HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jfinn@ll.mit.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: STIV and the transtator
Date: 17 Aug 92 16:19:43 GMT
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory

In article <1992Aug17.135211.13897@ctr.columbia.edu> Charles_Laine@CCIS.BAYLOR.EDU (Charles Laine) writes:
>There have been many replies to my original post which have referred to
>the 'transparent aluminum incident'.  Scotty basically handed over the
>design for this material.  
>

By the way, in the paperback book 'The Voyage Home', Scotty knows that,
from history, the man he gives the formula to was indeed the inventor of
transparent aluminum.  From watching the movie I got the impression that
the characters were just having fun and indeed making fun of themselves.
Thus we have Scotty and Bones glossing over the dangerous act of giving
out future technology, Chekov leaving his phaser and communicator, etc. on
the ship, and even Kirk at the end NOT getting the woman, and standing
there with a 'but I always get the woman' look on his face as she walks
away...

Joe
jfinn@ll.mit.edu
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From: tomcat@cwis.unomaha.edu (Jeffrey S. Jo)
Subject: Re: Question about a ST: TNG show?
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 08:40:54 GMT

demirtjis@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Ann Demirtjis) writes:

>-- I have a question which should seem very simple to most of u (I just started
>watching ST:TNG).
>I saw about 2 or 3 months ago a ST:TNG episode in which the Enterprise
>comes into contact with a probe which causes Picard to "live" another
>life on some planet about to go nova. I think the son of Patrick Steward
>plays the role of the son of Picard in this show. Anyway, I'd like to know
>if this show was one of last season and if it will be one of the reruns still
>to come (before the new season starts). 

>	Thanks in advance for the help.
>				
>						Ann.
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Ann Demirtjis				       University Of Kansas
>                                               Academic Computing Services
>demirtjis@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu		       Lawrence, Ks, 66045
Yep!  This episode, "The Inner Light" is from the 5th season, and is yet to
be shown again.  I think in two weeks.  I've heard that it was Patrick
Stewarts favorite (or at least one) show he's done.  His performance was
great!
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|Jeffrey S. Jo                  |		U.S.S. Enterprise              |
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|University of Nebraska at Omaha|        Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards, Mars     |
|tomcat@cwis.unomaha.edu        |             Launched Stardate 40759.5        |
From: markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Mark Bixby)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: More GIF problems
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:12:52 GMT
Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA

In article <1992Aug13.233343.24582@wdl.loral.com> trw@spl1.spl.loral.com (Tim R Witort) writes:
>When I ftp to vab02.larc.nasa.gov and get the GIF files
>there then view them using xv, xv says they appear to be
>truncated and when they are displayed, the bottom of the
>image is chopped off. Some of them are fine though.
>
>What gives?

Make sure you're using "binary mode" when you ftp them.  Failure to do so
guarantees problems.
-- 
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From: zornow@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Claudia Zornow)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:51:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Guinan and Bald Men...wrt TAII
Organization: HP SSD R & D
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current

>> Do we need to write "THIS IS A JOKE" for the ironically-impaired?

> On Usenet, the answer is, unfortunately, yes.  However, it's usually
> shortened to ":-)".  As much as it hurts my sense of humor to bang you over
> the head with a smiley, it's usually worth it to avoid misunderstandings.

> -- Richard

Why is this true for Usenet only?  It seems that we manage to
convey irony, sarcasm, and jokes well enough in every other
form of written communication without resorting to smilies.

I'm not disputing the claim that it is necessary on Usenet,
just wondering why.  

Claudia
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From: Jonathan P. Crone <cronejp@bnr.ca>
Subject: Re: Season Premiere-- Geordi Dies!!!
Organization: Bell Northern Research
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1b3
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:45:35 GMT

In article <cole.714215670@lea> Robert Cole, cole@lea.csc.ncsu.edu writes:
>jxs52@po.CWRU.Edu (Jonathan Sheir) writes:
>
>>I just recently found out from a reliable source that Geordi will be
killed
>>in the premiere in an attempt to save Data's life.  LeVar Burton wished
to
>>leave and the writers thought it would be a good way to send him off 
It will
>>give Data more of an appreciation as to what friendship really is.
>
>This is the main reason that Scotty is being introduced into TNG.  The
>chief engineer is an important role and rather than take time to develop
>a new character, the producers felt it a good idea to use a characte
>already well known to the audience.  Colm Meaney (the transporter chief)
>was considered as a replacement, but as he is signed on for DS9, the
>decision to use Scotty was made.

