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From: david@donald.concordia.ca (David Gaudine)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Drunk Trek Request
Date: 15 Sep 92 21:04:39 GMT
Organization: ORGANIZATION!! HERE? You must be kidding

In article <1992Sep12.120815.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> ahirsch@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>A while back a copy of Drunk Trek (ie, very funny ST drinking game)got posted.
>I didn't get it then.  Could someone repost it (or email it to me, if you're  
>feeling generous)?  
>
And me, if you're feeling doubly generous

David Gaudine, Concordia University, Montreal.  david@donald.concordia.ca
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From: rrogers@watson.ibm.com (Ryan Rogers)
Subject: Re: ncc1701/d
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:05:20 GMT
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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  <1992Sep15.192027.9144@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>  amcmicha@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Andrew McMichael) writes:
> What class starship is the Enterprise-D?  Just curious. Thanks.
>

   Galaxy class.

--
Sincerely,
Ryan Rogers
From: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: PAD
Date: 11 Sep 92 04:24:08 GMT
Reply-To: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu
Organization: University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Dept., Madison, WI

In <BuDBEr.BJ9@cup.hp.com> runyan@cup.hp.com (Mark Runyan) writes:
>ekho@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (amanda rothman) writes:
>>rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon) 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.
>>But he writes pretty good... ;}
>When he writes...   (When *is* that next book, anyway? :-)

Whaddaya mean *WHEN* he writes?  How many comic books is he writing right
now?  (Hulk and the upcoming Spider-Man 2099 for starters.  Maybe a better
question is:  How many comic books has he written in the last five years?)

Then there's his weekly (!) column for Comics Buyer's Guide which has been
going great guns for the last few months.

"Prolific" is a good word to describe the man, I think...

-- 
Michael Rawdon				 rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu
University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Department, Madison, WI

"Go?  Where are we going?"
"Where they went."
"Suppose they went nowhere?"
"Then, this will be your big chance to get away from it all."
			- McCoy and Kirk; Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan
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From: gbloom@zeus.calpoly.edu (Dark Elf (Gregg Bloom))
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: "Time's Arrow" foreshadowing? NO SPOILERS
Date: 13 Sep 92 18:30:06 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Yet again, dowling@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Stephen Dowling) moans:
>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

And the flashing lights on Dr. Crusher's equipment are in Morse code!  It
says "We all die in the close of the seventh season."  -- go figure.


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From: cmiller@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Catherine Miller)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: STVI
Date: 8 Sep 92 01:15:40 GMT
Reply-To: cmiller@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Catherine Miller)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In one episode of ST:TNG, I heard Troi referred to as "Sir".  Does any
one know why "sir" instead of "ma'am"?0



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     "Only the mediocre are always at their best."
		   Stuart (Not A Liscensed Therapist) Smalley
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From: atb@gserv1.dl.ac.uk (A.M.T. Bell,G2,3123,homephone)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Where No Man Has Gone Before
Date: 11 Sep 92 14:45:50 GMT
Reply-To: atb@gserv1.dl.ac.uk
Organization: Daresbury Laboratory, UK


The latest episode of TOS shown by Auntie Beeb in its nth repeat showing
was "Where No Man Has Gone Before", the 2nd pilot (Kirks first). Interestingly
considering the title Jim did not say "Space, the final frontier..."
in the credit sequence. There were some other differences, different uniforms,
Sulu as head of Science section, no McCoy. Scotty was there to beam them up though.
Spock was "fascinating", very *logical* and unemotional. When Spock lost at 3-d
chess to Jim's *illogical* play (does Spock ever win?) Spock said one of his
ancestors married a human female (we all know which one now). Spocks ultra
Vulcan behaviour could be explained by the fact that Mitchell was Kirk's best friend
in this one, not Spock. Mitchell was played by Gary Lockwood who appeared in
the best SF film EVER (IMHO) 2001:A space odyssey. There were some silly things,
the energy barrier at the edge of the galaxy was one of them, I half expected to
see a sign saying "you are now leaving the galaxy, please drive carefully" :-)
Also when Mitchell was reading through the computer library very fast the computer
screen showed TYPEWRITTEN text! Oh well, it was made a long time ago.

Not a bad episode even though it had a usual TOS plot of "mysterious alien menace
threatens the Enterprise but Jim and co outwit 45 minutes into the 50 minute show"
(no commercials on the Beeb :-) .

tony bell                 ! keep on running   live long and prosper
serc daresbury laboratory ! "back off man, i'm a scientist"
atb@uk.ac.dl.gserv1       ! bill murray - ghostbusters
From: nova@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jennifer Baughman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Why San Francisco?
Date: 11 Sep 92 02:47:28 GMT
Reply-To: nova@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jennifer Baughman)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: nova@sleepy.cc.utexas.edu

Starfleet is not exactly derived from twentieth-century elements.  That is, 
not twentieth-century _corporate_ elements like NASA.  Starfleet _is_, 
however, a direct descendant of....

