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From: pmclaugh@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Non-existent racism in Time's Arrow (I and II)
Date: 1 Oct 92 16:55:24 GMT

In article <1992Sep27.164519.13498@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, ira2p@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Iain Robert Asplin) writes:
> In article <Bv7w1K.Gq0@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
>>Did anyone notice how strange it was that only a few years after the  
>>Emancipation Proclamation that Guinan and/or Geordi can:
>>
>>* walk around freely (no hassles, no insults, no problems aside from the
>>  problems of the story); nobody thinks it's weird to see black folks 
>>  wandering.
>>  about as if they were 'just another town citizen'.
>>* Guinan can be weathy.
>>* Guinan can be the toast of the town and have a party with white people.
>>* NOBODY questioned either of their skin colors while dealing with town folk.
>>* be taken to (or enter even if not a patient) what *MUST* have been a
>>  whites-only hospital.
>>
>>I could see it if these two were approached as if they were just-freed slaves,  
>>or if they were constantly being bothered because people didn't feel  
>>comfortable being around them.  Yet nowhere in the story (although in Samuel  
>>Clemens' talk with Deanna Troi in the turbolift, he explcitly mentions problems  
>>that plague our society.  Among them, prejudice.) is racism even MENTIONED.
>>
>>They called Data an albino, but they called Guinan nothing but 'Madam Guinan'  
>>(and where in hell would they come about thinking the name "Guinan" was in any  
>>way 'normal' for that town and that time period?).
>>
>>To answer the obvious rebuttal, "Perhaps, but this is a science fiction show  
>>and not a political one."  This show is most certainly a political show.  Their  
>>stories often speak of their positions on poverty, sexism, inter-species  
>>chauvinism and so on.  Yet, they cannot give a PASSING MENTION to racism at one  
>>of the most racist times in our history?  C'mon, this is way off.
>>-- 
>>-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
>>-- NeXTmail ok
> 
> 
> I did notice these things, and yes it irked me a little too.
> However, I wonder if the geographical location of the episode in any way
> justifies this.  If they had been in 19th century Confederacy-territory
> then I could see BIG reasons for complaint, however, if my memory serves
> me right, San Francisco was still in its infancy when the Civil War hit,
> and so perhaps the racism that was so inbred in other parts of the country
> was not as prevalent in SF?    
> 
> 
I also noticed these things, and perhaps the idea that racism wasn't so
prevaent in San Francisco could explain it.  Still there was one instance
where there was a hint of racism.  In the scene at the hospital, after
the aliens blink out and the policemen arrive, Geordi is holding the
ophidean cane.  The policeman grabs it away from him saying "What are
you doing with that -- that's a gentlemen's cane." (or something to that
effect).  It seems to me that he was implying that a black man could not
be a gentlemen, so the cane could not be his.

Just a thought.

Tricia (pmclaugh@ecs.umass.edu)
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 10:19:56 EDT
From: Todd Bobenrieth <TAB129@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Checklist Request

I might have missed it, but could someone send me the checklist of Trek
books (old and next gen.). I have quite a few but don't know what order they
go in (the old Bantum ones and the big novels). Thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: randall-joshua@CS.YALE.EDU (Joshua Randall)
Subject: Re: Non-existent racism in Time's Arrow (I and II) (minor spoilers)
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:15:38 GMT

>>* NOBODY questioned either of their skin colors while dealing with town folk.

Ah, this brings up an interesting possibility.  Maybe what we have here are
two black *actors* (Lavarre Burton and Woopi Goldberg) playing white *char-
acters*.  Now before you run away screaming about me being racist, consider:
isn't something like this the ultimate in equality?  

This is not the first time it has been done.  See the recent movie "Unforgiven"
where Morgan Freeman plays a (clearly) white character.

