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	      PERIODIC LIST OF "FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS"
	    in REC.ARTS.STARTREK.MISC (last updated 11/12/92)

This posting is intended to cut  down on  the "often  asked questions" that
seem to pop up  every few  months in  the rec.arts.startrek.misc newsgroup.
It is one of a number of periodic postings posted to r.a.s.*:

This FAQL is basically a list of  questions that  have been  brought up and
discussed to death in rec.arts.startrek.misc, and a lot of  people would be
happy if  they never  resurfaced.   Please refer  to the  "LIST OF PERIODIC
POSINGS TO r.a.s.* NEWSGROUPS" article  for a  full list  of periodic post-
ings, and to the "LIST OF ACRONYMS" article for  acronyms used  in this and
other postings.

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 1) Uniforms
 2) McCoy's "I'm a doctor, not a ___" lines
 3) Stardates, years, ages, etc.
 4) Star Trek Obituaries
 5) Untelevized TOS episodes and series pilots
 6) Picard's surrenders
 7) Self destructs
 8) Leaving the galaxy
 9) Addresses for Trek memorabilia
10) Crew reading USENET?
11) Where can I see my favorite Trek stars in the nude?
12) Games
13) Name of the Klingon Home Planet
14) Starfleet Military?
15) Music & Sound
16) RFU
17) Is Paramount making money on TNG? and salaries
18) Money in the future
19) Religion in the future
99) Misc Trivia
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1) UNIFORMS:

The uniforms were changed from the spandex  one-piece suits  (that made the
cast look muscular) to the wool two-piece suits (that make them look flabby
but are  more  comfortable).    The  new  uniforms  cost  $3000  apiece  to
manufacture.  Most  of  the  extras  are  still  wearing  the old uniforms.
Another reason for the switch is that Brent  Spiner suffers  from some back
injury.  Because  spandex  is  skin-tight,  he  couldn't   wear  his  brace
underneath.  The wool is loose enough and you can occasionally  see the top
of the brace under the costume if  you look  at his  chest.   In just about
every episode you can see Picard (and others) tugging at  their uniforms as
they ride  up.   This  has been  known on  and off  the set  as "the Picard
maneuver".

If you want a Star Trek uniform:   Look  for Simplicity  or McCalls pattern
book in  your  favorite  fabric  shop.    In the  back there  are Star Trek
uniforms for  adults  and  children,  both  sexes.    You can  also get the
patterns from Paramount's "Star Trek:  The Official Fan Club" (both TOS and
TNG uniforms).  There are about 14 unique patterns to choose from.

If you're not "sew" talented and  want one  pre-made, Intergalactic Trading
Post of Tampa Florida is one of  many companies  that make  them in several
sizes.  They generally show up at Star Trek/SF conventions.

1b) UNIFORM COLORS
          TOS:
               Yellow/Gold      Command
               Blue             Science
               Red              Engineering/Fodder  :-)

          TNG:
               Red              Command
               Yellow/Gold      Support (Security/Technical)
               Blue             Medical
	       Cleavage		Psychiatric  :-)
     
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2) Is McCoy a doctor?

           QUOTE                                 EPISODE
I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer              Devil in the Dark
I'm a doctor, not a escalator               Friday's Child
I'm a doctor, not a engineer                Mirror, Mirror
I'm a doctor, not a mechanic                The Doomsday Machine
I'm a surgeon, not a psychiatrist           The City on the Edge of Forever
I'm a doctor, not a coal miner              The Empath

Some more variations on the theme occur in "The Deadly Years" where he says
"I'm not a Magician, I'm just an old country doctor", and in "The Corbomite
Maneuver" where he asks "What am I, a doctor or a  Moon shuttle conductor?"
Also, in "Amok Time", Kirk  asks "Well,  are you  a doctor  or aren't you?"
and in ST5 says something like "Dammit Bones, you're a doctor",  and in TOS
says "I'm a soldier, not a diplomat."

ST2 has a more vague  reference when  Kirk says  "Physician, heal thyself",
McCoy says "Is that all you've got  to say?   What  about my performance?",
and Kirk replies "I'm not a drama critic".

The line  may  have  been  inspired by  Heinlein's 1952  novel "The Rolling
Stones."  In that book, Dr.  Edith Stone says, "How can I  be sure?   I'm a
doctor, not a fortune-teller."  The  earliest sighting  of the  quote is in
the 1933 movie "The Kennel Club Murder Case", where Dr.  Finnigan says "I'm
a doctor, not a magician" as well as "I'm a doctor, not a detective".

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3) STARDATES, YEARS, AGES, ETC.:

In TOS  the  stardates  ranged  from  1513  (Man  Trap)  to 5928 (Turnabout
Intruder).  At this time  Gene had  intended for  stardates to  be based on
Julian dates  modulo  10000, with  one stardate  being 24  hours in length.
There are numerous examples where this is false.  Some of  the most blatant
are The  Immunity  Syndrome  (where  a  quick  calculation  shows  that one
stardate is  less  than 2.5  hours) and  Requiem for  Methuselah (where one
stardate figures out  to be  about 960  hours).   There are  a few episodes
where the stardates actually decrease during the show.

In TNG, the stardate is also supposed to be  24 hours,  and is  in the form
4xyyy.y where "x" is the season number  and yyy.y  is a  random number that
increases (usually) throughout the season.

There are  a  few  timelines  (quite  detailed)  that  get  posted to r.a.s
occasionally (version 4 of The Chronology File  is among  the most detailed
and complete).  They take all the  info from  canonical sources  and use as
much as they can without conflicting too much (usually only having to throw
out two or three references).  The following is a list of the mentions that
get asked the most in RAS:

1992-1997 Eugenics Wars (ref Off Manual/TMP novel)
1993-1996 TOS "Space Seed": Eugenics War
2018      TOS "Space Seed": Last use of sleeper ships
2030s     Clone Wars (ref Officers Manual (80)/TMP novel)
2035      TNG "The Royale": US gets 52nd state
2036      TNG "Encounter at Farpoint" (and the Officers Manual): the New 
          United Nations was formed (the Officers Manual says this happened
          during the Clone Wars)
2047      Mind Control Revolt (ref Officers Manual/TMP novel)
2049      First Kzinti Invasion of Earth (ref Officers Manual)
2061      Cochrane acheives Warp 1 (TNG Tech Manual, pg 54)
2064      Kzinti Invasions Halt (ref Officers Manual)
2078      TNG "Encounter at Farpoint": The Post-Atomic Age started
2079      TNG "Encounter at Farpoint": All United Earth "nonsense"
          abolished
2161      TNG "The Outcast": The year the Federation was formed
2228/2229 Kirk was born in Riverside, Iowa, where a statue of him has been
          erected
2245      1701 commissioned, Capt April commanding
2252      TOS "The Cage": Pike captured by Talosians
2264      TOS "Where No Man Has Gone Before": Kirk commands Enterprise
2283(?)   ST2: The year on a bottle of Romulan Ale
2285      ST3: Enterprise destroyed
2286      ST3: 1701-A commissioned
2305      TNG "Conundrum": Picard is born
2334      TNG "Conundrum": Bev Crusher is born
2336      TNG "Conundrum": Deanna Troi is born
2336      TNG "Conundrum": Data is "born"
2340      TNG "Conundrum": Ensign Ro is born
2344      TNG Tech Manual (pg 4): 1701-C destroyed
2363      TNG Tech Manual (pg 4): 1701-D commissioned
2364      TNG "The Neutral Zone": Data gives the year

The year in TOS is somewhere between 2260 and 2286.
The Officer's Manual says TMP took place in 2265 or 2267.
Khan was marooned for 15 years at the time of ST2.
TNG is 93-100 years after TOS, and 78-79 years after TMP.

