HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: vpilich@hughes.hacgate.UUCP (Vladimir Pilich)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: base 3 arithmetic
Date: 12 Aug 92 19:32:36 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Hughes Aircraft of Canada Limited, Calgary AB
In-reply-to: cpeterse@cs.ulowell.edu's message of 7 Aug 92 23:19:23 GMT

I had been away from the newsgroup for a while and didn't know that my reply
had generated any interest. This was my original post:

>Give this a try:

>Base 10:	Base 3:
>0		0
>1		1
>2		2
>3		10
>4		11
>5		12
>6		20
>7		21
>...		...

>Anyway you get the picture.

>Vlad.
 

NEVER did I claim that base 3 is derived from multiples of base 10!

Just thought that I would set the record straight.

Vlad.
From: darryall@wiz.outb.wimsey.bc.ca (Darren Ryall)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Wanted:Episode List with descriptions
Date: 18 Aug 92 08:40:45 GMT
Organization: Wizard Online

Thad...this is Darren Ryall.  I have a list that has various length descriptions of all the episodes, and includes movies and animated series..(though I don't have descriptions on the animated stuff yet.)  There is a board in Columbus, Ohio that I have access to called The Big Sky BBS...and I will ask the sysop there if I can upload it to his board for you to get.  What type of machine do you have?  I have a text version for all computers, and a self-extracting version with reader for the IBM.  Drop me a l





ine, and I'll know which to upload..

--- Via UCI v1.02 (C-Net Amiga)
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From: bates@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Andrew Bates)
Subject: Re: WHO IS HOTTER? TROI, CRUSHER, OR GUININ?
Organization: NASA/ARC Information Sciences Division
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:51:54 GMT


    Minuet.  Hands down.

    No, sorry, make that the woman from 'The Perfect Mate', instead.  Minuet's
a close second.

	Andy Bates.
From: trw@spl1.spl.loral.com (Tim R Witort)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: More GIF problems
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:52:24 GMT
Organization: Loral Software Productivity Laboratory

In article <BszEDH.2AM@spock.dis.cccd.edu>, markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Mark Bixby) writes:
|> In article <1992Aug13.233343.24582@wdl.loral.com> trw@spl1.spl.loral.com (Tim R Witort) writes:
|> >When I ftp to vab02.larc.nasa.gov and get the GIF files
|> >there then view them using xv, xv says they appear to be
|> >truncated and when they are displayed, the bottom of the
|> >image is chopped off. Some of them are fine though.
|> >
|> >What gives?
|> 
|> Make sure you're using "binary mode" when you ftp them.  Failure to do so
|> guarantees problems.

   I am using binary mode. Still get some truncated files (according to xv).

|> Mark Bixby                         Internet: markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu

-- Tim
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From: trw@spl1.spl.loral.com (Tim R Witort)
Subject: Re: One more reason to hate "Cost of Living"?
Keywords: error, Cost, Living
Organization: Loral Software Productivity Laboratory
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:21:10 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.212603.12359@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>, andy@ice.stx.com (Andy Moore) writes:
|> Matt Hicks writes:
|> }I just saw "Cost of Living" for the first time (all the way through
|> }that is) last night, and I agree with everyone who has said that it
|> }sucks. I also think that maybe the writing sucked on multiple levels;
|> }...
|> }I heard things correctly the people going to deck 10 are in for an
|> }unpleasant surprise because it was one of the first decks to lose life
|> }support. Does anyone have this on tape and feel like choking back the
|> }bile long enough to verify whether this is what is said? ...
|> 
|> Jesus, get a life!!!  Another reminder of why I *don't* bother reading
|> rec.arts.startrek.whiners on a regular basis.  I prefer to watch the
|> TV show, enjoy it, and then live my life.  I hope I never get my
|> panties in such a wad over something so trivial...
|>

  Something trivial? .... uh... something like someone else's reaction
to a TNG episode? Is that a wad I see in *your* panties? %\)

|> Andy Moore 

-- Tim
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From: johnsh@aix.rpi.edu (Hugh Johnson)
Subject: Season Premiere: Deanna bags Bev!
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:25:25 GMT

Okay, maybe not.  But there was that "excercise" scene between Deanna and
Beverly (in "The Host," I think).  They sure seemed to enjoy their little
spandex stretching session.  Hmm.