-- 
Joshua E. Randall			randall-joshua@minerva.cis.yale.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: Otto Heuer #3 <ottoh3@cfsmo.honeywell.com>
Subject: TREK RATE results (MOVIES)
To: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Posted-Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 00: 02:19 -0500
Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 05:02:19 GMT
Received-Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 00: 01:36 CDT

This is one of seven periodic postings for ratings of Star Trek in all flavors:

TREK RATE ballot           - for sending in your votes!
TREK RATE results (TAS)    - what the USENET community thought of TAS eps
TREK RATE results (DS9)    - what the USENET community thought of DS9 eps
TREK RATE results (BOOKS)  - what the USENET community thought of the novels
TREK RATE results (MOVIES) - what the USENET community thought of the movies
TREK RATE results (TNG)    - what the USENET community thought of TNG eps
TREK RATE results (TOS)    - what the USENET community thought of TOS eps
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
The first is the ballot for sending in your votes (see it for details).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
The last five postings contain the average rating for  each episode, movie,
book, etc.  according to the Usenet population.  It is  useful for deciding
which books to read (weed out the one that NO one enjoyed), what episode of
TNG people thought was the best (or worst), etc.

In the list below, RATE is the average rating on a scale of 0 to  1, NUM is
the number of votes  in the  database, and  EPISODE NAME  is (surprise) the
episode name with type  (A=TAS B=book D=DS9 M=movie N=TNG O=TOS)  in paren-
thesis.



 RATE NUM                     EPISODE NAME
----- --- ------------------------------------------------------------
0.320  80 STAR TREK V:  THE FINAL FRONTIER (M) 
0.500  84 STAR TREK:  THE MOTION PICTURE (M) 
0.648  81 STAR TREK III:  THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK (M) 
0.769  85 STAR TREK IV:  THE VOYAGE HOME (M) 
0.806  48 STAR TREK VI:  THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (M) 
0.875  81 STAR TREK II:  THE WRATH OF KHAN (M)
From: rfd@po.CWRU.Edu (Richard F. Drushel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Points of view
Date: 5 Oct 1992 17:35:57 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: rfd@po.CWRU.Edu (Richard F. Drushel)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, tatlow@dash.lmo.dec.com (Tom Tatlow) says:

>The other big POV issue I've been thinking about has to do with the
>turbolifts.  Occasionally, we (the camera) are with people waiting
>for a turbolift and when the turbolift arrives, there's already
>someone inside (this happened in TAI, for example).  However, I
>can't recall a single occasion where "we" are in the turbolift and
>it stops to let someone in.  Has this ever happened?

	In ST2:TWOK there is at least one such scene.  Kirk is in the
turbolift, it stops, Saavik gets in (walks right toward the camera),
Saavik stops the 'lift to press Kirk about the Kobayashi Maru test,
Kirk laughs it off and restarts the 'lift, it stops at the next level
and McCoy is standing there fuming "Who's been holding up the damned
elevator?!?"  This is done in one take with the camera inside the lift,
pointing toward the door.
-- 
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Co-Sysop, Coleco ADAM Forum --- Assistant Sysop, Science Fiction & Fantasy SIG
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: mimi@ssd.intel.com (Mary-Suzanne King)
Subject: A few questions...
Organization: Supercomputer Systems Division, Intel Corp.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 03:43:39 GMT



Ok, I'm new to the newsgroup (but not to the show...) bear with me if I'm repetitive.

1.  Is Ishara really Tasha's sister?? I really don't want to believe that.
    Anyway, I read Survivors and she never once mentioned any family...

2.  In reference to Toothbrushes (where'd that come from?), in the book of The Search
    For Spock (I hope...), McCoy said something about Beard Supressor.
    My question:  Does it work on legs and where can I get it?
    (Probably through a late-night half-hour ad...)

3.  IMHO, Dwight Schultz is great as Broccoli in TNG, and he was great as Howling Mad
    Murdock. (Let's face it, I think he's great.) I don't think there are enough
    (can be enough?) episodes with Barclay...
    (I'd give you my artsy-fartsy psudo-intellectual reasons, but I like to think
    that, unlike most Theatre Majors I know, I understand how annoying it is.)

4.  Best ending: The Host. While I could argue that Crusher's decision was close-minded,
    I admit, not since Darth Vadar's death have I cried at tragedy.

5.  pardon my simple-mindedness, but you left out a major reason why Riker's still on
    the enterprise: Troi...
    (Remember, Troi warned him when they first started seeing each other about the 
    hormonal surges that middle aged Betazoid women get? I don't think he's mind 
    being there when they hit her...)

6.  Has anyone else heard "Ol` Yellow Eyes is Back" (Brent Spiner)? I just got it, but
    it probably went past y'all about six months ago...


Grovelling apologies to anyone I may have inconveinienced in trying to dispatch this...


Suzanne.

