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From: mwasserm@diana.cair.du.edu (MARC Y. WASSERMAN)
Subject: Re: Female CO for the E
Organization: University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 19:58:54 GMT

In article <725632671.AA00000@blkcat.UUCP> Rick.Zeman@p943.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Rick Zeman) writes:
>On 12/25/92, Michael Rawdon was heard to say regarding "Female CO for the E:" 
>
>  
>  MR> If Star Trek gets to the point where it is driven by the need to "set
>  MR> examples", I probably *will* stop watching.  REAL LIFE leaders are the
>  MR> ones we need to set examples.  This is fiction.
>  MR> 
>      Then what do you think about many of the themes pertinent to today's 
>society that runs through TNG?  Such as:
>
>Angel One:  Women's rights
>Half a Life:  Ageism
>The Outcast:  Homophobia
>
And of course TOS was always into that.  "Let That Be Your
Last Battlefield" practically pounded you over the head
with society's attitudes towards Racism.  And of course there was
the other one, I forget it's name, with the Yangs and the Comms.

Marc
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From: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: SPOILERS, DAMMIT, SPOILERS!
Date: 26 Dec 92 18:04:09 GMT
Reply-To: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu
Organization: University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Dept., Madison, WI

In <1992Dec25.170133@karma.astro.Virginia.EDU> pcp2g@karma.astro.Virginia.EDU (Gilligan) writes:
>If you are going to say ANYTHING AT ALL about any new episode,
>****PUT A SPOILER WARNING IN THE SUBJECT LINE****************.

>I'm pretty damn tired of reading the first line of a post and getting
>something I'd rather see for myself on the new episode.

Actually, I would argue that the place to put spoiler warnings is in the post
- ALONG with "coverage" for spoilers (a ^L, 50 blank lines, etc.).  Many
people can't (or can't easily) see the subject line WITHOUT seeing part of the
post.  (Of course, those people aren't using Real Newsreaders [tm], but that's
another story. :-)

-- 
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University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Department,  Madison, WI
( Now in the Boston, Massachusetts area! )

"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the
contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one
person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
                                                      -John Stuart Mill
From: jpfulmer@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John Paul Fulmer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: DSN or DS9 ?
Date: 27 Dec 1992 22:03:15 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

My wife and I have enjoyed Star Trek for years, now.  I had heard about
DSN only through this electronic news, so I was excited to see the promo
this morning.  When I asked Patty what she thought of it she said,
"I was expecting to see the pink Eveready bunny at any moment, now."

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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: B5
Date: 29 Dec 92 04:52:02 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <BzzFGn.4In@engx25.trt.com> jess@engx25.trt.com (Jess Alvarado) writes:
<If B5 has not already aired, why are people talking about it as if
<they have already seen several episodes.  Are they simply assuming
<this new show will be of high quality or have they seen something
<the rest of us have not.

Because many of us have seen the promos and other material that PTEN has been
placing on the satellite.
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From: jjast7+@pitt.edu (James   J Alles)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Troi had at least one good line! (CoC episode)
Date: 2 Jan 93 07:12:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: blue.1311
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Dec22.155612.26559@cpqhou.compaq.com> roberts@cpqhou.UUCP (Bob Stewart) writes:

>his crew - Troi exposes him.
>
>I'm sure that's what *I* would want if I were captain.  An empath to jump up
>during a conflict an tell my crew "Don't listen to him!  He's not as confident
>as he seems!" :-).

Troi didn't expose Jellico, she confided in Riker, discreetly.  She
Did Not jump up in the conference room,  and she told no one "don't
listen to him".  Riker definitely had something to learn from Jellico,
and Troi had the wisdom to sense it.

-- 

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From: lopresti@henson.cc.wwu.edu (lopresti robert)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: weird photo in ELECTRONIC MEDIA
Date: 23 Dec 92 22:41:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: henson.1992Dec23.224153.1272
Organization: Western Washington University


I hate to read meaning into advertisements, when everyone knows they 
have none, however...

A few weeks ago ELECTRONIC MEDIA magazine had their annual critic's
poll, and as usual Star Trek:TNG was the only syndicated show to make
the Best Of list (I think it  came in #8).  As usual, Paramount bought
a full-page ad thanking the critics (gee, I wonder why the magazine
does these polls?).  

