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From: nml@hq.lcs.mit.edu (Newton Loui)
Subject: Re: QL: This weeks episode was *not* a smart idea.
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 18:27:14 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.205142.7224@ms.uky.edu> thomasc@ms.uky.edu (Thomas Campbell) writes:
 >Spoilers below by the way ...





 >I was *very* disappointed.  Sam was able to overcome the abilities
                                              ^^^^^^^^
 >of someone he was leaped into.  This can't happen.  If he is a 
 >parapeligic then he is a parapeligic.  He's always had to adapt
 >to the abilities of the person that he was in and work within those
 >constraints.  I was *not* happy.  Maybe I'm wrong on this fact but
 >I didn't think he was able to do stuff like that.
 >
 >Alex

I don't agree.  According to the FAQ, Sam is whole and when he leaps
into someone, he is still whole even though the leapee may not be.  If
Sam is injured during the leap, the leapee is not.

In the leaps, Al has reminded Sam that everyone else around him must
think that Sam *is* the leapee, in this case Ron Miller.  Sam only
"rose to the occasion," at the prompting of Al, when he had to get out
of the clutches of that orderly.  This also had the additional effect
of removing the orderly - a disruptive and non-constructive person -
from the center.

The other time Sam "rose to the occasion" was to rescue Billie.  I
found nothing wrong with that.  I know of a woman who was born without
arms and yet she reads with her feet (*please* this is true, no jokes)
among other things.  She is even a diver.  She had been told that
without arms she could not perform the mechanics of the twists
necessary in diving ... but she could.  I understand that it takes
determination, training, and perseverance to do the things she does,
but the USMC strives for all that.  Ron is a captain in the USMC; he's
served two tours of duty.  Despite the loss of his legs, I still think
that physically his upper body is strong and he still has his thighs.
In short, Ron Miller could pull Billie off the bottom of the pool and
float with him until assistance came.

Of course, I keep quoting the naval doctor who exhorted Ron to "rise
to the occasion" in his rehabilitation and re-acclimation to civilian
life as a paraplegic.

If I think that a paraplegic is "able to do stuff like that," then I
can believe that Ron could, and thus believe that the people around
Sam could believe that Ron could.

"No one asked, just my opinion."

nml

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From: sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: rec.arts.tv.quantum-leap?
Date: 16 Oct 92 18:54:47 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Oct15.190655.1387@miavx2.ham.muohio.edu> ngsippel@miavx2.ham.muohio.edu writes:

>Try alt.tv.quantum-leap and you guys will get it.....You all have been
>petitioning for the wrong newsgroup!

NO NO NO NO!!! Read the past week's worth of messages.

We don't WANT no steenkeeng alt group.

(I refuse to post the !@#$% FAQL question 21 again this week!)

Sally
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From: wixer!cactus.org!wixer!pro-smof.cts.com!rfletcher@cactus.org (Robert Fletcher)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Alf
Date: 9 Oct 1992 12:29:20 -0500
Organization: The SMOF-BBS: Science Fiction Online Since 1985 [512-467-7317]
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

  Have there been any talk of wrapping up the loose end to the show Alf.
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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Battlestar Galactica: Conclusion?
Date: 10 Oct 1992 04:10:20 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.think.com

In article <1992Oct10.005326.20802@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c150-ff@po.berkeley.edu (Christopher Chan) writes:
>	Does anyone out there know how the televison series Battlestar
>Galactica ended?  Did they reach Earth?

The entire (short-lived) last season of BG took place on Earth in the
present day.  They even renamed the series to something like "Galactica
1980" (where the year was actually the year it was on).  Those of us who
thought that the show couldn't get any worse learned we were wrong.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

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Subject: Re: QL: This weeks episode was *not* a smart idea.
From: ace@kryton.UUCP (Catherine Beckstead)
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 92 12:35:18 PDT
Organization: Paradox Alley F&SF BBS 805-492-8789

thomasc@ms.uky.edu (Thomas Campbell) writes:

> Spoilers below by the way ...
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> I was *very* disappointed.  Sam was able to overcome the abilities
> of someone he was leaped into.  This can't happen.  If he is a 
> parapeligic then he is a parapeligic.  He's always had to adapt
> to the abilities of the person that he was in and work within those
> constraints.  I was *not* happy.  Maybe I'm wrong on this fact but
> I didn't think he was able to do stuff like that.
> 
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> Alex
> 
> P.s. I still like  the Theme music... *bleah*

No, he has always had his own abilities.  Sam's body does leap in, but the
"aura" of the other person remains so other people see Sam as the Leepee.
Watch the episode _Blind Faith_, the Leepee is blind, Sam is not blind, and
when he leaps into the blind man, Sam can see.  So yes, this leap was
consistant with how they have been doing leaps in the past.


