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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: DS9 review (spoilers)...  Really ,just random meanderings.
Date: 4 Jan 93 07:49:47 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1993Jan3.043836.8508@coe.montana.edu> osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
<
<
<Well, a friend with a dish latched on to the feed of ST:DS9 and let me
<swipe the tape.
<
<Characterizations were OK.  Odo is cool, lots of funky stuff with him, although
<a kind of Data rip-off (Only one of his kind, etc.).  Quark was well done,
<a half-way intelligent Ferengi, rather than the morons they're portrayed as
<on TNG.   O'Brien... Good as always.  Sisko --  Cool.  That deep voice just
<seems to ooze authority and control.  The kid -- Thank-the-deity-of-your-

The nice thing about the getting a tape from the sat feed is that you get the
hear all of the audio bandwidth.  The EPK feed really made Sisko sound great.
Broadcasting it will drop off a little bit of the low end :-(

<choice, not another Wesley Crusher, at least so far.  Dax, Drax, whatever 

Dax.
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From: mcohen@ravel.udel.edu (Michael Roger Cohen)
Subject: Odo
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 14:44:23 GMT

^L




















	about odo and his transforming.  It doesn't say that he has to be the
same mass and wieght.  If he does, maybe he is really a hollow shell when he
is in humanoid form.  There are many ways for the DS9 makers to go around the
mass part.  He could be made of a rubberlike substance that stretches.  The
possibilities are seemingly endless.

	Also, an eternal question...  why didn't he just shape himself as a
Cardassian when he boarded that ship??  Many other questions arise.  hmm...

	The cost of the morphing is tremendious.  Unless they get many people
watching it... how can they afford the morphing.

	Also...   SUPPORT DS9.  If it is a sucess, then more Sci-Fi shows will
appear.  The more Sci-Fi shows, the better (unless they are of poor quality)
From: kubalak@joker.optics.rochester.edu (David Kubalak)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: half.n.half
Date: 10 Jan 93 20:31:10 GMT
Distribution: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Organization: The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester


Hello,

I'm new here, but I have a question, and I'm pretty sure this is the
correct group.  I'm wondering if anyone could tell me the name of the
half black, half white aliens in the original Star Trek series.

Thanks a lot!

david kubalak       kubalak@joker.optics.rochester.edu
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From: westover@stpaul.ncr.com (Craig Westover)
Subject: Re: Creeping Phrases
Organization: Marketing Programs & Services
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 19:09:44 GMT

In article <28DEC199215535205@cc.utah.edu> rsr4936@cc.utah.edu (Reay, Robert S.) writes:

>In article <1hlvgoINNrc5@menudo.uh.edu>, HADCUJEK@admin.uh.edu (Julia E. Kosatka) writes...
>{ 
>{If someone doesn't do something they were supposed to, you tell them that
>{they are 'not of the body'.
>{ 
>{People are sometimes 'Herbert', but cats *always* 'reach'. :-)
>{ 
>{To indicate a particularly bad day at work (kinda like the Bills are having
>{against the Oilers right now) you'd say 'beaten and sobbing Finney told 
>{me...' and go into the gory details.  (Scott can't decide if he wants 
>{'Finney' or 'Bundy' for a vanity plate -- I'm holding out for YUFFIE). :-)

>Describing someone walking around a corner and coming towards you as 
>"Coming into visual range."

My kids, ages eight and eleven, talk about someone heading for impending 
disaster as "He's dead, Jim." 

Craig Westover,  Manager, Consultant Relations, NCR NPD
Email: craig.westover@stpaul.ncr.com
From: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with ST6
Date: 7 Jan 93 00:26:09 GMT
Reply-To: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu
Organization: University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Dept., Madison, WI

In <1993Jan6.200604.15998@medtron.medtronic.com> rn11195@medtronic.COM (Robert Nehls) writes:
>This may have already been discussed.  If so please excuse the waste of
>bandwidth.  In ST6, the Klingons are only given 50 years before Kronos
>(their home world) dies.  However, in TNG, Kronos is alive and well 75 to 80
>years in the future from ST6.  Has this ever been explained?  If so could
>someone please post the answer or EMAIL it to me.  This has really been
>bothering me.  Thanks in advance.