At first it looked just like the photo from last years ad and the year
before that, etc.  EXCEPT there was a big hole on the left-hand side.  
No Jonathan Frakes.  All the other regulars were there (including
Whoopi Goldberg, but not Wesley), but no Riker.  And the weird thing
was that they didn't rearrange the others to fill the space, just
left the picture lopsided.  Almost as if Frakes WAS there and got
airbrushed out.

I'm probably just paranoid (who said that?  who says I'm paranoid?) and
JF just had something else to do the day the picture was taken.  Or
maybe Ronnie Cox canned him.

~
From: cascio@garnet.berkeley.edu (Jamais Cascio)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: COC2-- 5 lights?
Date: 28 Dec 1992 10:30:17 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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SPOILERS 























At the end of CoC2, when Picard shouts that there are only four lights,
and then stumbles away, Gul Madred has quite an interesting smile on
his face-- one could almost call it triumphant.  My wife concluded that
Madred had, just before the final meeting with Picard, installed a
fifth light.  When Picard sees what are obviously five lights, he 
cannot accept what his eyes are telling him.

Madred made Picard disconnect with reality, not by having him almost
admit to five lights, but by having him deny the fifth light!

Madred won!

Of course, this is entirely conjecture, and has nothing to do with
what TNG _will_ do with the mentally assaulted Picard (ie, nothing).

[and if this idea has been raised elsewhere, my apologies]

jamais


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Subject: Re: picards french lines
From: estell@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (John K. Estell)
Date: 1 Jan 93 15:09:39 EST
Distribution: rec

bernie.wong@canrem.com ("bernie wong") writes:
: 
: Yes, T. Lynch was right.  Picard said/muttered/screamed "You are...  six
: years old...  Weak... and helpless...  You cannot....  HURT me!  Sur la
: pont...  D'avignon...  On y danse..." and then we cut to the Enterprise.
: Tim just couldn't decipher the french, that was all.  The song bit was
: kinda psychological on Picard's part -- he was singing as if the torture
: didn't hurt him, as if nothing was wrong.  It got Gul Madred pretty damn
: pissed off too!  :-)

Finally!  I can get some use out of my ol' H.S. French class! :-)

Loosely translated, Picard was saying, "On the Avignon Bridge, they are
dancing...."  It comes from a French "folk" song normally performed by kids
(and students learning the language).

-- 
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From: ckt0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (CHARLES KEITH TESSLER)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Hers one wores in CoC I
Date: 21 Dec 92 17:46:38 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

Pecard and the new ass hole incharge duccuss the misssion in 10 foward hardly
a sucure location. any one of a the people could have hure them not to mention
what some hight tech bug could have picked up. They at least could have spoke
in code words. But they just said everthing. Someone have to teach both of
them a thing about espongae.
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From: cboerm48@ursa.calvin.edu (Christopher Boerma)
Subject: Re: Troi in "Chain of command"
Organization: Calvin College
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:54:52 GMT

erlermf@cnsvax.uwec.edu writes:

>The producers should put Troi in a regulation uniform more often.  She looks a
>hell of a lot better in it than in that purple thing.  No more butt either!

Okay, I've seen alot of batting around about Troi and uniform.

Let's have a vote. 

Send Subjects of "Troi's Uniform"

A simple Yes or No will be good. Yes means Yes, I want to see more Uniforms
and less Bodys suits. (i.e. more blue, less purple). No means back to the
body suit.

Send to:   cboerm48@Calvin.edu

			CtB
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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: st:tng and st:dsn in madi
Date: 27 Dec 92 17:46:58 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Distribution: rec
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1992Dec26.3208.18198@dosgate> "bernie wong" <bernie.wong@canrem.com> writes:
<
< TO: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
<
< -=> Vidiot babbled to All and look what he said! <=-
<
< Vi> This is being posted to "wi", but it may leak out.
<
<I recieved that message on Christmas day here in Toronto Ontario,
<Canada.  Sorry, it leaked out!  :-)

Unfortunately there is a newsfeed that is passing all articles.
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From: gtapolow@nyx.cs.du.edu (Greg Tapolow)
Subject: STAR WARS REFERENCES ABOUND (*CoC I SPOILER*)
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 05:57:45 GMT


First...
^L
^L
^L






Can't be too careful
^L

Captain SOLOck providing transportain as cargo.

Get real ;)

GT
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From: "bernie wong" <bernie.wong@canrem.com>
Subject: captain jellico(sp)
Reply-To: "bernie wong" <bernie.wong@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: rec
Date: 22 Dec 92 00:27:56 EST

 -=> 92f06787 babbled to All and look what he said! <=-

 92> Did anyone notice that the new captain looked at his son's drawing an
 92> awful lot in the episode?  Perhaps his son died and he deliberately
 92> wants to get into a fight with maybe his son's killers.  Then again,
 92> maybe it was a red herring.  Happy holly-daze.

