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From: rjking@acsu.buffalo.edu (Randall J. King)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: The Borg are here!!!
Date: 9 Sep 92 00:29:00 GMT
Organization: UB

jmr5125@tamsun.tamu.edu (James Reed) writes:

>In article <25@freddyk.uucp> Tom@freddyk.uucp (Thomas Langenback) writes:

>>This explains what I saw the last time I went to visit my father.  About 1/2
>>mile from his house, there's a place called "BORG Compressed Steel".  I would
>>assume that this is actually where  building thier ships!  And they're
>>building them with metal that THEY'VE BOUGHT FROM US!!

>What, they are actually using /American/ products!  This is stunning!  Just 
>think of the positive effects of supplying the Borg with ALL there materials
>for ship building!  We might be able to eliminate the trade deficit...

>jmr5125@tamsun.tamu.edu

Hey, what if the Japanese Bankers are already Borg?  Doesn't the phrase
"Resistence is futile, you will be assimilated" seem like what's been
happening for the last few years?  :)

signing off from the satelite of love.....           ___   _____  ___
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rjking@acsu.buffalo.edu                     | \/ |   \       |       /   | /
v050qrq3@cc.buffalo.edu	                    |    |    \      |    --<    |<
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push the button Frank...                    |    |  \___|    |   \___/   |  \ 
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From: goldberg@eldyn.gsfc.nasa.gov (Patti Twigg)
Subject: Re: STVI
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD, USA
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 03:23:00 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.110422.5157@gw.wmich.edu>, 91babik@gw.wmich.edu (Lisamarie Gemma Babik) writes...
> 
>Because she is an officer, and presumably Star Fleet is the military.  All
>officers are referred to as "Sir."
>-- 
EXCUSE ME!! I was an officer in the US Navy, and I was addressed as
Ma'am by enlisted personnel.
                                   Patti Twigg
From: kromtigr@redorc.chi.il.us (Ultrachrome Cowboy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Was TOS really that bad? (Re: TOS actors)
Date: 9 Sep 92 16:59:16 CDT
Organization: Red Oracle Bbs/Network

In article <1992Aug30.211629.19796@cs.wisc.edu>, rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu
(Michael Rawdon) writes:
>In <1992Aug27.045603.24039@cs.tu-berlin.de> hal@cs.tu-berlin.de (Eberhart
Adam) 
>writes:
>>I absolutely disagree with your degradation of TOS. (btw my wife too)
>>Even *much* better actors as the present ones could not overact the
>>shapelessness and paleness of the figures in TNG. OK, the special
>>effects are much better...
>
>>In TOS there have been characters as you and me - they have been
>>identificable  -  but a moaning supersensual counsellor is not my first
>>choice for good sci-fi.
>
>I agree.  And, actually, even TNG's SFX aren't always that good.  (The
>starships, for instance, look flagrantly unrealistic; they LOOK like special
>effects.  The Trek Classic Enterprise really looked *real* I thought.)
>
>I think Picard, Data and Worf are all okay characters, but they're definitely
>second-string compared to the "big four" (Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Scotty;
>even the last two had much more verisimilitude than TNG provides its
>characters) of Trek Classic.  (And then there's the matter of the Klingons
>not bearing any physical or social resemblance to their Trek Classic cousins.
>At least the film series Klingons ACTED like Klingons.)
>
>-- 
>Michael Rawdon     rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu  [Note new address!]
>University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Department, Madison, WI
>
>"It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak."
>                               - Dream, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Have you ever seen what a real starship looks like?  I don't recall seeing any.
 No offense, but I think that they look pretty good, considering the fact that
we have nothing really to compare it to in real life.  They use the same
techniques as in the movies.

-----
kromtigr@redorc.chi.il.us
amiserv.chi.il.us!redorc!kromtigr
From: KELSEY@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (KELSEY, Michael H.)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Explanation of Inner Light
Date: 14 Sep 92 21:39:07 GMT
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Spoilers for "The Inner Light" Follow.  People, PLEASE use spoiler
protection when you are writing about episodes!  If you've seen the
episode before, that DOESN'T mean everyone has!