To the best of my knowledge, the Klingon homeworld seen in TNG is never called
Kronos.  Therefore, given the statements in ST6, it ISN'T Kronos.  It's
wherever the homeworld was moved to after ST6.

-- 
Michael Rawdon				  rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu
University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Department,  Madison, WI
( Now in the Boston, Massachusetts area! )

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"Probably.  I just do the best I can."
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					  Doctor Who, "Battlefield"
From: gwangung@carson.u.washington.edu (Roger Tang)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Reviewer for DSN
Date: 4 Jan 93 20:58:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: shelley.1ia8eaINNosv
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <1993Jan4.151537.1@hamp.hampshire.edu> ckeroack@hamp.hampshire.edu writes:
>			I may be biting off more than I can chew, but since
>I've survived from time to time solely on Tim Lynch's reviews (not having the
>stamina to pick through the net to get an idea of what others thought of an
>episode) and as lots of time his taste in episodes is about the same as mine,
>and since I'm a twit who keeps acting like he has all this free time :) , I'll

	This is, after all, the MAIN qualification for being a r.a.st.*
reviewer...

	(One I no longer qualify for, alas....the time part, that is....)



-- 
Roger Tang, gwangung@u.washington.edu
Producer Emeritus, Asian Theatre at the UW, Uncle Bonsai Memorial Fan Club
	"The definition of balls is for a non-singer to go karaoke singing
with the cast of a musical revue."
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Colm Meaney on Dr. Quinn
Date: 7 Jan 93 04:23:07 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1993Jan6.120305.9670@iscsvax.uni.edu> morgans@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
<Colm Meaney was in the two hour premier of Dr Quinn Medicine Woman, the new 
<Jane Seymour series on CBS.  He was the Barbar/Dentist/Surgeon.  Since the 
<show really sucked, I don't know if he is still on it, or whether they 
<killed him off or what.

A different actor plays is part for the weekly series.
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From: dbora@ils.nwu.edu (Donald Bora)
Subject: Re: Picard's Replacement
Keywords: Branagh
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:13:58 GMT

In article <29291@optima.cs.arizona.edu> margaret@cs.arizona.edu (Margaret Newman) writes:
>In article <1993Jan6.182724.6536@ils.nwu.edu>, dbora@ils.nwu.edu (Donald Bora) writes:
>>    Are you insinuating that Patrick Stewarts baldness is a bad thing.  I 
>> find it to be one of his strong points.  Don't pick on the crown (sheese)
>
>No, I didn't mean to say that baldness is a bad thing!  -unless you are
>a young man going bald (depends on your outlook?).  I heard that Stewart
>is very touchy about his lack of hair (on his head).  Really, I was just
>being silly!
>
>I did not care for Stewart's Picard when I first started watching STNG,
>and did not watch for quite a while.  These last few years I have been
>watching more steadily, and have come to appreciate both Stewart and
>Picard.  Replacing Picard, if it comes to that, will be difficult.
>
>-margaret

  I was just goffing around too :-) I heard that after almost constant
media (gentle and jestful) attacks on his glowball he got angry.  He said
that where he grew up it was considered inpolite to talk about anothers
physical appearance to their face.  Anyway, I really like Stewart and
would also be sad to see him go... but I had not heard anything about 
his leaving until I read your original posting.  Just for the record, I 
just (not too long ago) went from a coorparate job to a research job.
During the transition I was able to , once again, grow my hair down to 
wherever, thus I have a full head of long hair... although I think my
mother would prefer I was bald :-)


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From: cebarton@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Casey Barton)
Subject: ST:DS9 music
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 05:55:06 GMT

    I was completely nonplussed by the music in the show so far. The intro
was extremely disappointing. The first notes, the straining violins, kept the
same feel as that of both TNG and TOS. What I was expecting, I guess, was for
the music to drop down after a little bit into some rackish electric guitar
and heavy percussion, in line with the "crueler, gritter Trek" idea. At the
least, to move into a powerful orchestrated score, as TNG does. 