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From: baylor@nebula.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Subject: Re: QL: Al and Sam...
Reply-To: baylor@nebula.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 19:22:04 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.212149.3551@ra.msstate.edu>, slrosser@whale.st.usm.edu (Sandra Lynne Rosser) writes:
>>After "What Price, Gloria?" which was the first time Sam leaped into a
>>woman, the Project realized that this could be a potential problem with 
>>Al if he kept seeing Sam, his best friend, as a gogeous woman.  So they
>
>I'm kind of new to the QL scene...I've watched it off and on since first
>season, but only recently -really- gotten into it.  What -do- we know
>about Al's relationship with Sam?  Were they pals?  Did they hang out
>together, have a couple beers at the local bar?  Vacation together like
>Mac and Pete on MacGyver?  What's the deal?  They're so different, yet
>they click on screen like nothing I've ever seen--can anybody tell me
>what they've told us so far?
>
>Thanks,
>Meredith
>
>
Actually, their relationship is sort of "unspecified extremely close"
I highly recommend the episode Shock Theater for what Al tells Sam
about their friendship. It is not specific, but wonderful. 
(something like "You're my best buddy . . . You believed in me when
nobody else did...")
We know they spent extremely long hours putting together the project,
(Man of LaMancha, or whatever the ep was) and Sam had hired Al for QL 
when he seemed pretty much a hopeless case from the booze (Play Ball).
I think Al was best man at Sam's wedding (Starcrossed, but I don't have
that one on tape).
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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: QL: This weeks episode was *not* a smart idea.
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 08:04:11 GMT

In article <Oct.7.01.21.32.1992.6353@remus.rutgers.edu> finifter@remus.rutgers.edu (Tracy E. Finifter) writes:
>It's Sam's body that leaps, and people around him
>only see the aura of the person he leaped into.

Of course, when Sam was walking around, everyone else should have seen the
pants legs, since they were not cut off, but we honestly can't expect
*intelligence* when they try to be clever, can we?

*sigh*

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sef@kithrup.COM  |  little effort you make to learn your way around."
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Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.
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From: eah4@po.CWRU.Edu (Elizabeth A. Hlabse)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.tv
Subject: QL: My Evil Leaper Theory
Date: 11 Oct 1992 15:36:45 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: eah4@po.CWRU.Edu (Elizabeth A. Hlabse)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu



 
Since everyone else is coming up with ideas on this, I'd like
to add mine.  Please, let me know what you think.

I don't think that the Evil Leaper (EL) is evil.  I think that
she is, like Sam, trapped in time and not at all in control of
where and when she goes.  Now, since we already know that she has
an Observer (Zoe), perhaps it is this woman who is telling her that
she must do evil things in order to get home. Think about it...Al
is the one, with Ziggy's help, that is telling Sam that he must
save so and so, or do such and such, to leap and perhaps get home.
Now, if Zoe and their equivelant of Ziggy, is telling EL that she
must KILL so and so or mess up such and such to get home, don't
you think she'd do it?  She may not be evil but the person(s)
contolling her and feeding her information may be.

Just my $.02
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Subject: Re: Highlander: Series and third movie
From: <JW83HISW@MIAMIU.BITNET>
Date: Friday, 9 Oct 1992 08:26:55 EDT
Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service

(Stuff deleted and paraphrased to save space)
Brian Perler responds:
>Except that in the movie, no one seemed to know what the prize was.
>Conner only found out AFTER he killed Kurgen and won the prize.  That
>either means the show occurs after the first movie (which is rather
>pointless) or someone didn't pay enough attention to the first movie.
 
No, Conner doesn't know what the Prize will *DO* until after he's won
it.  Back in the 16th century, Ramirez makes a reference that it's a
great power, but no one actually states they don't know what it is.
Even if Ramirez didn't know in the 1500's, that doesn't mean that Mac-
Leod hasen't found out in the ensuing four centuries.
     One quick point: The show can't be taking place after the first
movie, Conner is still immortal.
 
>There is no mystical connection between holy land and the immortal's
>powers.  In Highlander, Ramirez tells Conner somthing like, "You're
>safe only on holy ground.  It's tradition.  None of us will violate
>that."  The immortals don't attack each other on holy ground because
>WON'T, not because they CAN'T.  To support this, look at the scene
>in the church near the end of Highlander, after Kurgen kills Castigir.
>After Kurgen tells Conner about how he raped Heather after killing
>Ramirez, Conner is ready to attack Kurgen then and there, until Kurgen
>reminds Conner of the tradition.  Now, why this tradition exists, I
>can't say, but that's all it is, a tradition.
 