Hmmm, another one of those people who is killing because he wants
revenge?  Not again!  :-)

I just got the idea that he kept looking at his son's drawings because
he's constantly away from him and misses him.  Also, it was a good way
to show that this Jellico is a new man and totally different than
Picard.  (remember how he totally re-aranged the walls with his
drawings?)


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From: ph111-bx@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;7202)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Piccard's butt - Chain of Command II - SPOILERS
Date: 30 Dec 1992 10:13:22 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu

In article <BznyxJ.FEK@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Eric Schlene <eschlene@indiana.edu> writes:
>Face it. Taste and respect for our intellegence just took back seat to
>trashy sensationalism.
>
>I'm dissappointed.

I wasn't.  The last time I was disappointed with TNG was the first season
episode where the Ferengi (sp?) were introduced as cardboard cutout
characterures(sp, again) of bad guys.  After that, my expectations of the
show took a permanent precipitous nosedive and now I'm just happy if I can
watch an entire episode without seriously cringeing once.
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From: "bernie wong" <bernie.wong@canrem.com>
Subject: Saturday Night Review - "Chain of Command Part II"
Reply-To: "bernie wong" <bernie.wong@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: rec
Date: 26 Dec 92 23:35:34 EST

 -=> Ph9991 Manfr babbled to All and look what he said! <=-

 PM> SPOILERS ahead for "Chain of Command Part II"

 PM> SPOILERS!  -Do not cross the Cardassian border


 PM> Script(Dialog and Scenes alone): Average.  Good points were Gul
 PM> Madred's showing-off of Picard to his daugher, bad points were the
 PM> constant and very pointless use and reuse of the "four, five, SIX"
 PM> lights time after time.  As I said before, none of the techniques we
 PM> saw had any science fiction bend to them whatsoever, thus I consider
 PM> them below average for a science fiction series.

I think you missed the point about the lights thing.  It's called
reverse psychology.  I once saw a touching CBC documentary about schools
around Canada which literally stole Indian children in order to teach
them the "civilized" way of life.  The first thing they did was change
their names.  No, you're not some foreign name like Dances With Wolves,
you're now Bob Jones.

They stripped their identity and punished them if they spoke in their
native tounges.  The first thing (well, close to it) Gul Madred did was
denounce Picard to Human.

And then the lights thing -- that was all another brainwashing tactic.
It's used all the time and is an important element of reverse
psychology.  "How many lights do you see?  Four?  NO FIVE!  FIVE
LIGHTS!"  And don't you get the irony?  At the end, Gul Madred gave
Picard a choice of either freedom of torture.  All he had to do was
answer that there were five lights.

And in the end, he was so driven and convinced that there INDEED were
FIVE LIGHTS that he was going to SAY that there were FIVE LIGHTS.  Gul
Madred got to him so hard that he was going to crack.  And Gul Madred
knew that it was too late -- if only he could have got to him sooner.
However, Picard got to GUL MADRED first.

It was a beautiful episode and I can't see why you didn't like it.

 PM> I think that pretty much covers it.  As an episode of TNG, or any
 PM> science fiction series come to that, this sucked wind, because it had
 PM> no story of its own to tell and no science fiction in what it did do.

TNG does not have to be science fiction.  I think CoC Pt. II stood very
well as a drama based in the 24th century.

 PM> Overall Grade for Part Two (scale of one to ten): 3

I'd really like to see how the individual subjects were graded for you
to give an overall ratings of 3...


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From: cboerm48@ursa.calvin.edu (Christopher Boerma)
Subject: Re: DSN or DS9 ?
Organization: Calvin College
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:49:07 GMT

skeeter@skatter.usask.ca writes:

>From article <1992Dec21.174735.22583@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, by W.O. Khan <Charles_Laine@CCIS.BAYLOR.EDU>:
>> DS9 makes more sense to me.  
>> 
>> Mystery Science Theater 3000 is not abreviated MSTTK, it is MST3K.

Doesn't carry, if you use the line that numbers should appear as number, then 
you'de get MST3000. But they're going for a short abbreviation and so
use MST3K (cause MSTTT looks stupid!) but DSN or DS9 look both fine so.
I personally like DSN better cause it's three letters just like TNG, TOS
or TAS.