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# Hugh Johnson # Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute # Troy, NY # johnsh@rpi.edu #
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From: kmrc@ellis.uchicago.edu (Melanie A. Miller)
Subject: Re: Crew Eccentricities
Reply-To: kmrc@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 18:12:36 GMT

In article <15s7r4INNgif@agate.berkeley.edu> yoda@soda.berkeley.edu (Sean Yoda Rouse) writes:
>What about Riker's way of sitting in the command chair?
>When in command Riker kind of leans to one side when
>sitting in the center seat.  You'll really notice this
>in the episode wheer he goes to the Klingon ship and 
>in the episode in which he and an away team have to pit
>an obsolete  starship against the Enterprise.

Hmm. . .

Hemmorhoids in Space. . .

MAM


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From: ekho.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: The Measure of a Man
Date: 14 Aug 92 03:39:11 GMT
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton

ccoprdj@prism.gatech.EDU (Jorge Diaz) writes:

> 
> I don't understand where Star Fleet gets the *BALLS* to even suggest that
> Data belongs to them.  Even if you went so far to determine that he
> is property, why *theirs*?  Star Fleet did not build Data.  I've never
> heard any mention that they provided Dr. Soong with the funds necessary
> to build him.  Why do they think they have any right to him at all?
> 
> Two points:
> 
> First, one of the arguements used by the Commander was "What would
> you do if the Enterprise computer refused a refit?"  But this is
> a very poor example.  The Enterprise computer belongs to Star Fleet.
> It was built by members of Star Fleet, for Star Fleet.  Data was not.
> What makes him think that the two are similar?
> 
> Second, Data had *apply* to the academy, just like any other cadet.  It
> was even pointed out that Commander Dickhead was the only member of
> the board that screens applicants that didn't want to allow him to attend.
> Now, if he has to apply, that implies that he is not a part of Star Fleet
> by default, ie, he had to go through the same process as everyone else,
> and he should have the same rights as anyone else within Star Fleet.
> Where do they get off saying "Well, you had to apply here, just like
> anyone else, but you can't leave?"
> 
> And I really like the speech made by Picard about having a race of Datas,
> and what they propose is tantamount to slavery.
> 
> I just can't figure this part out, and if anyone has any explanations,
> I'd really like to hear them.
> 

  I don't have any explanations, not even the one for why I didn't see 
this in the first place!  I always felt uneasy about the episode; now I 
know why... Thank you for that piece of inspiration! (Do you get the 
feeling that I agree with it?  :)  

  One small step for Jorge Diaz, one large step for us all!

  Stay Safe!

          Yours in Time and Space,

             Ekho (Killer Queen, Dynamite with a Laser Beam)
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From: sprackle@rel8.ncsa.uiuc.edu (David Spracklen)
Subject: STAR TREK PRANKS
Organization: ncsa
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 14:52:12 GMT
Keywords: cont.

add a few of these to the list.

Put the communicator under the skin on a crew member's head (Ryker, "Wow!
    I could have had a V8).

Alternatively, you could place the communicator in the hip (give Bev a
    chance to have fun with Picard).

Have the communicator fail everytime the crew gets into a tight spot on
a planet.  Wait, that one is already taken, isn't it?

Replace Worf's suicide dagger with a rubber copy.

Program the transporter so it swaps the clothes of any incoming people.

Minor head cold, Dave


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From: matt@unidata.ucar.edu (Matt Hicks)
Subject: One more reason to hate "Cost of Living"?
Keywords: error, Cost, Living
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR Boulder, CO
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:14:45 GMT

I just saw "Cost of Living" for the first time (all the way through
that is) last night, and I agree with everyone who has said that it
sucks. I also think that maybe the writing sucked on multiple levels;
that is to say, I think I heard an error or rather, a contradiction,
in the crisis dialog. I didn't follow the earlier discussions of this
episode too carefully, so stop me if you've heard this one before. At
one point, we hear,"Life support failure on decks 10 and 11." The order
is given to evacuate those decks. A few minutes later, life support 
fails on like decks 24 and 25, and Pickard says (paraphrase)"Evacuate
the affected decks and direct the evacuees to decks 9 and 10." So if 
I heard things correctly the people going to deck 10 are in for an
unpleasant surprise because it was one of the first decks to lose life
support. Does anyone have this on tape and feel like choking back the
bile long enough to verify whether this is what is said? And please don't
try to cover for the writers with some flame about the ship not allowing
people to go to a deck w/o life support or something like that. If the
writers did screw up (and the fact that this episode exists is proof
enough that someone wasn't thinking) then this is one time they should
be thumped for it.