TOS "Ballentine Concordance (1976)": Gives McCoy's age as 45
TOS "Who Mourns for Adonais": Chekov gives his age as 22
TOS "The Deadly Years": Kirk's age is given as 34
TNG "Encounter at Farpoint": McCoy's age is given as 137
TOS "Journey to Babel": Sarek's age is given as 102.437
TNG "Sarek": Sarek's age is given as 202
TNG "The First Duty": Picard says he's class of '27, supporting the
          birthdate given in "Conundrum", and making him 64 years old in
          season 5.  Guess he'll be retiring next year.  :-)
The season 1 Writer's Guide gives Picard's age as 55, which is off by five
          years from the other data (which is on film--therefore "canon").
TNG "The Schizoid Man": Wes said "Data, chronologically, you're not 
          much older than I am."
TNG "DataLore": Data says he was found 26 years ago.
TNG "Redemption II": Data says he has 26 years of StarFleet training.
TNG "Datalore": Data details exactly how many years he spent at the 
          Academy, how many as an ensign, etc.  Counting backwards from
          stardate 41xxx.x would give his grad date.
TNG "Encounter at Farpoint": Data graduated SFA in the class of '78 with
          Honors in Dextral Biology (Exobiology?) and Probability Mechanics.
TNG "Data's Day": Data states that it is the 1,5__th day of the Enterprise's
          commission.

According to Beverly's birthday given in "Conundrum" and the  year given by
          Data in "The Neutral Zone" (and guessing Wesley's age to be
          around 15 at that time), Beverly gave birth to Wes when she was
          about 15 years old.
The book "The Final Reflection" (non-canon, but who really cares) puts 
          the lifespan of a Klingon at about 40 years (terran).  Worf
          would be about 15, by this reckoning.  

Gene Roddenberry was born on August 19, 1921         .
William Shatner was born on March 22, 1931.
Leonard Nimoy was born on March 26, 1931.
DeForest Kelley was born on January 20, 1920.
James Doohan was born on March 3, 19__.

Jonathan Frakes was born on August 19, 1952.
Patrick Stewart was born on July 13, 1940.
Brent Spiner was born on February 2, 1955.
LeVar Burton was born on February 16, 1957.
Marina Sirtis was born on March 29, 1959.
Gates McFadden was born on August 28, 1949.
Michael Dorn was born on December 9, 1952.
Denise Crosby was born on November 24, 1957.
Wil Wheaton was born on July 29, 1972.
Whoopi Goldberg was born on November 13, 1949.
Majel Barrett was born on February 23, 19__.
John de Lancie was born on March 20, 19__.

1966/09/08  "Star Trek" premiered on NBC ("The Man Trap")
1969/06/03  Last network first-run of "Star Trek" ("Turnabout Intruder")
1979/12/07  "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" opened
1982/06/04  "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" opened
1984/06/01  "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" opened
1986/11/26  "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" opened
1987/09/30  "Star Trek: The Next Generation" premiered (in Chicago)
1989/06/09  "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" opened
1991/10/24  Gene Roddenberry died
1991/12/06  "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" opened

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4) STAR TREK OBITUARIES:

Yes, Merritt butrick is dead.  He played Kirk's son David in  the movies as
well as T'Jon an Ornaran in TNG's  "Symbiosis", along-side  of Judson Scott
(who played Sobi, a Brekkian and also a person that served with Khan).  The
actor died in March 1989 due  to complications  related to  the AIDS virus.
Other recent deaths include:

Stanley Adams (Cyrano Jones)
Dame Judith Anderson (T'Lar, "ST3") 91-92
Barry Atwater (Surak)
Lucille Ball (owner Desilu Productions) 88-91
James Blish
Roger C Carmel (Harcourt Fenton Mudd) 89/90 due to medication or lack thereof.
Ted Cassidy (Ruk, "What Are Little Girls Made of?")
Gene L Coon (writer/producer)
James Daly (Mr. Flint)
Michael Dunn (Alexander, "Plato's Stepchildren")
Robert A Heinlein (writer) 87-91
Kay Elliott (Stella Mudd)
Sam Gilman (Doc Holiday, "Spectre of the Gun")
John Hancock (Admiral Haden, "The Defector" and "The Wounded"") 10/92
John Hoyt (Dr. Phillip "Bones" Boyce, "The Cage") 9/15/91
Jeffrey Hunter (Capt Christopher Pike, "The Cage") 70s
Jill Ireland (Leila Kalomi) 87-91
Celia Lovsky (T'Pau, "Amok Time")
Susan Oliver (Vina, "The Cage") early 1990
Vic Perrin (Tharn, aka the voice of Outer Limits) 87-91
Gene Roddenberry (Created Trek) 10/24/91
Michael Strong (Dr. Roger Corby, "What Are Little Girls Made of?")
Vic Tayback (Jojo Kracko, "A Piece of the Action")
Torin Thacther (Marplan)
Ian Wolfe (Mr AtoZ, "All Our Yesterdays"; Septimus "Bread and Circuses") 1/23/92

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5a) Untelevized TOS episodes:
     "The Cage"
     "He Walked Among Us" (unfilmed) Teleplay by: Norman Spinrad &
					Gene L. Coon (1st draft: 25/09/67)
     "Tomorrow the Universe" Written by: Paul Schneider (1st draft: 03/03/67)
     "The Stars of Sargasso"

     TOS "Patterns of Force" was never shown in Germany.
     TOS "Whom Gods Destroy", "The Empath", and "Plato's Stepchildren" were 
*never* shown in the UK, as they were deemed unsuitable for children.  "Miri"
was only shown once.  It generated lots of mail from angry parents.  After
this, the BBC started previewing episodes before airing them.  Fans have
asked that they show these episodes late at night, but the requests have
been ignored.
     TNG "Justice" was cut in the UK since TNG is broadcast in an earlier time
slot than the BBC will show skin.
     TNG "The High Ground" is scheduled to be cut in the UK for the
referencing the successful Irish liberation in the 21st century.  It seems
that they just skipped the whole episode, however.
     The BBC haven't decided whether to buy TNG after season 3.
     A black and white original of "The Cage" was pieced back together 
with the color clips stolen for "The Menagerie" which has since been 
televised.  Just before the premier of TNG, Paramount "found" a copy of 
"The Cage" which was all in color (which they then televised).  It is 
marred by drastic changes in the Talosians' voices in mid-sentence, 
otherwise it is fun to watch (along with a grinning, shouting Spock).  
The color version they show now has been cut down to an hour and has 
Spock's famous "grinning at the singing plants" scene removed.  Sigh.

5b) Yes,  "Assignment  Earth"  was indeed  a pilot  that never  got off the
ground.  One  of  a  few.    Gene wanted  to create  some more  shows.  The
reference for  this  is in  the book  The Making  of Star  Trek, (the white
cover, not the silver one).

5c) The  Great Bird  was involved  with pilots  for three  different new TV
series in the early seventies.