The United States Navy!!!!!!

San Francisco has a major naval base near it (in Alameda).  Its climate is 
moderate, compared to other parts of the world.  Furthermore, it has such
a mishmash of cultures and peoples, even today, that it makes an ideal 
statement regarding the morals and ideals of the 24th century!!!

__NOVA__
_______________________________________________________________________________

"If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are."
					--Jean-Luc Picard
					  "Encounter at Farpoint"
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Subject: RE: Warp Speed!
From: kennedy_j@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 09:00:26 GMT
Reply-To: kennedy_j@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: Wellington City Council, Wgtn, NZ

In article <1992Sep3.220726.430@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com>, updike@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Todd F. Updike) writes:
>I've got to make one comment...
>I love this forum, but it is SO popular that it fills
>up so damn quickly !
>
>I mean, I had caught up on reading all the articles, and then was
>gone for just 2 days, and when I came back, there were *87* new
>articles to read !!! I mean, shit, how is a person supposed to keep
>up with all these new articles !!! And that is just in *THIS* group.
>I also like to try to keep up with other groups.
>
>I'm sure the management here where I work must love all the time I
>spend on this thing, just trying to keep up on the mail !!!
>
>Does anyone else feel this way ??
>
>- Todd

I know that feeling...the net has been down since Thursday here - it's now
Monday night any I am plunging through 1000 odd messages from the Trek
sections...anytime this week I may finish...I only hope someone remembers I'm
in here and brings coffee...lots of it...this could take a while! :-)

JAK
{Whos been here an hour and will be here for a lot lot longer...}

PS: We shouldn't complain the more messages the merrier...bring 'em on!
From: steve@picard.cs.wisc.edu (Steven Glinberg)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Plots for 2 shows
Date: 6 Sep 92 03:56:52 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.

120     45733.6 Cost of Living
        Luaxana almost gets married, teaches Alexander about happiness


Cost of living    Stardate 45733.6:

This was the 120th episode of the TNG series.  It came after
First Duty and before The Perfect Mate.

It was the episode where Luaxana (about the worst actor ever a guest
on TNG) almost got married.  She showed up in the nude to her wedding.

She also taught Alexander (the second worst guest) about happiness.  
You remember, they took mudd baths.  This is, of course, excellent 
sci-fi material worth watching

On a scale of 1 to 100 I give it a 0!  I guess that means I agree with
the rest of the people responding to messages about this episode.  I dont
recall a single redeeming quality in this episode.  Oh well, there
have been some good and some bad. The good are great though.

I have a database with all of the episodes I have (that's ever one except
 Manhunt) on tape including stardates, episode #, title, 1 to 5 rating (by me)
and a small abstract of the episode.  
 
If anyone would like a copy of this, let me know at:
steve@picard.cs.wisc.edu

Better luck to the writers.....
Steve
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From: faurote@crchh484.BNR.CA (Joe Faurote)
Subject: Re: hot, hotter, HOTTEST!
Reply-To: faurote@crchh484.BNR.CA (Joe Faurote)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 13:13:28 GMT

I agree with the person who said that Tasha's sister Ishara was hot, but
I haven't seen anyone say anything about the she devil in Devil's Due or
the blonde that flew around in the space ship that looked like a hot popcorn
popper in Haven.  What do you think?

Joe
From: rene@hardy.u.washington.edu (Rene Magritte)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: _War_Drums_ Review: *SPOILERS*
Date: 15 Sep 92 19:54:25 GMT
Organization: University of Washington

<WITHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:



>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)

22 hours?!  You kidding?   
 
 I finished *that* peice of junk in my 3 hour plane ride.
From: ericw@hobbes.amd.com (Eric Wedaa)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Puns
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:03:42 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

amcmicha@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Andrew McMichael) writes:

>I had to add this one:

>"He's Dead, Jim", says McCoy, introducing Kirk to Jerry Garcia
>in some lost footage of the episode "Assignment, Earth"

Me TOOOOO!!!!

"He's Ted, Jim": McCoy introducing Ted Turner as the New owner of the Big E.

"He's bled, Jim": McCoy explaining why the leeches are all over the patient
                  after they go back in time to visit a medieval doctor.

