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From: jpw@minerva.ece.drexel.edu (Joseph Wetstein)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Charlie X
Date: 3 Sep 92 17:53:03 GMT
Organization: Drexel University, Philadelphia PA

In article <1992Sep3.105004.18024@gserv1.dl.ac.uk> atb@gserv1.dl.ac.uk writes:
> [stuff]
>Uhura started singing in the rec room. One strange thing:
>Jim is with Charlie when he gets a message to come up to the bridge, Jim is wearing
>his gold captains shirt with a black collar. Jim and Charlie get into the
>turbolift and then when they arrive on the bridge, Jim is wearing his green open necked
>captains shirt. 
>There are 3 possible explanations:
>
>1. The big E's turbolifts have an *automatic costume change lever*, like
>in the 60's BATMAN TV show :-).
>
>2. This was another exhibition of Charlies amazing powers in changing the
>colour of Jim's shirt without anyone else knowing.
>
>3. A blooper.
>
>What do you think?
>

I think BLOOPER!!!

Do you remember the episode Mudd's Women? When the women are first
beamed up to the big-E, it flashes back and forth between the women and
Scott, Spock, and Mckoy. If you watch it carefully, you will see that
they spliced in a scene of McKoy standing in sick bay smiling, and
he is wearing a different uniform and has the med scanner behind him.
Big blooper, but fast.

In The Enemy Within, the scratches on Kirk's face changes sides during the
hour.


jpw
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Subject: Re: Geordi Dies/Scotty Lives/Triva Contest
From: ace@kryton.UUCP (Catherine Beckstead)
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 12:30:02 PDT
Organization: Paradox Alley F&SF BBS 805-492-8789

rjc@devo.unify.com (Ronald Cole) writes:

> In article <1992Aug22.190536.26078@adx.adelphi.edu> ricky@adx.adelphi.edu (Ri
>    I would rather see the enterprise pull into star system and find 
> 
>    Guy Williams, June Lockhart, Bill Mummy and Angla Cartwright.
I saw something once called Star Trek: The Lost Episode, in which someone
edited together a bunch of TOS episodes and dubbed over the voices to make
a parady.  Some pretty funny stuff.  Anyway, there was one scene where the
Enterprise crew beam down an "meet" the Lost in Space crew.  Pretty funny.
I don't remember any of the lines that were used tho.  :(
> 
> Guy Williams passed away in May of 1989.  Like to see Paramount try to bring
> him back!  :-)
> 
>    Name that series. :-)
> 
> Ok, Lost in Space...
> 
>    For a top prize (a Plutotonium plated Ultra Man)
>    can you name the other two actors of that series?
> 
> Jonathan Harris, Mark Goddard, and Marta Kristen.  Bob May was the man
> in the Robot suit and Dick Tufeld was the narrator and the voice of
> the Robot.  Now, will Ultra Man be coming UPS or parcel post?
> 
>    For the life of me, I can't remember thier names although I do remmeber
>    the characters.  No hints from me.  Ok, some hints:
>    The series is NOT:
>    Zorro, Lassie or The Danny Thomas show.
> 
>    BTW, if you are under 30 (base 10) you probably don't have a clue as to
>    what I am talking about. :-)
Well I'm under 30 and understood all the references.  There is such a thing
as reruns.  :)

> 
> ObTrivia:  # of Lost in Space episodes - 84 (including the never aired pilot)
>            which aired from 9/22/65 to 3/6/68.
Was the "never aired pilot" the one in which they first leave for 
Alphacenturi?  And shows Dr. Smith sabataging the Robot and getting
caught on the ship when it takes off...etc..etc??  If this is true, then
I do remember seeing it, although that was quite a few years ago, I was
about 8 or 10 at the time.  This could have been mearly the first episode,
and the pilot is something else entirely.

> 
> AND...  if anyone flames me, I'll post Dr. Smith's canonical list of
> Robot insults!  I mean it!!
> 
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From: 00jdbecktel@bsu-ucs.uucp
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Subject: Big Screen = Video for ST:TUC ???
Date: 28 Aug 92 02:56:41 GMT

I just wanted to say I really had a good laugh at the scenes the video
version of The Undiscovered Country decided to leave in.
I counted 3.
When Spock, Valeris, and Scotty were having a private meeting in one of the
tunnels.
	"Aye. The bitch probably killed her father."
When the guy from "Benson" was laying out plans to the President (Neil's father
from Dead Poets) to get Kirk and McCoy out of captivity.
And in the end when the "Klingon" Scotty shot turned out to BE the guy from
Benson.	
	"Wait a minute. This isn't Klingon blood *RIPS OFF KLINGON MASK*"

What a hoot.
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From: jcomer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan C Comer)
Subject: Re: The War Virus
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:32:38 GMT

In article <jhitch.715025519@crash> jhitch@crash.cts.com (Jeffrey Hitchin) writ
es:
>In <5555@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> mark@ucsb.edu writes:
>
>>In the preface to Jeanne Dillard's The Lost years, she mentions a forthcoming
>>book from Irene Kress called The War Virus.  This was in 1988.  Anyone know
>>what happened to the book?
>
>>Thanks,
>>Mark Probert
>
>    Yes, it was cancelled right after _The Lost Years_ came out.
>No reason why, but Paramount just didn't want it published, so you'll
>never see it. Sorry.