    But *nothing* happened. The violins and trumpets kept right on straining,
until fade-to-black. This does little to reinforce the "rough-edged" station
theme that has been built up. They might have been doing camera fly-by's of
the Cistine Chapel. 

    The trailer for *next* week had some rackish electric guitar... maybe
it was something to do with the fact that this was a premier.


    ...still eagerly awaiting the "Dax in the transporter" YATI.
-- 
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From: keith@pro-amber.cts.com (Robert Davis)
Subject: Help
Organization: ProLine [pro-amber] -- Spring Valley, Ca
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 17:57:43 PST

        Does anybody have any knowledge of what happened to the Enterprise
"B"?  TNG mentions the original, and the "C" model.  The  "A" was
mothballed at the end of STVI.  So what happened to the "B"?

                                Keith Davis
From: mkeiser@sccarace.EBay.Sun.COM (Mark Keiser)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Cardassia = Iraq
Date: 11 Jan 1993 18:34:37 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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In article 11616@news.nd.edu, mkelly@happy.helios.nd.edu (michael kelly) writes:
>
> CXMP000 <CXMP@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA> writes:
>
>|>  pmichals@teal.csn.org (Paul Michals) writes:
>|> >
>|> 
>|> >                           IN SUMMARY:
>|> >
>|> >        Cardassia                               Iraq
>|> >        ---------                               -----
>|> >
>|> >Claims nearby Minos Korva                Claims nearby Kuwait
>|> >Huge aggressive military                 Huge aggressive military
>|> >Slightly behind the Fed. in Tech.        Slightly behind the West in Tech.
>|> >Wants doomsday Metagenic weapon          Wants doomsday A-bomb weapon
>|> >Uses torture as matter of course         Uses torture as matter of course
>|> >Lays claim to ancient greatness          Lays claim to ancient greatness
>|> Persecutes Bajorans                       Persecutes Kurds
>|> Resents presence of Fed.                  Resents presence of UN
>
>Loots DS9 prior to leaving		     Loots Kuwait prior to leaving

You forgot the most important part:

Ugly Leaders				     Ugly Leaders
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Subject: Realistic ST:TNG Communicator?
From: kens@vax1.mankato.msus.edu
Date: 8 Jan 93 14:44:42 -0600
Organization: Mankato State University

> Does anyone know if they have a "Communicator Pin" that looks like the
> ones used in Star Trek The Next Generation and makes the noice when you
> press it?  I have a pin now that looks good, but it doesn't have the same
> texture as the ones on the show.  That and it makes no noice no matter how
> hard someone presses it.  If they haven't made them yet, I suggest that
> someone should.  It would make quite a bit of money at the conventions.
From: magarell@dimacs.rutgers.edu (christopher magarelli)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Can you name this book?
Date: 5 Jan 93 07:40:55 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

In article <5JAN93.04302416@skyfox> howp@skyfox writes:

 >Hi:
 > 
 >     This is a request for a friend of mine, Jim Shepard.  He used to have
 >a Star Trek book (made in the late '70s or early 80's) that was about the
 >history of starships from the space shuttle to the Enterprises (the early one
 >and I think the newer one, but definitely not TNG).  It had a one to two
 >page write up with a sideview drawing or painting of each ship.  It also
 >had a ship that was pure conjecture, supposedly designed 100 years or so
 >after the Enterprise.  
 > 
 >     Jim loaned this book to a friend and he has not seen this book since.
 >Unfortunately, Jim can't remember the name of the book and he very much 
 >wants a copy.
 > 
 >     Does anybody know the name (and author, publisher, ISBN No., etc.) 
 >of this book and where Jim can get a hold of it?  Thanks.