Three different  pilots  were apparently  shot for  one of  the series, not
unlike the series of pilots that  had to  be shot  to get  "Star Trek" into
production.  The first of these  was "Genesis  II," starring  Alex Cord and
Mariette Hartley.  In it, Dylan  Hunt, a  NASA scientist  doing research on
suspended animation in an underground lab,  gets accidentally  buried for a
half millennium  or  so, and  emerges into  a post-nuclear-holocaust world.
The story concerns the interaction  of two  societies, one  devoted to Good
Works and  the  progression  of  all  humankind,  and  the  other  to being
Nazi-style lords and masters.  "Planet Earth" was the second pilot.  Set in
the same  future,  with  minor  alterations  in  background  and format, it
starred John Saxon as Dylan Hunt, with folks  like Diana  Muldaur and Janet
Margolin in major parts.  It was just an extended TV episode with some good
stuff in it; a  mutant warrior  race called  the Kriegs  (sp?   never saw a
script in print) look a *great*  deal like  retconned Klingons.   The third
movie, apparently   a   sort   of  a   last-ditch  attempt   to  produce  a
network-acceptable pilot,  was called  "Strange New  World," and completely
gutted the earlier forms of the series  format.   It starred  John Saxon in
the lead,  but  no  one else  I ever  heard of,  and was  such a  lox I can
understand why G.R.'s name wasn't  on it.   It  seemed to  be three scripts
pasted together, end-to-end.

Roddenberry made  two  other pilots  during this  era:   "Spectre" and "The
Questor Tapes."  "Spectre" was a lovely idea that  could have  made a great
series, since  its  format  allowed  the  inclusion  of  most  major horror
fiction, even including H.P.  Lovecraft's "elder gods."   It starred Robert
Culp and Gig Young, and is a *FUN* movie, if you ever  get a  chance to see
it.  I believe it would have gone series,  if made  in the  last few years,
but at  the  end  of  the  Nixon  era,  horror,  even  humorous horror, was
unacceptable fare to the majority of TV watchers.  ("Spectre" deals with an
occult investigator and his M.D.  sidekick, who keep  getting involved with
nasty superbeings from other times  and dimensions;  the hero's housekeeper
is a witch, and puts a no-drinking geas on the alcoholic M.D.   sidekick in
the opening scenes.)

"The Questor  Tapes"  starred Robert  Foxworth and  Mike Farrell, providing
some of the best acting ever seen in  a a  TV SF  movie.   (Foxworth does a
scene as the robot learning how to use vocal inflection while carrying on a
conversation with  the  first  human  it's  ever  spoken with.)   The movie
suffers a bit from the obviousness of the series  format it  sets up; noble
alien with sideck, on the run from various  governmental authorities, while
trying to learn human emotions and  fulfill its  mission to  help the human
race.  A bit of a yawn in print, but  it could  have been  a *good* series,
with decent writing.

Dorothy C.    Fontana  wrote  a  novelization  of  "The  Questor  Tapes" in
paperback, and  you  might be  able to  find it  in a  used book  store.  I
believe scripts  for  at least  the best  four are  available from "Lincoln
Enterprises," or folks like that.

5d) In the still shots during the credits  of "The  Immunity Syndrome" (and
others) there is a picture of a rubbery-faced man with blank eyes.  This is
from "Return to Tomorrow", but wasn't aired with  the episode.   Sargon was
building android bodies, which were  actually actors  covered in latex-like
rubbery stuff.    They  filmed  him as  he was  removing the  latex (in the
background, a  props  man   is  saying,   "You  wanted   showbiz,  you  got
showbiz...").  One still of this ended up in the  credits.   The whole shot
ended up on the blooper reel for that season.  As far as I know,  it is the
only still which doesn't come from an actual Star Trek scene.

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6) PICARD'S SURRENDERS:

* "Encounter at Farpoint":  Picard says "Transmit the following in all
  languages and in all frequencies: 'We surrender'."
* "The Outrageous Okono":  Picard drops shields "In case we decide to
  surrender to them."
* "A Matter of Honor":  Picard surrenders to Riker on the Pagh.
* "The Defector":  The Romulans ask Picard to surrender, but he doesn't.
* "Peak Performance":  Riker asks Picard "Would you care to surrender now?"
  even before the wargames begin.
* "Peak Performance":  Picard surrenders to the Ferengi, but they don't accept.
* "The Last Outpost":  Picard tries to surrender to the Ferengi, but they beat
  him to it.
* "Yesterday's Enterprise":  Alternate-Picard refuses to surrender to the
  Klingons.

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7) SELF-DESTRUCTS:

* "11001001":  Picard tries to self destruct.
* "Where Silence Has Lease":  Picard tries to self destruct for Nagilum.
* "Contagion":  Virus-induced sort-of-self-destruct-like-thing.
* Kirk tried to self destruct in "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", "By
  Any Other Name", threatens to self-destruct in "The Corbomite Maneuver",
  and finally succeeds in ST3:TSFS.

See the "Lists" postings for self-destruct sequences.

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8) LEAVING THE GALAXY

The Enterprise has attempted to cross  the barrier  at the  galaxy in "TOS:
Where No Man Has Gone Before", "TOS:  By Any Other  Name", "TOS:   Is There
in Truth  No  Beauty?",  and  "TNG:   Where  No One  Has Gone  Before".  In
"ST5:TFF" they crossed the barrier at the center of the galaxy.

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9) Any correspondence with Paramount, Gene, the actors, etc. should be 
sent in care of Paramount at the following address:

               Paramount Studios
               Star Trek Offices
               5555 Melrose Ave.
               Hollywood, CA 90038-3197

Note that scripts have a better chance of getting  accepted if  you have an
agent.  Paramount gets about 800 fan-written scripts a year  and uses about
four of  them.    See the  separate section  in this  posting on submitting
scripts.

Lincoln Enterprises is run  by Majel  Barrett (Mrs.   Roddenberry, formerly
Majel Leigh Hudec), and is said to be the best source for fan paraphanalia,
scripts, etc.   This  is the  best place  to get  a Writer's  Guide from if
you're not an established writer.  The address is:

               Lincoln Enterprises
               14710 Arminta St.
               Van Nuys, CA 91402
               (818) 989-4978 ($15 minimum by credit card)

Star Tech has some good  stuff too,  like the  blooper reels  on tape (four
tapes for  TOS  and  one for  TNG season  one), movie  soundtrack CDs, etc.
However, some of their recorded tapes seem to be "gray market", so beware:

               Star Tech
               PO Box 456
               Dunlap, TN 37327

               Starlog (or Starlog Press)
               475 Park Avenue South
               New York, NY   10016

               Starland
               PO Box 24590
               Denver, CO   80224
               phone: 1 303 671 8735   fax: 1 303 671 0302

               Intergalactic Trading Co.
               PO Box 1516
               Longwood, FL   32750
               phone: 1 407 831 8344   fax: 1 407 332 0142

               New Eye Studio
               PO Box 632
               Willimantic, CT   06226
               phone: 1 203 450 1943

               War Games West
               3422 Central Av SE
               Albuquerque, NM   87106
               phone: 1 505 265 6100   orders:  1 800 729 4263
               Fax:   1 505 260 0752   hotline: 1 505 299 3368

Franklin Mint came out with a Pewter Enterprise ($198.00), a pewter Klingon
ship, a pewter Romulan Bird of  Prey, and  a Star  Trek Chess  Set Kirk and
Khan as opposing kings (redshirts as pawns?))  a few years back (1000), and
I think  CitiCorp or  someone has  a Star  Trek VISA  (with some outrageous
annual fee).  Franklin Mint is now issuing a 25th-anniversary commemorative
coins.  Timex has a line of Star Trek watches. ERTL have model kits for all
three Enterprise versions, a Klingon Cruiser, a Romulan BoP,  and a Ferengi
ship.

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10) None of the crew read Usenet (though we have a writer or  two on here).
Wheaton and some of the "behind-the-scenes" people  are on Compu$erve/GEnie
though.  With Wil Wheaton at UCLA, it should  be easy  for him  to obtain a
Usenet account, so he may be lurking.  :-)

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11) NAKED TREK:

 -  Marina Sirtis: Brief breast-baring scenes in "The Wicked Lady" (1983)
    and "Blind Date" (1984, starring Kirstie Alley).  In both films, Ms.
    Sirtis' roles are fairly small<*>.  Be aware that this "Blind Date" is
    _not_ the 1987 Blake Edwards bomb of the same title, which starred
    Bruce Willis and Kim Basinger.  Both "Wicked Lady" and the 1984 "Blind
    Date" are available on videotape. Any GIFs you might find of Sirtis
    are probably snarfed from these movies.

