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From: hsk@microplex.com (Harjeet Kalsi)
Subject: Re: Data's cat
Organization: Microplex Systems Ltd.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 16:03:10 GMT


I've always wondered why Data has a cat anyway?  I mean he's an android - 
doesn't need companionship, love, etc.  What do you think his *logical* reason 
was for this decision?

Perhaps it's something he believes can make him more human?  Maybe it's
something Troi suggested (Arrghh!!)?  Any thoughts would be welcome.

(BTW, IMHO the cat's name *is* SPOT.  I remember replaying my VCR back a dozen 
 times to be sure.)



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From: etheredg@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ozymandias)
Subject: Re: ncc1701/d
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 20:36:17 GMT


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Subject: Re: Leningrad reference in Star Trek 4
From: stapleton@misvax.mis.arizona.edu (Dr. Ross Alan Stapleton)
Date: 9 Sep 1992 04:10 MST  
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In article <1992Sep8.035809.6239@europa.lonestar.org>, tom@europa.lonestar.org (Tom Kimball) writes...
>I think this is sloppy writing and they SHOULD have known better.  I noticed
>the reference to Leningrad the first day Star Trek 4 was released in 
>November 1986 and immediately realized they made a mistake.  At the time I 
>thought to myself "There is no way that city will still be named Leningrad 
>300 years from now.  Lenin will have been discredited by then."  

And you can't imagine disaffected old-guardists establishing a brand new
Leningrad out at L5?   Or Castro (cybernetically preserved :-) renaming
some minor town to preserve the name?

ras
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Subject: Relic
From: gbloom@zeus.calpoly.edu (Dark Elf)
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 23:33:22 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Hmmmm...

I wonder if Scotty and O'Brian have a spat over their Scottish / Irish
heritage...

Dark Elf

-- 
ROMANES EUNT DOMUS???

People called Romanes, they go the out?
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Subject: Goodlooks debate on TNG
From: ahirsch@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 12 Sep 92 11:46:55 EDT
Organization: Wesleyan University

In article <2924830692.3.p00123@psilink.com>, "Seth M. Dworken" 
<p00123@psilink.com> writes:

> You can talk "hotter" all you want - but when you get to 
> "HOTTEST", you've seem to have forgotten ... MINUET!

Forgotten?  Naaah.  Just seemed a little too much like holo-porn for my tastes.
(I know that _that_ thread has been beaten to death on alt.sex., so I'll leave
it at that and save bandwidth...;)

> 
> Of course the metamorph does have "special" talents...

Was it just me, or did the metamorph's race look a little like the aliens from
_Alien Nation_?  At least in the spots, if not the fanatical fear of water...

No-one's mentioned Tasha, which is a grave oversight as far as female beauty on
TNG goes.  Guinan still wins with me, though.  

Has the male contingent been getting better looking through the last three
seasons?  Worf's hair is much better, Riker's beard ditto, Data, Picard on the
cover of TV Guide as sexiest televised man, et al. During all this net-drooling
over TNG, where are the men-interested folks, hmmmm?

		Grasshopper

P.S. I may have missed these threads being gone all summer, but what's this
rumour about a) Old Trek cast doing movie ST 7?  Grrrrr...
	     b) Projected limited number of seasons left for TNG?  3? 4?
	     c) Troi's Betazed accent covers a broad cockney accent?
 
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Subject: test
Date: 10 Sep 92 14:38:38 GMT
Reply-To: atb@gserv1.dl.ac.uk
Organization: Daresbury Laboratory, UK


please ignore
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From: tlynch@cco.caltech.edu (Timothy W. Lynch)
Subject: Re: Was TOS really that bad? (Re: TOS actors)
Followup-To: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 19:22:44 GMT

Followups set to r.a.s.misc.  Folks, you *really* should know better by now.

rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon) writes:
>In <1992Sep1.185303.1511@bnlux1.bnl.gov> schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug30.212359.19951@cs.wisc.edu> rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu writes:

I don't plan to involve myself in this battle any more than peripherally, for
the primary reasons that (1) I no longer have the stomach to take on the
increasingly more nasty comments about TNG, and (2) I *certainly* don't have
the time to do so.  However, this one exchange caught my eye.