"I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel." --Black Adder
"I've got a .plan so complicated you could put a hook on it and call it a hanger." --me
"Ouch" -- anyone who read that last one...
"Don't hate me for being beautiful and I won't hate you for being blind..."
From: f0627@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: STNG episode about homosexuality
Date: 29 Sep 92 21:13:33 GMT
 <1992Sep22.210659.28222@gtephx.UUCP> <1992Sep25.093439.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu> <520n1ta.payner@netcom.com>
Organization: Wright State University

In article <520n1ta.payner@netcom.com>, payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
> 
> Either that, or they actually did cure 'her' illness. She seemed quite
> happy with herself after the treatments. 
>  

	The point here is that what happened to her was wrong. The government
of this planet had decided that gender was wrong, and made sure that everyone
else felt that way, also. When someone came along who disagreed, they were
given "psychotectic" (sp?) treatments (for this, read "brainwashed") that
radically altered their feelings and beliefs to conform to what the government
felt they should be. This action was a very deep violation of her "self" (or
"individuality", if you prefer), and that is what ST:TNG was saying is wrong.
The parallel here is that this is exactly the way quite a few people feel about
homosexuals, that their "condition" is a mental "disorder" that needs to be
cured. As the episode was trying to point out, if the situation was indeed
reversed, you would feel very strongly against someone "curing" your beliefs,
at least until after they'd messed around inside your head enough that you
believed it was good.
                                                                

		Charles Crabtree
		F0627@desire.wright.edu
From: IA80024@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Nicholas C. Hester)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: RIKER: tailcoat-riding pussy?
Date: 2 Oct 92 18:58:54 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System

In article <goudswaa.717662777@sfu.ca>, goudswaa@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter
Goudswaard) says:
>
>I really doubt if there are any men in any current navy who will have
>turned down a captaincy, unless the ship offered was a lemon.  I can't

I believe it was said in TOS (sorry I can't remember the episode) that
Spock had turned down his own command.  I seem to remember Kirk saying
something about that.
___

  Nicholas  Hester                  "I'm a virgin...I'm just not good at it."
ia80024@Maine.bitnet                                 -Ramada, "Hot Shots!"
ia80024@Maine.maine.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: jimdean@bnr.ca (Jim Dean)
Subject: Re: SEX, NUDITY, and Peter David
Originator: jimdean@bcrks81
Reply-To: jimdean@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 21:22:21 GMT


In article <1992Oct6.185228.10015@u.washington.edu>, gwangung@carson.u.washington.edu (Roger Tang) writes:
> In article <BvnrC4.AH7.1@cs.cmu.edu> mwgertz+@cs.cmu.edu (Matthew Gertz) writes:
> >Just checking, Peter... (sorry, everyone else)
> 
> 	No, no, no....shouldn't it be PETER DAVID DOING SEX IN THE NUDE???
> 

Not quite.  I saw his picture in the back of Imzadi. The title can only be:

PAD's wife desires SEX *without* NUDITY.

:-)

(Just kidding. I'm ugly too!)

-- 
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc,rec.arts.startrek.current
From: mholtz@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Mark A. Holtz)
Subject: TNG List of Lists to be posted Saturday
Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 19:22:18 GMT

I will be posting the TNG List of Lists saturday evening or Sunday
morning. They will be posted as version 9/13/92a, as the only
changes is the addition of the Stardates for "Times Arrow II",
"Realm of Fear", and "Man Of The People", and the descriptions of
"Realm of Fear", "Man Of The People", and "Relics", courtesy of
Mike Brown. ;)
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 Clinton, say so. If you are all for  <:> Internet: mholtz@sactoh0.sac.ca.us
  Bush, tell 'em you're for Clinton   <:>  Fidonet: Mark Holtz@1:203/90.1701
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: v070p6nd@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Anthos)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Modern THEORIES and Reality (was RE: S.O.S. signal!)
Date: 4 Oct 92 16:44:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: acsu.BvLvuB.MGD
Organization: SUNY at Beefalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

