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From: goldman@orac.CRAY.COM (Matthew D. Goldman)
Subject: Re: where are the real keyboards?
Organization: Cray Research, inc.
Date: 31 Jul 92 09:12:20 CDT

In article <Vs75NB1w165w@bigtime.wa.com> larry@bigtime.wa.com (Larry Gilbert) writes:
>I can't resist adding my own slightly tangential thought to the thread.  It
>makes an amusing exercise to imagine what the original prototypes of the
>Enterprise software would be like; perhaps they would use real keyboards for
>initial development...

I've often wondered what would happen if any of the next generation
folks said, "Computer, transfer system console to this station." Or
perhaps, "Computer, display os prompt and VT100 compatable keyboard."

Somewhere deep in the 1701D is there an old DEC writer with lots and
lots of paper?

Where do they store the system backups?  How often do they run
backups?  Who does the backups?  Do they backup everything, or do they
just backup the mainframe?  Do they backup the tricorders and all of
the computer run hardware?  What about the computers in the
shuttlecraft?  How long do they keep backups around for?

How big is the boot pack for the 1701D, or do they boot from ROM?

Today is too weird for me.

Matt

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From: aa393@yfn.ysu.edu (Jason Bakos)
Subject: Re: Gravity on STVI and TNG
Reply-To: aa393@yfn.ysu.edu (Jason Bakos)
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 22:36:49 GMT


In a previous article, NAG101@psuvm.psu.edu (Nick Giacobe) says:

>You also have to take into account that the artificial field generators have
>a sightly more important job to do besides making objects fall down rather than
>float.  They have to shield from the effects of the acceleration and decelera-
>tion of the ship.  Gee... wouldn't it really be terrible if the field generator
>in the Krusher quarters went out just as Picard said, "Engage" and poor Wesly
>got pulverized into a puddle against a bulkhead when he was a small child?
Finally!  I've finally found another Wesley hater! :-)  BTW - That's Crusher.
:-)

>
>
>Sorry, back to Tech...
>
>The filed genreators would therefore have to be located in all of the decks,
>overheads and bulheads to compensate for acceleration in all directions.  All
>you would have to do is indicate which direction you wanted as down and set the
>G-force level.  The field generators would have to compensate continually for
>any change in acceleration or direction thereof.
>
>
>--Nick
>
True, but isn't that the job of the inertial damping fields?
Jason
-- 
"What was the cause of your jocular reaction?" -Lt. Commander Data
From: ha09+@andrew.cmu.edu (Harith Jameel Alkhafiz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech
Subject: ST vs. Quark
Date: 28 Jul 92 18:47:02 GMT
Organization: Senior, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Let's see it:  The Enterprise-D versus the funniest interplanetary garbage scow
ever.  We could even throw in the evil "Mirror, Mirror" Quark for good measure!
I hope someone else out there remembers Quark...

###
9 9
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Jameel
Physicist-At-Large
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From: wcsbeau@alfred.carleton.ca (OPIRG)
Subject: Re: Momentum and Warp Drives
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 01:11:32 GMT

In article <91818@bu.edu> kuchar@buast7.bu.edu (Tom Kuchar) writes:
>
>
>I had thought that the Warp drive just altered spacetime for FTL
>travel, and that the impulse engines (your basic thrust rockets)
>propelled the ship in the space warp.
>
>My techno history of warp drive may be rusty. But I thought the Warp
>drive for the TOS ship provided both warp feild generation and thrust.
>When the upgrade occurred in TMP the system was separated to be more
>efficient. The warp drive just provides the warp field generation. The
>field generation was improved using the newer linear intermix system.
>Then the impulse engines were used primarily to provide the thrust
>while in and/or out of the space warp.

This, so far as I know, is the system presented in Scotty's Guide, but
has been suppanted by the (IMHO) more cannon source for TNG,
specifically the TNG technical manual.  The theory discussed in
TSTTNGTM is based on a series of nested subspace (warp) feilds each
with a 'natural' relative motion of .5 to .9c relative to the next
outer one, circumventing the light-speed barrier.  The details are
simultaneously obscure and non-existant.

