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From: eriks+@cs.cmu.edu (Erik Seligman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Why they killed off Tasha Yar
Date: 9 Oct 92 17:01:39 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

In article <1992Oct9.151243.4643@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> cvantwrp@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Cyndi Van Antwerp) writes:
>I read (don't remember where) that Denise Crosby was disappointed on the
>lack of popularity of the show and wanted out of her contract to
>pursue furthering her career elsewhere--so they
>killed her off.  Shortly thereafter, the show really hit high on the
>ratings, and judging by her visits back to the show, I think she may
>regret her hasty decision.



You mean she wasn't eliminated just because she was such a horrible actress?
She was my least favorite character on the show (besides Wesley, of course).
I would guess that her leaving was a major reason for the show's later
success...

---Erik
From: ccspjs@gdr.bath.ac.uk (Pete J Suters)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: timetravel backwards? - perhaps
Date: 9 Oct 92 09:48:30 GMT
Organization: Bath University Computing Services, UK


  Running on from this thread about an infinite number of timestreams
existing at the same moment - there is a theory that says that
the only method of time travel possible is by jumping from one
timestream to another.
  If you were to travel backwards to, say, the end of the second
world war, although the events are exactly as recorded in 'your'
history, you have, in fact, moved sideways into an alternate time
stream.  Anything that you attempt to change in this parallel timestream
will not affect 'your' history - so if you were to, say, arm the Germans
with cruise-missiles, in the timestream you are occupying, history
would be changed, the Germans would win the second world war, and
an alternate 'you' in that time stream would be living in 1992
in a world dominated by a large German empire.
  However, when you, the time traveller, return to your own time,
nothing will have changed.  You will return from your timestream
where the Germans were never armed with cruise missiles, and 
history will have remained the same.
  If a time traveller were to arrive from the future into our
present day, this would cause a rupture in the timelines, opening
up a new sequence of events, which may set us off on a new timeline,
but not affect the traveller from the future.
  
  Well, it's possible - but it would make for some pretty boring
Star Trek time travel stories!!

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From: Shirley_Gillard_Schneckloth@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Sixth Season
Date: Fri,  9 Oct 92 13:11:16 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: usa
  <tomcat.718653988@cwis>

Did anyone mention the fact that Man of the People seemed to be 
the 24th century version of Portrait of Dorian Gray? Except in
Man of the People, the canvas is alive.

sgs
From: kuchar@buast7.bu.edu (Tom Kuchar)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Paramount Press Release - #233: Rascals
Date: 16 Oct 92 11:51:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: bu.98832
Followup-To: rec.arts.startrek.current
Organization: Astronomy Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <mFwosB1w165w@bluemoon.rn.com> jamaass@bluemoon.rn.com (Jeffrey A. Maass) writes:
>
>There do seem to be a large number of "transporter malfunctions"
>and "transporter mishaps" driving the plots.
>
>

Two mishaps over 5 years doesn't seem like a whole lot.  And even two
this season doesn't seem overwelming either.  It's hard to gauge the
cause of the transporter accident in this case, but in Barclay's case
it didn't result from normal usage of the transporter, but from pushing
the technology to it's limits.




-- 
Tom Kuchar			  
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Boston Univerity		                                  Hanscom AFB
From: tlynch@cco.caltech.edu (Timothy W. Lynch)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: No more "Opinionated Comments"
Date: 15 Oct 92 23:01:08 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: mudbalt.caltech.edu

Good *GOD*, folks, lighten up on both sides.

I've seen more maturity in my seventh- and ninth-graders on *bad* days than I
have on most of this thread.  

Fine.  Atsushi's stopped reviewing.  This is akin to neither the Second Coming
nor the Holocaust; this is fact.  It is a fact I don't particularly mourn
myself, since I think the net result of my ceasing strong activity and his
staying on was to unbalance the group *grossly* in favor of the anti-TNG
contingent.  Regardless, I can well understand the opinions on both sides--
*and* accept them as the opinions about one particular net.persona that they
are.

