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"We age because our cells lose the desire to regenerate and repair themselves."

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Cellular_regeneration_and_entertainment_chamber

It's called a multiphasic scan or sweep and can be conducted accros multiple targets by modifying the navigational sensors to operate on a multiphasic bandwidth.

For example:

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Television

It was called Second Chances. Gotta love wikis.

It's tetryons, you insenstive clod.

I don't want to be involved in any ST:V plot

The website is a mess anyways, Memory Alpha is much better, its the star trek wiki, http://memory-alpha.org/

Hence the Memory Alpha wikia. Perhaps someone should create a Wikia for mathematical theorems and proofs?

> As long as they're presenting facts, why not?

So there's the line. Can I present the "facts" about a short story I just wrote on the back of a napkin? How about the "fact" that the President Bush is an evil dictator? That the elephant population has tripled? That Charles Riley of Wichita, KS won 1st place in the school science fair? That sleeping under a pyramid will extend your life? That Super Reformulated Tide(tm) is the best detergent ever? That hot, sexy, housewives are available 24x7 at 976-...?

People have tried to add things just like that to Wikipedia and worse. If you there's *any* of that you don't believe belongs on Wikipedia, someone else thinks you're a jackass.

As for having different "levels" of appropriateness, inevitably what will happen is that the cruft will just get ignored by the vast majority of editors, even though it still carries the name of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. Instead of recreating the Google PageRank algorithm, why not just use the original? There you'll find the version that meets Wikipedia's standards as well as all the fancruft you could ask for.

given the wriggle room for marketing weasels.

I believe this is the main issue for the marketing industry. Marketers should present *facts* as straight-forward as possible. Vista Capable? How about "Vista capability score"? One star - Home Basic. Two Stars - Home Premium. Three Stars - Ultimate. Match the stars on the PC badge to the Vista box. The stars on the computer must be equal or greater than the stars on the OS. Fini.

There's still plenty of room for them, of course. Marketers can continue to expound on all things emotional, and convince me that I really do need 300 new features and an iPadd. (Looking at you, Apple)

"Beeeeeep."

no, it was on his back.

(sad that i know this so certainly...)

I know I'm replying to my own post, but oh well. I'll get over it. Anywho, I did finally find information on this on Memory Alpha. It is on the small of Data's back. I was right! Huzzah! Ok, no more caffeine... http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Deactivation_switch

The list of pokemon on List of Pokemon. The list includes the romanization of their japanese names, which Pokedexes they're in, and what they evolve from. These are all clearly trivia. The Pokedex columns should be changed to a list of which games they are in, since that's what the four Pokedex columns actually represent.

Of course, the entire list may be in violation of WP:DIRECTORY because it and its 20 sub-pages (List of Pokémon (1-20) through List of Pokémon (481-493)) are a list of trivial things that have no notability on their own. (See: WP:DIRECTORY 1; 2 may apply as well)

The Dominion War is a page covering the minutia of a fictional war in a fictional universe. Do I need to say more? That article belongs over on the Star Trek Wiki, Memory Alpha.

I haven't even looked at the third page.

The list of pokemon on List of Pokemon. The list includes the romanization of their japanese names, which Pokedexes they're in, and what they evolve from. These are all clearly trivia. The Pokedex columns should be changed to a list of which games they are in, since that's what the four Pokedex columns actually represent.

Of course, the entire list may be in violation of WP:DIRECTORY because it and its 20 sub-pages (List of Pokémon (1-20) through List of Pokémon (481-493)) are a list of trivial things that have no notability on their own. (See: WP:DIRECTORY 1; 2 may apply as well)

The Dominion War is a page covering the minutia of a fictional war in a fictional universe. Do I need to say more? That article belongs over on the Star Trek Wiki, Memory Alpha.

I haven't even looked at the third page.

• subject specific wikis (protein biology, Asian travel, etc) are much more vibrant (where vibrancy is measured as the ratio of updates to total pages)
  
• fictional universe wikis are insanely popular - Memory Alpha (The Star Trek wiki) beats all but a handful of the european language wikipediae, and the battlesar galactica wiki is even bigger.
  
• wikis are the new bulletin boards - TV shows are using them for all the complex character backfill. Have you lost track in "24" or "Lost"? Try the wiki, it's aaaalll in there.
  

Actually, it was on Voyager, and the episode was Nothing Human.

By the way, you're thinking of the Voyager episode "Nothing Human". In it, a Cardassian doctor, who performed horrific experiments on Bajorans during the occupation, is recreated in the holodeck to act as a brainstorming advisor for the Holographic Doctor.

A moral dilemma ensues, as to whether or not it is ethically permissible to use scientific results to save a person's life, when those results were obtained in an unethical way.