In article <1992Sep14.171434.21168@mlb.semi.harris.com>,
mwp@ms9.mis.semi.harris.com (Mark W. Poole) says:
>
>I just saw "Inner Light" for the first time this weekend, and
>really got lost at the end.  I didn't understand how Pickard's
>wife and friend could all of a sudden show up at the end, just
>as the missile was being launched....and what happened to
>Pickard's character on the planet after he returned to
>consiousness on the Enterprise?  It really threw me.
>
>Can someone please explain this to me or direct me to a
>ftp site with "episode explanations".
>
                    Row, row, row your boat
                    Gently down the stream.
                    Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
                    Life is but a dream.

The "nucleonic beam" the probe was transmitting to Picard lasted 25
minutes of ship's time.  That beam appears to have been writing memories
into Picard's brain, which Picard experienced as "real," in much the
way that we experience dreams as "real" _while_we_are_dreaming_.  At
the end of the beam transmission, the probe was _programmed_ to explain
to the recipient what was going on.  It did so by bringing back the major
characters of Picard's "dream" and having them tell him what was going
on.  That is why "Ellene" (spelling?) could tell Kamens/Picard that she
and everyone else "has been dead for 1000 years."

In short, Picard was NEVER "on the planet."  Instead, the memories of the
actual designer of the probe were transmitted to Picard, and in his
"dream" he assumed that personality.  Since we were seeing things from
Picard's point of view, the Kamens personality had the physical appearance
of Picard.  In fact, it is possible that the inhabitants of the Katan
system were not even humanoid, and that the humanoid form was imposed
on their "dream" personalities by Picard's mind.  The flute would tend to
deny that, however.

I hope this clears up your confusion.
                                               -- Mike Kelsey

[  My opinions are not endorsed by SLAC, Caltech, or the US government  ]
What is your _name_?    "kelsey@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu"
What is your _quest_?   "To get a Ph.D. in high-energy physics"
When will you _finish_? "I don't know.   Waaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh..."
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From: IQTI400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU (macphil)
Subject: Re: Episodes/explainations lists
Organization: IUPUI
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 20:59:21 EST

In article <jogroup.25@chemdept.chem.ncsu.edu>
jogroup@chemdept.chem.ncsu.edu (JO Group) writes:
 
>In article <1992Sep7.194109.12055@cs.wisc.edu> steve@picard.cs.wisc.edu (Steven Glinberg) writes:
>
>Very nice episode list.  This will be helpful for people to have so that
>can include the episode name in dicussions.
>
>I almost left it at this BUT (I'm sorry)  Work like this is diminished
>by spelling and format problems.
 
like "dicussions" ???
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
From: 2261as@gmuvax2.gmu.edu ( )
Subject: Re: The Borg are here!!!
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 01:54:08 GMT

Oh yeah?  Remember this old reference...(this dates back to when
Stewart's voice was used in Pontiac commercials)

"This is Locutus of Bob Borg Pontiac.  Right now my entire stock
is fifteen percent off.  Have bad credit?  Credit is irrelevant.
You will be assimilated into the Borg easy payment plan.  You will
buy your next Pontiac from Borg.  Resistance is futile...Bob Borg
Pontiac is located at 666 Moebius Strip..."
-- 
My signature file...
Cool huh?
Gee, only one more line to fill up.
How's this?
From: dowling@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Stephen Dowling)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: "Time's Arrow" foreshadowing? NO SPOILERS
Date: 13 Sep 92 07:25:16 GMT
Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.

schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
>In article <1992Sep10.101509.5181@gw.wmich.edu> 885celio@gw.wmich.edu writes:
>
>>Has anyone noticed that if you say "Time's Arrow" a few times really fast
>>it starts to sound like "Time Zero"?
>
>My suspicion is...coincidence.  However, I thought I saw stiching in
>Data's uniform that said "Paul is dead" once.

I've noticed backwards masking on the transporter sound effects.
 
steve dowling
dowling@pnet51.orb.mn.org
From: eisimps@cie.uoregon.edu (Eileen Simpson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Plots for 2 shows
Summary: Dodging the bullet:  twice.
Date: 5 Sep 92 04:09:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: nntp.1992Sep5.040902.13590
Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange

In article <1992Sep4.232521.3083@wdl.loral.com> trw@spl1.spl.loral.com (Tim R Witort) writes:
>I missed a couple of episodes and need a brief plot description for:
>
>1) Imaginary Friend
>
>2) Cost of Living
>
>Thanks loads,
>-- Tim

Dear Tim:

They were dogs.  Actually, they are co-finalists in the "Dog of Dogs"
competition for TNG's  worst episode.