Uh, excuse me guys, but this is August, not April 1st...

Plus, even with the larger engine cores in the Enterprise-D, I don't
think that
Scotty could fit in there...

Jonathan P. Crone	613-763-8624	Fax 613-763-2803	ESN:393-8624
BNR Audio Conformance			cronejp@bnr.ca
BNR pays me to design and test telephone systems, not to have a
net.opinion.
From: ccoprdj@prism.gatech.EDU (Jorge Diaz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: a little controversy on the episode: the perfect mate
Date: 23 Aug 92 01:15:31 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <1992Aug23.004842.25257@news.iastate.edu> bipin@iastate.edu (Bipin K Dalmia) writes:

>my friend and i had this little argument after watching the episode 'the
>perfect mate' last weekend. my friend says that capt. picard slept with
>the metamorph, camalla and i say that he didn't. he (my friend) says
>that it was implied when picard just smiles when the old guy asks him
>'how did you resist the temptation?' and i say that the silent smile
>just indicated the mysterious nature of picard.

Well, there's no evidence in the episode itself to clear it up.  However,
I think that he didn't (and I know that that should be enough evidence
for you ;-).  Seriously, though, I think that most people in this group
agreed that he didn't, although many thought he had.

I also read in this newsgroup that someone said that Patrick Stewart was
adament that Picard NOT sleep with the metamorph.  But you know how reliable
such rumors are....

I think you won, but....


-- 
Jorge Diaz                       | Sign in a restaurant:
Georgia Institute of Technology  | 
Office of Information Technology |   "We reserve the right to serve refuse to
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From: schamber@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (CHAMBERLAND S - BIOLOGY)
Subject: Re: One more reason to hate "Cost of Living"?
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 04:04:22 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.231255.8341@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> kanamori@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Atsushi Kanamori) writes:
>In article <1992Aug18.174544.8946@news.unomaha.edu> tomcat@cwis.unomaha.edu (Jeffrey S. Jo) writes:
>>tomcat@cwis.unomaha.edu  writes:
>>	A little defense for this episode.  It was bad, ok, I'll grant you
>>that.  But, I tell people it was a sympathy episode for Majel Barret for the
>>loss of her husband.  Fans mourned over the loss, but we didn't feel the loss
>>as bad as she did.  How would we feel if we lost a loved one or someone close.
>>I think Rick Berman had to cheer up Majel and gave her an episode where
>>she could tell viewers what she felt after the loss of Gene, at least thats
>>what I think.  Anyone else? :-)
>
>People die every day. Does TNG give every one of their loving ones an
>episode to air their grief? What makes Ms. Barrett any more deserving
>of an ENTIRE EPISODE devoted to "cheering her up?" 

Well, considering that TNG agreed to the Wesley character (which is
said was Gene's idea, and which occured during 4 full seasons),
I think that it's a possible explanation... ;-)

Besides, people die every day, yes, but not in the TNG staff...

>. .                .                .        
>: : . :. . :  :....: : .  ::.: .  ..: :    ..     : :    .:   :.:
>::::::::::.: :::::::.:::::::::::.:::::: :?.:::::..::::.:.:: :.:::?
>------------ -------------------------- -------------------.------
>Kanamori's Episode Ratings: (last episode rated: "Time's Arrow")
>  "This season began with a turkey. I'm simply trying to see 
>   that it doesn't end that way." -- fictitious Paramount writer

-- 
Sylvain Chamberland     |   "Trust is earned, not given away!"
University of Waterloo  |          - Worf, Star Trek The Next Generation
Waterloo, Ontario.      |
From: awesome@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca (Travis Leippi)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Season Premier --- Jean-Luc Grows Hair
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 13:48:50 PDT
Organization: TradeNET International Trade Corp.