    <*>_Please_ folks, let's not have any sophmoric jokes about
       ratios of size of roles to size of anatomical parts, okay?

 -  Denise Crosby: At least one nude or semi-nude photo in Playboy back in
    March 1979 ("A Different Kind of Crosby").  The picture(s) were re-
    displayed in the May 1988 issue ("Star Treat", pp 74-79) (along with some
    TNG photos (Yar, Enterprise, and cast)).  I've also heard that she had a
    small topless scene in "48 HRS," the 1982 Eddie Murphy/Nick Nolte film.
    "48 HRS" is available on videotape.

 -  Gates McFadden was in some 1970s movie in a skimpy top and bikini briefs
    (but then who *wasn't* back in the 70s?).

 -  Jennifer Hetrick ("Vash" in "Captain's Holiday" and "Qpid"): Had
    a couple of topless scenes in a 1979 movie called "Squeeze
    Play."  She was credited as "Jenni Hetrick."  "Squeeze Play" is
    available on videotape.

 -  Lycia Neff ("Ensign Gomez" in a couple of episodes): Gets
    honorable mention for playing a topless three-breasted hooker in
    "Total Recall" (1990), even though all three of them were latex
    prosthetics rather than her actual breasts.  (Sure looked real,
    though.)  "Total Recall" is available on videotape.

And that, alas, is about as far as it goes, at least to my knowledge.  I've
never even  heard  any  good rumors  about Whoopi  Goldberg, Diana Muldaur,
Rosiland Chao ("Keiko O'Brien"), Suzie Plakson ("Dr.  Selar" and "K'Eylar")
or April  Grace  ("Transporter  Technician"   in  a   bunch  of  4th-season
episodes), which I think  is the  entire list  of regular  or recurring TNG
actresses.

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12) GAMES:  The FASA Star  Trek game  is pretty  much ignored  by the r.a.s
community, though many seem  to like  the variety  of TOS  and TNG drinking
games that show up occasionally (see the monthly FTP posting).  There are a
few computer games based on Star Trek as well  (I even  wrote a  few).  The
rules and board layout of the 3-D chess game Kirk kept beating Spock at are
posted every once in a while (see monthly FTP list).

Star Fleet Battles (SFB) is  a tactical  "shoot'em up"  board game.   It is
very realistic.  It has a  basic game,  but there  are all  sorts of highly
complex and technical rules available to the ship's commander.   It boggles
the human mind.  None-the-less it is a very fun game.   It  takes total and
complete devotion to learning the game.  Some like it others  don't.  Those
that don't  shouldn't  knock it!   It  would be  best suited  as a computer
simulation.

Federation &  Empire  (Federation  Space)  is the  strategic and economical
version of SFB (bigger picture).

West End Games has three ST games  out:   Enterprise IV  Encounter, ST- The
Adventure Game, & ST-Three Solitare Games.  All came out in 1985.  They are
simple and fun box games.

Star Fleet  Battle  Manual  (Lou  Zocchi/Gamescience)  &  Alien  Space were
developed about the same time as SFB, but was much simpler.  Gamescience is
noteable for producing the ever popular 3" plastic models of the Enterprise
and dreadnoughts, destroyers/scouts & tugs.   Zocchi and  Steven Cole (SFB)
are friends  and  have  collaborated together  in checking  that they don't
replicate the same material.  SFB uses GS's plastic ships.

Fasa has  also put  out 4  microadventure games  with short  play times and
simple rules.  They are:  STIII-The Search for Spock, Starship Duel  1 & 2,
& Struggle for the Throne.

     Computer Programs (commercial/PC):
	- ST-TMP (arcade); Sega
	- ST-TMP; Sega/Atari
        - Rules of Engagement ($40)
	- Star Flite, Lance Micklus/Adventure International (aka Star Trek 3.5)
	  1981
	- Kobiashi Maru
	- fractally-generated planets, interplay
	- there are many others

     Computer Programs (public domain):
	- Trek/DRS (full simulation; FSD)
	- Trek80/DRS (enhanced version of Trek/DRS; FSD)
	- TREK_DRS (same scenario each time; IBM and compat; FSD)
        - xtrek (UNIX)

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13) NAME OF THE KLINGON HOME PLANET

Kling is  the  homeworld  of  the  Klingon  Empire  according  to the trade
paperback book "The Aliens  of Star  Trek" which  was released  back in the
late 1980s.

Klinzhai (sp) was the name John Ford came up with.

In the Star Fleet Battles universe, the capital is named "Klinshai".

ST6 "The Undiscovered Country":  Referred to as "Kronos".

TNG has been trying to use the  generic "Klingon  Home World"  to avoid all
this confusion.

TNG "Heart of Glory":  Referred to as "Kling".

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14) According to  ST:TNG Writer's/Director's  guide (1987):   "Starfleet is
NOT a military organization....No saluting.   We  may hear  the word 'Sir,'
but it is intended as the same kind of courtesy  used by  junior and senior
officers on commercial airliners....No stories about  warfare with Klingons
or Romulans    and    no    stories    with   Vulcans."       Granted   the
Romulan/Klingon/Vulcan rule  has   laxed,  Starfleet   is  still  basically
non-military (except when they are cornered, like the Borg situation).  The
fourth season ST:TNG Writer's Technical Manual says to mentally merge NASA,
the Coast Guard and research ships like  Calypso to  gain a  concept of the
Enterprise's mission.      I   guess   we're   supposed   to  believe  that
court-martials and brigs are non-military, huh?

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15)  MUSIC & SOUND:

The first three seasons of TNG are in stereo, the  fourth and  fifth are in
Dolby Surround stereo.  TNG was not broadcast in Dolby for  the first three
seasons, but there was out-of-phase-but-equal-amplitude stuff in the ST:TNG
soundtrack, which  your  Dolby Stereo  decoder recognizes  as "rear channel
information".  They mostly put the ship's noise (a low  thundering sound of
the engines) on the rear and some times when ships pass by or shoot.

Picard describes a program as "all Mozart" which RA says was supposed to be
"mostly Mozart" since it had Allegro from string quartet  #19 in  C, K 465,
by Mozart ("Dissonant") and Andante, ma moderato from  Sextet #1  in Bb, by
Brahms.

For lyrics to any of the various Star Trek songs, as well as a ton of other
music-related stuff, see accompanying posting "FAQL:  Star Trek Music"

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16) RFU

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17a) IS PARAMOUNT MAKING MONEY ON TNG?

     Yes.  Tons.  The following is stolen from industry trade magazines 
VARIETY and BROADCASTING, as well as Roger Tang:

     FIRST:  License fees (the fees studios charge individual stations 
to run their programs):  Let's say Paramount charges each station $2,000 
to run the first run package.  That's ball park; other stations can get 
$10-20K per episode in top 20 markets.  Also, Turner can expect $800,000 
to $1 million per episode show of THE WONDER YEARS when it goes into 
backend syndication.  $2,000 per episode times 238 stations yields 
$476,000 per episode shown in first run syndication (which does NOT 
count the later syndication or backend syndication).

     SECOND:  Commercial fees:   According  to Vidiot,  Paramount has seven
minutes of national advertising in each  show.   BROADCASTING has published
figures of $60-80,000 per 30 second  spot.   They have  also mentioned that
rates for the third and fourth  seasons are  around $135,000  per 30 second
spot.  Adweek's  Marketing  Week  mentioned that  a 30-second  ad for fifth
season TNG runs $200,000 (higher  than some  network shows).   Paramount is
garnering $2,800,000 per showing of an episode.