That's it.  End of discussion; he's gone.  I can't say I have much respect for
those either mourning this as a fate worse than death or those dancing on 
the grave; such emotions on *either* side don't belong here.

Time to grow up.

Tim Lynch

PS:  Atsushi, of course, picked a lousy time to quit; "Relics" was terrific,
IMO.  ;-)  [Full review to follow this weekend.]
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From: WEBER@JEDI.SSD.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM (Kevin Weber)
Subject: Re: Klingon Battle Cruisers
Followup-To: rec.arts.startrek.tech
Organization: 78-30
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 21:30:04 GMT


> >  
> 	They are also very proud and hold tthe idea of bravery very high, 
> maybe it would be a sign of cowardice?
> 

Besides, a Klingon would never stab someone in the back.

kevin
From: emarkp@soda.berkeley.edu (E. Mark Ping)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech
Subject: Re: Course Headings
Date: 9 Oct 1992 20:32:56 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
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Keywords: heading

In article <BvuHCH.C58@news.cso.uiuc.edu> cap36406@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Carlos A. Pero) writes:
}jasonp@scat4.prime.com (Jason Pascucci) writes:
}
}>Sigh,
}
}>Okay, okay...here's the scoop:
}
}[stuff deleted]
}
}>Also, it doesn't imply anything about attitude, so that
}>if you go to 'naught mark 90', you are as equally likely to
}>wind up simply going 'up' as pointed up, albeit the second
}>is usually more likely. I forget what Kirk said when he
}>was in battle with Kahn, and used that maneuver to get
}>the drop (pun intended) on him. :)
}
}>--
}>Jason R. Pascucci
}>jasonp@primerd.prime.com
}
}
}The command that Kirk gave was "z minus 15000 feet" or some other
										\_ Aaaaahhhhg!
}number. Easy to comprehend for the audience.
}

  Sorry, but I'm a big proponent of SI.  I do belive the quote was
"z minus ten thousand meters."  Note that this *is* different than heading 0
mark 90.  The latter implies rotating the ship, whereas the former simply
implies motion along the Z axis *without* rotation.  The manouver in
STII:TWoK would not be efficient for large speeds or distances, but it
allowed the Enterprise to be in attack position after Khan went by and Kirk
popped back up from behind.

--
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emarkp@ocf.Berkeley.EDU

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  "Say, that's a nice bike."          --Cyberdyne Systems T-1000
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From: edwardl@freddyk.uucp (Edward Langenback)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech
Subject: Re: Blowing up the Borg (was Re: Mistake in Borg episode)
Date: 15 Oct 92 04:26:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: freddyk.Ru5NsB1w165w
Organization: NightMares R Us

IA80024@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Nicholas C. Hester) writes:

> In article <92Oct11.223538.30948@acs.ucalgary.ca>, jsbell@acs.ucalgary.ca
> (Joshua Bell) says:
> >
> >In article <1992Oct8.131240.11209@urbana.mcd.mot.com>
> >
> >Antimatter doesn't transport well in large quantities, and this
> >is what photon torpedoes use to cause damage.
> 
> I thought that photorps carried what, 1.5 kilos per?  Certainly in the
> TOS episode where Kirk beamed to the planet to kill the blood monster
> he carried at least that much.  I say that the Borg might be able to

 
 in the TOS episode in question "Obsession", when kirk suggests using 
Anti-Matter, Spock replies "An ounce should be sufficient." 
 
  ...hardly 1.5 kilos.


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From: jsbell@acs.ucalgary.ca (Joshua Bell)
Subject: Re: Klingon Battle Cruisers
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 16:14:02 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

In article <1atbg6INN72c@bigboote.WPI.EDU> haywire@yaya.WPI.EDU (the Insane One) writes:
>The Com station on the Klingon Battle Cruisers is at the front of all
>the other stations. Everything  and Everyone was BEHIND the commander!!!
>Now if I remember right, if I was a Klingon commander I would
>NOT want all my officers BEHIND ME!!! because the chain of command
>goes whoever is the strongest leads and I wouldnt want my back
>turned to these guys. It would make sense for them to be in a position
>where I could see what they were doing on any type of ship so the commander
>can get a look at everything and not be running from station to station.