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From: judson@watnxt2.ucr.edu (Michael Judson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: STIV and the transtator
Date: 17 Aug 92 23:14:17 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.135211.13897@ctr.columbia.edu>  
Charles_Laine@CCIS.BAYLOR.EDU (Charles Laine) writes:

> However, I think the impact of leaving behind a phaser and communicator
> is far greater than leaving behind transparent aluminum.  First of all,
> Scotty did not actually give Plexicor the transparent aluminum.  He gave
> them a formula... a blueprint from which to follow.

Your theory is totally absurd.  First of all, having the formula to build
transparent aluminum is far better than having a transtator for which they
have no idea what it used for.  They would have to dissect it, study it,
figure out what it is, determine how it could be used, etc.  And this
would take far longer than simply taking the bluepring of transparent
aluminum and making some.  Yes, it is true that the transparent aluminum
is not as technologically significant as the transtator, but to say that
Scotty's actions are not as significant as Chekhov's actions are absurd.
Even the smallest of actions, such as going back in time and removing a 
leaf from a tree, or stepping on an ant, will have profound effects for 
the future.  Think about it.  Like in Back to the Future, Marty's actions
about telling his father (in the past) about writing science fiction novels,
even though it was seemingly an insignificant act, had profound results.
When he returned, the father was a famed novelist.
--
"I drank what?" -- Socrates

judson@watserv.ucr.edu
From: lac@linus.mitre.org (Lisa A. Crook)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Fake Spoilers
Date: 20 Aug 92 16:58:13 GMT
Organization: Research Computer Facility, MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA

In article <jverho80.714251427@ursa> jverho80@ursa.calvin.edu (Jeff Verhoef) writes:
>I'm just wondering if this little piece of info is designated to evoke
>a response from people....if it's false, no big deal, but if it's not:
>
>THANKS A LOT!!! I REALLY WANTED TO KNOW!!!
>
>Just when I thought the episodes were getting better and a little less
>predictable, this happens and the whole surprise is ruined....
>
>--
>    ////\\\\     Jeff Verhoef                 -----"KHAN!!!"  (echo echo echo)
>   ////  \\\\    Calvin College                    "KHAN!!!"  (echo echo echo)
>  ////    \\\\   Grand Rapids, MI  49546  USA                --Kirk, STII
>

I would also like to add that even if I had been fortunate enough to
have missed the original BIG SPOILER posting to which Jeff refers (I was
NOT that fortunate), there is NO way I could have missed all the follow-up
posts which flamed the original poster and:

 * INCLUDED THE SPOILER IN THE HEADER AND/OR BODY OF THE POST (no ^L's) *

Not everyone did this, but a great many did.  Not too smart, people.

I just had to point that out.  (I feel *so* much better.)

Lisa

--
Lisa Crook	 lac@linus.mitre.org
"Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the
reason for the hope that you have.  But do this with gentleness and respect."
	1 Peter 3:15
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From: tomcat@cwis.unomaha.edu (Jeffrey S. Jo)
Subject: Re: What would you do with the power of the Q ?
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 16:24:41 GMT

salm@rad.psu.edu (Sally Laurent-Muehleisen) writes:

>In article 11481@ennews.eas.asu.edu, thompson@enuxva.eas.asu.edu (Albert Thompson III (Al)) writes:
>Yes! What would you do with the Power of the Q?
>*** Something to contemplate on ***
>-thompson@enuxha.eas.asu.edu



>Anything and everything?  :-)