     This seems very strange.  After all, the preface of _The Lost Years_ also
mentioned the second of the three planned "Lost Years" books, _A Flag Full of
Stars_.  This book was published.  Now why would Paramont stop one book short
of filling in the TOS-STTMP gap, especially before the second book came out?
Anyone else out there know more info?

Jon Comer
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From: steves@gdfwc3 (Steve Strauss)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: picard's mistake
Date: 28 Aug 92 22:56:02 GMT
	<1992Aug27.174803.5015@cbis.ece.drexel.edu>
Organization: General Dynamics, Fort Worth Division

In article <1992Aug27.174803.5015@cbis.ece.drexel.edu> jpw@minerva.ece.drexel.edu (Joseph Wetstein) writes:

   >>In article <92226.084951ICSCH@ASUACAD.BITNET> ICSCH@ASUACAD.BITNET writes:
   >>>PERHAPS "THE MISTAKE" WAS PICARD HAVING SEX WITH BEVERLY CRUSHER, AND HAVING
   >>>WESLEY, CAUSING JACK CRUSHER (A MUTUAL FRIEND) TO MARRY HER, IN AN EMOTIONALLY-
   >>>CHARGED FLASH-BACK EPISODE.
   >>


   Excuse me, but what episode was this? I don't remember ANYTHING like that,
   and I've seen (but don't necessarily remember) every episode.

First Duty.
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From: smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Sean Smith)
Subject: Re: "Relics" (Scotty episode) *Spoilers*
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:52:44 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.220813.20349@eng.umd.edu> wombat@eng.umd.edu (Jose Gonzalez) writes:
>Couple of Spoilers concerning "Relics" that I caught on CNN
>

>
>They've reconstructed the bridge of the Enterprise from TOS.  It looks exactly
>the same, knobs and buttons and all.  CNN showed Scotty walking around it
>holding a bottle of bourbon (or whatever) and a glass.  
(Some stuff deleted)

	BOURBON????  Can't be a very good duplicate (if you adhere to the
transporter trace theory) 'cause Scotty *only* drank scotch if given a choice
if I remember correctly...  ;)

	Hmm... McCoy's appeared, then Spock, now Scotty.  I wonder if Shatner's
head will shrink enough for him to appear.  ;)  I know I'll be watching.

	Sean


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From: ITB650REID@redgum.qut.edu.au (Egad ! Its a UQ engineer !!!!!!!!!!)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: WHO'S HOTTER
Date: 26 Aug 1992 21:38:13 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Me thinks that the woman Wesley fell for (can't remember the name of the 
episode) who was the shape-shifter has the prize for the Hottest thus far.

But then again we haven't has STTNG here for long.

Beserk.
From: gbrach@galaxy.gov.bc.ca
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: ST:TNG actors on other series
Date: 31 Aug 92 09:59:29 -0700
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <4ec6Ok200UjU81UUVk@andrew.cmu.edu>, jp45+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jim Thomas Park , Jr.) writes:
> In article <1684A128D9.YANJUNA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>,
> YANJUNA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu writes:
>> 
>>     Here is one I've forgotten.  Gates McFadden has a very small role
>> in Muppets Take Manhatten as a secretary for a Broadway agent near the
>> beginning of the movie.
> 
> Here's another on for Gates. She was in The Hunt for Red October. She
> was Alec Baldwin's character's wife I believe.
> 

Problem with this citation:  Gates was left on the cutting room floor of that
movie...

However, I just got around to watching _The Fisher King_ (wonderfully zany
flic), and who should appear for a brief few seconds & lines, but John DeLancie
(Q).  He was a producer (?) who was trying to sell a reol to Jeff Bridges' 
character after he makes his come-back.

Ciao!
Gabor.