>>>(I think Star Trek II shows a strength of character which is orders of
>>>magnitude above ANYONE on TNG.)

>>What do you mean exactly by "strength of character"?  You don't find
>>that Picard as written has colossal strength of character?  I do.  If he
>>had anymore than he has now, he might burst!

>Well, no, I *don't* think that Picard has "colossal strength of character".

Pardon?  I've heard lots of criticisms from you, Michael, some of them ones 
I've occasionally had to grudgingly accept, but this is one I simply don't see
at all.  You don't find Picard a strong character?  Why not?  What sort of
character *is* he, in that case?

Tim Lynch 
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From: tperreau@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (The Mad Scot)
Subject: Re: DS9 rumor
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 10:07:11 GMT

In article <38039@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> rblewitt@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Richard Blewitt) writes:
>In article <i931053@pro-woolf.cts.com> bwoolf@pro-woolf.cts.com (Beverly Woolf) writes:
>>stop and think twice about losing control. He has a weakness for baseball,
>>a sport that died out in the 22nd century and he frequently goes to a
>>holo-suite to have a chat and a catch with one his legendary ballplayer 
>>heroes. 
>
>ACK!! Baseball died out in the 22nd century!??  And I thought Trek
>was supposed to represend a good future of mankind.
>
>Rick
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Jeez, I hope that the Red Sox would finally win the World's Series by
then :)


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From: "bernie wong" <bernie.wong@canrem.com>
Subject: stng unification??
Reply-To: "bernie wong" <bernie.wong@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: rec
Date: 11 Sep 92 11:53:50 EST

>Spock doesn't look much older than in ST VI:TUC

What baffles me is that Nimoy looks older in real life sans-makeup than
he did as an 120+ year old Vulcan in Unification!  :-)   Man, he looked
OOOOOLD in the 25th Anniversary Special.


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From: jam@ecl.psu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Scotty's return:  What rank?.
Date: 12 Sep 92 03:28:09 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Lab, Pennsylvania State University

In article <1992Sep10.024928.10604@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, ira2p@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Iain Robert Asplin) writes:
> 
> Here's Scotty's rank as I understand it:
> He was promoted to Captain in ST:III.
> When we see him next in ST;IV, he is wearing a Commander's insignia
> due to the fault of the costume department.  Many fans complained.
> In both Five and Six, his insignia was restored to Captain.
> 
> Thus, last we saw him in six, he was a Captain.

In ST:III Mr. Scott was assigned to the Excelsior as Chief Engineer
because there was to be no refit of the Enterprise.  As Chief Engineer
he had the rank of Commander.  Remember, he sabotaged the Excelsior's
engines so the Captain (the guy from Hill Street Blues) couldn't pursue
the Enterprise.  

In ST:IV everyone except Spock was wearing the exact clothing they were
wearing at the end of ST:III. 

I believe in 5 and 6 Scotty still had the rank of Commander.
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From: IQTI400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU (macphil)
Subject: Re: _War_Drums_ Review: *SPOILERS*
Organization: IUPUI
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 21:08:31 EST

In article <92252.023701WITHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
<WITHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
 
>In article <rccarm00.715891635@mik.uky.edu>, rccarm00@mik.uky.edu (ron c carman)
>says:
>>   Another month, another ST novel.  I have no idea how
>>Pocket Books went wrong with its series of books, but
>>when is not hard to determine...
 
>>Trek novels in general and John Vornholt's books
>>in particular continue to deteriorate... last chance!
 
IMHO, Peter David's novels deteriorate even more and TOS novels are
worse than TNG.  The bad TNG novels are a rarity.  The good TOS novels
are even rarer.
 
