You should have trusted me....'.  What did he mean 'trusted'?


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From: paul.parkhurst@uttsbbs.uucp (Paul Parkhurst) 
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: PATRICK STEWART QUESTION
Date: 24 Jan 93 01:46:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Transfer Station BBS, Danville, CA - 510-837-4610/837-5591
Reply-To: paul.parkhurst@uttsbbs.uucp (Paul Parkhurst) 

-> Is Patrick Stewart married?  If so, to whom?  I heard a very unlikely
-> rumor
-> which I will not repeat, but I would appreciate reliable info.
->
-> Thanks,
-> Rebecca

   I believe he is divorced, and he obviously has a son, since he
appeared on an episode of TNG.  As to your "very unlikely rumor," I very
much doubt it...

Paul Parkhurst

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From: sh09@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STEVEN HIGGINS)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Unwritten Rules
Date: 23 Jan 93 20:26:24 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1993Jan20.174824.23624@newstand.syr.edu>, crdunlea@rodan.acs.syr.EDU
 (Christopher R. Dunlea) writes:
>In article <1993Jan19.144215.43096@pro-smof.cts.com> waden@pro-smof.cts.com (Wa
de Nelson) writes:
>>I'm interested in how many unwritten rules people can come up with
>>about TNG - i.e.:
>>
>>        Everyone from not on the Enterprize is either a jerk or
>>incompenetent.
>>
>>        The Enterprize never needs to re-supply
>>
>>
>>A recent reply to a review I made critical of DS8.5 suggested that
>>TNG has gotten too "polished and formula -driven".  I agree.  Everytime
>>Picard gets involved in another diplomatic mission I want to puke.
>>(and change channel).
>>
>>What themes can we all agree need to go:
>>
>>        Diplomatic missions
>>        Distress signals
>>        A kinder, gentler Worf  (weaker than Data)
>>
>>        All aliens are bipeds, 2-armed, morphs of Worf, air-breathing,
>>        2-eyed, 5-6' humanoids
>>
>Lwaxana has free run of a starship while everyone else needs and escort
>PLot twists caused by the away team's inability to beam home during some
>"ion storm" or "atmospheric disturbance" (where's the Shuttlecraft?!)
>Alexander shows
>Pinnochio shows
>The Klingons seem like they still hate the Federation but are "allies"

    Let us not forget 1992, the year of the transporter malfunction
    And I'm tired of Holodeck adventures, too.

    Just my 2 cents,

    
-- 
~Steve
sh09@lehigh.edu
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From: stsslxs@st.unocal.com (Luis Sandoval)
Subject: Re: CHERYL (SP?) GATES MCFADD
Organization: Unocal Corporation
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:46:49 GMT

In article <13792, 21 Jan 1993> David.Berriman@anu.edu.au writes:

>>   According to the Actress List, she has appeared in the following
>>   movies: Hunt for Red October (others deleted) ...

>True she was in Hunt for Red October, but the scene was cut from
>the final release.

You're worng, unless Australia released a different cut of the film. I saw the
film 3 times at the cinema and I own a video copy. The scene with Gates was there
in the cinema version.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: ALI00BAW@UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU
Subject: Re: Ambassador Carlos
Organization: UNC Charlotte
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:37:48 GMT

In article <1993Jan18.220602.239@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
cpaulse@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Chris D Paulse) writes:
 
>
>In the original series episode where the Starship crew have been asked to
>escort a Medusan ambassador, and a blind woman as an interpereter, who was
>the actor who played the ambassador, who I seem to recall was named Carlos?
 
Kollos(sp?) is never seen; Medusans are so hideous, it was stated, that
most other sentient species go mad if they look at them.  Vulcans can
use a special visor.  Kollos normally lives inside a box.
 
 
 
Another Rust-Belt Yankee Exile in Charlotte!
 
Any opinions expressed are mine, not those of the Atkins Library.
 