The fact that you missed *both* episodes shows you are a man of rare karma,
and destined for future greatness.  This means you should NOT rent the
videos of these episodes.

Eyes.
From: jackson@ess43.Berkeley.EDU (Jeff Jackson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Who cares about Emmys (was: re ramblings)
Date: 11 Sep 92 16:47:54 GMT
Reply-To: jackson@ess43.Berkeley.EDU (Jeff Jackson)
Organization: Schlumberger CAD/CAM
Originator: jackson@ess43

In article <1992Sep4.222147.5419@zip.eecs.umich.edu>, chuck@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Chuck A. Nicholas) writes:
|> >>Matthew  B.  Hicks writes>>
|> 
|> >But does anyone share my opinion that most of the episodes don't stand up
|> >to repeated viewing as well as TOS does? 
|> 
|> No I don't share that opinion at all.  I have only found one out of the 120+
|> TNG shows to be something I would not rather watch or consider a waste of time
|> taping (The Lonely Among Us).


       I'll add two to that:  "Cost of Living" and "Imaginary Friend".


|> ...you wonder what would have
|> happened if this had been a network show.  How many emmys might it have won?


       If TNG had been a network show, it would have been cancelled after
       its first season due to high production costs and mediocre ratings.
       I'll take the continuation of the show over any hypothetical Emmys.



                  -----------------------------------------------------------
  - JWJ           "Today is a good day to die...but the day is not yet over."
                           - Worf, "Sins of the Fathers"
                  -----------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: "The Outcast": a missed opportunity
From: ace@kryton.UUCP (Catherine Beckstead)
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 15:28:41 PDT
Organization: Paradox Alley F&SF BBS 805-492-8789

gwangung@milton.u.washington.edu (Just another theatre geek.....) writes:

> 	And what I'm pointing out is that this isn't necessarily have to
> be the case. However, to do a convinving job of androgyny (which would be
> very effective with the audience and would have helped the theme of
> the show) would tkae more prep time and better writing than this
> production team is likely to give.

Well they should have gotten the guy...uhhhh...girl...uhhh...person from
Saturday Night Live....hmmmm....what's his..er...her...er it's name??
Of course they would have to duplicate her...er...him...that person,
to be a whole planetful.  :-)

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Catherine Beckstead                    ace@kryton.uucp
"Do you want to argue with a can of deodorant that registers
NINE on the Richter scale?"        --Ace, in "Dragonfire"
From: gbloom@zeus.calpoly.edu (Dark Elf (G. Bloom))
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Yet again, "Dark Elf" moans:
Date: 13 Sep 92 23:13:29 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Once again, obrien@netcom.com (Robert O'Brien) says:

	(explanation and sincere-sounding apology deleted)

And my apologies for misleading you into thinking I was trying to offend.

--Dark Elff

PLEASE ignore the lack of my .signature... I admit it!  I screwed up while
trying to adjust it, and it got deleted.  I'll go fix it RIGHT NOW!  i
PROMISE!!!  =)
--
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:26:29 EDT
From: Wendell Bates <WRB4@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: ST: TNG- The Next Phase
 <1992Sep10.023752.15117@nntp.uoregon.edu>

In article <1992Sep10.023752.15117@nntp.uoregon.edu>, eisimps@cie.uoregon.edu
(Eileen Simpson) says:
>
>In article <8SEP199210281057@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov>                            v
>goldberg@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.go
>(Patti Twigg) writes:
>>Hi. Not meaning to start a discussion already done to death,
>>but, over the weekend I was watching this episode with my
>>6 year old daughter. About half way through she turns to me
>>and says, 'but mommy, why don't they just fall through the
>>floor?'. After having read all the discussion when the episode
>>first aired, I almost fell through the floor laughing. 8-)
>>
>>                                          Patti Twigg
>
>The author of the episode was at the writers' conference I attended and
>said that he *had* an explanation for that, but it got cut.
>
>For the record, there was a surface tension like jello, and you could move
>on it, but if you pushed too hard you went through.

 You mean like when Ro and the Romulan were running and fighting?  Especially
when the Rom captain THREW Ro to the floor before Geordi and Data walked in?