     THIRD:  But wait!  Shows are shown more than once even in first run 
syndication.  Let's assume a cut rate of $100,000 per spot in reruns 
(doubt it, since people are STILL watching during reruns).  Even a rerun 
episode will garner $1,400,000 in commercial revenue.

     THE BOTTOM LINE:  $476,000 + $2,800,000 + $1,400,000 = well over $4.5
million in revenue per episode in first run syndication.  And we all know 
studios base their financing on just breaking even in backend syndication.  
So the claim that Paramount is losing $8 million is just creative financing.

     Then again, we can throw away our calculations and take Richard 
Arnold's word that (at least in Season One) TNG was grossing $10 million 
per episode.

17b) The  average  episode  COSTS  Paramount  between  $1.5  million and $2
million (depending on the cost of guest stars, sets,  and special effects).
This is up from $1.4 million  that it  cost for  each episode  in the first
season.  These figures  include the  weekly paycheck  of Stewart ($100,000)
and Burton ($100,000).  DeForest Kelley  mentioned at  a con  once that TOS
cost $200,000 for an  average episode,  though records  seem to  show it as
$100,000 to $120,000).

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18) MONEY IN THE FUTURE

TOS "Catspaw":  Lt.(Cmdr?)  DeFalco says "I'll bet credits to navy beans we
can punch a hole in it."

TOS "Errand of Mercy":  Kirk says that the Federation spent a  lot of money
on their training and it's timr they got a return on their investment.

TOS "Mirror, Mirror":   Mirror-Kirk  says "You  want credits,  Spock?  I'll
make you a rich man."

TOS "Mudd's Women":  H.F. Mudd mentions  that the  miners  are rich.   This
seems to imply some type of economic structure.

TOS "Operation--Annihilate":    Kirk says  "I don't  care what  it takes or
costs, just help him."

TOS "The Doomsday Machine" (possibly also "Balance of Terror"):   Kirk says
"Scotty, you've earned your pay for the week."  He says the same to Sulu in
"The Apple" (?)

TOS "Amok Time":  Kirk says "Do you know how much Starfleet has invested in
you?", to which Spock  begins to  reply "twenty-two  thousand, two hun...".
Might be hours, exercises, food quantity but seems to be money.

NOVEL "Crisis on Centaurus":   Kirk  uses back  salary to  purchase a great
deal of wilderness  land on  Alpha Centauri.   There  are offers  to buy it
should he fall behind on his taxes, but he refuses to  sell or  allow it to
be developed.

NOVEL "Enterprise":  Kirk orders the computer to "close out his [bank] 
account".

NOVEL "Vendetta":  Riker makes the comment "That's why  I get  paid the big
money."  Data responds with, "I thought a higher  salary was  due to higher
rank, seniority,..."  so there are apparently salaries.

NOVEL "The  Wounded  Sky":    The  reward  money  for   passing  through  a
singularity, to be awarded to the E's crew,  is enough  to "buy starfleet".
Also, at one point, Kirk mentions to himself  something along  the lines of
"Starfleet personnell are tax-exempt."

ST4:  Kirk tells the female lead that there is no money in  the future (but
he might just mean that they don't have U.S.  dollars, or  any "hard" cash,
which is what she was enquiring about).

TNG "Encounter at Farpoint":  Bev Crusher buys a roll of cloth  and has her
account on the ship billed.

TNG "The Neutral Zone":  Picard mentions that they don't have money.

TNG "The  Price":    There  is  a  bidding war  going on  for the  use of a
wormhole, and Picard  mentions how  much toll  the Ferengi  might charge if
they get the rights to use that wormhole.

TNG "Peak Performance":  Riker is playing strategema against Kolrami.  Worf
whispers to  Riker  that he  has bet  a "sizeable  amount" on  Riker in the
ship's pool.   He may have made a similar comment about Tasha Yar in  "Skin
of Evil".

TNG "Conspiracy":  the planet the starship captains meet on  (Ditalix B) is
said to  be  owned  by  the  Ditalix  Mining  Corporation,  which may imply
something of the Federations's economic structure.

TNG "Unification II":  Riker is trying to get info out of the piano player.
She said to "drop a few coins in the jar" for  info; Riker  says he doesn't
carry money.

TNG:  People are always offering to buy each other coffee, etc. in Ten
Forward, but this may just be a gesture, since we never see anyone pay for
anything.

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19) RELIGION IN THE FUTURE

TOS "Balance of  Terror":   Kirk says  something about nondenominationalism
during the wedding ceremony he's performing.

TOS "Bread and Circuses":  McCoy says  "If you  speak of  worship, we serve
many beliefs".  Uhura figures out that they aren't worshipping the sun, but
the "Son of God".

TOS "Errand of Mercy":  Spock says "Even the gods did not spring into being
overnight".

TOS "Obsession":  Scotty says "Thank heavens", to which  Spock replies "Mr.
Scott, there was no deity involved;  it was  my cross-circuiting  to B that
recovered them."  McCoy then says "Wee,  then thank  pitchforks and pointed
ears!"

TOS "The Paradise Syndrome":  Kirk is thought  (by the  Indian populace) to
be a god when he emerges from the temple.

TOS "The Trouble with Tribbles":  Someone said  "Kirk may  be a swaggering,
overbearing, tin-plated dictator  with delusions  of godhood,  but he's not
soft."

TOS "The Ultimate Computer":  M5 says  "Murder is  contrary to  the laws of
man and God."  Kirk says  "Daystrom felt  that such  an act  was an offense
against the laws of God and man, and the computer that  carried his engrams
also believed it."

TOS "The Way to Eden":  Space-hippies search for the mythical planet Eden.

TOS "Where No Man Has Gone Before":  Gary Mitchell gets god-like powers and
creates a "Garden of Eden" on a desolate planet

TOS "Who Mourns for  Adonais":   Apollo journeyed  to earth  5000 years ago
from Pullox 4 and was worshipped along with the other gods by the populace.
Chekov says  "Sorry,  I've  never met  a god  before."   McCoy says "Scotty
doesn't believe in gods."

ST5: Sybok takes the Enterprise in search of God.

NOV "Star Trek II:  The Wrath of Khan":  Chekov is looking at  the books on
board the  Botany  Bay,  and  when  he  comes  across  the  Bible he thinks
"...twentieth century mythology, if he remembered rightly" or words to that
effect.

TNG "Data's Day": Data mentions that it's a Hindu holiday.  Keiko and Miles
O'Brien are married.

TNG "Devil's Due": The crew meet "the Devil".

TNG "Justice":  The crew talk to a planet's "God".

TNG "Who  Watches the  Watchers":   Picard is  thought to  be a  god by the
populace.

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99) MISC TRIVIA

For a list of awards that TOS and TNG have won/been nominated for, please
reference Hack-Man's TOS Guide and Vidiot's TNG Guide.

Asteroid #4659 (discovered by S.J. Bus (Siding Spring Observatory) on March
2, 1981) was named "Roddenberry".  The official citation  reads as follows:
"Named in memory of Eugene "Gene" W.  Roddenberry  (1921-1991), creator and
producer of  the  television  series  "Star  Trek",  "Star Trek:   The Next
Generation", and six Star Trek motion  pictures.   Roddenberry explored the
human condition through the medium of science  fiction, often circumventing
television network censors to expound on controversial social and political
topics.  His  unique  vision  of  a positive  future for  a united humanity
inspired a variety of devoted fans.  Today Roddenberry, the starship Enter-
prise, and its crews are known worldwide, and fans number in the millions."