BTW: is the Scotty's Guide theory gennerally accepted in the TOS/Movie
scenario?  I'm kinda curious, now that the TNG TM is out.  (FYI: I
still have no problem with it - warp technology must surely change
over the best part of a century)

Chritopher Allen
(wcsbeau@alfred.carleton.ca)
From: pjb@cci632.cci.com (Phil Busardo)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech
Subject: Re: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Date: 27 Jul 92 14:24:01 GMT
Organization: [Computer Consoles, Inc., Rochester, NY

In article <GERLACH.92Jul26232242@greyrock.greyrock.mso.colostate.edu> gerlach@greyrock.mso.colostate.edu (Scott Gerlach) writes:
>In article <archive.01v2@arb.uucp> archive@arb.uucp (CARL  L  SAGE)
>writes:
>
>>     One point that has disturbed me tho is McCoy's apparent lack of
>>   knowledge of Klingon anatomy.It is implied (pardon me if my memory is 
>>   faulty here,I have only seen STVI twice,neither time on home video)
>>   that one of the reasons for his inability to treat Gowron (sp?) is 
>>   that,in addition to the massive nature of the injuries,he has limited
>>   skill when it comes to Klingon anatomy.But this is the same surgeon
>>   who on at least one occasion had between 50-100 Klingons on board the 
>>   Enterprise (Classic Trek,the episode name escapes me,it is where the 
>>   "emotion vampire" traps Kang and his crew aboard the Enterprise and
>>   stimulates the crews to battle so as to feed itself).The implication
>>   that he provided medical treatment for these "guests" is there,so how 
>>   could Starfleets most experianced flight surgeon forget this type of 
>>   data?
>
>I just happened to see a rerun of the episode in question a couple of
>nights ago, and the way I remember it, McCoy was only treating the
>Enterprise crewmen who were injured.  The entity had inflamed emotions
>and racial hatred enough to make even the good doctor more than
>willing to let the Klingons die without a second thought.  When even a
>Vulcan starts showing signs of bigotry, a brief disregard for the
>Hypocratic Oath is excusable, even if it means you'll be tried for
>incompetence because you didn't poke around when you have the chance.
>

What about Trouble With Tribbles?  Towards the end of the episode McCoy
uses his scanner on the Klingon spy.  He mentions something about his
blood pressure and heart beat and instantly comes up with the conclusion 
that the man was a Klingon.  He must have known something of their
anatomy.
From: ph111-bx@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;7202)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech
Subject: Re: Other 24th Century TV Shows
Keywords: 24th, TV, miscellaneous
Date: 27 Jul 92 21:45:05 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <7708@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> linley@ada.seas.ucla.edu
(Bruce Linley) writes:
>What about Buck Rogers? Oh, sorry, that was the 25th century. 

What about Duck Rogers? Oops, that was the 24th and a half century.
From: mort@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Jeff Mortensen)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 07:53:42 GMT
Subject: Real Power Question
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech

				THE NEXT QUESTION OF
				WHO IS THE BEST IN WAR

	Lets not forget Battle Star Gallactica, and all its technology
	Could the Cylons be the badest asses..........................
	Could the Gallactic have superior powers over ST or SW........


			Let the debat begin..................

morty.....Man I would love to be Trois garter belt......................
From: iacovone@zeus.franklin.edu (Admiral DR Iacovone)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech
Subject: Why the Federation does not have cloaking!
Date: 29 Jul 92 06:47:55 GMT
Organization: Franklin University

+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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|*  .			*.   +    .  +       * .    *      .           |
|.      *  '           .         '     ,       +    .    *       *     |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
 	        	CLOAKED ENTERPRISE

If you can find it, you have no .life.

-- 
                                    _______
To boldy HACK where no one         /     __\______________
has HACKED before.                /     /========|   o    \
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Subject: Re: Continuity Errors... (was: Re: Star Trek VI: The 
From: silvers3@husc8.harvard.edu (Jolyon Silversmith)
Date: 30 Jul 92 18:17:51 EDT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

In article <1992Jul30.155325.2903@newshost.lanl.gov> jad@beta.lanl.gov (John De V
ries) writes:
>
>
>What really bothered me about the movie the first time I saw it (and
>have indeed confirmed this week when I rented the flick) was a glaring
>error in continuity.  Capt. Sulu comments about how they've been on a
>mission dealing with "gaseous anomalies."  Then, near the end of the
>flick, I believe it is Uhuru ON THE ENTERPRISE, NOT ON SULU'S SHIP
>wondering why they can't use their gaseous anomaly equipment to make a
>photon torpedo ever so much more useful (trying not to spoil things
>for people here...)
>
>Wrong ship, eh?


