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From: adem@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: More Star Wars!
Date: 5 Nov 92 13:28:39 GMT
Distribution: ca
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <ekPNTB1w165w@veralyn.uucp>, jpt@veralyn.uucp (Jeffrey P. Temple) writes:
> Has anybody heard anything about George Lucas doing anymore Star Wars
> movies?  A friend at work asked to find out.  Just before Star Trek
> VI I thought I had heard from the net that George Lucas told ILM not
> to take on any more big projects cuz he wanted to use them.  Anybody
> have any information on this?  Thanks.
> 
Check out rec.arts.starwars
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From: rob@zorro.cecer.army.mil (Rob Knauerhase)
Subject: "Spock's Brain," anyone?
Followup-To: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 07:03:58 GMT

A local independent station broadcasts Original Star Trek nightly at 12:00.
Tonight's episode was that third season classic, "Spock's Brain."  Just as
I remembered, it was pretty poor.

However, as I rewatched it I could not help comparing it with the current
season.  It didn't fare so poorly.  I won't go as far as to say that it
was better then TNG's average, but it was clearly better then TNG's worst.
In fact, the more I rewatch TOS at midnight, the more I realize how much
the new show (especially this season) leaves me wanting.

Favorite lines:
"You are not Morg, you are not Eymorg." -- stumbling with boolean concepts

"I never should have reconnected his mouth." -- McCoy.

Rob
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  hope 'change' was worth it...
From: jimbo@rcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com (Jim Winters)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Recent phaser trivia question
Date: 10 Nov 92 17:30:39 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Harris Computer Systems Division
NNTP-Posting-Host: rcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com

A month or two ago, someone posted a trivia question something like:

        When Sulu is heating a rock in "The Enemy Within", what do we
        see a phaser do that we never see a phaser do at any other
        time in the series?

I saw the poster respond to some guesses with "That's pretty close",
but I never saw the answer posted.

So, hello poster!  :-)
What was the answer?
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From: v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: A universe of Bipeds! Why?
Date: 12 Nov 92 22:31:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <BxKE5J.Dpy@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, crsg9887@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Chad R. Sandstrom) writes...
>Could someone please explain any existing
>rationale behind the ST:TNG universe being
>so completely populated with humanoid bipeds?

     What a stupid question.	       
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: chuck@edsi.plexus.COM (Chuck Tomasi)
Subject: Re: Aanimated episodes
Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 16:40:34 GMT

mbecke69@ursa.calvin.edu (Mark Becker) writes:

:)They are available on videotape at the better video stores, and they have been
:)converted to novel form by Alan Dean Foster as the "Star Trek Logs" vol. 1-x,
:)available at the better book stores.

They used to be on Nickalodeon a few years ago two or three times a
weekend.  I haven't seen them around lately, but then again I don't
watch too much TV after 10pm.  Does anyone know if Nick is or plans to
air them again any time soon?  Does ANY network plan on airing ST:TAS
again?
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From: ph111-bx@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;7202)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Autocad files of the Enterprise
Date: 6 Nov 1992 09:39:36 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Nov3.110820.23443@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> helene@dcs.warwick.ac.uk
(Helene Blankespoor) writes:
->In article <1992Nov3.024024.20924@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
ang@slate.mines.colorado.edu (The Black Prince ) writes:
->>Does anybody know where I can get files of the Enterprise and other
->>StarTrek files for Autocad.  Please email me at ANG@MINES.COLORADO.EDU
->>Thanks.
->>
->>
->
->I would be very interested in those as well, please mail me a copy too:
->helene@dcs.warwick.ac.uk or estarcf@csv.warwick.ac.uk

Please add me to the list of those desiring Enterprise Autocad files. Thanks.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc,rec.arts.startrek.current
From: michael@monitor.com (Michael Johnson)
Subject: Picard Manuver
Reply-To: michael@monitor.com (Michael Johnson)
Organization: Monitor Company / IE
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 23:17:57 GMT