Interesting, but then how can Duncan be safe on long abandoned Native
American holy ground?  SOMEHOW, the Immortals must be able to sense
a holy place, not just have someone tell them about it.  Obviously,
Kurgen is not Catholic, but he recognizes a church as holy ground.
I suspect some kind of mystical link, but nothing so powerful as their
immortality.  Duncan seems to think he can get out of the game by
staying on holy ground, although Conner disagrees.
 
Mainly, I'm just trying to come up with somthing that would possibly
make the third movie better than the second.  Considering the uproar
from fans(plus the potential of the series), even the Hollywood types
must realize that the third movie should be like the first.  All the
interviews with Lambert indicate this.  Maybe I'm being a super -
optimist, but I have hopes for the third movie.
 
                                                Jim
From: murphy@npri6.npri.com (David P. Murphy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Highlander: The Series (tiny little spoiler)
Date: 6 Oct 92 20:51:07 GMT
Organization: NPRI, Alexandria VA


>I'd like some info on the relationship between "Connor Macleod of the clan
>Macleod" and "Duncan Macleod of the clan Macleod".
>
>driskill%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Hank Driskill, GSH3D)

"same clan, different vintage."

ha!  that was great!

ok
dpm
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From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
Subject: Re: rec.arts.tv.quantum-leap?
Followup-To: rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.tv
Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 00:17:18 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.211032.16052@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> hades@Dartmouth.Edu writes:
>Voting YES for a newsgroup is the same as saying "I like this group, and
>plan on reading it if it is created."

Nonsense.  Voting yes for a newsgroup means you want it created.  Nothing
else.
--
"the bogosity in a field equals the bogosity imported from related areas, plus
the bogosity generated internally, minus the bogosity expelled or otherwise
disposed of."  -- K. Eric Drexler

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     INTERNET: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu)
From: meg5184@hertz.njit.edu (Starman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: * Needed! Sci-Fi Channel guide
Date: 12 Oct 92 20:39:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

Can anyone post the times and days of the major sci-fi channel shows
such as Galactica, Buck Rogers. Space:1999, etc. I have it, but don't
have a cable guide to go with it (thanx, TV guide!). Thanx!

=============================== Mike Gaines ============================
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= WHAT is your quest?.............................I seek the Holy Grail=
= WHAT is the average velocity of a Bird of Prey?...Romulan or Klingon?=
=                        I.....I don't know AAAAAHHHHH!                =
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
From: sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith)
Subject: Re: Quantum Leap Trivia -- Win something cool!!!!
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 19:21:56 GMT

In article <fletch.718440634@camelot> fletch@camelot.bradley.edu (Alan Lurie) writes:

>Dr. Beckett holds seven different degrees, if memory serves me correctly.
>Can anyone tell me what those different areas are???  If someone can answer

The answer to your question is: NO

Sam's degrees haven't all been revealed, so no one in the world could
possibly answer this question.

[Don'tcha just hate it when I do things like this :-)]

Sally
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I'm unemployed--these opinions *must* be mine!
"Don't investigate this too closely." -- Don Bellisario, re: "Quantum Leap"

Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.tv
From: firestar@leland.Stanford.EDU (Lipton Ann Meredith)
Subject: Re: QL: Al's skills
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 07:50:50 GMT

In article <1992Oct16.025546.15305@openage.openage.com> ghost@openage.openage.com (Glenn Host) writes:
>
>Look at some of skills that Al had that Sam needed:
>
>He spoke Hebrew & Italian
>He played pool
>He piloted a plane (a couple of episodes of this)
>Boxed
>Played baseball
>Real good with the ladies, Would have been really glad to do Sam's job :)
>Acted
>Singing
>Navigate
>
>Except for Ancient Languages and Medicine Al seemed to have most of
>the skills necessary for the situations Sam has been in
>
>Plus Sam's skills would much better at fixing Zyggy and explaining
>the reasons the quantom string theorem and why Al would have to do
>the job to leap.
>


Al also knew about being a catcher on a trapeze, and how to ride a motorcycle.

But the reason Sam is leaping, I suppose, and not Al, according to the show, 
is that Sam was not entirely sure everything would work --remember, he went in
prematurely.  So you could say that Sam wasn't willing to risk someone else
on his project, so he decided to be the guinea pig.