Just kidding
From: ttoronyi@server.uwindsor.ca (Tibor Toronyi)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: ST:TNG gifs
Keywords: gif pictures
Date: 14 Aug 1992 19:08:25 GMT
Organization: University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Speaking about the README file on VAB02.  It seems out of date. Somethings
are listed but not there.  One in particular I would like is

sttng211.gif  Denise Crosby.

Can anybody Email me an encoded file?

Thanks

TT
EMAIL: ttoronyi@cs.uwindsor.ca
From: kuchar@buast7.bu.edu (Tom Kuchar)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: STIV and the transtator
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:42:44 GMT
Organization: Astronomy Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In a previous article, Charles_Laine@CCIS.BAYLOR.EDU (Charles Laine) says:

>In Star Trek IV, when Chekov attempts his escape from the "nuclear
>wessel", he leaves behind both his communicator and his phaser.  Now, if
>you remember in "A Piece of the Action" after McCoy leaves his
>communicator behind, Spock informs Bones of how damaging that could be. 
>The communicator contained something called a 'transtator', which Spock
>said was the key to much of the technology in the late 23rd century.

Only thing though, it was Klingon technology.  They were carrying
some of the Klingon standard issue equipment.




-- 
Tom Kuchar			  
kuchar@buast7.bu.edu		  -or-                      kuchar@plh.af.mil
Department of Astronomy		                     Phillips Laboratory/GPOB
Boston Univerity		                                  Hanscom AFB
From: alex@leo.ipac.caltech.edu (Alex Werner)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: another fun episode...
Keywords: ouch.
Date: 21 Aug 92 18:28:49 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology

I have heard from "reliable sources" that the last episode of next season will
end with not just Geordi, but EVERY SINGLE MEMBER of the crew dead. Then the
entire cast of TOS will appear, with a collection of hair-brained explanations
for why they are there, which bil down to "well, we weren't making enough
money just from conventions" and will take over the enterprise-D
From: cpeterse@cs.ulowell.edu (chrispy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: a missed opportunity
Date: 15 Aug 92 00:15:42 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science


> actress who played Soren in "The Outcast" was Amy on the first season of 
  ^^^^^^^

It occurs to me that the producers missed a perfect opportunity to see
just how good of an actor Frakes really is........

... cast a _man_ as Soren!

I can picture the set...



Soren:		Commander, tell me about your sexual organs.
Soren softly caresses Riker's thigh.
<SMACK!>
director:	CUT!!!      Johnny,  you've gotta stop knocking out all of
		my actors!


or...


director:	CUT!!!      John, John, John,   you've got to kiss him
		*passionately* !!


what a riot!
:) :) :)
From: bbarber@sierra.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: before the beard
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:34:48 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.startrek.beards
Organization: Sierra Geophysics, North Dallas Technology Ctr.


 Bryan Michael Kearney writes...

>I have some observations whcih i would like to bring up. I, along with
>many of my Fraternity brothers, am a fan of both TOS and THG. Every
>    *** blah blah blah ****
>We watch the show because it is fun. We socialize, laugh at people,
>yell, and just be rowdy.The same humor can be found in 90210 (Brenda is
>quite the Bimbo). Maybe I am taking things in the wrong conext. But it
>-- bk
>(I have a beard, and people tell me I look like Riker)

 You watch 90210?! You weren't like this *before* the beard.

Bryan "Q" Barber
-- 
Bryan Barber  |"He's bread, Jim." - McCoy after a tragic transporter accident
              |                     while visiting planet Pillsbury.
From: alex@rigg.ipac.caltech.edu (Alex Werner)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: WHO IS HOTTER? TROI, CRUSHER, OR GUININ?
Date: 17 Aug 92 21:47:56 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology

In article <1992Aug17.185154.3470@kronos.arc.nasa.gov> bates@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Andrew Bates) writes:
>
>    Minuet.  Hands down.
>
>    No, sorry, make that the woman from 'The Perfect Mate', instead.  Minuet's
>a close second.
>
>	Andy Bates.
>
I disagree... the hottest is Robin Lefler, Wesley's girlfriend from 
"The Game". Also Dr. Lea Braums...
From: hinson@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu (Jason W. Hinson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: The Warp Scale (was star trek vi: the und)
Date: 15 Aug 92 01:42:49 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Purdue University Physics Department

