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Re:It's only ENTERTAINMENT!Just looked it up and you are wrong
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Re:High Warp Restriction?
It was in one of the later Next Generation episodes (called Force Of Nature) that they came up with the limit of warp five. Check out http://www.startrek.com/library/episodes_tng_deta
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Old News
Wasn't this a Star Trek episode in 1989? Five years from now NASA will be warning us about the Borg.
Kevin Fox
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Re:Trek Grudge Matches
Of course, there's always the obvious grudge match... Starfleet versus the real Star Fleet.
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Re:Whatever.
Who gives a shit about TiVo seriously? Come on now, really if this was "Beergut: News for Couch Potatoes" maybe this would be on topic.
It's on topic because:
- TiVo runs Linux. All Linux related news be posted even if the only Linux related part of the story is that the author bought Linus a beer in Cupertino five years ago.
- It's an intellectual property issue. All IP issues are on topic.
- Because Hemos said so.
- Because TiVo is hackable.
- Because a lot of nerds love Buffy, Star Trek, and The Simpsons.
- TiVo runs Linux. All Linux related news be posted even if the only Linux related part of the story is that the author bought Linus a beer in Cupertino five years ago.
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More technicalities
It doesn't matter whether the people in the voyager episode "really" died according to the final star trek timeline. We still experienced their deaths and the experience cannot be revoked. So yes, depending on the sizes of varoius populations, the episode (entitled "Year of Hell") would depict more deaths (though that's not how I define violence anyway). Don't forget the stuff that got blowed up real good in Generations.
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It is a good day to die."The Colorado group and Reichel's group are working on running Bose-Einstein condensates through their microchip devices, a development that would allow true quantum studies to begin."
You know things are getting cool when components of a computer start getting named after scientists (remember the Heisenberg Compensator?)
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Star Trek in the 29th centuryWhile I think the premise of showing the future history of Trek in Series V will be cool, what I'd really like to see is the Trek universe several centuries after the TNG, DS9, Voyager escapades. Similar in with what they did for TNG with respect to TOS. Set it 78 (or 500!) years in the "future" and let us know what has happened in the meantime and what new challenges await.
Let's see some more of the 29th century Federation Timeship Aeon! ( Future's End, I & II , Voyager, Season 3). How many more wonders of space can they create for Series V? Let's see the wonders of time that confront the crew of a Federation Timeship. Hell, if they wanted to show some Trek history, then write an episode w/ Cpt. Braxton returning to "fix" the timeline in the 22nd century and do it there.
I just wonder how soon the premise for Series V will wear itself out. A 29th century will at least give the writers a whole new playing field. I honestly think a radical departure from what they have done in the past is the only way this francise can keep itself going without a break after 14 years.
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Re:Let's see what www.startrek.com sais...You _may_ want to fix your link.
Although anyone who's interested will probably just go to www.startrek.com directly, you wouldn't want to subject innocent StarTek to a slashdotting from people that just click the link, would you?
Dallan
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Federation Timeship Relativity
I would love to see a series based on the Federation timeship Relativity!
On Voyager, episode "Relativity", they were visited by this ship, which was capable of moving through space and time on it's mission of policing the timeline.
The possibilities for exploration on a series such as this would be endless. And it would be so much sexier than a series based on the past. I want way cool new ships and technology and stuff, not more of the same! Though, I could be talked into something to do with the Q, or the Borg
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Re:What's this memory wall doohickey?Here is a script of it (with some still shots) from the TrekWeb site, in all it's "glory".
This appears to be a scene which replaced or extended the sequence where Spock blasts off in his suit to check out the deep interior of V'ger. The "memory wall" was a wall of crystalline structures which contained V'gers memory of certain events, and when touched, caused the person to experience those memories. I, for one, do not think I mourn its loss from the film.
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Re:im thinking too big or ur all thinking too smal
Just don't make the default color scheme various shades of purple and orange. I would hope to god that we could come up with a color scheme that wasn't quite so hard on the eyes for something so high-tech.
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The point of Sci-Fi
There are several possibilities:
- A form of fiction that just happens to take place in the future. It didn't happen [yet], so authors don't have [as much] pressure to stick to what's known now. This is likely the simplest explanation.
- Sci-fi is a great way to get ideas on issues across. Watch any given ST:TnG season and you'll find plenty o' parallels to various social issues. Additionally, I respect X-Men [I refer to the FOX Kids cartoon] quite a bit for being almost entirely about "racial" discrimination. That, and because for a show with a lot of fights, I've yet to notice anyone actually die (ie if a tank/building blows up, you see people running away first).
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Re:I am worried.This Star Trek episode crossed my mind too. These types of automated weapons could be a step in that direction. I must say though, in that episode, it was not entirely electronic. People voluntarily stepped into the death chambers when marked as "casualties".
Perhaps something more sinister is at work here, and I've not had a chance to launch a conspiracy theory for some time, so here goes: once we begin selectively breeding our children via genetic manipulation, and they mature to be adults, what better way to rid the planet of "mundane" people like ourselves but to get us to voluntarily enter some kind of death chamber? I'm usually no luddite, but the human genome map, and the inevitable opportunities to manipulate it really scare the shit out of me.
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Beyond the rhetoric
Yeah, yeah. Lots of "OhmyGAWD, they apologised", "They feel the heat", etc., etc. posts. No one seems to notice that this opens the door for YAISMTMTFS (Yet Another Industrial Strength Multi Tasking Multi Threaded File System) for ALL operating systems. NTFS, especially V5, (fragmentation aside) is fast, stable, hard to corrupt and reasonably secure. IMHO, it's one of the few really good things to come out of Redmond - period.