>						-Sally Laurent-Muehleisen

>---
>Plan:
>**To read everything Harlan Ellison ever wrote (by Tues.)**
The first thing I would do is get off of this planet and find a place
where it's peaceful.  Then, maybe, create my own starship and boldy go
where no one has gone before, but don't tell anyone about it.  Tell the
new aliens I meet to go to Earth in their own ships and play with their
minds.  Then, probably, destroy Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place.
Ahh, life is so sweet when one dreams.
				"Au contraire, mon Capitan, He's Back!!"
					-Q
						Jeffrey Jo
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Computer Operations		| Galaxy Class - Starfleet Registry NCC-1701-D
University of Nebraska at Omaha |      Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards, Mars
From: jtbell@acsu.buffalo.edu (Jonathan T. Bell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: ST:TNG gifs
Keywords: gif pictures
Date: 14 Aug 92 21:02:13 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <1391@newsserver.cs.uwindsor.ca> ttoronyi@server.uwindsor.ca (Tibor Toronyi) writes:

>Speaking about the README file on VAB02.  It seems out of date. Somethings
>are listed but not there.  One in particular I would like is
>
>sttng211.gif  Denise Crosby.
>
>Can anybody Email me an encoded file?

	Better than that, why can't someone just put it up into the ftp site
so we all can get it?

					-Jonny B.
-- 
How do you tell which computer on the network has a virus?
  ....It's the one with a stuffed up node.
				-From Rec.humour.funny
From: ira2p@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Iain Robert Asplin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: spoilers-- enough  Posting again
Date: 19 Aug 92 21:08:02 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia

In article <1992Aug19.194757.24416@news.unomaha.edu> tomcat@cwis.unomaha.edu (Jeffrey S. Jo) writes:
>
>
>
>OK, this is last try I am going to attempt.  If this is readable, this
>is try #3.  My last two postings didn't work.  As I have said twice before,
>Enough is enough about ripping on Jonathen Sheir (though he is an idiot
>for not putting *spoiler* in the title).  I am pretty PO'd myself, but I
>say lets all wait and see.  If Geordi does die, we can rip on him some
>more, if not, then we are no worse for wear.  He made a mistake, and he 
>knows it, but let's wait and see.  I hope this gets posted.  Third times
>a charm.  Have a nice day =)!!
>					Jeffrey Jo
>
No, Jeffrey, enough is not enough.  
I'm taking the opportunity to flame Mister Jonathan Sheir again for
this, even if it is a little flame-trap he set for us all.
If it is a trick, then he should be flamed anyway for deceiving us all.l


I HATE YOU MR SHEIR

>
>
>
>
>-- 
>|Jeffrey S. Jo                  |		U.S.S. Enterprise              |
>|Computer Operations		| Galaxy Class - Starfleet Registry NCC-1701-D |
>|University of Nebraska at Omaha|        Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards, Mars     |
>|tomcat@cwis.unomaha.edu        |             Launched Stardate 40759.5        |
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From: jblackwo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (J P Blackwood)
Subject: Re: ST: TNG gifs
Keywords: gif pictures
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 17:24:54 GMT



I've hunted newusers,answers to no avail so I'll ask here.

How do you read gifs? Can any computer run the right program?

--J.P.
From: v130qh57@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (sandra guzdek)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Season Premiere-- ______ Dies!!!
Date: 20 Aug 92 16:40:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


look, if you're going to flame the guy, at least send the reply to him 
only. reposting a million times with the spoiler message intact only 
increases the chances that someone is going to get spoiled.

that's all.

  +                                  +                                       +
   sandra guzdek + username: v130qh57@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu + til 28 Aug 1992 
       6037 Devlin Avenue + Niagara Falls, NY + 14304 + after 28 Aug 1992 
    "Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life... 
                  Higher emotions, and table manners."
                       --- Deanna Troi, _Imzadi_
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From: bergerp@highland.manassas.ibm.com  
Subject: RE: ST Gifs
  Is there a listserv machine at that site or is ftp the only way to get them??
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 17:36:43 GMT
Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research

Pat

Keywords:
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Subject: re smithsonian 
From: litt@wittenberg.edu
Date: 22 Aug 92 23:10:19 -0400
Organization: Wittenberg University

I volunteer at the Star Trek exhibit and I thought that I might clarify a few
things.  The exhibition was originally going to close on Memorial day, but was
then extended to Labor day.  It has once more been extended to January 23, I
believe.  Until Labor day the Air and Space museum is open until 7:30.  It will
begin closing at 5:30 during the fall.  Free tickets (same day only) are given
out at the museum every day.  Ticketron and some department stores sell advance
passes at $2.50 each.  No more than 4 tickets may be given to one person.