     The book you are looking for is _Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology_
by Stan Goldstein/Fred Goldstein, illustrated by Rick Sternbach. The
publisher is Pocket Books, copyright 1980.  ISBN: 0-671-79089-7
     Hope this helps.

          Chris Magarelli
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          Chris Magarelli
From: jdng90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Gorsuch JDN)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Ethics and Holodeck
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:12:05 GMT

In <726524543.AA00037@tvbbs.UUCP> Wayne.Benner@f148.n114.z1.tvbbs.UUCP (Wayne Benner) writes:

>Quoted From: J.Marc Chabot 
>         To: All 
>       Date: 05 Jan 93  14:36:36 

> JC> 	When a person goes in the Holodeck to fulfil a fantasy such as
> JC> I mentionned above, if we assume that the reason he or she does so is
> JC> because the "real" person (the one outside the Holodeck) rejected the
> JC> advances (i.e. did not consent), then if sexual activity does take
> JC> place with a replica of the uninterested crewmember, I cannot help but
> JC> feel that some sort of wrong has been committed against this person.
> JC> In other words, if someone did not agree to have their image used in
> JC> such a way, then if someone uses their image in the Holodeck they have
> JC> been victimized.

>Sorry, but I don't agree with this.  I for one would consider it a
>compliment.  Even if I didn't particularly care for the person.  Now I
>wouldn't like it too much if I found out someone was doing violence
>to my image in the holodeck, but I don't think that there would be any
>way to prevent it or punish people for it.

>... Focault was a real swinger.
> * Origin: T.V. BBS (1:114/148.0) 

   What's the difference between fulfilling a fantasy in the holodeck
 and in ones mind. What would be really wrong would be for one person
 to spy on another's fantasy, however the fantasy is carried out.
   Plus even on the holodeck the participant knows it's all fantasy,
see the discussions on virtual reality ethics, the two are very
similiar. 

        jon 
           jdng90@uk.ac.soton.ecs
From: pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: ST:TNG - Plot flaw or am I missing something?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 17:12:50 EST
Organization: Berry Communications

In reference to "Schisms", jcastle@missing.kludge.com (Jeff Castle) writes:

>                Did anyone else notice the *Strong* similaritys of this
> ST:TNG episode to the current 'alien abductions' going on around the 
> world?  Best example I can think of is Striebers book: Communion.

*Allegedly* going on.  And such claims are not new; they didn't even
begin in this century.

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From: furiop@vccsouth16.its.rpi.edu (Paul Joseph Furio)
Subject: Re: Odo & Morphing
Reply-To: furiop@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 04:50:34 GMT

jscott@micom.com (James Scott) writes:

>at the risk of arousing the amiga-fringe, i'll quit lurking for just a
>brief moment.  the morph effects were done at Pacific Data Images (the
>same guys who did T2).  according to the sys-admin ... there are no
>amigas at PDI ... mostly SGI unix boxes.

>of course, like any good grassy knoll conspiracy theory, the facts exist
>only to obfuscate the "truth." :+)

Well, the "The Amiga Did It!" cry is a rather fanatical joke among Ami users.  They like to believe that the Amiga did everything, when we all know there are fantastic dedicated workstations that do most of the work.  The point is, there is a home computer out there that can compete, and they just want people to know.