> 
>"Times Arrow" made for a nice story. (That's a matter of
>opinion.) But, that's all it was: a story. If you *really*
>analyze what happened, there *is* a contradiction. Why did they
>go back 500 years to SF? Because they found Data's head! But why
>was Data's head there to be found? Because they went back! I find
>it astonishing that there are actually living, breathing,
>sentient souls incapable of grasping the concept.  Oh, well!
> 
>    siempre,
>      ...terry
Actually, there is no contradiction regarding Data's head if you expand your
statement to include all the facts, instead of deleting most of them.  Data's
head is found on Earth, as is a watch and a pistol(if I'm wrong here, sorry, I 
missed the begining of TA I).  The Big E takes all of the junk to be examined.
They conclude that at some time in their future, Data will be brought to the 
past where he will 'die'.  They somehow get to the planet that houses the aliens
and beams dth them. Data has a phaze converter in him.  In examining out of 
phaze, Data is sucked into the past.  When the Big E's crew decide to
investigate what just happened to Data, they find a way to follow the aliens
back. {now insert all events up to the mine shaft incident} Data and the rest
up to this point have done NOTHING IN TRYING TO PREVENT DATA'S DEATH.  They 
went back to see what the aliens were doing there, and eventually stop them, 
not to investigate the appearance of Data's head.  This fact alone negates
your "contradiction hypothesis".  But what proves that there is no contradiction
is the fact that NONE of the events in the future were altered by the visit to
the past.  Why did the crew go back, to investigate the aliens' actions.  Why 
was Data's head found, in order to try to stop the aliens from escaping.  Why
was Data even there, because he was transported there while investigating the
aliens.  The investigation of the aliens was the cause, Data's head being found
was the effect.  No contradiction.  The finding of Data's head was the effect of
being in the past, which was an effect of investigating the aliens.  One cause
two effects, one 'short range' (Data blowing up in the past), the other 'long
range'(the finding of the 500 yr old Data head).

Thank you for your attention, please respond by e-mail if to flame.
Post if necessary.

Anthos, the Grey Knight, High Preist of Minikar, God of Chaos, Horrible Puns,
                                                  and Extremely Bad Form
================================================================================
Across time and space/ The grey knight cometh/ With dragons to rape/
Madiens to slay/ Castles to sack/ Towns to pillage/ Quarterbacks to plunder

Oh, how I am confused!
===========I wish this was a .sig so I wouldn't have to type all this===========
From: Peter_A_David@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc,rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: "Probe" and "Imzadi"
Date: Fri,  2 Oct 92 05:24:05 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world
  <1992Oct1.121924.13737@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
  <1992Oct1.161249.1919@gdr.bath.ac.uk>

Oh, one other thing.  Libraries generally do tend to stock books when
they've been on the bestseller list for over a month.  And if your local
branch doesn't have it, they can usually order it from another branch.
Takes about a week or two, depending on availability of the book and the
efficiency of the library.  

PAD
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: dhawk@netcom.com (David Hawkins)
Subject: DSN: Need Set Names for Script
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 04:50:02 GMT

I'm trying to shape up a script for Deep Space Nine for submission.
I'd like to do as professional a job as possible, so I'd like to find
out what the names are for the various parts of the set.  I assume it
won't be a Bridge - what would they call it?  Is there still a Sick
Bay?

Also, has there been any word about whether the Borg have been changed
by Hugh?  Or is it ok to have a Borg cube acting like our familiar
Borgs?  (I would invent a new race, but for this plot it has to be the
Borg, alas.)

Thanks for any help, advice, suggestions, opinions, etc.  If the
script doesn't sell then I'll post it.  See you in nine months.  ;-)

later, david
--
David Hawkins    dhawk@netcom.com
All music jars when the soul's out of tune.  --  Miguel de Cervantes
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: rat1@me1.MsState.Edu (Robert Thompson)
Subject: Re: First Officers (was ST: TNG movie ???)
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 22:23:06 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.181622.17389@stsci.edu> wmorgan@stsci.edu (Windsor A. Morgan) writes:
>>|> >     Riker, if promoted, would choose Worf as his first officer.  Remember
>>|> >that he did so, with apologies to Data, when he captained a ship in
>>|> >a wargames exercise with the Enterprise.
> 
>>In article <1992Oct6.144042.7025@ioe.ac.uk>, teexijd@ioe.ac.uk (IAN DAVENPORT) asks:
>>|> Didn't Picard say something like `You can have anyone except Data, who will
>>|> be my Number One' ?
>
>
>In article <1992Oct06.170929.42572@watson.ibm.com> annie@fatboy.manassas.ibm.com (Brenda Molina) writes:
>
>>In the war games episode, Picard kept Data.  In one of the episodes
>>where Picard is gone (BOBW??), Riker apologised to Data and had
>>Worf as first officer.
>

In the war games episode Riker picks Worf over Geordi because of the
sorry state of the Hathaway, which requires Geordi's full attention
to ready for duty.