It is the expected duty of your first officer to assasinate you
when you fail in your duties or become weak. This is an honorable
way to die. Klingons are not amoral savages, but bound by a
strict code of honor. If you are weak enough to fear the
crewmembers behind you, you _should_ be killed and replaced.

Joshua

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From: jhk1@cec1.wustl.edu (Jonathan Howard Krivitzky)
Subject: Re: WHY NOT VISUAL ALSO??
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 01:13:09 GMT

In article <01GPWEGPSS7K000HXF@phillip.edu.au> T9214504@phillip.edu.au writes:
>  QUESTION - (for all you tech enthusiasts)-:
>
>             What would it involve in sending back visual as well as
>             audio from an away team? It was once done with Geordy's 
>             visor, which had a transmiter (which had a short range 
>             and usage time), but what about 'normal' visual.
>  	       With their technology, itn't it posible to put a camera
>             on someone's ear lobe ?!?!
> 
>            My thoughts were, a Com-badge 'channel(s)' could be used to
>            send the data, (it is digital isn't it??). Maybe not the
>	    hi-res quality of their 'main viewer', but at least something
>	    for those all important moments of Picard saying - 'Describe
>	    what is happening down there Number One!!'
>
>           -- What do you all think ? -- 
>
>           Konrads Samulis - R.M.I.T (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)
>			             ( Bundoora Campus. Australia.)
>
	If you recall the episode "Identity Crisis", Geordi researches the
visual records of the away mission from five years before to find the 
source of the shadow he couldn't explain.

	--Jon K.
From: cap36406@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Carlos A. Pero)
Subject: Re: "TerraWatt"
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 16:58:17 GMT

lidz@quads.uchicago.edu (adam lidz) writes:

>Out of curiosity, does anyone remeber the episode of TNG where they mention thatthey can't do something (Sorry, I forget what), and that a planet could because
>it required a "TerraWatt" of power, which was too much for the Enterprise to
>produce?  Isn't there something wrong there?  A Terra-Watt is not too much, and
>if you consider how hard it should be to produce it in the 24th Cent, there is
>a problem.  It should be EASY to produce it on a ship the size of the Enterprise!  The lights alone on something that big probably require a TerraWatt of power!(1 Million Light bulbs = 1 TerraWatt, so that might be a slight exageration, but. . . )
>(And they probably have more efficent light, as well, but still a TerraWatt isn't that much!)


The episode in question was "The Masterpiece Society" where the Enterprise
is tracking a VERY dense piece of a star of something, and it is coming in
close proximity of an enclosed, genetically engineered society on a planet
which was supposedly uninhabited.

Anyway, the technical part was that by reinforcing the dome surrounding the
structure and employing a "multi-phase" tractor beam, invented by a female
engineer in the society, to alter the course of the star chunk, the society
would be spared destruction. The power required was in the Terawatt range, 
and the society was not capable of the power, but the Enterprise was, so
together they did move the chunk and they all lived happily ever after.



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From: Robert.T.Warfield@dartmouth.edu (Robert T. Warfield)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech
Subject: Re: warp speeds
Date: 7 Oct 92 11:39:03 GMT
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Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
X-Posted-From: InterNews1.0a5@newshost.dartmouth.edu


  If I remember correctly, 'Ghost Ship' is not the only book to have
warp factors of 10 and above. However, Paramount pictures (Who
authorized the tech manual) does not consider the books to be REAL
trek. A real bummer.