It's painful for me to admit this, but I missed the episode in which the  
Picard Manuver was first described.  Could someone please describe it?  Reply  
e-mail direct to me if you think I'm the only person in the universe who  
doesn't have a clue...
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: Jean-Claude VanDamme
Subject: Star Trek: The Drew Generation
Keywords: 
    Episode:5
Reply-To: he5z@mts.rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Psychiatric Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 00:12:36 GMT

Picard:On screen
Data: Captain, it seems there is a spaceship following on orbit determined by
       'cinch' of x^2 - 3.
Picard: 'cinch', Mr.Data?
Wesley:  Yes, he means hyperbolic sin.  It's latin you know.  Gosh, I thought
         even a Captain would know that!!!
Picard:  Shut up Wesley!
Troi:  Uh oh, I sense panic!  I sense danger!!
Riker:  I sense hardening nipples.  Big ones, too.
  BLAST!!!
Geordi:  Captain, the warp drives have just been hit!  There's an antimatter
         breach, the dylithium crystals are fracturing, and my bannana clip
         fell off.
Picard:  Not your bannana clip!  Mr. Worf, fire at will!
 Worf pulls out phaser and aims at Wesley Crusher
Riker:  What the hell are you doing?  Do you want to hit Deanna's Butt!!!
Data:  Yes, considering its mass and volume, there is a 87.3 % chance that
        any shot fired on the bridge would hit her gluteous maximus.
Worf (putting away phaser):  grrrrrr
Wesley:  What's a butt?
Picard:  Dr. Crusher to the bridge.  We have a sniveling runt to be put into
         a coma.
Crusher:  Whatever, as long as I don't have to do any physical operations.
Geordi:  Captain, the replicators are all messed due to the damage.  I had it
         make me a new bannana clip and instead I got a maxi-pad!!!
Troi:  Oh, that must be mine.
Riker:  Funny, I didn't smell anything (jumping on Troi)
Picard:  Number One, with all that pubic hair on your face, its no wonder
         all you can think about is sex.  Very well, come.
Riker and Troi:  Yes!!!  OOOOHHH!!!!  Ahhhh.
Data:  Most intreiguing
  BLAST!!!
Riker:  Hell that was good!  Damn, the whole ship moved!!!
Troi:  I sense ecstacy! ahhh.
Picard:  I sense that we're still under attack.  Any time you want to pull your
         phaser out of ship's whore and resume duty would be fine with me
         Number 1.
Troi:  More like number 12. ahhhh.....  (as in inches)
Riker:  Right, Mr. Worf, ready photon torpedos
Wesley:  Why didn't we just use them in the first place???
Picard:  On second thought...Bridge to transporter room.  Point to Point
         transfer, Wesley Crusher to torpedo bay 1.
Wesley:  Goshhhhhh(transporting)
Worf:  At last, a real weapon.  Firing snotty torpedo.
 BOOM!  Other ship is hit and retreats at warp 9.3
Riker:  Well done Captain.  I think we all deserve a drink from that hat
        chick in 10-foreward
Picard:  Yes, Make it so...
Play music and role credits
    
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will defend to the death your right      | don't you you laugh"
to say it."  -Voltaire                   |   -A Clockwork Orange
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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc,rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Paramount Press Release: #235 - The Quality of Life
Date: 9 Nov 92 06:18:02 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout


The Quality of Life

Episode #235			uplink dates: 11/14/92, 11/15/92



                           _S_P_E_L_L_I_N_G_S

	exocomp


				_C_A_S_T

	Captain Jean-Luc Picard			Patrick Stewart
	Commander William Riker			Jonathan Frakes
	Lieutenant Commander Data		Brent Spiner
	Dr. Beverly Crusher			Gates McFadden
	Counselor Deanna Troi			Marina Sirtis
	Lieutenant Commander Geordi LaForge	LeVar Burton
	Lieutenant Worf				Michael Dorn

	Dr. Farallon				Ellen Bry
	Trans. Chief Kelso			David Windsor
	Computer Voice				Majel Barrett
	

	Written by:				Naren Shankar
	Directed by:				Jonathan Frakes



_P_R_O_G_R_A_M_ _H_I_G_H_L_I_G_H_T_S

	STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION: "The Quality of Life" -- Data risks
	Picard and Geordi's lives in order to protect another "living" machine.


