HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: delledg@jake.cc.wayne.edu (De Vaughn Elledge)
Subject: Re: BABYLON 5 vs ST:DSN - THE DEBATE BEGIN
Reply-To: delledg@jake.cc.wayne.edu
Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:28:10 GMT


DV>In article <92323.131943U23915@uicvm.uic.edu> Alizon Elliott <U23915@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
DV>>In article <Bxv8MH.9sx@cmptrc.lonestar.org>, brad@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Brad
DV>>Barton) says:
DV>>>
DV>>>In article <1992Nov15.205429.1@uwovax.uwo.ca> 4224_5201@uwovax.uwo.ca (Dark   d
DV>>>Lor
DV>>>of the Sith) writes:
DV>>>>
DV>>>>"But what does God want with a star ship?"
DV>>>>                            Spock
DV>>>                             ^^^^^
DV>>>Not trying to flame you, but Kirk said this.
DV>>>
DV>>>--
DV>>>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DV>>>-
DV>>>|                    Brad Barton -- brad@cmptrc.lonestar.org
DV>>>|
DV>>>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DV>>>| "No matter how hard you throw a dead fish into the water, it still won't
DV>>>|  swim."                                                  -- Marian Stevens
DV>>>| "I never lie when I have sand in my shoes, Commodore."   -- Geordi LaForge
DV>>                                              ^^^^^^^^^
DV>>
DV>>Not to flame you or anything, but wasn't this said to Centurion Baccra(sp?) ?
DV>>
DV>>                                   Alizon Elliott
DV>
DV>	Yeah, but Mr. LaForge didn't know his name at the time.  The quote is 
DV>correct.
DV>-- 
DV>	The Analog Person (analog@mentor.cc.purdue.edu)
DV>	Suffering is the origin of conciousness.- Dostoyevsky
DV>	I want to look at life, in the available light-Neil Peart
DV>	A little fascism every now and then is good for you!- Matt J. Martin




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From: schamber@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Sylvain Chamberland)
Subject: Re: Vulcan actress and Worf's mate
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:21:55 GMT

In article <1eb6gtINN79b@wyatt.ksu.ksu.edu> fjs@wyatt.ksu.ksu.edu (Frank J Sereno) writes:
>
>
>And.......if anyone didn't notice.....the same actress who played the Vulcan in
>'The Shizoid Man' is, IMHO, the same actress who played Worf's mate.
>
>Anyone else care to comment?

In Mark Holtz's TNG List of Lists, she is indeed credited with playing Dr.
Selar and Kheyl'er (sp.?).

>Frank Sereno
>Kansas State University

-- 
Sylvain Chamberland           INTERNET: schamber@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca   
Dept. of Biology          -----------------------------------------------------
University of Waterloo    |  "Biochimiste un jour, biochimiste toujours!"
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada |                               - anonyme
From: thogek@cco.caltech.edu (Thomas G. Kiefer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Riker's Beard (actually his whole body)
Date: 23 Nov 1992 19:35:55 GMT
Organization: Nope, just me.
NNTP-Posting-Host: jomby.caltech.edu

In article <1992Nov21.230757.9048@ac.dal.ca> lennon@ac.dal.ca writes:
> Is it just me, or has Riker lost weight AND picked up some 
>nifty grey hairs in his beard ?
>
>Probably too much naked pretzel, I guess.

I heard that at one of the cons (or some other appearance) a
couple seasons ago, Jonathan Frakes admitted an awareness that
he had picked up some weight in the first few seasons, and was
working to trim back down.  He also acknowledged that he tended
to pose a lot in the early TNG episodes, and has been working
on toning that down as well.
-- 
======================================================
====> Thomas Kiefer <===> thogek@cco.caltech.edu <====
======================================================
From: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Quality of Life
Date: 22 Nov 92 20:36:22 GMT
Reply-To: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Dept., Madison, WI

In <1992Nov22.175918.18187@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> cmeadows@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Meadows) writes:
>Spoilers Ahoy!

>I wonder if I was the only one who immediately thought of Artoo-Detoo
>when the Exocomp refused to enter that tunnel but merely sat there 
>making funny noises?  And if you consider that Commander Data might
>be considered similar to C-3PO, you'd almost expect him to start
>addressing the exocomps in a British accent...  :)

Yeah, I thought of R2D2 a couple of times. :-)  I also thought of Nomad from
Classic Star Trek.  I thought the exocomps' levitation was really, REALLY
badly done, compared even to Nomad.