--Another environmentalist for nuclear energy--
From: grimkirk@amiganet.chi.il.us (Mike Schneider)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: K'Ehleyr, Nishara
Date: 1 Oct 92 19:22:44 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

In article <7335.2ac344df@dcatla.uucp>, fsdsb@dcatla.uucp writes:
>Suzie Plakson has a recurring role as Dr. Selar, the Vulcan physician who
>works closely with Dr. Crusher.

Suzie also has a regular role in the new sitcom series "Love and War"
starring Susan Dey and some guy whose name I can never remember.

Just thought you Suzie fnas would like to know.

      Michael Schneider        | "Women are quite unlike men. Women have
        UFP Computers          | higher voices, longer hair, smaller waist-
         Chicago, IL           | lines, daintier feet and prettier hands.
 grimkirk@amiganet.chi.il.us   | They also invariably have the upper hand."

            The opinions expressed here are most likely my own...
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc,rec.arts.startrek.current
From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Nielsen rating for TAII
Organization: Columbia U., New York City
Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 21:59:55 GMT
X-Posted-From: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
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	Do we have the ratings for the season premiere? Thanks,
	-- Ethan


purgamentum init, exit purgamentum
From: 910252m@ace.acadiau.ca (DWAYNE ALLAN MACKINNON)
Subject: Re: Star Trek Quotes
Summary: Here's my fav!!
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 18:56:17 GMT

Okay guys, here's my favorite Star Trek Quote:

    "She was special to me sir. We were....... intimate." - Data to Picard 
in the episode where Data is on trial to see if he is "alive". P.S. - He's 
talking about Tasha Yar.

DMK
Acadia University, N.S., Canada.
From: phurley@tamu.edu (Philip W. Hurley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Startrek 25th Anniv. Game question *SPOILSERS*
Date: 29 Sep 92 19:11:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: tamu.phurley.35
Organization: Computer Technology Group, TAEX

This contains spoilers for the Startrek 25th Anniv. game if anyone cares.  
WARNING!!  This is your last chance to figure out the second episode of the 
game on your own.























In article <1992Sep26.185246.1201@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> z_clarkmj@ccsvax.sfasu.
edu writes:

>In article <92268.212246JBC103@psuvm.psu.edu>, <JBC103@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>> I'm stuck on the second level of the ST 25 game. (It's called HIJACK)
>> I'm in the corridor of the Masada, with a bunch of junk in inventory,
>> the Masada crew in the brig (which is boobytraped) and 2 guards outside the
>> cell.  I can't figure out how to lower the force field or repair the
>> transporter or free the crewmen.  If anybody out there can help, it'd
>> be greatly appreciated!
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> John

>Go in to the room phaser troopps stun. Cut wires. Push button panel.
>Don't know how to repair transporter though?
>Good luck.

>ADMIRAL CARTWRIGHT

You have to make Spock cut the wires. If Kirk does it, the booby trap goes 
off. Kirk retrieves the wire from the booby trap to use it to repair the 
transporter. Use a phaser to charge the phaser welder. User the phaser 
welder on the bits of metal. Use the wire from the booby trap and the 
transmogrifier to fix the transporter. If you want to get all the points, 
retrieve the bomb in the brig.
From: pip@pro-freedom.cts.com (David Pipgras)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Will we have to pay to see Star Trek?
Date: 29 Sep 92 05:16:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Sep28.221600.2141
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)

>Will we have to pay to see Star Trek?

Other than new major motion pictures?? No. It is not likely that Paramount,
even in a drunken stupor would allow Sci-Fi or, for that matter, anyone
else have exclusive rights on either TNG or TOS. 

Paramount currently makes somewhere in the neighborhood of 90 Million per
episode for TNG from all the first run syndicaion stations that purchase
rights to air the show.

I would have a hard time believeing that they would willingly give up
89+Million to give Sci-Fi Exclusive rights....


Summary: IT WILL *NEVER* HAPPEN, at least, not in my time, anyway....

Dave