BTW, PDI is quite a company.  If they were the ones that originated morphing (yes/no?), that was quite a bit of cleverness.
-- 

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From: 00nderwin@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Kobyashi Maru
Date: 11 Jan 93 02:12:53 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's

In article <rabjab.8.726630644@golem.ucsd.edu>, rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu (rabjab) writes:
> 
>>OK, I know that even the spelling may be wrong, and this is probably a FAQ,
>>but what, exactly, does the name of that ship from TWOK mean?
> 
> I think the first part is simply a proper name, like Jones or Smith,
> and "maru" has something to do with ship or sea in Japanese.
> 
> I saw a ship two weeks ago in Coos Bay harbor, Oregon, with a similar name 
> loading wood chips.
> 
> -rabjab
WRONG.  It is Japanese which means "The ship named Maru"

	Source:  The pocket book by the same name.  Good book.
From: mcelroy@bu.edu (Carl Mackin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Space Rangers [no] <SPOILERS>
Date: 7 Jan 93 15:14:07 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Bob Haar (rhaar@albert.cs.gmr.com) wrote:
: In article 8159@newssun.med.miami.edu, dbrown@newssun.med.miami.edu (Daniel Brown) writes:
: |>
: |>I thought that show was abolutely horrible. 
: .....
: |>  Gag!  Anyways,
: |>the plot was terrible, the special effects were weak at best, and their
: |>version of Data was a bit of a cliche.  All in all I'd give it a D-.
: 
: You are being generous at that.
: 
: To me, it looked like a Saturday morning cartoon with humans [?? (:-) ]
: doing a poor job of imitating the animated characters. I get the
: impression they are trying to appeal to pre-teens who would
: be the marketing target for Space Ranger action figures.
: 
: 
: ---
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: 	Computer Science Dept., G.M. Research Laboratories
: DISCLAIMER: Unless indicated otherwise, everything in this note is
: personal opinion, not an official statement of General Motors Corp.

All in all a Runner-up for MST 3K?
Mac
From: pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Transporter question..
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:18:18 EST
Organization: Berry Communications

vince.maiocco@satalink.com (Vince Maiocco) writes:

> OM>I have alwasy wondered why the people in Star Trek have to go to the 
> OM>Transporter room to beam to places when in times of crisis they can 
> OM>beam directly to the bridge or directly to other places?
> 
> As I understand the "mythology" behind this, the supposed reason is that 
> there is some degree of danger associated with "doing it direct" and, so, 
> this is only done in emergencies.  Although, I believe the real reason 
> is a combination of both tradition and the opportunity to vary the 
> scenery from scene-to-scene.

I can't recall a single line in ST:TNG that even hinted at this
"danger".  What makes you think so?

The Technical Manual explanation (that site-to-site transport doubles
the power requirements) makes far more sense to me.

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From: pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Picard's Family...
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 13:30:30 EST
Organization: Berry Communications

drue@citi.umich.edu (Chris Tanis) writes:

> Could someone please tell me the name of Picard's
> brother, sister-in-law and nephew?

Brother:        Robert
Sister-in-law:  Marie
Nephew:         Rene

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From: mumac@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Mark A. Clark)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: *** WANTED: 1991 Hallmark USS Enterprise Ornament - 25th Anniv. ***
Date: 12 Jan 1993 11:55:13 -0600
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  If anyone has one they would be interested in selling, please let me
know.  Thanks!
Mark

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From: roholdr@ccu.umanitoba.ca (R Ross Holder Jr)
Subject: Re: Space Rangers <SPOILERS>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:11:34 GMT

WARNING: There are spoilers to follow!

In <1993Jan7.143118.8159@newssun.med.miami.edu> dbrown@newssun.med.miami.edu (Daniel Brown) writes:

>I thought that show was abolutely horrible.

[stuff deleted.]

>...the plot was terrible, the special effects were weak at best, and their
>version of Data was a bit of a cliche.  All in all I'd give it a D-.

He's a _very_ forgiving audience!  And cliche is an understatement; CBS has
once again laboured to produce yet another insult to the intelligence and
imagination of its viewing public - particularly the imagination of those of
us who crave science fiction storylines.

Almost devoid of character and drama, they would probably do better to stick
to the usual tired, monotone "Miami Vice" themes of contemporary non-sci-fi
and spare the brainless masses at whom this rubbish is directed some
confusion.

I would assign this an unmitigated F.

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