			CtB

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From: ssubrama@dante.nmsu.edu (SUBRAMANIAM)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Episode Argument
Date: 23 Dec 92 16:13:30 GMT
Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM

In article <1992Dec14.185927.9395@iscsvax.uni.edu> hodge3726@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
>Having an argument.  What was the name of the episode where Riker gets trapped
>in some alien holodeck and is convinced he is trapped by Romulans, latter to
>find out it is some kids playhouse set up by his parents.
>
>
>
>Matt
>Hodge3726@uni.edu

The episode sounds like "Future Imperfect".  But it was not a playhouse set
by the alien's parents but by the alien himself.

Siva.
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From: afarrell@unix1.tcd.ie (Andrew Farrell)
Subject: Re: Why do the humans always negotiate alien-style?
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:42:24 GMT

In <2981@perl-sun.dwrsun4.UUCP> perl@dwrsun4.UUCP (Robert Perlberg) writes:

>After seeing Jelico trying to out-Cardassian the Cardassian in "Chain
>of Command - Part 1", it made me realize - the Feds in ST always study
>up on the alien customs and conform to them, to the extent, as in this
>case, of using this knowledge against the aliens, and the aliens always
>behave just as expected.  Why is it never the reverse?  Why are the
>aliens always so predictable and it's always the Feds who display
>"flexible thinking"?

Because we are the right-thinking cultured people, and they are the ignorant
savages. 
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From: rccarm00@nx19.mik.uky.edu (ron c carman)
Subject: Re: DS9 on Superstation WGN channel 9 Chicago
    <29DEC199219335774@gergo.tamu.edu>
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
X-Path: nx19.mik.uky.edu!rccarm00
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:05:42 GMT

dave@gergo.tamu.edu (Dave Martin) writes:

>I would assume that WGN's contract with Paramount is limited to local broadcast
>*ONLY*, not for cable broadcast. Since STTNG & STDSN are sold to specific
>"markets" (viewing areas), it would be unfair to those stations which pay for
>the STDSN syndication to lose their audience to a cable channel, especially
>if the cable channel pays the same price for the broadcast rights.

    As I understand it, Syndex rules make this a moot point.
(i.e. If my city, Lexington, had a station which had bought DSN,
they would be allowed to block broadcasts from other cities nearby,
just so that the above doesn't happen..
    I don't completely understand this regulation, but perhaps
Vidiot would care to comment on this?

RC Carman

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From: rccarm00@nx19.mik.uky.edu (ron c carman)
Subject: Re: Michelle Forbes (Ensign Ro) not interested in TNG or DS9
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
X-Path: nx19.mik.uky.edu!rccarm00
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 00:54:50 GMT

In <matt.725660014@unidata.ucar.edu> matt@unidata.ucar.edu (Matt Hicks) writes:

>I seem to have heard this somewhere earlier, but according to the
>current issue of TV guide, the producers of TNG and DS9 have been
>unable to entice Forbes to reprise her role as Ensign Ro. She is,
>they said,"just not interested." This is a damn shame, not only 
>because she is an interesting character (probably the strongest
>female character on the show) but, IMHO, the most attractive female
>cast member (on a list that what's-her-face Crosby doesn't even 
>appear on--gack!) 

     How many time *must* we cover this? ;-)

     From the TV guide article you apparently didn't read closely enough:
     
       >Efforts to hire back the popular Michelle Forbes (Ensign Ro)
                   ^^^^^^^^^
       >have thus far failed -- the actress just isn't interested.

     As has been stated before, Ms. Forbes declined to do DSN because
she didn't want to be tied down to a long-term contract.  She *is*still*
doing TNG; her arrangement is somewhat like that for Whoopi Goldberg,
in that she does not appear (and thus does not have to work at Paramount)
on a regular basis.  Ro is an *occasional* character.

RC Carman

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From: aa396@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bill Henley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Where was Ro in Chain of Command?
Date: 29 Dec 1992 19:11:19 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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I agree Ro's reactions to the situation in "Chain of Command"
would have been interesting, but whether or not Michelle Forbes
was available, there wasn't really time in the episode to do
much with her.

For that matter, it would have been interesting to see more of
Worf's reactions to being sent on a possible suicide mission
when he now has a dependent child (Alexander), and then his
reaction to surviving but being unable to aid his captain 
(probably a stain on Klingon honor).

Maybe some of this stuff will be fodder for fanzine stories.

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