>I know what you mean.  By the time I reached the middle of the book, I already
>know who tried to kill Ro and who was the Godess and whatever. Fastest read
>time:  22 hours (without break)
 
twenty-hour hours?  i would have guessed no more than two or three hours
for a medium-speed reader...tops.  At least you got halfways through...
the TOS novels are so predictable they're shot by page sixty...and PD's
rarely give a surprise after page fifty...
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From: 2261as@gmuvax2.gmu.edu ( )
Subject: Re: BORG : Why are they all humans ..... (An Idea)
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 02:17:12 GMT

Perhaps most of the Borg are of Guinan's race.
According to the storyline, the Borg overran/assimilated
most of her race.

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From: marcb@skatter.usask.ca
Subject: Re: BORG : Why are they all humans ..... (An Idea)
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 05:27:50 GMT

From article <1992Sep7.210426.16692@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, by sundaram@cps.msu.edu (Divya Sundaram):
> 
> 	Some one mentioned that the BORG had assimilated humans before they
> 	encountered the Big E. Would it not be interestiing if the BORG 
> 	turned out to be HUMANS whose society had evolved in a different
> 	way to Earth's. They end up becoming "machines" whereas on earth (or
> 	the earth dominated Federation) go to the other extreme and put great
> 	emphasis on individuality. 
> 
> 	Given this, is it not strange that Vulcans, who aspire to be Data-like,
> 	have not welcomed the Borg?

Wouldn't it just be easier to explain by saying that the STTNG accountants
didn't feel the expense of creating new alien prosthetics was justifiable?
From: tallman%ailanth.uucp@wang.com (Robert Oliver)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Scotty's return:  What rank?
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 08:43:59 EDT
Organization: Ailanthus Project

djredick@bluemoon.use.com (Darrin J. Redick) writes:

> landrews@outb.wimsey.bc.ca (Luke Andrews) writes:
> 
> > >Anyone taking bets on what rank Mr. Scott will have when he returns
> > >to TNG?  By my observation, he was a commander in TWOK, a captain in TSFS,
> > >a commander again in TVH, and a captain again in TFF and TUC.  
> > >
> > >I guess he and Riker have trouble accepting authority.
> > 
> > Well, it is a bit weird.  Admiral Morrow tells him he is a Captain in TSFS 
> > 
> > So perhaps his promotion was delayed all the way until the end of Star Trek
>  
> No eye for detail at all...look CLOSELY at the shoulder strap in III when
> Scotty is walking towards the turbolift in the Excelsior engine room.  It
> CLEARLY shows his insignia as CAPTAIN, esp. in the closeup of him & 
> Styles.
> 
> As for him being a commander in IV, that was the studio's fault.  His
> rank was mistakenly made a commander, instead of a captain.
> 
> > 
> > But he's probably a captain or admiral in ST:TNG.
> > 
> I'm willing to bet that he will be Captain.
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I think that Scotty never liked being promoted to Captain (especially of 
the engine room of "that bucket of bolts") and that it is possible that 
he changed his own rank while on Vulcan. When he returned to Earth they 
probably made him change it back and with a new Enterprise to care for he 
diddn't mind a bit. In reality though it was just a costuming error.
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From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
Subject: Re: Why San Francisco?
Organization: LLNL
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 10:17:46 GMT

	About San Francisco: there are certainly lots of opportunities
for gags in ST:TVH concerning 23th cy. time travelers back in the
mid-1980's.

	One that might have been cute is for them to discover what
BART was like in those days :-) (still a railroad, and a lot noisier
than whatever it is that they are accustomed to, just like all those
other 20th cy. vehicles) Or does everyone travel by transporter in
Star Trek's time? :-)

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From: dgeller@busboys.rutgers.edu (dgeller)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: The Borg are here!!!
Date: 7 Sep 92 19:43:23 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Heck, the Borg have infiltrated buisness already...there is already a
company out there going by the name of Borg-Warner (which I think
might have some sort of connection to the Indianapolis 500 auto
race...their trophy is called the Borg-Warner Trophy...)
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From: ste@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Shaun T. Erickson)
Subject: Re: Jeff Stryker in ST: TNG?
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Allentown, PA
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 03:08:23 GMT

The VAST majority of his "films" are "all-male". Maybe he'll be the Gay
character that was at one time rumoured to be joining the show?