Firestar


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From: swardwel@nyx.cs.du.edu (Stephanie Wardwell)
Subject: QL and VA Hospitals
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 19:07:52 GMT


I don't remember who made the comment about the higher-ups at the VA
hospital reacting to the nozzle orderly (I got 200 entries behind. 
AArggh!)  I did feel the need to comment on it.

The VA doesn't care about their patients.  I had the very weird experience
(weird because I'm female) of volunteering for a drug study at the VA here
in Philly.  I got to sit in the halls and waiting rooms for many hours
during the course of it, and let me tell you, those guys are not getting
the treatment they deserve.  This is not entirely or even mostly the fault
of the staff.  They do as well as they can with the little they've got. 
But the place is dark and poorly ventilated, there's nowhere for the guys
to go for relaxation, and much of the time they just sit around in the
halls in their chairs or strapped to their beds,  waiting for something to
happen.  The problem I had with "Nowhere" was how clean and comfortable
everything was in the hospital.  Maybe things were better for vets in the
late sixties.  We can hope.

Stephanie Wardwell
swardwel@pennsas.upenn.edu
From: xoanon@triton.unm.edu (timothy k istian soholt)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Debates (Was Re: QL: Prememption)
Date: 14 Oct 92 17:16:40 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Okay, I'm probably going to get flamed out of existence for this, but
I just wanted to mention that the best way to watch the debate on
Tuesday was definitely Comedy Central -- they had some hysterical on-
screen bits as well as some reasonably serious commentary about the
candidates, giving us a better idea on what they had done in the past
compared to what they were saying at the time. 

"William Rufus Devane King, the Bachelor Vice President, was a total
lunatic." 
          -- Indecision '92, the Vice Presidential Debate

-- Tim Soholt (xoanon@carina.unm.edu), The Man With No .sig
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From: kbos@carina.unm.edu (Kurt "Some Guy" Bose)
Subject: Re: rec.arts.tv.quantum-leap?
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 00:58:14 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1992Oct15.193755.4395@netcom.com> sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith) writes:
>
>For the second time this WEEK (we have a new record, ladies and gents!)
>
>Bail out now, old hands...
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>			Quantum Leap FAQL
>
>Created by: Quantum Buc (buc@world.std.com) and 
>	        Debbie Brown (dmb7229@ultb.isc.rit.edu)
>Updated by:  Sally "Lucky Bitch" Smith (sallylb@netcom.com)
>
>21.  Why don't all you "Quantum Leapers" get your own newsgroup and leave 
>     us alone?
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Sally

I would like to open discussion on the creation of

   rec.arts.tv.ql.faql.question21

so that Sally can just renew this section of the FAQL there every week or so...

(Before anyone replies...IT'S A JOKE!!!)

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I'd rather see Doug Dascenzo pitch than suffer through John Burkett's batting..
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From: istn100@indyvax.iupui.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL: Al and Sam...
Date: 9 Oct 92 10:15:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: indyvax.1992Oct9.151549.197
Followup-To: rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.tv

In article <1992Oct7.212149.3551@ra.msstate.edu>, slrosser@whale.st.usm.edu (Sandra Lynne Rosser) writes:
>>After "What Price, Gloria?" which was the first time Sam leaped into a
>>woman, the Project realized that this could be a potential problem with 
>>Al if he kept seeing Sam, his best friend, as a gogeous woman.  So they
> 
> I'm kind of new to the QL scene...I've watched it off and on since first
> season, but only recently -really- gotten into it.  What -do- we know
> about Al's relationship with Sam?  Were they pals?  Did they hang out
> together, have a couple beers at the local bar?  Vacation together like
> Mac and Pete on MacGyver?  What's the deal?  They're so different, yet
> they click on screen like nothing I've ever seen--can anybody tell me
> what they've told us so far?
> 
> Thanks,
> Meredith
> 
> 
Well, we know that they are very close.  There was an episode that USA just
ran this week....erm....drat, forget the title, the one where Sam leaps into
a young high-school football player.
Anyway....oh, yea.....SPOILER ALERT!!!


SPOILER ALERT!!!







At the end of that episode, when the teamis about to lose the championship
game, Sam is out of ideas for how to get his pal to get back into the game.
Al tells Sam to bench himself, on the theory that the pal would not be willing
to destroy Sam's chances for a football scholarship.  Sam says, something like
"They're that close?"
And Al replies,
"Yes.  Like me and you."


The Crime Doctor

Ellen G. Cohn
ISTN100@indyvax.iupui.edu
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