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From: labrg@emory.edu (Ryan Montieth Gill)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech
Subject: Re: Computer / Saucer Separation
Date: 12 Oct 92 16:39:01 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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	I would think that the enterprise would be compartmented among
	the various decks and sections. As the ship is divided up into
	sections and decks then. I would think that forcefields would
	divide up sections to protect those not killed outright by the
	breach of the hull in that section. The Divisions between the
	sections and decks would be sealed in an emergency. Like the
	episode where Troi is placed in command and O'Brian and some
	others are in conflict over what should be done. 

		Ryan
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From: jsbell@acs.ucalgary.ca (Joshua Bell)
Subject: Re: Within the Transporter Beam (Realm of Fear)
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 06:26:50 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta
Keywords: wow, hand, me, another, beer

In article <1992Oct9.130229.28285@news2.cis.umn.edu> crick@hiv.med.umn.edu (Ed Crick (CD)) writes:
>In article <1992Oct8.202417.18668@rtsg.mot.com> svoboda@rtsg.mot.com (David Svoboda) writes:
>Whoa, cool !!  An alternative to cryogenics.  If someone has a terminal 
>disease, all they need do is energizer him, and save the information in
>the Enterprise's Hard drive.  Then when a cure is found they can de-energize
>him and treat him.  Seems like there would be lots of people stored this
>way, because they still can't cure all diseases.

Two problems with this. The first is that you do remain concious
during transport with TNG-era technology. The second is that your
pattern decays within the pattern buffer gradually over time. If
you imagine (roughly) being lopped apart by a laser and your
atoms being spun around atop a turntable... well, maybe thats a
little vague, but you get the idea. Its a 3-d turntable, and as
you go spinning about, the beams which keep your various body
parts in the right places aren't perfect, just darn good.

You can stabilize the annular confinement beams with something
like a phased plasma stream, or with a biological field (Realm of
Fear), or perhaps some as-yet-unknown method developed by a
certain scottish engineer (Relics).

Without this stabilization your pattern will decay in roughly 450
seconds (or something, its in the Tech Manual).

>Hey, there'd also bee no need for prisons, or penal colonies, as criminals 
>could also be stored. 

But then they're not being punished, nor reformed (I doubt the
Feds have big prisons, personally), and you're using up a whole
bunch of energy.

> And all that stuff cluttering up the attic or the
>basement in your 24th century split-level, energize it until you need it.
>That way you and your wife won't fight when she wants to through out all
>your important stuff, like you high school letter jacket, back issues of
>Playboy-the next generation: Girls of Rigel-7.

*grin* What year did they devote to the theme 'Kirk's women' ?

Joshua
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From: cosc1871@rosie.uh.edu (92F06787)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech
Subject: Re: Romulan Plasma weapons
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:14:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: rosie.15OCT199212140745
Organization: University of Houston
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Oct14.195222.9530@vax.oxford.ac.uk>, jeffers@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes...
>In article <1992Oct9.223026.27291@midway.uchicago.edu>, arxt@quads.uchicago.edu (Dave Palmer) writes:
>> 
>> 	In article <10942@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>, labrg@emory.edu (Ryan 
>> Montieth Gill) writes, "What ever happened to the Roumlan plasma weapons of 
>> old? They seemed like a rather effective weapon, why did they stop using 
>> them?"  
>> 
>> 	My personal theory is that Next Generation warbirds do have them, but
>[ A lot of (accurate) info from the TOS episode 'Balance of Terror' deleted]
> 
>Kirk makes the comment in the episode BOT:
> 
>"If we had just one working phaser we could detonate that thing [plasma torp]"
> 
>or words to that effect (maybe it was Sulu who said it ... ?)
> 
>Anyway, a ship armed with phasers could 'smash' a plasma before it hit the
>target - thus rendering the plasma incapable of doing damage.  Tactically
>phasers would be discharged (ie they couldn't be used against the ship
>that launched the plasma) - but since TNG phasers recycle *very* rapidly
>the tactical might me of small advantage (contrast energy used to create
>plasma torp with phaser energy to destroy it, probably no winner)
> 
>For the Romulans to have *warp* plasma technology in sublight ships is
>a little contradictory (TOS:BOT).
> 