Still doesn't cut if for me.  Good try though...


  Wendell Bates - >Doc<          The Pennsylvania State University
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From: rchen@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Ronald K. Chen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Scotty's return:  What rank?
Date: 8 Sep 92 02:35:37 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

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.
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From: goldberg@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Patti Twigg)
Subject: ST: TNG- The Next Phase
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 15:28:00 GMT

Hi. Not meaning to start a discussion already done to death,
but, over the weekend I was watching this episode with my
6 year old daughter. About half way through she turns to me
and says, 'but mommy, why don't they just fall through the
floor?'. After having read all the discussion when the episode
first aired, I almost fell through the floor laughing. 8-)

                                          Patti Twigg
From: mab@buphy.bu.edu (Michael Burstein)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: times arrow ii info
Date: 15 Sep 92 17:22:55 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Boston University Physics Department

In article <1992Sep14.3208.10710@dosgate> "milan rezac" <milan.rezac@canrem.com> writes:
>SPOILER WARNING:
>  The following message contains a more or less complete
>  spoiler for Time's Arrow II, written by a person who claims
>  to have read the script.  I merely cross-post it here.
>  Moreover, I have _not_ read it, so please do not ask me
>  about more details...
>







Can they fit this into one hour? :-)


































-- 
Michael A. Burstein
Physics Department, Boston University         mab@buphy.bu.edu
590 Commonwealth Ave.                         (617) 353-9437 (o)
Boston, MA 02215                              (617) 735-9433 (h)
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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current,alt.fan.monty-python
Subject: not Re: Relic
Date: 5 Sep 92 03:14:08 GMT
Reply-To: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
Followup-To: alt.fan.monty-python
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Arizona

[followups to alt.fan.monty-python...]

In article <1992Sep04.233322.190497@zeus.calpoly.edu>, gbloom@zeus (Dark Elf) signs:
>-- 
>ROMANES EUNT DOMUS???
>
>People called Romanes, they go the out?

No, no, no!  That's should be

	People called Romans, they go, the house?

(Spoken with the appropriate British accent, natch.)

The kindly folks over in alt.fan.montey-python would no doubt be over
joyed to fill you in on the entire script of that whole scene (although 
you may have to have a life-or-death struggle with a pantomime horse
first...)

-- 
The security of the Enterprise is of Paramount importance.
				-J. L. Picard, stardate 45960.2
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Sunday, 13 Sep 1992 20:13:02 CDT
From: Leta Dally <U47248@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Guest Appearance



I have been reading this newsgroup for several months and have been
impressed with the esoteric knowledge of the regulars who post to
it.  I have a question that I hope someone out there can answer.

I just came back from the Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare Festival
and noticed that one of the actors, Alan Scarfe looked familiar.
When I checked his credits I found that he listed STNG.  Does
anyone out there know what epidsode he was in and what character he
played?  Thanks.

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From: blanche@diana.cair.du.edu (Blanche Cohen)
Subject: Re: BORG : Why are they all humans ..... (An Idea)
Keywords: More borgs 
Organization: University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 03:17:08 GMT

In article <14967@mindlink.bc.ca> Laura_Halliday@mindlink.bc.ca (Laura Halliday) writes:
>Hmmm...while all the Borg we've seen have been humanoid, there do seem to be
>two species - some have bluish skin, while others are pasty white.
>
>Could you imagine a Borgified elephant? Or rhinoceros? Or a BorgRat - pesky,
>hard to kill *and* intelligent. Ouch.
>
>...laura

BorgCockroaches? The ultimate in assimilation!
From: M.Willis@ee.surrey.ac.uk (Mike Willis)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: warp drive and other 10-step scales (silly)
Date: 7 Sep 92 13:20:33 GMT
Organization: University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK. GU2 5XH

In article <1992Sep6.150040.5019@madnix.uucp>, mangler@madnix.uucp (Brian LaRose) writes:
|> Well, MY warp scale is slightly different...
|>  
|> Below 15 MPH is Maneuvering Thrusters
|> 15 Begins Impulse Drive
|> 20 is 1/4 Impulse,  25 is 1/2 Impulse, 30 is 3/4 Impulse
|> 35 is Warp 1, and every 5 MPH over that is another Warp. So...
|> 40=Warp 2, 45=Warp 3, 50=Warp 4 and 55 is convienently Warp 5...
|>  
|> 'course, by this scale I have broken Warp 12, but it works well for lower
|> speeds... impulse drive is Star Systems (Cities), warp out of the cities...
|> thrusters for when the spedometer isn't reliable.