Those who mock the Shatner, those who dub him 'cheesy' or 'over the top' should ask themselves this: at what point during his performance of Kirk do you ever, even for one second, doubt that you are watching the captain of the starship Enterprise?

Shatner - like Doohan - is a method actor. When the camera is on him, he actually believes that he is in command of a starship, and his belief is what drags us kicking and screaming along with him. Love him or hate him, you could never catch him playing it at one iota less than warp 9. This new guy? Pwwwpt. He's just an actor. He's not the captain of the Enterprise.

Shatner. Is. Kirk.

Star Trek: The Documentary Series era. Is. Shatner.

Is it just me, or does Chris Pine look more like Captain Christopher Pike than James Kirk? Maybe it's just the eyes...

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Christopher_Pike

At least Chris won't have to sit in the head-bump and pointy ear attachment chair.

Carefully polishes Geek Badge...

At least Chris won't have to sit in the head-bump and pointy ear attachment chair.

Carefully polishes Geek Badge...

At least Chris won't have to sit in the head-bump and pointy ear attachment chair.

Carefully polishes Geek Badge...

Now. He has to learn. To talk. Like this.

Chris Pine? That's one letter away from Chris Pike! Coincidence? I don't think so!

I thought it was the name of the engineer who invented transparent aluminum.

I thought it was the name of the engineer who invented transparent aluminum.

They should get rid of the Little Red Book and go with this one.

And that dull, red flag is so outdated? Here's a much nicer one.

3 billion years ago (+6!) an advanced civilzation attempted harness the power of the perfect particle. Particle 010, the Omega Particle. This civilization no longer exists (hence we haven't seen another blip) and the space around it is completely destabilized - preventing us from getting even close enough to figure out exactly what happened.

Klingons vs. Furries. They have a bigger wiki than ours, but we're working on it.

"Klingons to Take on Caitians in Bowling Match"?

It is very difficult and dangerous to try and move someone who is actively resisting.

Then don't move them while they're actively resisting.

There's not a time limit here. He's down, he's not a threat. Let everybody's adrenaline rush wear off. Maybe a new cop arrives who can talk to the suspect as a neutral party.

Instead, cops have to show off their authority, make it clear to all present that no one may question their actions without them breaking out the agonizers. It's about instilling fear, not about removing a threat.

They're going to want to be on the lookout for androids carrying suspiciously labeled bags.

... or the rain will never come. Someone get that fire a'burnin, somebody beat the drum...

How can anyone take this article seriously? Leaving aside the whole issue of non-existent Three Mile Island "water contamination", the whole thing smacks of Cold War "Oh, that was invented by Russian, but it was bigger and better!" propaganda. I feel like I'm watching an old episode of Star Trek, with Checkov saying "Scotch? It was invented by little old lady from Leningrad"

...and how long will it be before this wheelchair is the preferred ride of crippled Starfleet captains?

beeeeeep.... beeeeeeep.....

Hey Wombat,

      As far as I know, this is the scoop on the neck pinch ...

      It was invented for the episode "The Enemy Within" by Leonard Nimoy, who felt that Spock was too dignified to render someone unconscious by striking them over the head with the butt of a phaser.

This comes from Memory Alpha but I recall reading the same explanation 20+ years ago so I think it's likely the correct one.

Only 268 or so years left until Voyager comes back. Well, I'm not sure which one it is, but one of them is coming back. But we've got some time to deal with the carbon lifeform infestation ...

I started a list, but rather than underline my geek-dom of All Things Trek, I'll just demonstrate a mastery of Some Things Interweb:

Kirk's Bedpost Notches

In my defense, there were a couple that even I couldn't remember.

In the ST:TNG episode Relics, Scotty criticized Geordie for giving Picard accurate repair time estimates.

Perhaps power could be drawn from the auxiliary systems while disabling the rematerialization subroutines with connecting the phase inducers to the emitter array and locking the pattern buffers into a diagnostic cycle! Maybe it can get around the degradation in the pattern buffers!

It would be really cool if it found a frozen mammoth like this one. Of course it also has an equal chance at drilling-through to the inner sanctuary of the Q Continuum while there on Mars.

Come on, table computers were already production in 1986!! http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Image:Galaxy_engin eering1.jpg And yes, as I understand it they were running Linux.

According to http://memory-alpha.org/ Kirk was born 2233, and Spock was born 2232. They are only a year apart.

The last time we heard from him, he was going underground on Romulus. No update since then. Like a lot of minor TNG, characters the writers just forgot about him.

Are you suggesting that Star Trek has lied to us?

The first thing that came to mind when I read this article was Data failing to understand bluffs in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

I fear this problem won't be resolved until AI advances far past its current state.

We will have Subspace communication!/a

Oddly, this is one of the few bits of science ST:TNG got right, in an episode entitled Disaster.