I have just one small comment to add... TNG phasers are light speed weapons.
Not too useful if the weapon system can't be used until the plasma bolt is
right on top of the E-D.  Back in TOS, Kirk had the extra time to even 
consider using something to detonate the plasma torpedo because he was 
smart enough to say 'run away', 'run away!'.  That gave him roughly 2 minutes
to respond to the threat... too bad his phasers were off-line :)

To my knowledge, I haven't seen such a potential threat to the E-D, but since
they no longer possess FTL phasers I think the E-D is more vulnerable.
From: william@cs.arizona.edu (William (Dragon) Hertling)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech
Subject: Re: Lights
Date: 15 Oct 92 22:53:43 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson

In article <tomcat.719167813@cwis> tomcat@cwis.unomaha.edu (Jeffrey S. Jo) writes:
>Again...I am posting this question...Does anyone out there know what the
>lighs are that flash under the viewscreen aboard the original Enterprise,
>the Enterprise-A and Enterprise D?  I have been plagued with wondering
>about this!  SOmeone..please help!

Extensive analysis on my part, of more than 100 hours of shows and movies
has yielded the following conclusion:

	Those lights under the viewscreen serve the same exact purpose
	as the lights on the front of KITT from the TV series Knight
	Rider.

I hope this answers your question. :-)

william@cs.arizona.edu
From: william@cs.arizona.edu (William (Dragon) Hertling)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech
Subject: Re: Distance in the Holodecks
Date: 12 Oct 92 22:38:25 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson

In article <1992Oct11.172613.21094@netcom.com> linley@netcom.com (Bruce James Robrert Linley) writes:
>In article <lsloan.718746014@nova> lsloan@nova.gmi.edu (Lance Sloan) writes:

[some stuff deleted]

>>Or, the computer could "cloak" the two people and draw holograms of them
>>on the walls at a great distance away.
>>
>>Lance Sloan
>>lsloan@nova.gmi.edu
>
>Yeah, but what if the two people walking in opposite directions were each
>holding one end of a rope known to be longer than the width of the holodeck?
>The distance illusion would be killed because the rope would never tighten.

The holodeck would manipulate the matter comprising the rope. The rope could
simply be destroyed, and a holodeck forcefield used in its place for
example. Or, something between the two...the ends of the rope would be
real rope, but the middle would be a forcefield projection.

william@cs.arizona.edu
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:05:07 EDT
From: Robert W. Barnard <RB6551A@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech
Subject: Re: a question....

   As I understand the little amount of Borg tech that has been explained the o
dd hive ship could make easy work of a wimpy H-Bomb.  First, transporting them
in would not work due to the way the Borg shield functions to screen out harmfu
l elements.  For example after the "crew" had knocked out the Borg ship once by
 beaming in subsequent attempts at transport were blocked.The later penetr
ation by Worf and Data in the shuttle was possible only due to the Picard influ
enced threat analysis that understood that under normal circumstances a sole sh
uttle could not have a tangible effect on the ship.  Riker took advantage of hi
s prior understanding of how the threat analysis would function in composing th
e kidnapping bak of JLP.  Second, I am fairly sure that the borg would have enc
ountered nuclear weapons in assimilating a less advanced civilization and devel
oped a defense for such attacks.  Also any existing plan for the design of the
weapon would have been downloaded to the Borg collective during one of the Borg
 penetrations of The E.'s computer system.  Third, since nuclear weapons depend
 on mechalical actions and physical relations between elements transporting a h
unk of lead into the heart of the fissionable material responsible for the prim
ary reaction, or transporting the chemical high explosives out would be obvious
 counters to such a tactic.  Fourth I seem to remember that the Borg were able
to warp subspace in such a way that Photon Torps had minimal effect.  Surly thi
s tactic would also be used as a counter.
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