In article <1992Aug14.120405.28163@rosevax.rosemount.com> marknew@hydro.rosemount.com (Mark Newman) writes:
<Greetings,
<
<I've been following the FTL debate here and decided to offer
<my two bits. A few years back I read a book by a noted British 
<astronomer in which he stated that Einstein's laws only state
<that travel *at* the speed of light is impossible; speeds faster
<than light are possible under his equations. The author did 
<add that the mathematics required to prove this were somewhat
<involved, and that a way would have to be found to make the 
<jump from .99c to 1.01c without passing 1.0c.  
<
<Any physicists or mathematicians care to field this? 
<
<If anyone is interested I can dig up the book and provide 
<more information.
<
<
<Regards, 
<
<Mark Newman
<Rosemount, Inc.
<marknew@rosevax.rosemount.com

Even though the formulas allow FTL travel (for a mass that is an 
imaginary number), that FTL travel would still imply a violation of
causality.

-Jay
From: jimbo@qed.cts.com (jim lawson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: The shuttle ornaments are out !!
Date: 11 Aug 92 03:15:44 GMT
Organization: The QED BBS, Lakewood CA

I called my local Hallmark and asked if they had the Trek shuttle ornaments in
and they did !!!

I picked up 2 today, the sales lady told me they had just come in to the store
today (8/10/92).

I wonder why other stores told me they weren't coming in till the 29th ...

Jim Lawson      Address: Lawson%ssdvax.decnet@mdcgwy.mdc.com
                Alternate: Jimbo@qed.cts.com or qed!jimbo

Opinions expressed are my own, who else would want them !
From: kuchar@buast7.bu.edu (Tom Kuchar)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Season Premiere-- Picard has sex-change!!!
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:24:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: bu.94030
Organization: Astronomy Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA



Just read it in the Midnight Weakly World News Globe. What a shock!
Apparently so that no more women visiting the Enterprise will want to
rub his head.

Maybe I should have put a spoiler warning on this?

-- 
Tom Kuchar			  
kuchar@buast7.bu.edu		  -or-                      kuchar@plh.af.mil
Department of Astronomy		                     Phillips Laboratory/GPOB
Boston Univerity		                                  Hanscom AFB
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From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: Vulcans in TNG
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 12:51:53 GMT

In article <5707@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> keith@csc.liv.ac.uk (Keith Halewood) writes:
>In article <1992Aug11.173418.25121@bnlux1.bnl.gov>, schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:

>> Even if it were true that there were fewer appearances of Vulcans in
>> TNG, it wouldn't bother me a bit.  The ones that we have seen have been
>> so poorly played as to be embarassing.  Let's face it, the only
>> convincing portrayals I've ever seen have come from Nimoy and Mark
>> Lenard (and possibly the woman who played T'Pau in 'Amok').  I've never
>> seen such emotive Vulcans as the ones they get for TNG.
>
>Selar was a pretty 'typical' Vulcan in Schizoid Man, especially when examining the explosive Dr. Graves. Lots of raised eyebrow and cold, measured pronouncements.


And for some reason Selar still wound up being poor.  She reminded me
more of Checy Chase as Spock from the famous SNL skit.


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From: Steve Hast <hast@courier4.aero.org>
Subject: Denise Crosby in Red Shoe Diaries
X-Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 10:58:18 GMT
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation/Los Angeles
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d3
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:57:34 GMT

I saw an episode of Red Shoe Diaries this week with Denise Crosby (a.k.a.
Tasha Yar) on SHOWTIME.  Denise played a policewoman who arrests a
racketball player from her gym, takes him to an abandoned art warehouse,
and rape/seduces him.  Definitely 'hot' but definitely a male fantasy. 
As my wife put it, "Why don't the men ever take their clothes off?" 
Anyway, it's certainly worth watching if you are a Crosby fan.  Does
anyone know if this episode of Diaries will be repeated on SHOWTIME?  I
believe the show I watched was actually the second airing.  I would
appreciate any information about a repeat broadcast so I can videotape it
for my friends.