Bruce Alan Wilson ali00baw@unccvm.uncc.edu
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From: v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: The Last Word On O'Brien's rank!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 24 Jan 93 07:47:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1993Jan24.062035.5803@wuecl.wustl.edu>, jhk1@cec1.wustl.edu (Jonathan Howard Krivitzky) writes...
>In article <C19pIw.MHL@bcstec.ca.boeing.com> gee7759@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Glenn Elliott) writes:
>>Shawn Urbanavage (urbanas@reis54.alleg.edu) wrote:
>>
>>: To all those who are involved in the heated debate about O'Brien's rank:
>>
>>: 	I recently read an article in r.a.s.c that stated from a very  
>>: reliable source, information accumulated from several episodes, and  
>>: contact with Paramount that Miles O'Brien is a Chief Petty Officer.  This  
>>: information is real, valid, and inarguable.
>>
>>Unfortunately, it is also wrong.  As of the premier of Deep Space 9, O'Brien
>>is an Ensign.  I can't figure out why he's wearing a single hollow pip, though.
>>
>According to the novelization of the DS9 episode _Emissary_ by 
>J.M. Dillard, O'Brian was awarded his transfer from the Enterprise to
>the station along with a promotion from Chief Petty Officer to Ensign.
> 
>	--Jon K.

     The novelization takes liberties, as any novelization you
     could name does, from the source material [which is usually
     being shot at the time the writer is writing, so 'source
     material' is limited to the information in the series bible,
     the writer's knowledge of the series from which DS9 sprang,
     and some casting information].  

     Unfortunately, nowhere in that source material -- including
     the sreies bible, which says O'Brien has been promoted to
     Master Chief of Operations -- an enlisted rank (Master Chief
     Petty Officer) and an enlisted man's job title.  [It would
     have been "Chief Engineer" had O'Brien been a commissioned
     officer, but then again, the job is too menial for engineering
     officers who are too busy serving on starships.]

     Get it straight already... jeesus.
From: lamanna@acsu.buffalo.edu (Michael Lamanna)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: READ THIS! O'Brien's Rank!
Date: 21 Jan 93 23:44:13 GMT
Organization: UB

hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian Hughes) writes:

>alix@iastate.edu (L.A. Melloy) writes:

>>KNOW he is an ensign?

>    Are you sure you have been following the discussion? If you had you
>would know that he was transfered to DS9 and given the position of Chief
>Operations Officer for the station. This is definately a promotion from
>Transporter Chief, but that doesn't mean he was suddenly commisioned as
>an officer. He is still a Chief Petty Officer (although I suppose he
>could have been promoted to Master CPO).

	I don't recall the episode, but it was the one where the Enterprise
was sent to find another starship that was going to attack a Cardasian
'transport' vessel.  In this episode, Picard talks to O'Brien, because 
O'Brien served on the other captains ship as the Tactical Officer.  I am
sure the Tactical Officer position would be above that of Transporter Chief.
	I don't think that rank and position have much to do with each other.
One could have a job that requires a rank less than that of the one that 
the person holds.
	Besides the ensign position is the lowest of commissioned officers
ranks that there is.  
-- 
	"It is easier to get forgiven than permission"
						Michael Lamanna
						S.U.N.Y at Buffalo
lamanna@acsu.buffalo.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: msmallwo@vdoe386.vak12ed.edu (M. Lee Smallwood)
Subject: Re: MOST UNDERRATED EPISODE
Organization: Virginia's Public Education Network (Richmond)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 22:12:25 GMT

I've had a couple of letters sent to me that say it is
'Darmok'. Having just seen it last night (again), I'd have to
agree.

---
Lee Smallwood	msmallwo@vdoe386.vak12ed.edu	Tazewell HS

		KEEPER OF THE TIDE
                (Tazewell and Va-Pen chapters)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: jns2641@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Re: Gates McFadden at TREKON
Reply-To: jns2641@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 06:04:25 GMT

I am hearing rumors about Star Trek VII and if it is true what will
it be about?
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: jhc819@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (chung jason ho yong)
Subject: Military records of TOS cast?
Summary: Just curious about the men behind the characters....
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 12:14:19 GMT
Keywords: military, service, records

I know that Doohan (Scotty) served in the Army and landed at Normandy.
What, if any, are the military service records of the other members of the
cast of STAR TREK, the original show.

Thanks,
Jason

Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: morton@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Brent Morton)
Subject: Re: Patrick Stewart, et al, in Chicago
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:49:53 GMT

In article <1jk4or$lg3@agate.berkeley.edu> U16028%uicvm.uic.edu@OHSTVMA.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU writes:
>
>Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, Gates McFadden, Colm Meaney,
>and John Christian Graas (who is he??) will be performing in the play by
>Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn, "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour."  The dates
>of the performance are April 10 & 11, 1993.