_T_V_ _G_U_I_D_E_ _A_D_S

	DATA'S DILEMMA!

	Data must choose between saving Picard and protecting a fellow machine!


_T_V_ _L_O_G_ _L_I_S_T_I_N_G_S

	Data endangers Picard to save machine on STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
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From: A.M.T.Bell@daresbury.ac.uk (A.M.T. Bell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: The Menagerie
Date: 12 Nov 92 13:17:57 GMT
Reply-To: atb@gserv1.dl.ac.uk
Organization: Daresbury Laboratory, UK

The Beeb has shown the only TOS 2-parter over the last 2 weeks, pretty good.
Its one of the best TOS shows that they made, much more cerebral than the usual
TOS shoot-em-up stuff :-).

This is the one when they included the 1st TOS pilot (The Cage) into the show
with Spock *stealing* the big E and taking the crippled Capt. Pike (Spocks ex-
captain) back to the planet Talos IV. The talosians have big heads and amazing mental
powers, Spock wanted Pike to live out his life with the talosians so he could
have the illusion of not being crippled and confined to a wheelchair.

 Definitely a show for Spock fans (like me), Spocks
seemingly *irrational* behaviour is revealed to have a *logical* reason at the
end. It was interesting to see Spock communicating with his crippled ex-captain,
couldn't he have mind-melded with him so that Pike could have said more than yes/no?

It was good how they included the pilot show (The Cage) into it but I preferred
the bits with the *present* Spock and Pike in it. 
The talosians mental powers must have been amazing to put the image of
commodore Mendez into Kirks mind all those light-years away (come on tony, 
its only a tv show, its only a tv show .....:-))

The lack of action and all the time spent in the briefing room made it seem
a lot like a TNG episode to me!

tony bell                 ! keep on running   live long and prosper
serc daresbury laboratory ! "back off man, i'm a scientist"
atb@uk.ac.dl.gserv1       ! bill murray - ghostbusters
From: ronb@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Animated episodes, and men in white
Date: 9 Nov 92 19:02:04 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

	Ok, that does it!  I put in the origional query about ST:TAS, and found
out that my the sci-fi channel carries it.  naturally, when i checked with my
cable company, THEY DON"T CARRY THE SCI-FI!!!!  No Dr Who, no ST:TAS, and no
Buck Rogers.  That does it!!! This is a call for the science fiction fans who
can't get the sci-fi channel to revolt and take over thier local cable
company!!!!!
        ghlie iazgha;eoirgt nXn
(the author drops onto his keyboard in a drooling spasm)

"mmmpphmph, mhpm, mphmhpmhhmp!"  he says as he is gagged ands traight jacketed.
From: rrogers@watson.ibm.com (Ryan Rogers)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: More Star Wars!
Date: 5 Nov 92 18:08:21 GMT
Reply-To: rrogers@watson.ibm.com (Ryan Rogers)
Distribution: ca
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.14k by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM

In <1992Nov5.092839.8637@ac.dal.ca> adem@ac.dal.ca writes:
>In article <ekPNTB1w165w@veralyn.uucp>, jpt@veralyn.uucp (Jeffrey P. Temple) writes:
>> Has anybody heard anything about George Lucas doing anymore Star Wars
>> movies?  A friend at work asked to find out.  Just before Star Trek
>> VI I thought I had heard from the net that George Lucas told ILM not
>> to take on any more big projects cuz he wanted to use them.  Anybody
>> have any information on this?  Thanks.
>>
>Check out rec.arts.starwars