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From: stanaway@ssd.comm.mot.com (Chris Stanaway)
Subject: Re: ST:TNG "The Next Phase" SPOILERS!!
Reply-To: stanaway@ssd.comm.mot.com
Organization: Motorola LMPS
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:54:43 GMT

In article 42689@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu, demirtjis@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Ann Demirtjis) writes:
>
>
>--- SPOILERS --- SPOILERS --- SPOILERS --- SPOILERS --- SPOILERS ---
>	I don't think that this post contains any real spoilers, but I prefer
>to play it safe... :-)

>
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>-- Hi 
>
>	I have a question concerning the episode "The Next Phase". At the
>end of the show, Picard is seen saying to Dr Crusher the following: "If she 
>hadn't lost her rank in the incident on Galon 4 (sp?), I think she would have 
>been Lieutenant Commander by now". I assume he was speaking about Ro since 
>earlier in the episode Ro said something about Picard having given her a chance
>when nobody else did. What is this all about?? I guess they are refering to 
>another episode, but which one ? When did Ro come aboard the E and where is
>she from ? (she explains some of her people's customs in TNP, but I couldn't
>catch the name of her native world).

Ensign Ro Laran joined the show in the thrid episode of the fifth season.
The episode entitled "Ensign Ro".  The incident that damaged her career
took place off the show.  Before she joined the E, I believe she was
imprisioned for not following orders on an away mission that got serveral,
if not all of the rest, of the away team killed.  Her race is called the
Bajora, but I'm not sure what name was given to their home world, if any.
You'd need to watch that episode to fill in the details.

Chris

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From: wcsbeau@alfred.carleton.ca (OPIRG)
Subject: Re: Odan, Tychon's Rift, Riker
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 19:33:00 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.175608.37624@watson.ibm.com> royle@highland.manassas.ibm.com (Matthew Royle x4553 highland) writes:
>   Hey there people, I just watched TNG episode, "The Host" last night, and

>  Also, one thing I noticed in the episode, when the original Odan stops into
>Picards ready room, and asks a couple questions about 'Dr. Beverly', Picard
>is viewing (on his little view screen) a Tychon's Rift!!  The same picture
>from the episode where they were all going crazy due to lack of dreaming.
> (sorry, my episode knowledge isnt that great) (not sure if tychon is 
>spelled correctly either)  Anyway, Did anyone else notice this?

I noticed this, although I will have to take a freind's word on it as
I do not remember the occasion.

Funny, isn't it - the way we notice tiny details like this...

Christopher Allen
(wcsbeau@alfred.carleton.ca)
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From: zrde05@trc.amoco.com (Robert D. Ess)
Subject: Re: Season Premiere
Reply-To: zrde05@trc.amoco.com
Organization: Amoco Production Company, Tulsa Research
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 17:28:50 GMT

In article 78428@ut-emx.uucp, tgunter@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Thomas Gunter) writes:
>How about giveing Wesley a new show catering to young teens?
>We can call it Deep Space 90210.
>
>Or Bill Shatner in a show about extra-terrestrial cops?
>Obviously called Deep Space 911.
>
>Sorry--it was a boring summer...
>
>-tag
>-- 
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>The University of Texas at Austin  | 

Or Star Trek cast members singing Beatle songs in Deep Space Number Nine

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From: nunn@sura.net (Deborah Nunn)
Subject: Re: Looking for TNG episode where Picard's jaw drops...
Organization: SURAnet, College Park, MD, USA, NA, Earth, Milky Way
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:25:58 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.130624.7094@emr1.emr.ca> craven@cg.emr.ca writes:
>About a year ago my wife was watching a tape of a TNG episode
>when she noticed that as Picard was leaving the bridge for his ready room, 
>perhaps with Ryker, his jaws dropped open as if he had seen a ghost 
>or a nude woman through the doorway.  This was *not* part of the
>episode plot!  
[stuff deleted]
>My wife & I have forgotten which episode this occurred in.  I believe
>it was third or fourth season....can someone help us with the episode
>name???

Well, maybe if you gave us a little more description of what else
happened in the episode?  Kind of hard to name an episode based on one
scene which wasn't supposed to happen and wasn't part of the plot.  :-)


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From: kennedy_j@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: ST II: Wrath of Khan --> New Footage
Date: 4 Sep 92 13:18:18 GMT
 <1992Aug25.104205.14366@peponi.wcc.govt.nz>,<1992Sep1.163741.5104@gw.wmich.edu>
Reply-To: kennedy_j@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: Wellington City Council, Wgtn, NZ

In article <1992Sep1.163741.5104@gw.wmich.edu>, adamsf@gw.wmich.edu writes:
>> The extended version of STII:TWOK has been out since STVI:TUC...
>> 
>> I brought a copy from a local book store soon after they came out...
>> I also got an Extended Video Version of STI:TMP
>> 
>> They were put out by CIC Video.
>
>
>Does it say * Extende* on the video package?
>
>Fran Adams

Yes is does - it has this ugly triangular sticker that says (drum roll please)
"Extended Video Version"
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From: jarnis@mits.mdata.fi (Jarno Kokko)
Subject: Re: Cinefantastique - October 1992 Issue
Keywords: Season 6
Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 19:25:03 GMT