-- 
Michael Rawdon				 rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu
University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Department, Madison, WI

"My favorite Star Trek With Jean-Luc episode is the one where some alien
 kills another in the first five minutes and then the crew debates for the
 next 55 minutes about what to do.  My favorite Star Trek With Captain Kirk
 is the same as anyone else's, the one where Kirk, overacting, falls in
 love with a beautiful alien babe, which Spock calls illogical, and where a
 bunch of security guys die.  You know the one?"
							- A friend
From: norbert@wpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy James)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Troi 24..30...56...
Date: 17 Nov 1992 15:22:57 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

In article <1992Nov16.204743.677@microsoft.com> laurahal@microsoft.com (Laura Halliday) writes:
>
>*I* don't see what the problem is. Marina Sirtis is a woman,
>and is shaped like one. Like a real woman, not the 12 year old
>pseudo-male figures that the fashion industry seems obsessed with.
>
>I think she has a cute butt...
>
>...laura in a curmudgeonly mood
>


Hurrah!
You have made the best point so far in
the ongoing "Troi's butt" argument!
Who wants a twig!
I bet you have a nice butt too...

-- 
--------------
Timothy James McInerney 
tmcinern@feds26.Prime.com    "I wanna decide who lives 
norbert@wpi.wpi.edu           and who dies"  - Crow
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From: jsbell@acs.ucalgary.ca (Joshua Bell)
Subject: Re: Teleporter Question
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 20:50:30 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

In article <92322.100541JSP6@psuvm.psu.edu> Jeffrey S. Payne <JSP6@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>In article <gp2001-171192020853@m248-112.bgsu.edu>, gp2001@andy.bgsu.edu (Greg
>Pallenik) says:
>>In article <168A11D6A.97994779@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu>, 97994779@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu wrote:
>>>     Why do they have transporter pads? They can transport from anywhere to
>>> anywhere without standing on a pad, why does it matter? Wouldn't it be
>>> easier to just do point to point transports?
>> I think the pad acts as a collector.  It's help keep the beam together.
>>While it's possible to not use it, it's safer when you do (maybe it's more
>>like a condom...)

Site-to-site transport means beaming the person out, shuffling
the matter stream into another pattern buffer, then beaming them
in in the new site. Occupies two pattern buffers, and is
therefore only used during emergencies. (It also means they can
have dialogue on the way to the transporter room. :)

>Close (I think...I don't have a tech manual either)...If I had to guess,
>site to site transport evolved from transporting, say from the planet to the
>transporter, and then transporting back to somewhere else on the planet.
>(two separate steps - *two* transports) Site to site might just be buffering
>the stream at the transporter between the two sites to save time. 

Dead on. :)

>What bugs me is when someone gets hurt, and the med teams have to *run* from
>the other side of the ship to help, and then put them on a stretcher to get
>them to sickbay.  I think they should transport the injured direct to
>sickbay, where there are lots of doctors, equipment, etc...Am I expecting
>too much?

They do 'transport directly to sick bay' fairly frequently. We
rarely see them transport _in_ to sickbay as there is usually
background activity in the sickbay (nameless crewmembering doing
whatever), while in the transporter room there's just a static
background. That makes the effects a bit more difficult.

Also, by the time someone is being beamed to the sickbay, they
are likely 'out of action', and unless the story is revolving
around them, its not very dramatic to watch bones being set, cuts
sealed, etc, while The Nameless Horror munches on the Away Team.

Joshua
|         A shimmering net undulating like an infinite borealis.             |
|                                                  - Chapterhouse: Dune      |
|                                                                            |
| jsbell@acs.ucalgary.ca  Academic Computing Services, University of Calgary |
From: 9225803@ul.ie
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: request
Date: 16 Nov 92 20:47:51 GMT
Organization: University of Limerick, Ireland


Could someone please post in,or E-mail me personally,the opening stardates of
TNG episodes "Sins of the Father","The High Ground","Final Mission" and "Data`s
Day".
================================================================================
* Paul Dix               *                                                     *
* 9225803@ul.ie          *  "Attempting the hell to communicate?"              *
* University of Limerick *       -Spock of Vulcan,Star Trek IV-the Voyage Home *
* Ireland                *                                                     *
*                        *                                                     *
================================================================================
  Thanks in advance.
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From: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon)
Subject: Re: YOU'RE ALL MESSED
Reply-To: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu
Organization: University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Dept., Madison, WI
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 20:38:19 GMT