   Better yet, check out rec.arts.sf.starwars  :-)


Sincerely,
Ryan Rogers
From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Question about "T." in James T. Kirk !!!!!! (As seen on TV)
Date: 11 Nov 92 23:58:32 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <BxKBnM.DB5@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, jeffb@audiolab.UWaterloo.ca (jeff bamford) writes:
> In article <BxIEtG.AEs@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> miles@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Derick) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov10.051247.26359@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>>In article <BxGwLn.HEo@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> bwbrock@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Benjamin Warre Brock) writes:
>>>>Tiberius
>>>Terry
>>Timmy
> Thomas?  Tungsten?  Tetrachloride?  T-Bar?  Tense?  Testes?  Top-guy?  Tuesday?
> Thursday?  Table?  Turse? . . . . Why don't you just watch STVI again?  Its
> clearly stated.  Too bad I don't have a name beginning with T, I could 
> suggest that also.

Testy!  
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From: Edward_Lee_Whiteside@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc,rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: FTP site with periodic postings INFO
Date: Wed,  4 Nov 92 21:59:48 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

This never seems to get mentioned, but the UUNET ftp archive (ftp.uu.net)
has been keeping up to date with the periodic posts to the rec.arts.startrek
groups. If you miss one of them and can ftp, drop on over there.  Each 
newsgroup has its own directory in /usenet/rec.arts.startrek.*  .
Kudos to whoever makes sure the latest postings are in the archives there.
From: dshaffer@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Donald A Shaffer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Model Starfleet Congress(remember this?)
Date: 11 Nov 92 20:46:58 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


  Anyone remember this?  I remember it bout a month ago then everything sort of
fizzled.  Anyone have anything on this.
(MAtt, you out there?  I lost your address fellow starfeet person)

Don Shaffer
dshaffer@andromeda.rutgers.edu 3000
From: jjm3@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Joseph Martino)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Question: Wrath of Khan
Date: 12 Nov 92 22:14:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Nov12.221423.10077
Reply-To: jjm3@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Joseph Martino)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1992Nov12.180447.3603@news.columbia.edu> jjm3@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Joseph Martino) writes:
>As the final question at a med-school interview, a friend of mine was
>asked if a certain statement meant anything to her.  It consisted of
>three words which were not recognized by her as English.  The interviewer
>vaguely explained it was a line from ST The Wrath of Khan that had to
>do with a computer near the beginning of the movie.  It sounded latinate. 
>

Thanks to all who answered.  Spelling aside it was a reference to
the Kobyashi Maru.  We hope it wasn't a subtle way of telling her
that getting into that school is a no-win situation.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: koshelev@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: The God Thing::PSEUDOSPOILERS for ST7
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:24:35 GMT

In article <BxDLt5.I3J@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>, dmswitze@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (David M. Switzer) writes:
> Hi there. There was going to be a book called "The God Thing" by Gene 
> Roddenbery and Michael Jan Friedman, but it was cancelled.
> Three questions: What was it about, why was it cancelled, and is there any
> chance it will ever be published?
> 
> Dave
> 
"The God Thing" was Roddenberry's own original script for the original
Star Trek feature film and new series he wrote around 72/73.  It was a
little strange.

PSEUDO SPOILER ALERT!!!!
THIS MAY SHOW UP SOMEDAY WAY DOWN THE ROAD....



























Ah, enough blank lines, I hope.
It is thirty years or more after TOS...
Kirk is missing.  Spock is teaching on Vulcan.  Everyone else is scattered
here and there.  Spock comes across evidence that Kirk is not really
dead/missing as they were led to believe on their last mission--yeah
Kirk bit it here in his last Enterprise mission in the fourth year.

Spock reunites the crew and they go after him.  He's been imprisoned
actually on some planet or another.  It's actually a Godlike machine
which in the end rejuvenates the whole crew to their post TOS age.