I could tell you about some of his films, but this IS a family newsgroup! :)
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From: rrogers@watson.ibm.com (Ryan Rogers)
Subject: Re: Data's cat
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 19:26:41 GMT
Distribution: usa
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.12 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: rrogers@watson.ibm.com (Ryan Rogers)
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

In  <1992Sep12.184419.12662@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>  tgh3_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Timothy Gerald Harrnacker) writes:
> In <1992Sep12.161202.29473@ERA.COM> paradis@ERA.COM (Lisa Berkenbilt) writes:
>
> >I'm trying to get some info on Data's cat.  I have seen the pretty
> >kitty in the episodes In Theory and Data's Day.  Is she in any other
> >episodes?? When did she first show up?? How did he get the cat in the
> >first place??  Why is she named Spot (or is there more to the name
> >than that)??
> Listen closer. SPOCK!
>

   Also, read Metamorphosis...it gives you some info on Data's cat.

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From: mab@buphy.bu.edu (Michael Burstein)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: ncc1701/d
Date: 15 Sep 92 22:22:56 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Boston University Physics Department

As long as someone brought up an Enterprise question, here's another
one:  What does NCC stand for?  I know I knew this a long time ago, but
I don't recall now.

To limit newsgroup traffic, you can e-mail the answer to me and I'll
post it.


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From: ckeroack@hamp.hampshire.edu
Subject: FLAME: Re: Star Trek Pranks
Organization: Hampshire College
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:47:28 GMT

>Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,rec.humor,rec.arts.startrek.current,misc.test
>From: ara@wam.umd.edu (Ford Prefect)
>Subject: Re: STAR TREK PRANKS

>Hah, here is some more American culture for you deprived non-americans

>Trekkies and Elvis fans
>about the same level in popularity as jehovas witnesses and Avon salespeople
				       ^^^^^^^	
>The Air and Space Meuseaum is the new Mecca for the Trekkies due to the
		   ^^^^^^^^	
>star trek junk there, as graceland is for the Elvites which by the way
>will be a major relegion by the year 2300 (using the christian calender btw)
		 ^^^^^^^^
>and last but not least the T.V. record musicians Slim Whitman
>Box car Willie and who knows what else.

>Hey Simon, you out there?
>Can you come up with a "BOFH invades the Trekkie convention"

>-ara


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construction... I'll be *so* glad when the new season starts and these 
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From: Edwardl@freddyk.uucp (Ed Langenback)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Season Premiere
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 14:11:00 CDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Nightmares R Us

>In article <1992Sep3.031555.22013@intacc.uucp> zerobeat@intacc.uucp (Ferenc Szabo) writes:
>>>Nichelle Nicols starring in "Deep Space Throat"  

  now /THAT/ i'd like to see!

 or perhaps "Troi does the bridge" ;)

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From: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: PAD
Date: 10 Sep 92 01:07:21 GMT
Reply-To: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu
Organization: University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Dept., Madison, WI

In <1992Sep9.220620.6219@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> ira2p@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Iain Robert Asplin) writes:
>In article <9SEP199216565141@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov> afdenis@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Stephen Dennison) writes:
>>In article <rawdon.715618156@cs.wisc.edu>, rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu writes...
>>>In <65270@cup.portal.com> Peter_A_David@cup.portal.com writes:
>>>>I dunno.  I heard Peter David hates everybody.

>>>I heard he has a crummy sense of humor, too.

>>Hell, thst's nothing. *I* hear his father's a Borg ! (Reliable source, too 
>>though I can't cite it... they'd have to kill me ! :-))

>				DEATH IS IRRELEVANT.

Yeah, but is it funny?

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