Yes, there is only ONE SHIP in all of Starfleet that carries equipment to
measure gaseous anomalies. It's a real pain - but it's better than the old
days when only one ship in the fleet had a shuttlecraft (remember "The Enemy
Within"?) :)

Seriously, in an earlier draft of ST:TUC, a scene made it evident that such
equipment was on the Enterprise (the Klingons tour the science labs).

-- 
Jolyon A. Silversmith __________________________________________________________
silvers3@husc.harvard.edu                            "At the end of history lies
Summer Address: 260 New Mark                          the undiscovered country."
Rockville, MD 20850 ____________________________________________________________
From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech
Subject: Re: Planet classificcations
Date: 23 Jul 92 12:13:46 GMT
Organization: Aston University

sks1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Sujay Shaunak) writes:
: 
:     Is there a list of various planet classifications. Such 
: as Class M, Class D. (I know what Class M is just using it as
: an examplei :).
: 
:     I am looking for such a list with an explanation about what
: makes each planet, asteroid, whatever fall into each specific
: category.
: 
There is a list somewhere, in a book called 'Worlds of the Federation'
I think.

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From: ph111-bx@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;7202)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech
Subject: Re: Real Power Question
Date: 24 Jul 1992 17:23:33 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <1992Jul24.160042.24711@hubcap.clemson.edu> charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV) writes:
}foxx@foxxjac.b17a.ingr.com (TheFoxx "AJ") writes:
}
}>Nick Giacobe <NAG101@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
}>|> mort@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Jeff Mortensen) 
}>|  says:
}>|> >
}>|> >        Lets not forget Battle Star Gallactica, and all its technology
}>|> >        Could the Cylons be the badest asses..........................
}>|> >        Could the Gallactic have superior powers over ST or SW........
}>|> >                        Let the debat begin..................
}>|> >
}>|> Yeah... but what about the crew from the ship in the movie _DarkStar_ ?  I
}>|> really think that thwy would have everyone beat hands down!  :-)
}>NoNoNo!  Troi would easily outclass them with her ability to 
}>cousel maladjusted bombs.  "I sense you feel a need to explode.  
}>Can we explore this?"  :-)
}
}How about the Spaceballs?  Could they just suck the big E right out of the
}universe?
}"Suck Suck Suck!"
}Or would the Big E get blown away?
}"It's Megamaid.  She's gone from suck to blow!"
}What a way to go ... :-)

Nahh, the Jupiter (7?) from "Lost in Space" could blow them all away.
From: thorn@wam.umd.edu (Greg Thornwall)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.info
Subject: volunteers needed FYI
Date: 27 Jul 92 21:28:31 GMT
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I saw this on a local post.  --Greg
From wam.umd.edu!usenet Thu Jul 23 07:22:16 EDT 1992
Article: 193 of dc.smithsonian
Newsgroups: dc.smithsonian
From: lita@next01pg2.wam.umd.edu (Lisa Helene Helfman)
Subject: Volunteers NEEDED for STAR TREK EXHIBIT at NASM
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 02:01:54 GMT
 
 STAR TREK FANS:  The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is  
 looking for dedicated volunteers to staff its very popular STAR TREK  
 Exhibition.  Anyone 16 years and older can become a volunteer for the  
 Smithsonian.  The next orientation for volunteers will be held THURSDAY,  
 JULY 30, at 6:00 p.m. at the National Air and Space Museum, Sixth Street  
 and Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC.  The museum is located one  
 block from the L'Enfant Plaza Metro Station.  For additional information  
 call (202) 786-2110.

 
        --responsibilities involve working with many visitor to this     
        exhibition, distributing and collecting passes, dispensing       
        information.
 
        --suggested commitment of two 4-hour shifts each month.
 
        --workday breaks down into three shifts, the first one beginning  
        at 9:00am, the last shift ending at 7:00pm.
 
        --in the evening, with plenty of daylight remaining, its a short,  
        safe walk from the Museum to the Metro station.
 
        --especially need staff Monday through Friday.
 
        --an ideal family activity.  Many of the volunters are parents   
        working together with their teenage children. 
 
        --an appreciation of the television show "Star Trek" is certainly  
        not a requirement in order to enjoy volunteering for this        
        exhibition. 
 
 

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From: rml!jack@lll-winken.llnl.gov (jack hagerty)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.info
Subject: TNG offices get Usenet posts
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Date: 22 Jul 1992 21:41:12 GMT
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OK. For all you get-a-lifers out there that have been losing sleep
worrying about whether any of your words lovingly posted on
r.a.s.c would ever reach the TNG production office, I can report
that at least a few of them have.
 