Gene Roddenberry was posthumously awarded on 2/10/92 with  the VISION AWARD
from Education First.  It was accepted by Majel, so said, " This would have
been the most important award  he ever  received, with  [out] a  doubt.  As
much as Gene would say he wasn't an educator, he was  a learner.   He spent
his life reading, discussing, thinking, debating.  And he wanted to install
in people  that  they  could  create  their  own  worlds  and  thoughts and
messages."  Present  was  the  TNG  cast,  Richard  Arnold,  and  Paramount
Communications CEO and former VISION AWARDee, Brandon Tartikoff.

Why is everyone called "Mister" and "Sir", even the  females?   This is yet
another extension of the US military.  When addressing an officer of lesser
rank you may call him by  his first  name, such  as:   "Ensign," or "Ensign
Kirk," or "Mister," or "Mister Kirk," or  "Jim".   Typically, command level
ranking officers are addressed by rank, or by rank  and last  name, such as
"Admiral" or  "Admiral  Kirk".    Between  officers  of same  rank, or with
permission, first names can be used, otherwise the "Sir" factor is added.

What's the story behind Gene pitching TOS as a "Wagon Train  to the Stars"?
Here's what he said in his intro to the 1987 showing  of "The  Cage":  "...
So far so good.  Except that TV in those days was at  the peak  of its love
affair with  the  Western  Story.    I wanted  to sell  my series  so I had
promised the network that my  Star Trek  idea would  be little  more than a
space western.    A  Wagon  Train  to  the  Stars,  zap   guns  instead  of
six-shooters, space ships instead of horses.  But  as I  began writing that
pilot, I suddenly realized that here was a chance to  do the  kind of drama
I'd always dreamed of doing.  I had seen science fiction  movies before but
I'd always  thought  to  myself,  not  enough  characterization, not enough
motivation.  perhaps I could use this as an excuse to  go to  those far off
planets, with little polka-dotted people, if necessary, and be able to talk
about love, war, nature, God, sex, all those  things to  go to  make up the
excitement of the human condition, And  maybe the  TV censors  would let it
pass because  it  all  seemed  so  make  believe.   So, instead  of a space
western, I  delivered  a  very different  kind of  story.   One which dealt
with...  (Continues) ...and when the network finally saw the pilot, some of
their executives were outraged, and I can't say I  really blame  them.  For
the considerable money they'd put up, they certainly did not  get a western
space opera, in fact, nothing  even vaguely  like it.   ...   The networks'
very top program executive was impressed  by the  fact that  this film made
him feel as if he'd accually been flying in a space ship.   Doing something
almost never done before, the network ordered a second pilot,  and this one
had better be familiar action adventure, or else!"

TOS:  James Doohan is missing the middle finger of his right hand.   It can
be seen in brief shots (especially in the  early episodes).   Whenever they
needed to show Scotty's hands (like when he operated  the transporter) they
had a stand-in and  showed a  close-up.   ("Cut!   All right,  bring in the
stunt hands.")  It is very noticable in ST5 when Uhura tosses  Scotty a bag
of SmartFood.

TOS:  Majel Leigh Hudec is Majel Barrett's  real name.   She  took the name
Barrett to fool NBC so they would hire her for Christine Chapel (they never
knew that the blonde Majel Barrett was the same person as the brunette whom
they fired as Number One).  Some volume of "The  Best of  Trek" stated that
Number One and Christine Chapel were sisters.

TOS "The Man Trap":  Spock says that Vulcan has no moon (when Uhura 
mentions romance).  Some of the books say it has one or two moons/sister 
planets.

TOS "The Devil in the Dark":  Every 50,000 years the race of Horta all die 
except the one mother Horta.

TOS "Balance of Terror":  Neutral zone outposts 1, 3, 4, and 8 were 
trashed by the Romulan ship before the Enterprise was able to engage (#4 
was the one they saw get destroyed on the viewer)

TOS "The Tholian Web":  The name of the Tholian commander who first attacks 
the Enterprise after Kirk is lost is Commander Loskene.

TOS "Wolf in the Fold":  The names that the entity was referred  to by were
Jack the Ripper, Baratis, Redjac, Kesla,  Mr.   Hengist (and  yes, that was
John Fiedler, the wimpy guy from the Bob Newhart Show).

TOS "Amok Time":  T'Pau was the only person to ever turn down a seat on the 
Federation council.

TOS "Amok Time":  The episode where Ensign Chekov makes his debut (1st 
episode, 2nd season).  "Catspaw" was the one he was first filmed in, 
although this aired after "Amok Time".

TOS "The Paradise Syndrome":  "He Has Walked Among Us"  and "Paleface" were
combined into "The  Paradise Syndrome",  according to  speculation by Allen
Asherman and David Gerrold.  Reportedly, only Gene Coon knew  for sure, and
of course he's been dead for about 15 years...

TOS "The Menagerie":  The ONLY doorknob seen in a  Federation setting (ship
or starbase etc.)  was on  the door  to Christopher  Pike's quarters, which
was kind of ironic, since  he's about  the only  person who  COULDN'T use a
doorknob!  :-) The door to Dr.   Tom Lathom's  house in  "The Conscience of
the King" has a doorknob, but may not be a Federation setting.

TOS "Plato's Stepchildren":  The first inter-racial kiss on television took
place between Kirk and Uhura.

TOS "City on the  Edge of  Forever":   If you  want H.   Ellison's original
script for  "City  on the  Edge of  Forever", look  for a  book called "Six
Science Fiction  Plays",  edited  by  Roger  Elwood.    It's  a  paperback,
published in  1976  by  Pocket  Books  under  the  Washington  Square Press
imprint.  It was distributed in the U.S.  and  Canada by  Simon & Schuster.
I have no  idea if  it's still  in print.   If  it isn't,  check your local
library, used book stores, and the dealer's  room at  your next convention.
There must be copies out there somewhere.  According  to Elwood's foreword,
this was  the  first  time Ellison's  original uncut  script was published.
It's preceded by a ten-page introduction that Ellison  wrote especially for
this book, telling  his version  of the  transformation of  his script into
what was eventually telecast.  The book also contains these scripts:
     "Sting!" by Tom Reamy
     "Contact Point" by Theodore R. Cogswell and George Rae Cogswell
     "Stranger with Roses" by John Jakes
     "The Mechanical Bride" by Fritz Leiber
     "Let Me Hear You Whisper" by Paul Zindel
("Sting!" is a movie screenplay; "The Mechanical Bride" is a teleplay; 
the others are stage plays)

According to the Star Trek Compendium:
     Kirk:   was in 79 TOS episodes
     Spock:  was in 79 TOS episodes + "The Cage"
     McCoy:  was in 74 TOS episodes
     Uhura:  was in 65 TOS episodes
     Scotty: was in 61 TOS episodes
     Sulu:   was in 47 TOS episodes
     Chekov: was in 33 TOS episodes

ST:  TMP:   The oval  things on  the belts  were originally  supposed to be
biorhythm devices.  In the novelization of  ST:TMP, the  little oval things
are described in a  footnote.   They are  called "perscan"  devices and are
used to monitor crew members life signs from sick bay.   Only  the CMO gets
to see the captain's perscan output.  According to the  footnote, the lower
abdomen is supposed to be an ideal location for a medical  scanner.  Making
it into a belt buckle seemed the obvious way to integrate it into the Fleet
uniforms.