So Warp 6 is 60, warp 7 65, warp 8 70, warp 9 80.......Warp 12 95. 40 mph above the
speed limit. (Unless you are in Germany, UK, France, Italy etc etc.) The scale
in decades is better 10 mph per warp. What do we do with the km/hr scale ?

The log suggestion, ie 1 is 10 mph, 2 is 100 mph, 3 is 1000 mph is a little cramped.

We should all be used to binary so how abou t...

Maybe double per warp starting at 1 ? so Warp 1 is pretty boring. Most will be
travelling at a maximum of between 7 and 8, 64 and 124 mph. No one....not even in
Germany will be doing warp 10.
From: GEN4006@Husky1.StMarys.Ca (DONALD WILMSHURST)
Subject: 25th Aniversary game - HELP!!!!
Organization: St. Mary's University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 22:33:07 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.13.SMU

Having a bit of trouble with the Star Trek 25th aniversary game. I'm in the
"Aother Fine Mess" episode and can't get off the derelict ship. Yes, i've
discovered how to use the computer, figured out Mudd's "degrimers", saved
Mudd from delerium, watched him trash the computer, then fixed the life support
unit as Mudd seals himself in his ship. I can load the weapons and have the
option of transporting them back to the Enterprise, but all I get is garbled
communications. So I am at an impasse. I realize that the answer is probably
maddingly simple and right in front of me like they have been in the other
episodes, but I need help with this one.

Thanks
gen4006@husky1.stmarys.ca

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From: imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek,rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Details on the fate of ST:TNG in the UK
Date: 10 Sep 92 15:44:30 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
X-Local-Date: Thursday, 10th September 1992 at 4:44pm BST
Originator: imc@msc10.comlab

In article <Bu7Fsw.4rz@csc.liv.ac.uk>, rkl@csc.liv.ac.uk (Richard Lloyd) wrote:

>                                                      As far as I'm concerned,
>the BBC should *not* buy the rights again for the old episodes when they
>become available in 1994 because of the complete cock-up they made in airing
>them the first time around (banning one episode, censoring several others and -
>worst of all - giving it a pathetic 6pm Wednesday timeslot).

Oh come on!  Just because you've got (and I quote a hoary old chestnut which
I read in the Radio Times) a wok on the wall that gives you pie in the sky,
that's no reason to deprive the rest of us.

I think the BBC *should* buy the rights to repeat the old episodes, and they
should show them on BBC2 at 9.25pm on Wednesdays (just after M*A*S*H, which
seems to have gone west yet again, just at the moment), unedited and
including the banned episode.  You should give the BBC a chance to make up
for its previous behaviour.

Of course, with all this new talk about "a distinctive BBC" (also called,
ironically, "the high ground"!) being bandied about, by the time 1994
arrives they'll be saying "There's no place for TNG on the BBC - it can
easily be offered by a commercial station (i.e. Sky)".  Or alternatively,
they'll put it on UK Gold so they can rake in some cash.

Ian Collier
Ian.Collier@prg.ox.ac.uk | imc@ecs.ox.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek,rec.arts.startrek.current,rec.arts.startrek.misc,rec.arts.startrek.tech
From: cs202144@umbc8.umbc.edu (cs202144)
Subject: Freedom of Choice
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Campus
Distribution: dc
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:42:23 GMT

The Comcast Cable company I have just found out is not going to be carrying
the new Sci-Fi channel that is comming out or already is out. I have called
them voice and was told there is a chance they will get it next year, but will
not be carrying it this year. To say the least I am pissed! I have been seeing
advertisements for a long time for this and got excited and then I hear my
local cable company will not be carrying it. For a company with a motto like,
"Variety, Quality, and Choice" they sure don't live up to it when it comes down
it to. 

If you get Comcast Cable or are just pissed in general about what I have said
please give them a call and tell them you want the Sci-Fi channel as a part
of your service you're paying good money for.

Their phone number is 252-1000...
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