A little background:
 
Peter Lauritson has been one of the producers of TNG since the
beginning. I've known Peter's brother Mike for over 10 years. The
episode "The Inner Light" was Peter's directorial debut, and after
seeing (and mostly agreeing with) the mounds of accolades heaped
on the show I though "Ya know, Peter really ought to know about
the fans' reactions here." 
 
So, I filed away a sizable cross section of the posts to r.a.s.c
on that episode then called Mike to get his brother's phone number.
He gave me both his home number and work number at the TNG office
(and no, I am NOT going to give them out, so don't ask). I tried
both, only to get answering machines both times. Taking a chance,
I left a message on the home one and figured that was that. Why
would the producer call back a rabid fan just because he knows
his brother?
 
Well knock me over with a feather! He called back this afternoon!
Had a nice little chat and he said he was interested in seeing 
what I had, so I printed it out (21 pages worth) stuffed it in a 
big envelope and shipped it off to the studio.
 
All of the major r.a.s.c posters are represented as well as a
large number of part timers. Don't expect any world shaking
changes, but at least the studio now knows that we expect to see
at least a *little* change in Picard next season after this 
experience!
 
Sleep well,
 
- Jack
 
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From: jjm3@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Joseph Martino)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.info
Subject: Star Trek VII: NY Daily News 6/16/92
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Date: 22 Jul 1992 21:36:07 GMT
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Star Trek VII: NY Daily News 6/16/92
 
" There will be a Star Trek VII if Paramount chief Brandon Tartikoff 
gives the go-ahead. ' I'm waiting for word from Tartikoff now,' 
reveals William Shatner, who came up with the idea for 'VII': a 
romance for his aging Captain Kirk character and a young lovely... 
According to Shatner, if 'VII' is a go, 'all of the regular team will 
be back.' "

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From: mears@hpinddf.cup.hp.com
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Subject: And a pox on those Hair Club for Men guys!
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The following was excerpted from the People column of the San Jose Mercury
News on 13 July 1992.
 
                And a pox on those Hair Club for Men guys!
 
        Smooth-pated Patrick Stewart, better known as Capt. Jean-Luc
        Picard on ``Star Trek:  The Next Generation,'' has baldly gone
        where few have trekked before.  The readers of TV Guide just
        put him on top of the world in a popularity contest.  With 54
        percent of the votes, Stewart was annointed the most bodacious
        actor in the small-screen universe.  (Bodacious, for the slang-
        impaired, means outstanding in a showy way, and splendid, as
        well as bold, or blatant.)  The surprise of surprises, though,
        may have been some of the contenders the English actor beat
        out, including pulse-elevating Luke Perry of ``Beverly Hills
        90210'' and perennial suave guy Burt Reynolds of ``Evening
        Shade.''
 
        Gushed Stewart of the honor:  ``It would have been awfully nice
        if it had happened when I was 19 and lost my hair.  I believed
        that no woman would ever be interested in me again.  I prepared
        myself for the reality that a large part of my life was over.''
 
        On the distaff side, readers chose megamodel Cindy Crawford as
        the most bodacious woman on television.  She took 35 percent of
        the vote, topping the likes of talk-show host Kathie Lee Gifford
        and Jasmine Guy of ``A Different World.''
 
David B. Mears
Hewlett-Packard
Cupertino CA
hplabs!hpda!mears
mears@hpinddf.cup.hp.com
 
[Note - the interviews of both Stewart and Crawford are pretty good.  I
	encourage you to get a copy and read them - ed.]

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From: mears@hpinddf.cup.hp.com
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Subject: A connection between Seinfeld and Star Trek
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The 20 July issue of the San Jose Mercury News contained an article
(By Mike Duffy, Knight-Ridder News Service, Los Angeles) about next
year's season of the Seinfeld TV show.  The end of that article contains
a quote by Jason Alexander, who plays the neurotic character George
on the show.
 
        ``I became an actor because I wanted to be William Shatner
        commanding the aircraft,'' Alexander said, alluding to the
        ``Star Trek'' star.  ``He was the reason I became an actor.
        I did Shakespeare as William Shatner.  I did Nathan Detroit
        in `Guys and Dolls' as William Shatner.'
 
David B. Mears
Hewlett-Packard
Cupertino CA
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mears@hpinddf.cup.hp.com

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