In case you weren't already aware, John Christian Graas played the blond-haired
older boy trapped in the turbolift with Picard, in the fifth-season episode
'Disaster'.

-- Brent
morton@artifis.gaul.csd.uwo.ca

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From: "bernie wong" <bernie.wong@canrem.com>
Subject: STVI and O'Brien and DS9
Reply-To: "bernie wong" <bernie.wong@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: rec
Date: 22 Jan 93 18:19:19 EST

 -=> Psst...  Look what Edward T. Tonai said to All!  Oh my god!!! <=-

 ETT> Isn't that Colonel Wolf played by Rene Auberjonois?

Uh, no, but Colonel Worf was played by somebody else you know.  Michael 
Dorn played Colonel Worf in STVI, and he also plays Worf in TNG.  The 
Worf in STVI is supposed to be TNG Worf's grandfather.


Jason Wong (not Bernie)       Gotta go rebuild that darn igloo...
INTERNET: bernie.wong@canrem.com                FIDONET: 1:229/15


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From: cwynne@liberty.uc.wlu.edu (Colin J. Wynne)
Subject: Re: ST:DS9 *Some SPOILERS* Bajorans=Jews/Cardassians=?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:52:08 GMT
Organization: Washington & Lee University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Bob D'Amore (bobd@catfish.ocpt.ccur.com) wrote:

> I don't see why DS9 should model the Bajoran/Cardassian conflict after any
> *one* of our civilization's real-life conflicts, currently or historically.

[explanation of sentiment deleted]

Well, whether or not they *should* have such a basis is moot, as it is a
decision that has already been made.  I thought of the Bajorans as
spacegoing Palestinians or Kurds (either fits) since the first time they
showed up.  Star Trek has a fair track record for this sort of thing.  In
TOS, especially, the Klingon/Federation encounters were very 'Cold War'
oriented.

Also (and I forget the episode name), there was a TOS episode in which
Kirk, Spock and McCoy were on a relatively primitive planet where there
was a violent exterminative confrontation between the Yangs (Yankees) and
the Kohms (Communists), which was resolved by revealing that the Yangs
revered a slightly deformed version of the U.S. Constitution, the preamble
of which was recited by Kirk much to the awe of the natives.

And, yes, I have every reason to believe that TNG is continuing in the
allegorical tradition.  After all, the show *is* meant to be viewed by us
poor flatlanders here on Earth, so it is in their best interest to include
identifiable plot lines to increase the potential audience for their shows.

CJW

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
  =====  Colin J. Wynne                     Washington & Lee University  =====
  =====  cwynne@liberty.uc.wlu.edu              Lexington, Virginia      =====
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From: quinn@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu (Quinn Leonard)
Subject: sound files wanted
Organization: Physical Sciences Lab, University of Wisconsin
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 18:13:58 GMT


Haven't seen this in the FAQs; please don't flame me if I missed it.
Does anyone have a source for Star Trek sound files?  FTP sites preferred.
Thanks.
From: dave@gergo.tamu.edu (Dave Martin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.fandom
Subject: Franklin Mint NCC-1701D
Date: 22 Jan 1993 15:33 CST
Organization: Geochemical & Environmental Research Group, Texas A&M University
Distribution: world
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News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

Saw an advertisement in this week's TV Guide that, in honor of 5 years of
Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Franklin Mint is going to be selling
a limited edition Enterprise-D pewter w/gold model. It is about 7.5" from
fore to aft and has colored glass warp nacell highlights and a gold-plated
sensor array and comes with a wood and metal stand. I can't recall the
exact price, but I believe it was $40 now, then $40/month for the next four
months (~$200). I don't remember if they will be numbered or not, or if the
number run is limited by total or simply by date (only make them for the next
x months).

Anyone ever buy from Franklin Mint (I remember that they had a similar type
thing of the original Enterprise a while back)? Further clarification of the
offer and the company would be appreciated. 

 - Dave Martin - Geochemical & Environmental Research Group, Texas A&M - 
 - DAVE@GERGA.TAMU.EDU - DBM@AOL.COM -- My views, my life, my right... -