"He's bred, Jim": McCoy explaining why Kahn has just kicked Kirk's
				  behind all over the galaxy.

"He's fled, Jim": McCoy informing Kirk what happened to the Red Shirt 
                  after he was informed he'd be beaming down to the planet.

"He's Naked, Jim":McCoy explaining the wedding rituals of the typical Betazoid.

"He's Sacred, Jim":McCoy explaining why Kirk can't phaser blast the local
                   high priest for interfering with Kirk's getting the girl.

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From: wity@iastate.edu (Wity Ganda)
Subject: Re: _War_Drums_ Review: *SPOILERS*
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 01:48:00 GMT

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...
>>
>>*SPOILERS* for John Vornholt's novel _War_Drums_
>>
>>Trek novels in general and John Vornholt's books
>>in particular continue to deteriorate... last chance!
>>
>>
>>   Well, the best one-word description of this one would have to
>>be: DUH; or if you need a real word, questionable works well.
>>   Vornholt seems to have developed a talent for stating the
>>obvious.  For example:  Before beaming down to Selva to see
>>the Klingon whom the colonists have managed to capture, we see
>>Picard tell Data to memorize the coordinates of the prisoner,
>>in case the colonists have mistreated him, and a rescue is
>>necessary.  Then, when the landing party is about to see the
>>prisoner, we get this:
>>
>>         As Oscaras reached for the heavy bolt that locked
>>        the door Deanna saw Captain Picard and Data exchange
>>        glances, and Data nodded slightly.  The android must
>>        have been given a secret order, she knew immediately.
>>
>>Come on.  Don't insult our intelligence.
>>   I also have a real problem with the scenes given to Guinan.
>>I will admit that she is a hard character to treat justly, but
>>her dialogue is absolutely awful... "I have a feeling that
>>you're desperately needed down there"... ugh.
>>   Those of you who are such fans of the old "tacked on menace"
>>will be sorry to note that one is present here; indeed, Vornholt
>>seems to have taken lessons from the people who came up with
>>the one for "Cost of Living" ;-).  With an away team on the planet,
>>the Enterprise is called away for an emergency *mapping* mission.
>>Two races apparently had to have their solar system mapped in
>>order to begin peace negotiations...
>>
>>   All in all, this was a decidedly *average* (possibly less than
>>average) outing; there were a few good moments, but at the moment
>>I'm hard pressed to remember when.  Perhaps Mr. Vornholt should
>>try writing *better* stories instead of more plentiful ones (he's
>>put out two ST novels in the last two months)...
>>
>>RC Carman
>>
>>
>
>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)
>

Did you really spend 22 hours to read it???  NOT 2 HOURS?
And you claimed 22 hours as your fastest reading?  Come on .. 8-)

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From: dprebyl@vax1.umkc.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Deep Space Nine
Date: 10 Sep 92 01:28:08 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

I figure the only way that Deep Space Nine is ever going to work is if they
have good, original characters that haven't been done in the other two series
that can "grow".  So I kind did a list of potential characters and I only came
up with 1....The captain (or whatever) would be female.

I'd be curious on your reactions and other good characters for the series...

Trekkie(not trekker)Dave
From: 91babik@gw.wmich.edu (Lisamarie Gemma Babik)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: STVI
Date: 8 Sep 92 11:04:22 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

In article <24660@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, cmiller@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Catherine Miller) writes:
> In one episode of ST:TNG, I heard Troi referred to as "Sir".  Does any
> one know why "sir" instead of "ma'am"?0
> 
> 
> 
> __________
> 
>      "Only the mediocre are always at their best."
> 		   Stuart (Not A Liscensed Therapist) Smalley
> __________

Because she is an officer, and presumably Star Fleet is the military.  All
officers are referred to as "Sir."
-- 
_______________________________________________________________________________
         "On rare occaisions I find a little meaning in my life,
                      and wonder how it got there..."

________Lisamarie "Rifa the Insane" Babik_________91babik@gw.wmich.edu_________
From: Edwardl@freddyk.uucp (Ed Langenback)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: burger king 
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 09:30:01 CDT
Distribution: na
Organization: Nightmares R Us

wh20@iastate.edu (Gregory D Westwater) says:
>the burger king on downtown lincolnway cheats customers.  they gave me a punch card, and now that i am getting bigger and bigger items for free, they have stopped honoring the card.  They said it is >impossible that they gave me the card and that they haven't seen them before.  BULLL!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
so?  i'm curious, when did this become rec.arts.startreck.burgerking?  ;)

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From: nova@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jennifer Baughman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: stng unification??
Date: 15 Sep 92 04:01:54 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

Nimoy is older in relation to his species' lifespan than Spock is in 
relation to his.