In <1eoikaINN2ng@bigboote.WPI.EDU> satch@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Michael Victor Corbin) writes:
>FUCK YOU ALL(except for the ones that have some what of a clue, this is
>however few)

>Almost everyone in this newsgroup should really be in 
>alt.asshole.startrek.flamers.clueless.teeny.bobbers.cheese-lovers.head.in.
>clouds.inaccurate.thinkers.no.idea.what.a.bad.actress.is.idiots

>I've put up with you guys for a month or two and most of you either bring up
>irrelavent or just stupid comments. All you do is trash the new season and
>when they finally put out an episode worth trashing, you like it. WHAT THE
>HELL

The phrase "difference of opinion" must not be in this dude's repertoire.

>FLAMERS GO HOME 

Take your own advice, guy.  Or at least go take a cold shower!

-- 
Michael Rawdon				 rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu
University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Department, Madison, WI

"Beauty... survives."
				- James T. Kirk, "That Which Survives"
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From: chuck@edsi.plexus.COM (Chuck Tomasi)
Subject: Re: Blooper in "Fistfull..." Possible Spoilers.
Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 12:40:52 GMT

tomcat@cwis.unomaha.edu (Jeffrey S. Jo) writes:

:)POssible blooper, and I've checked over it a lot but not really sure, but did
:)Data use a contraction during the scene the Observation Lounge with Geordi,
:)Picard, and Riker.   The scene when they first noticed his "Ancient Western"
:)accent...he said "I've been studying" some sort of music...

I'll have to check it out.  You could be right.

Now - how many people were able to say "Dvorak: Slovanic Dance #8" when
the music was tripped up on the computer?!  It scared me to think that I
recognized the song from my limited repetoir.
-- 
Chuck Tomasi             |   "A munk a clone and a Ferengi
chuck@edsi.plexus.COM    |    decide to go bowling together..."
spool!cserver!edsi!chuck |             -Data "The Outrageous Okana"
------<Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton Wisconsin>------
From: judson@watserv.ucr.edu (Michael Judson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Holodeck etiquette (or lack of it!)
Date: 15 Nov 92 21:29:59 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.054304.3078@tronsbox.xei.com> dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com  
(Dennis Heffernan) writes:
> In article <1992Nov8.144503.2057@ucbeh.san.uc.edu> raudenbc@ucbeh.san.uc.edu  
writes:
> |OK...What if Picard and Riker were holding on to opposite ends of a rope?
> |(A real rope...not a holodeck rope).
> 
> 	IF they were still within the physical confines of the holodeck, no
> problem.  If they weren't, I imagine it would do the holographic tricks to
> make the visual part look right, break the rope, and simulate the tension on
> it with tractor beams.

I don't know as if this would work.  The holodeck can not simulate everything.
It can not simulate real human beings, though it can create human beings which
act as they are programmed to act.  And, like a computer, it does not know
what comedy is.  Take for example, the show in which Data tries his humor on
the holodeck and he finds that the audience is only programmed to laugh at
anything.  Therefore, the holodeck would probably not be able to do what you
are suggesting.  The suggesting poses a type of problem, and the solution
takes imagination, which is clearly possessed by the previous poster.  I don't
know as if this would be how I would solve the problem.  Since it takes 
creativity, the holodeck would probably not be able to think about this
particular solution.  First of all, would the computer know that the two were
holding a rope?  Secondly, would the computer know what the intentions of the
two would be in order for it to know what to do?
--
"It takes a big man to cry.
but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man."
				Jack Handy


judson@watserv.ucr.edu
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From: barry@seas.smu.edu (Robert Barry)
Subject: Re: Fistful of Datas: GREAT FUN!
Organization: SMU School Of Engineering and Applied Science
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:16:04 GMT

In article <9695@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood) writes:
>
>> If you found yourself NOT laughing at Fistful of Datas,
>> then you must have no sense of humor whatsoever! 
>
>
>That WOULD describe most of the readers of *this* newsgroup. :-P

Is this ":-P" a smiley with his tongue out? I love it! This is most
interesting thing Ive read on this newsgroup in a while!

Oh, I also though Fistful of Datas was funny.  IMHO this was an 
excellent, light episode.  I, however, believe that we've seen 
too many light episodes of late - and I think this is whats causing
a lot of the hub-ub.  