ST4:  A storyline cut was a bunch of lines which indicated  that Saavik was
pregnant.  When they started running out of screen time,  these scenes were
cut, since they were  not essential  to the  main story  in the  movie.  Of
course, this means that, officially, IT NEVER HAPPENED.  :-)

ST4: Kirk Thatcher:
     - Was associate producer of ST4.
     - Was the actor who played the Punk on the Bus in ST4.
     - Wrote the song "I Hate You" which the punk was listening to.
     - Is a member of the band "Edge of Etiquette" which performed the song.
     - has recently done work on the "Dinosaurs" series (Co-producer and
       creature creator?) which had an episode with the same plot as TNG
       one week.
     - Is Margaret Thatcher's son. ("THE Margaret Thatcher?")

ST5:  Yes,  the  marshmallow  (or  rather  "marshmellon"  (read  the book))
dispenser used by Spock in the campfire scenes was available from Kraft for
a number  of proofs-of-purchase  when the  movie came  out.   It would hold
several marshmallows and  dispense them  one at  a time.   I  think the end
credits for the movie even said "Kraft--the official marshmallow of ST5" or
some such thing.

There's no real explanation as to why the Klingons have  spiny foreheads in
TFS and TNG but not in TOS.  Gene says "they  always looked  like this" and
we're supposed to ignore the  lack of  the pizza  bats on  the foreheads in
TOS.  Theories  outside of  Gene run  from genetic  engineering to "several
races of Klingons".

According to  FASA  the  prime  directive  states:   "As the  right of each
sentient species to live in accordance  with its  normal cultural evolution
is considered sacred, no Star Fleet personnel may interfere with the healty
development of  alien  life  and culture.   Such  interference includes the
introduction of  superior  knowledge,  strength,  or technology  to a world
whose soceity is incapable of handling such advantages wisely.   Star Fleet
personnel may not violate this  Prime Directive,  even to  save their lives
and/or their ship, unless they are acting to right an  earlier violation or
an accidental  contamination  of  said  culture.     This  directive  takes
precedence over any and all other considerations,  and carries  with it the
highest moral obligation."

According to  Geoffery  Mandel's  book the  prime directive  states:  "When
contacting a  planet  making  normal  progress  toward  a  free  and united
society, a  Starfleet  officer  shall  make  no  identification  of self or
mission; no  interference with  the social  development of  said planet; no
references to space, or to  the fact  that there  are other  worlds or more
advanced civilizations.  The Prime Directive of  Non-Interference - revised
2278"

TNG:  The ship's computer core looks like a building... and it is!  It's
based on the RCA building in LA.

TNG:  Betazoids all have big black eyes.   Majel Barrett  and Marina Sirtis
are wearing black contact lenses--their eyes are not that dark.

TNG:  Denise Crosby is Bing Crosby's granddaughter.

TNG:  Picard's fish is named Livingston.  It originally had some
Shakespearean name, but is now said to be named after David Livingston, one
of the first season line producers.

TNG:  Data isn't supposed to be able to  utter any  contractions, though he
seems to be speaking something awfully close.  Perhaps his "I have"s and "I
am"s are just being  spoken rapidly  enough so  they sound  like "I've" and
"I'm".

TNG:  They  have  dropped  the  love  interest  plotline  they  started  in
"Encounter at  Farpoint",  and  also (apparently)  that Wil  and Deanna can
communicate telepathically.

TNG:  In "The Battle" Deanna Troi says of  the Ferengi  ship captain Daimon
Bok, "Captain, I sense considerable deception from Bok and danger"; in "The
Price", Deanna's powers help against  the Ferengi;  in "Menage  a Troi" the
Betazoid Ambassador  says  "We  betazoids  are   uncomfortable  around  the
Ferengi, whose minds we cannot read"; which was collaborated in "The Loss".
Data also started to explain once why he suspects that Betazoids can't read
Ferengis:  "Perhaps  it  is  because  the  Ferengi brain  is separated into
four..."  So  two  episodes  claim Betazoids  *can* read  Ferengi minds and
another two claim they *can't*...  The  only explanation  that could really
account for  this is  that *Deanna*  is able  to (at  least partially) read
Ferengi minds because she is only part Betazoid.

There are *tons* of anime references (far  too many  to list  here) in TNG,
from the names of ships  and alien  races to  the scribblings  on the wall.
Rick Sternbach  and  others  are  big  fans  of  "Dirty   Pair"  and  other
japanimation.  There are also reference to other SF shows;  "4077" shows up
in sickbay a lot (Mike Okuda is a MASH fan).  Some of the references can be
found in Mike Brown's TNG Guide, appendix G.

TNG season 1:  According to Marina Sirtis, during the first season the very
small dressing  rooms were  marked with  "funny" identification.   Hers was
"Token Betazoid",  Wheaton's  was  "Token  Teen",  Burton's  was  "Negro in
Space", and  Stewart's  was "Unknown  Shakespearean Actor"  (after an early
ST:TNG review).

TNG season 1:  Dr.  Crusher's orderly (ensign  Freeman) was  supposed to be
gay (according to the script writer).

TNG seasons three and four:  When Gates McFadden  came back  after her year
leave, her hair was a  bit longer  than The  Powers That  Be thought looked
acceptable for a medical person.  Gates didn't really  want to  get it cut,
so she wears a wig.  She has mentioned that her real  hair can occasionally
be "completely  unmanageable"  with  just  how curly  it gets  when wet (or
sweaty).

TNG "Encounter at Farpoint":  Lets get this straight, once and for all.  
What we have is a "Special Appearance by DeForest Kelley" in which he 
plays an unnamed officer who just happens to have the following 
traits/qualities:
(1) He is a retired Admiral from Starfleet Medical division
(2) He has a definite affection for starships named 'Enterprise'
(3) He is 137 years old, which is (in the eyes of the Federation) an 
    exceedingly long Terran life span, which could be explained, 
    possibly, by carrying the spirit of a Vulcan around inside him for 
    an extended period of time
(4) He has a pronounced aversion to the use of transporters
(5) He has an unusual reaction to Vulcan-style logic
(6) He just happens to look, walk, talk, act, and in every other 
    conceivable way behave exactly like Leonard 'Bones' McCoy :-).
Given these criteria, we can only logically conclude that this was, in 
fact, not Leonard McCoy, but rather some little known Admiral who would 
have no special meaning to anyone watching Star Trek, but deserved four 
minutes of an episode devoted to him. :-)  Actually, the novelization of
EaF *does* call the Admiral  McCoy, and in the letter column of the first
issue of a TOS comic mini-series, it is mentioned that Richard Arnold said:
   - that IS Dr. McCoy in EaF
   - that IS Spock's wedding that Picard was at.

TNG "Where No One Has Gone Before":  The UFP has explored 11% of the 
galaxy.

TNG "11001001":  Binary 11001001 is decimal 201, and 2:01 kept showing up on
displays in the episode.

TNG "Home Soil":  You can hear in the background "Three[?] are trapped in a
turbolift and  two[?]  are trapped  in the  programmers' restroom."   So, I
guess we have proof that there are restrooms  on the  Enterprise-D (as well
as the two references in the movies (on the Excelsior, and Kirk in the Brig
in ST5 ("do not use in spacedock")) as well as the one you can't really see
in "Q-Who" when the Borg slice up the Enterprise).

TNG "Skin of Evil":  No, contrary to the rumors,  you can't  see Troi's bra
in this  episode.    What  people were  seeing was  a shadow  (and with the
flasing red light, it appeared red).

TNG "The Royale":  The  scene where  Data was  shooting craps  seemed to be
lifted right out of "The Questor Tapes".   In  both cases,  the android and
his companion(s)  needed some  quick cash,  and so  they play  at the craps
table.  In both cases, the android placed the dice in his  hand and applied
the correct pressure to rebalance the dice, thus altering the odds.