	The exhibit focuses oon history and social commentary, and is not
recommended for young childern.  There is a very good audio tour, for, $2.50, i
think, but it is not necessary for the exhibit, as there is a huge amount of
commentary on the walls.
Hope that this is useful.
							marcia litt
From: ccoprdj@prism.gatech.EDU (Jorge Diaz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Not only does he get beat up, but ..
Date: 23 Aug 92 00:58:12 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <1992Aug21.203110.15044@fs7.ece.cmu.edu> winstead@faraday.ece.cmu.edu (Charles Holden Winstead) writes:
>Just a thought,

>Not only does Work get beat up all the time, but did you ever notice that 
>whenever there's a controversy over what to do, Picard waits for Worf's
>suggestion and then does the opposite. 

>It's pretty funny how often this happens.

I especially loved it in ??? (the episode where some really 'slow' aliens
tricked Riker to send Geordi over to fix their ship.  "We look for things."
and "Things to make us go" were the two most repeated sentences in the
episode).

Anyway, Worf suggested first that they send over the technical data the
aliens need, and let them fix their own damn ship.  "Do you really think
they would understand the information we send them?" countered Riker.
Then Worf suggested sending someone a little farther down the ladder
than their *CHIEF* engineer.  Nah, couldn't do that, could we?  So, they
send him over.  He gets captured.

I kept expecting Worf to rub it in Riker's face "Ha!  I tried to warn you!
I told you TWICE, but nooooooo, you had to do it your way.  Fine, let
them kill ol' blindie, see if I care! :-P"

I can dream. :-)


-- 
Jorge Diaz                       | Sign in a restaurant:
Georgia Institute of Technology  | 
Office of Information Technology |   "We reserve the right to serve refuse to
ccoprdj@prism.gatech.edu         |        anyone."
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From: ccoprdj@prism.gatech.EDU (Jorge Diaz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Cause & Effect (*SPOILERS*) possible explaination
Date: 16 Aug 92 10:54:39 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <1992Aug12.132244.7902@rtsg.mot.com> bringman@rtsg.mot.com (Bill Bringman) writes:



>The question I have is how did the other ship get in the loop?
>If the loop included the big E crashing with it, and was finally broken by
>avoiding the crash, what kept the other ship waiting in the loop
>for 80 years?  If something else did keep the other ship in the loop,
>where is it during the crash and near crash with the big E?

The other ship was *not* in the loop for 80 years.  The other ship was
in the loop exactly as long as the big E was.  The problem is that we
have two temporal anomalies (did I spell that right? :)  We have the time
warp that brought the Boseman 80 years forward in time.  Then we have the
time loop that was created by the destruction of the Enterprise.

When the Enterprise was destroyed, actually, I think both ships were
destroyed, it created a time loop of approximately one day.  For the
Enterprise, that was one real day, and it went back in time one day.
For the Boseman, it was one real day, and 80 virtual years, because it
was back in its own time again, and had to come forward through the
time warp again.

So, if the Enterprise looped 17 times (was that the number, I haven't
seen the episode in a while), so did the Boseman.  It just happened
to pass through the time warp 17 times (ie, it came forward in time
17 times).  It was NOT stuck in a loop for 80 years.


-- 
Jorge Diaz                       | Sign in a restaurant:
Georgia Institute of Technology  | 
Office of Information Technology |   "We reserve the right to serve refuse to
ccoprdj@prism.gatech.edu         |        anyone."
From: games@uk.ac.strath.ccsun ("Games administrator account", )
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: STIV and the transtator
Date: 21 Aug 92 15:27:42 GMT
Reply-To: games@uk.ac.strath.ccsun
Organization: Strathclyde University Sun Workstations.

Personally I think you're all nuts.
The reson Chekhov could leave his equipment etc. is that in the films they couldnt give a toss for continuity e.g. 83 decks on NCC 1701-a (ST V-TFF)??
From: bandy@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Mike Bandy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: What's DS9?
Date: 20 Aug 92 01:24:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: aplcen.1992Aug20.012412.12101
Organization: Johns Hopkins University

What the 'DS9' that many posts make reference to?

	Mike
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