>Terry

Robert
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From: ternent@oima2.oim.uiuc.edu (John Ternent)
Subject: Re: KAHN's last name?
Organization: Office for Information Management, University of Illinois
Distribution: rec.arts.startrek.current
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 01:15:31 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.194718.17730@njitgw.njit.edu> andy@eies2.njit.edu (Andy) writes:


>Here's something I haven't seen discussed... maybe because it's nothing!

>I was watching William Shatner on QVC (a cable shopping channel) last night.
>He was speaking about KAHN (Ricardo Montalban) and mentioned that his
>full name was something like KAHN NUNIAN SING (literal spelling).

>Now, isn't the guy who created Mr. Data named DR. NOONIAN SOON, or
>something like that?  Is there some sort of connection between these
>two names other than that they sound similar?  

>If this is off-topic, an E-mail reply would be appreciated!

>Thanks

You figured it out! Dr. Soong (sp?) is really Khan reincarnated; he put all 
kinds of weird things into Data's programming just to piss off whoever's in 
command of the starship Enterprise. Don't believe me? Just watch next week's 
episode and see what Data screws up next!

John
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From: migarcia@hfglobe.intel.com (Mike Garcia)
Subject: Re: Trekkies vs. Trekkers
Organization: Intel Corporation
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:17:51 GMT

drakonar@cs.montana.edu (Charles L. Stewart III) writes:

>In article <1dkdfpINNm4d@cs.widener.edu> SBARNETT@tattoo.cs.widener.edu (Scott Barnett) writes:
>>Hi Everyone,
>>   I am currently writing an ethnography for my Anthropology class and would
>>be gratefull if some could answer a question for me.  What is the difference
>>between a Trekkie and a Trekker?  Thanks.
>>
>>

>Trekkies are fanatics, Trekkers are serious-minded fans.   :)

>-- 
>      ---=>   Charles Stewart (aka Scott) : drakonar@cs.montana.edu   <=---
>	          "Oh oh.  Looks like we need another Timmie!"
>			   For Dinosaurs fans only.

yes I tend to agree..   ;)

Hawk

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From: d_ellis@ricks.enet.dec.com (David Ellis  16-Nov-1992 1358)
Subject: Re: Emporer from "Jedi" on ST:TNG?
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 10:59:43 PST
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x91anderso33@gw.wmich.edu (Karl Anderson) asks:

> Who is the guy who played the baseball-loving scientist in third season's 
> "Evolution?"  My friend ... swears on his life that it's the same guy who 
> played the Emporer in Return of the Jedi.

Ken Jenkins played Dr. Stubbs.  I believe the Emperor was played by 
Ian McDermyd (sp).

----
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From: csi056@cch.coventry.ac.uk (WEG)
Subject: Re: Picard's accent
Organization: Coventry University
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 09:22:02 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.143307.1@emu.insted.unimelb.edu.au> s334147@emu.insted.unimelb.edu.au writes:
>Patrick Stewart is English.
>Jean-Luc Picard is French speaking English.
>He was obviously taught by an English person, therefore he speaks English (as
>in the English that is spoken in England) with a French accent.

I would dispute this. I say he speaks American English. If he did speak
English then he wouldn't mispronounce the rank lieutenant as _loo_tenant.

Mark
-- 
Al Bundy - An inspiration. A role model.
Kelly Bundy - An inspiration. And some.
	(Anyone know anything about Christina Applegate? Mail me)
WEG: csi056@uk.ac.cov.cch  or  csi056%cch.cov.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
From: pcl@engr.uark.edu (Peter Laws)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Exo-comps or Tater Tots
Date: 23 Nov 92 20:39:25 GMT
Organization: University of Arkansas

runyan@cup.hp.com (Mark Runyan) writes:

>Marie Cannizzaro (C14383@maccvm.corp.mot.com) wrote:
>> These cute little devices reminded me of space prunes, tater tots
>>or some twentieth century version of the Hamburglers sidekicks. MC
>
>Actually, considering their plump shape and two feet and the fact
>that the Thanksgiving season is coming in the U.S.A., my first thought
>was "Electronic Turkeys"!


NO NO NO....Piiiiiggggssss in Spaaaaaaace!!!!!!!!
From: det@phlan.sw.stratus.com (David Toland)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: I Borg{==}Vendetta
Date: 16 Nov 92 13:25:39 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering
NNTP-Posting-Host: phlan.sw.stratus.com

In article <o1N9TB4w165w@infopls.chi.il.us> hermes@infopls.chi.il.us (Eugene Skonicki) writes:
>
>Vendetta was good, but it was not "I Borg"

(this really doesn't belong in r.a.s.CURRENT, but since it seems to be
stuck here:)

I didn't really dislike "Vendetta", but I did feel there was a touch of
"kitchen sink syndrome" to it.  It seemed to try too hard to tie in
as many trek legends as it could (Doomsday machine, Tholians, Borg, ...)