In article <1992Aug24.125451.17004@bnlux1.bnl.gov> schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
>In article <1992Aug20.142706.2600@cbfsb.cb.att.com> mikeh@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (michael p.herlihy) writes:
>>
>>
>>Just pick up Cinefantastique, October 1992 issue. 
>>Tons of info about Season 6.  A Season 5 episode
>>guide and lots of little insider articles about
>>ST.
>>
>>The inside articles include:
>
>
>I saw this issue in a book store recently and was about to eagerly pick
>it up when I noticed the cover price: $10.95 !!  I had the $11, but
>there's something in me that says "no way" to 11 dollar magazines.
>
>
>

You should be happy with that. I bought that issue from a local
comics/movie-magazine specialist and paid 75 FIM (about 19 USD)
for it...

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From: JC924@uacsc2.albany.edu
Subject: Paramount Address
Organization: University at Albany, Albany NY 12222
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 16:03:33 EDT

Could anyone provide the address for requesting a submission release
from Paramount?  I know it is in the FAQ list, but I lost my copy.
 
 
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From: jfe@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu (Brian Chung)
Subject: Re: Who Might Play Sisco?
Organization: Alchemy International
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 01:41:02 GMT

In article <JKE.92Aug22074950@shadrach.math.ufl.edu> jke@math.ufl.edu (Jeffery Eddings) writes:
>Here are my ponderings on this:
>
>1.  Robert Guillame:  Isn't he balding yet?  ;)  Actually, I think
>"Benson" would be a great choice, seeing as he hasn't done anything
>recently, and wouldn't ask for a lot of money, yet he's rather
>well-known.

	Isn't he doing the Phantom of the Opera in LA, though?

>
>
>Anyway, hopefully they'll make a good choice.  When you think of Star
>Trek, you automatically think of Captain Kirk, and when ST:TNG comes
>up, Picard is usually mentioned, so it's obvious how important the
>role of the commander is.

	Okay, here's my real pick:  Sherman Helmsley.  He's bald and 
successful in other series.  8)
>
>--Jeffery


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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:42:39 -0400 
From: Jonathan Clark <jca6+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: tng and tos in cleveland

could someone please e-mail me the station and times of trek in cleveland?\
thanks!!
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From: kimnach@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (GREG KIMNACH)
Subject: Re: The Enterprise Stinks!
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date:  3 Sep 1992 17:00 EST  

In article <1992Sep1.125323.21384@bnlux1.bnl.gov>, schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes...
>In article <1992Aug29.170031.1@vax1.umkc.edu> rtiger@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
> 
>Yeah, and that's only the beginning of it!  How 'bout that transporter
>thing they use?  Reassembling a person's molecules after being converted
>into energy?  Ridiculous!  And...and...this faster than light thing!
>Yeah, that bugs me too.  How about some _realism_ in the show for god's
>sake!  Everyone knows that it's not physically possible to travel faster
>than light.  Where were the scientific advisors when they designed this
>kooky show?

Probalbly in a love den somewhere...and freeing their minds with "LDS" :-)
It was conceived in the 60's after all! 

Greg
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From: SJOSEPHS@130.187.183.14 (STEVEN JOSEPHSON)
Subject: Re: Annoying Borganoids
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 20:30:05 GMT
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In <3932@keele.keele.ac.uk> phd99@seq1.keele.ac.uk writes:

> >Why is it that ALL Borgs look human.  I understand that to be a Borg it would
> >make sense that a species would need to be humanoid, but why aren't any of the
> >.... 
> 
> 	Mmmm - this thread is quite interesting. Even assuming that the
> Borg don't bother assimilating any other beings that humans - they just
> destroy them, or even if assimilating Klingons, Ferengi etc. does occur,
> and we just didn't see any, there is another conjecture:
> 
> 	Where did they get all the human Borg that the E encountered?
> This is meant to be the first encounter with the Borg is human space,
> right? So where DID they get those humans from? Does this imply that
> there is another civilization of humans outside the federation, or does
> it mean that the Borg were once humans (or very similar).
>

Is it possible that the big-E's humanocentric crew wrongly overlooked other
life-forms on board in favor of seeing the borg as somewhat similar to
themselves - humanoids linked in with but still in charge of machinery?  Is the
ship itself a sentient being of a sort?  Your cells aren't sentient (althought
capable of independent functioning), but you are. 

On another point - as the previous poster pointed out, the Borg are aware of
humans, they have absorbed a few.  It seems like it would be more efficient to 
have Borg-humans, experts on dealing with humans, handy in sectors where 
humans are likely to be encountered.  It would also make sence for the Borg to
only parade Borg-humans in front of humans in order to give their human
adversaries as little information as possible about what they are dealing with.
To date, the only effective action the Fed has been able to take against the
Borg came from using the little they know of the Borg to their own advantage.

josephson 
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