__NOVA__
_______________________________________________________________________________

"If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are."
					--Jean-Luc Picard
					  "Encounter at Farpoint"
_______________________________________________________________________________
From: Jeremy_Reimer@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeremy Reimer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: STAR TREK PRANKS
Date: 9 Sep 92 07:45:11 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

> Micheal Rainford-Watso writes:
> >>>     Isn't it convenient for the guest actors that all the alien life
> >>>forms that have speaking roles (this excludes tribles, etc) are humanoid
> >>>with 1 mouth, two eyes, and a nose?  They also all have human hands.  Does
> >>>this mean that humanoid is the perfect life form, or is this just a nice
> >>>plot device, like Jorde's (sp?) shades/ visor?
> >
> >Yeah!  Is it too much to ask that the production staff find some
> >non-humanoid actors, with two mouths maybe?  This really pisses me off.
> >
> >Where did all the great non-humanoid actors go, like...uhh...well, how
> >about that guy from....hmmmm.  Okay, so I can't recall seeing any right
> >off the top of my head, but I'm sure that there were some!
> 
> I thought the person who played the green blob in RED DWARF was very good.
> The way they swayed the eye and the moves one the dance floor were a
> sight to remember. It was the episode about "Droid meets driod, droid falls
> in love with droid, droid turns into blob, blob falls inlove with droid, blob
> meets blob, blob leaves droid, etc..."
> 


It's the classic tale: Droid meets droid, droid becomes chameleon, droid loses
chameleon, chameleon becomes blob, droid gets blob back again, blob meets blob,
blob goes off with blob and droid loses droid, chameleon, and blob!
Oh how many times have we seen that story....  :)



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From: dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis Heffernan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Was TOS really that bad? (Re: TOS actors)
Date: 5 Sep 92 16:28:10 GMT
Organization: Xanadu Enterprises Inc.


	There's no denying that TNG's got much better production values.  And
there's no denying that the acting quality on TNG is much better than TOS --
Patrick Stewart alone has more talent than the entire regular cast of TOS.

	BUT.

	TOS had some really good episodes -- "The Trouble with Tribbles", "The
Doomsday Machine", "The City on the Edge of Forever", "A Piece of the
Action", and my personal fave, "The Conscience of the King".  I can't think
of a single TNG episode that I would hold up to any of these.  "Reunion"
came closest, I think...but then, I liked "Cost of Living".

	TNG just doesn't seem to be able to hit the high notes.  I think it's
because way too often the episodes hinge on the gadgetry.


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From: rwalton@tehmi.next.com (Robert Walton)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Conspiracy
Date: 16 Sep 92 00:42:06 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.184419.27962@watson.ibm.com> rrogers@watson.ibm.com  
(Ryan Rogers) writes:
>    I've seen a lot of TNG on a lot of different stations, and this
> episode is *rarely* shown.  Why?
> 
> 
> --
> Sincerely,
> Ryan Rogers

I saw it last night for the first time on our local channel.  Why a race  
of sentient beings that plotted subtley and carefully for months to  
infiltrate the power structure would suddenly go berserk just in time for  
the TV episode 8^) and expose their plot and aims strikes me as silly.   
They were on a fine course and would have probably succeeded if Admiral  
Ginn (sp?) hadn't attacked Riker [with no apparent reason], or toyed with  
Worf and Geordi, or had not toyed with Picard at the dinner table with a  
bowl of larvae [hardly the actions of a clever and subtle race nearing the  
completion of their plot, but then it would have left us without an  
episode (and series for that matter) if they didn't massively bungle].   
Why too, other than for the gruesome factor, the scene with the larvae for  
dinner, the ingestion of the monster into Commander what's his names  
mouth, or the "exploding human head" destruction of the "mother beast"?   
Between the excessive reliance on STII: WOK and Aliens gimmicks and the  
suddenly inconsistent behavior of the aliens, I just couldn't buy it.  I  
won't even get into the physiology of entering the mouth to attach to the  
spinal column...  I'm willing to suspend disbelief, but this was too much.

My wife, who normally is a fan of the show, was simply grosed out by the  
gore.  I hardly expected it. but thought some of it was a nice break from  
the sterile, pseudo-cerebral stuff that goes on most times (no, I really  
like the show, but I tend to prefer a higher content of phaser blasts per  
episode 8^)).

I suspect that it may have ruffled a few feathers elsewhere and some of  
this got back to the broadcast powers that be, and so it doesn't get aired  
that often.

Pure conjecture, of course.