But maybe that's why so many out there love it...


-- 
det@phlan.sw.stratus.com   |  "Laddie, you'll be needin' something to wash
                           |  that doon with."
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From: YANJUNA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu
Subject: Re: Trekkies vs. Trekkers
Organization: Yale University
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 22:36:35 EST

>>
>>>Trekkie
>>>	Someone who likes Star Trek
>>
>>>Trekker
>>>	Someone who worships Star Trek
>>
>>
>>It's the other way round - the Trekkie is the fanatic...
>>
>>Daniel.
>
>Say Trekkie too loud at a convention and all the fanatic Trekkers
>will hunt you down and beat you up.
>
 
   Hmm.  I've been a "Trekkie" since 1975; (I would have been one earlier,
but I only came to this country in 1974, and never saw the show before then),
and I've watched the show almost religiously, fighting my brothers who wanted
to watch _The Brady Bunch_ (I still refuse to watch the show), and collecting
all ST books which were published at the time; (I was 11 then).
   Of course, no one around me took me seriously, and I was labelled a
"Trekkie"; I still think of the term as sort of "a badge of courage"; after
all, many of these people who call themselves "Trekkers" came in fairly late,
with STII or III; and many of them are the same ones who called us "Trekkies"
in the deep dark days of mid-70s.  But it was the "Trekkies" who kept the show
alive, and brought back ST in movies, and TNG.
 
 
 
************************************************************************
   "INSANITY IS A VIRTUALLY IMPREGNABLE GAMBIT...
BUT YOU HAVE TO LAY THE GROUNDWORK EARLY IN THE GAME..."
 
    JUNSOK YANG (YANJUNA@YALEVM.YCC.EDU)
 
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From: Diane
Subject: Re: Beards vs. Make-up
Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 11:05:50 CST

In article <1992Nov22.114245.2638@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>
xenon@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu writes:
 
>re: Recent episode of Star Trek where Dr. Beverly Crusher says that beards are
>an "affectation" comparable to the wearing of makeup by women.
>Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that SHAVING is the "affectation"?
 
(whining) Xenon, this is sooooooo unfair! I can't even explain
Dworkin/McKinnon* and NOW you're hitting us (women) with what a fictional
character on a sci-fi show has to say????
 
I definitely prefer women without beards and men without make-up!
 
Diane
 
* jeesh, I don't even know if I *spelled* them right!
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
From: abick@sebastian.carleton.ca (Alan Bick)
Subject: ST: TNG on Joan Rivers
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:14:49 GMT

Someone posted a message saying that the cast (except for Levar Burton)
would be on the Joan Rivers Show today. I set my VCR to record it and...I
had a power failure around noon today so it wiped out the timer and
nothing got taped. I'm not asking for someone to give me a transcript or
anything but could someone who actually saw it post a message (or email
me) saying what "interesting" things were said.
I'll leave it to you to decide what "interesting" is.

Thanks in advance,

Alan Bick

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From: morgan@math.psu.edu (Ilene Morgan)
Subject: Re: Worf, the Klingon Punching Bag...
Organization: Penn State Department of Mathematics
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:21:59 GMT

In article <YBF=RVB@engin.umich.edu> avalon@synecdoche.engin.umich.edu (Jonathan Richard Chittenden) writes:
>
>Worf did kill Duraas (sp?).  That's the only time I can
>think of.  It is sickening to see a Klingon being so
>un-wariorlike.  The writers should allow Worf to satisfy
>his blood-lust.
>

I have to disagree a little.  In Redemption I and II we see Worf trying
to get in touch with his Klingon heritage but not being completely
comfortable with it.  Finally, at the end of R II he was given the life
of Duras' son (don't remember the name) and decided to spare it.  When
told that killing him would be the Klingon way, he said it was not *his*
way.  While he still is exhilarated by the prospect of battle, his desire
to kill seems to have been tempered by his association with humans and the
Federation.

With these scenes in mind, I don't think it's inconsistent for the writers
not to let Worf fulfill his blood-lust; he seems to have decided that he
doesn't have any.

Just my $.02...

Ilene
morgan@math.psu.edu
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