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Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Thursday, 13 Aug 1992 19:59:11 EDT
From: Jill Rhoads <JRHOADS@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Rumor has it....
 <1992Aug12.163843.29424@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>

From what I've heard here in DC which has a really odd situation in showing the
 Next Generation.  Creation may be own by Paramount because I know that only
 the Paramount station here is allowed to show it.  Apparently, Paramount might
 either own it or have an exclusive first dibbs right on the show.  I remember
this being explained to me at a convention when us non-cable ppl were
complaining about not getting in the station for a while.  The person that told
 us this info went on to say that in areas where there isn't a Paramount
station that other stations can bid for it.  Other than this info, I don't know
 much more.
Xref: sparky rec.arts.startrek.current:11692 rec.arts.startrek.misc:8265 rec.arts.startrek.fandom:1276 rec.arts.startrek.tech:4562
From: bbarber@sierra.com (Bryan Barber)
Subject: The Outcast
Followup-To: r.a.s.[cm]
Keywords: Riker, alien, babe
Organization: Sierra Geophysics, North Dallas Technology Ctr.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 20:42:36 GMT

Laura Halliday writes:

>`The Outcast' was a major disappointment in many ways, not the least of which
>was that all but one of the supposed androgynes looked approximately female,
>and not androgynous at all. Grumble.

They had to be female so Riker could fall for the weekly alien babe. I can't
picture him chasing after anything even vaguely male. Besides, I thought it 
was a very relevant episode. With all of the current research pointing toward
physical reasons for homosexuality (some underdeveloped gland, lack of 
separation between the hemispheres of the brain), gay people might end up 
being "cured" in a few years (just like Soren).
-- 
Bryan Barber  |"He's bread, Jim." - McCoy after a tragic transporter accident
              |                     while visiting planet Pillsbury.
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From: foxx@foxxjac.b17a.ingr.com (TheFoxx "AJ")
Subject: Re: Physical Fitness
Reply-To: foxx@foxxjac.b17a.ingr.com
Organization: "Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville AL"
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1992 21:13:59 GMT

matthews_k@cubldr.colorado.edu writes:
|> bbarber@sierra.com writes:
|> > Doesn't Starfleet have physical fitness standards? [...]
|> > 
|> > 	Geordi LaForge:	LaPudge has definitely porked up since season [...]
|> > 	
|> >       William T. Riker:	"T" is for "Tubby" [...]
|> > 			
|> >        Beverly Crusher: Remember the slim doctor [...]
|> > 			
|> >   	   Deanna Troi: The widest hips on the Enterprise[...]
|> > 			
|> Let he who is without weight cast the first stone...
|> 
|> Seriously, people don't just come in one size, despite
|> television's attempts to make us believe that.  If Marina Sirtis
|> lost weight she'd look like a stick, she happens to have *real*
|> *womanly* curves.  She's no little boy with boobs, like most
|> models.  (Did you know that most models are under 20 years old
|> and many of them anorexic, to boot?  I don't know about any one
|> else, but anorexia isn't a look I like to see.)  As for Gates
|> McFadden, please to recall that she had a baby last year, a very
|> large one, if I remember correctly.  Having a baby isn't easy,
|> nor is getting rid of the weight gained.  I think she looks
|> great!
|> 
|> So, please try to be a little more forgiving.  We all age, we
|> all change, most of us gain weight, save for those rare few
|> blessed with inefficient metabolisms.  Save the weightist cracks
|> for you and your friends who are perfect.
|> 

Well according to the last figures I saw :-) this year's average 
Miss Universe contestant weighed in around twenty something 
pounds underweight.  Maybe by the time we actually get out to see
more of the universe, anorexia won't be a fad any longer.
---
   ] Andrew "AJ" Foxx           
   ] foxx@foxxjac.b17a.ingr.com
From: dust@cs.UAlberta.CA (Dust Jason Norman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Place for Babylon 5
Date: 22 Aug 92 18:33:39 GMT
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada


	Although Babylon 5 may be interesting it is not Star Trek and
	therefore should be in its own newsgroup, not any of the ST
	newsgroups.  Just my opinion.



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