Now back to a younger age, they are given a new ship to continue their
voyages at the end.  And we could have Star Trek Phase II.
-------------------------------
Anyway, that was the short description.  Roddenberry had a lot of indications
that the "machine" really was God.  Paramount went: "Uh we like the idea
of a ST movie, but take out God."

For the rest of the story, look at Edward Gross' _Star Trek: The Lost Years_
from Pioneer Press.  It is the only of their books worth anything.

You'll find more about the God Thing in it, but I know a little about it
from another source--a fellow writing spec scripts in th 70s for Phase II.

Anyway, I understand the Friedman was adapting it for the hardcover.
I think the real reason it was pulled was because it probably will end
up being Star Trek 7!  Or at least most of it.
--------------------------------

Dave.
dsturm@ducvax.auburn.edu

Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: rccarm00@mik.uky.edu (ron c carman)
Subject: Re: Star Trek Novels: The Year in Review [1986]
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
X-Path: rccarm00
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 05:50:47 GMT

In <z4#qw=r@lynx.unm.edu> quirk@pioneer.unm.edu (Gym Z. Quirk) writes:

>rccarm00@mik.uky.edu (ron c carman) writes:

>>     All in all, I'd say 1986 was an outstanding year for Pocket Books.
>>Unfortunately we all know their recent history... will 1987 mark the
>>beginning of the decline?  Stay tuned and see... ;-)

>I still think that '84-'85 was the best period (_My Enemy, My Ally_
>from Duane, Ford's _The Final Reflection_ and Kagan's _Uhura's Song_). 

   At this point, I'd have to agree that '84-'85 marked the high point
of the Star Trek novel production.  '86 put out some decent to better-
than-average releases, but nothing to compare to those mentioned above...

RC Carman

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Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: Kirk's Middle Name -- now it CAN be told!
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 03:32:26 GMT

In article <Eeyfv7a00UhWA3lIIP@andrew.cmu.edu> jt3y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jason Paul Togyer) writes:
>Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
>
>I don't even like Star Trek (no flames, for chrissake) and I know the answer!
>
>It's Tiberius!  It was in "The Making of Star Trek," a paperback book
>published in the '60s, and I believe written by Roddenberry himself.
>So there. 8-P

No, you're wrong.  Check the book again.  Kirk's middle name is only
explicitly stated once, and that's in the animated series.  The episode
was "BAM", in which Kirk's name is given as "James Thomas Kirk".  Of
course, since this isn't an accepted source for canonical material,
others may disagree.



	>--Jason Togyer
>     Carnegie Institute of Technology
>     Pittsburgh, Penn.


Gee, I thought CMU stopped calling itself "Carnegie Institue of
Technology" back in the '60s.


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From: gt8657a@prism.gatech.EDU (Shawn P. Cannon)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Star Trek hologram..
Date: 11 Nov 92 19:57:42 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Georgia Tech - We don't fit the mold, we GROW it!

Does anyone have a gold Enterprise hologram that they are willing to sell?
I am talking about the hologram that you mail in for with 3 packages from 
the Next Generation card set.  Mail me if anyone is interested!

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Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: georgere@microsoft.com (George V. Reilly)
Subject: Is Colm Meaney Irish?
Date: 12 Nov 92 01:00:21 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

Colm Meaney plays Transporter Chief O'Brien on STAR TREK:
THE NEW GENERATION.  He was also the father in THE COMMITMENTS
and the bad ward boss in FAR AND AWAY.  In all of these roles,
he's supposed to be Irish.

As far as I know, Meaney is Irish in real life.  He certainly
sounds Irish.  And that's what a friend believes.  So much so
that he has a bet riding on it.  But he needs to prove it.

Another friend suggested that because Alan Parker wanted
to make THE COMMITMENTS in Dublin with an all-Irish cast,
he would hardly have chosen a foreigner who could do a good
Irish accent over an Irishman for the role.  That's 
plausible, but hardly conclusive proof.

Does anyone know of any proof (newspaper articles, etc.)
that Meaney is Irish?
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