TNG "The Neutral Zone":  Rick Sternbach was in one of the life support
canisters.

TNG "The Neutral Zone":  There as a family tree  for Clare  Raymond (one of
the 20th  century  frozen  people).    When  they  created  the  tree, they
populated it  with  members  of  the cast  and characters  from other shows
(MASH, Giligan's Island, etc.)  I think Riker was married to Picard.

TNG "We'll Always Have Paris":  The Cafe de Artiste had a couple of strange
items on the menu,  including Croissant  Dilithium, Targ  Klingon ala mode,
Tribble in a Blanket, and John Cougar Mellencamp.

TNG:  Each  starship  has  a  dedication  plaque.    The plaque  on the USS
Tsiolkovsky ("The Naked Now") reads "Earth is the  cradle of  the mind, but
one cannot remain in the cradle forever".  The  plaque on  the Hoatio shows
that it built by Yoyodyne and reads "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"

TNG "Samaritan  Snare":   when  Picard and  Wesley arrive  at the Starbase,
there is  a  directory  listing  departments  and  personnel.   Filming was
stopped for  a  while  when this  directory was  installed while *everyone*
looked to see where they appeared,  since the  Starbase was  staffed by the
TNG crew.

TNG "The Defector":  Yes that  was Stewart  as one  of the  King's men with
Data on the holodeck.  The other man was NOT Frakes, however.

TNG "Q Who":  The  general consensus  is that  it *was*  Spiner playing the
part of Borg#1.  There is no screen credit, however.

TNG "The High Ground":   "He Has  Walked Among  Us" was  reportedly a minor
inspiration for "The High  Ground", albeit  uncredited (this  coming from a
Creation con).    "THG" was  one of  those supposedly  conceived during the
strike as a possible filler (a la "The  Child"), and  the use  of the older
TOS script ("The Paradise  Syndrome") would  have made  it acceptable under
the union crap edicts.

TNG "Up the Long Ladder":  No, that is *not* Eddie Murphy as one of the 
clones, though it does look a bit like him.

TNG "Deja Q":  Q gives his IQ as 2005.

TNG "The Nth  Degree":   Barclay estimates  his IQ  to be  between 1200 and
1450.

TNG "Contagion":    Yes,  they  used  Toronto  City  Hall  as  one  of  the
"furutistic buildings" seen in the portal.

TNG:  Dr.  Selar appeared in "The Schizoid Man"  and has  been mentioned in
"Yesterday's Enterprise" (paged in background) and "Remember Me" (Bev can't
find Dr.  Selar or Dr.  Hill).

TNG:  In a War of the Worlds episode ("Thy Kingdom  Come"), there  is a kid
playing with action figures.  One of them is in the likeness  of Yar, Data,
Picard, or Riker and he mentions something about Ferengi.

TNG:  Captain Garrett's crew took the E-C to  glory at  Narendra III, which
was NOT Khitomer (the planet where Worf's father and mother died).

TNG:  Paramount has confirmed that the bar on the enterprise (with its 
"Whoopi cushion") is non-alcoholic.

TNG "Ensigns of Command":  The original script called for Data  to have sex
with the leading lady in  order to  get her  cooperation later.   This idea
never made  it through  the first  draft.   Gene's reason  for dropping it:
"Only a human male would use a woman like that"...

TNG "The Schizoid Man":  Shots of Genesis, Yar, "Encounter at Farpoint" 
scenes, etc. in Data's psych test.

TNG "Sarek":   The quote  is "Amanda,  Spock, Perrin",  not "Amanda, Spock,
burried" and there is NOTHING that claims that Sock is dead.

TNG:  Facial hair:
 - Geordi was seen shaving in "Code of Honor"
 - Riker grew a beard after the first season
 - Data had a beard in [ep?]
 - Admiral Picard had a beard in "Future Imperfect"
 - Geordi had the start of a beard in "The Outcast"

TNG is now available on video tape.  It  is the  first series  *ever* to be
available while  still  in  first-run.   It is  through the  CBS Video Club
(Cutsomer Service  number is  1-800-457-0866 and/or  1-800-538-7766).  They
started releasing the copy of "Encounter at  Farpoint" as  the two one-hour
version (which  has  scenes  missing and  other scenes  re-ordered from the
original single two-hour broadcast), but (due to enough of  us telling them
what we thought of that) now comes as the two-hour original broadcast (even
though the box still lists it as two one-hour shows).

"Encounter At Farpoint", "The Naked Now", and "Code Of Honor" are available
directly from Paramount Home Video in both video tape  and (possibly) laser
disc through your local video store.  However, there is no word  on when or
if more episodes will be released.

Two episodes of TNG  have appeared  to be  clones of  "Red Dwarf" episodes.
The episode  where  Picard  ordered  Data to  lie and  everyone wiped their
memories was a clone of "Thanks for  the Memory".   The  5th season episode
"The Game" was a clone of "Better Than Life".

After Stewart  came  to  the  USA and  started TNG,  he bought  a new Honda
Prelude.  Then  Wil Wheaton  drove up  in the  same car--except  he had the
Honda Prelude *Deluxe*.  Stewart didn't want to be beneath Wil,  so he went
out and  bought  a Jaguar  XJ6.   Since I  know *someone*  will ask, Frakes
drives a black Limited Edition Jeep, Spiner drives a Toyota Corolla, Burton
drives a  black BMW,  Sirtis drives  a white  Chrysler LeBaron convertible,
Dorn drives  a  VW  Jetta, and  McFadden drives  a station  wagon (Capri or
Caprice).

List of people who have been Captain of the Enterprise:
	Robert April
	Christopher Pike
	James T. Kirk
	Will Decker
	Spock
	James T. Kirk (again)
	Rachel Garrett
	Jean-Luc Picard
	William T. Riker
	Jean-Luc Picard (again)

TNG:  The "horseshoe" rail on the bridge is actually made of wood.   Yes, I
know it *looks* like wood, but it isn't the  result of  staining.  Staining
the horseshoe couldn't bring out the grain  enough to  be picked  up by the
cameras, so the horseshoe had to be *painted* to look like wood.

TNG:  People keep asking about the  weird production  schedule.   Why do we
keep getting breaks of repeats when it isn't  summer yet?   A  lot of shows
(especially the hour-long ones)  go to  repeats around  December and March.
The average episode of TNG takes about ten days to  film.   They start well
before the season begins, but they wouldn't be able  to keep  ahead for the
entire season.    So  while  we're  watching the  December repeats, they're
trying to get a few episodes ahead of the viewers again!

TNG satellite uplink times (Keystone wide band  carrier (6.2  left, 6.8 right,
5.8 mono)):
	Sat 1800 ET T301-9
	Sun 1400 ET T301-9

History of  the  Star  Trek  newsgroups:   Roger  Noe was  the force behind
creating a  group  just  for  discussing  Star  Trek, and  thus was created
net.startrek (1982?), which later was renamed rec.arts.startrek during "The
Great Renaming" (1986?).   In the  late 1980s,  people got  tired of seeing
large parodies, scripts, artwork, etc in r.a.s, and there was a proposal to
create a  new  group  called  rec.arts.startrek.creative.    There was some
controversy over  copyrights  (that  apparently  didn't matter  if the same
postings showed  up  in  r.a.s)  so  the  vote  was abandoned.   During the
proposal and vote, someone created alt.startrek.creative,  which serves the
purpose, except  that  it  is  unmoderated, and  only about  half the sites
actually carry  the group.   Then  rec.arts.startrek.info was  voted on and
created, moderated by Jim Griffith.  At the end of 1991 a vote was taken to
split the main group into four components (tech, fandom, current, and misc)
which passed  by a  landslide.   The groups  were created  early in January
1992.

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