Perhaps the Redmond boys _have_ finally seen the light. After all, they employ geeks. Geeks who are exposed to other geeks, who have not been assimilated. They are, I'm sure like you and I - interested in all the latest cool stuff, including Open Source, open standards and new and fresh ideas. This stuff can't be filtered out by any firewall I know of. (Except MS Proxy, maybe, but that's because it tends to filter THE WHOLE FSCKING NET! GA....oops, sorry, lost meself for a sec. Back to Karma Whoring...)
One's IQ does not necessarily drop 40 points once you walk into the M$ campus, does it? Is it posssible that they do some sort of black magic ceremony that instantly turns you from a moral person into one of Bill's evil minions? I think not. I think that we are indeed affecting the Microsoft mind set - for the better. This wonderful movement called Open Source has spread to the Campus, and started to change things for the better. How could it not? Yes, Hugh is alive and well in the collective. Bet on it.
Besides, there are (or were, anyway) a few M$ employees here on
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Episode :A Taste of Armageddon
I found a link to a synopsis or the old Star Trek Show Episode about virtual war A Taste of Armageddon
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key word here is 'e-commerce'
> 96% of the top 50 e-commerce sites
These places do need guaranteed data integrity. They're handling transactions relating to money and orders, not just inserting what some kid thinks about star trek into a threaded discussion forum.
Though most ad copy is either FUD or hyperbole, I think this pitch is pretty sound.
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Paramount owns the Trek charactersIf you look at any of the episode summaries at startrek.com (like this one), down at the bottom it lists the characters. With a little [tm] after each name:
Cast:
Kate Mulgrew as Kathryn Janeway[tm]
Robert Beltran as Chakotay[tm]
Roxann Biggs-Dawson as B'Elanna Torres[tm]
Robert Duncan McNeill as Tom Paris[tm]
Jennifer Lien as Kes[tm]
Ethan Phillips as Neelix[tm]
Robert Picardo as The Doctor
Tim Russ as Tuvok[tm]
Garrett Wang as Harry Kim[tm]
So I guess that answers that question, at least from a legal standpoint. I know Paramount has gone after people writing porno stories about Counselor Troi getting raped and stuff like that, but I would imagine they don't want to stifle independent stuff too much because it's what keeps the "legend" alive.
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Re:The Fate of Voyager
but Timeless Those guys really need to recycle less plot
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See-SawI love star trek. You can call me a trekkie or a trekker or whatever you want (though I own no Star Trek "memorabilia" nor have I ever attended a "convention" nor dressed up as a Klingon/Borg/whatever). I like all of the series, but TOS is probably my least favorite. While not every episode was wonderful, I think in general the shows quite good.
I was actually looking forward to the next series, but this concept seems absolutely retarded. I think the reason Voyager is way out in another part of the galaxy is to prevent it from ever coming into contact with DS9, because if the two shows were in the same "world" the storylines would have to remain in sync and it could probably get pretty hairy (though I realize TNG was on the air at the same time as DS9 without much intermingling, but that was before there was a war and the dominion, etc). By having this new show take place way in the past, they don't have to worry about any mixing of the storylines.
But besides all that, and despite my love for the show, I think this new series will suck royal balls, and the next movies will as well. They have exhausted almost every possible plotline already, and the most recent movie (Insurrection) showed this quite well. Did anybody else notice how they rehashed scenes from the TNG series in that movie? Like when Data was explaining to that kid about how he would trade all his "superpowers" to be a human kid, that was a complete ripoff of the TNG episode Hero Worship, where some kid latches on to Data and Data says "I would gladly experience pain for the ability to taste my drink" (paraphrased from memory). I guess you have to see it to notice it, but it wasn't an isolated incident.
Another one was when Picard took off his rank pins, those circles on his neck, when he was going down to the planet against the orders of that admiral (Why didn't picard just arrest that guy, anyway?). That was a complete ripoff of when Worf quit the Federation (taking off his comm. badge and throwing it on the table in front of Picard and Riker) to join Gowron in Redemption.
Also, Insurrection had the gayest thing ever to appear in a ST episode or movie, even gayer than tribbles. It had Riker flying the Enterprise with a joystick. "Computer, activate manual steering column!" Like the enterprise has ailerons and flaps. That was the most retarded thing I've ever seen, at least that I can remember right now.
Anyway, while a good new series would be welcome, fodder along the lines of Insurrection surely is not. I would rather the series be honorably laid to rest than to see it run into the ground with inanity. But of course, there are people far more obsessed with Trek than I, who will go to see anything starring anyone remotely connected with Trek, and so the movie/series will be made for them and the paltry few million that can be squeezed out of them.
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See-SawI love star trek. You can call me a trekkie or a trekker or whatever you want (though I own no Star Trek "memorabilia" nor have I ever attended a "convention" nor dressed up as a Klingon/Borg/whatever). I like all of the series, but TOS is probably my least favorite. While not every episode was wonderful, I think in general the shows quite good.
I was actually looking forward to the next series, but this concept seems absolutely retarded. I think the reason Voyager is way out in another part of the galaxy is to prevent it from ever coming into contact with DS9, because if the two shows were in the same "world" the storylines would have to remain in sync and it could probably get pretty hairy (though I realize TNG was on the air at the same time as DS9 without much intermingling, but that was before there was a war and the dominion, etc). By having this new show take place way in the past, they don't have to worry about any mixing of the storylines.
But besides all that, and despite my love for the show, I think this new series will suck royal balls, and the next movies will as well. They have exhausted almost every possible plotline already, and the most recent movie (Insurrection) showed this quite well. Did anybody else notice how they rehashed scenes from the TNG series in that movie? Like when Data was explaining to that kid about how he would trade all his "superpowers" to be a human kid, that was a complete ripoff of the TNG episode Hero Worship, where some kid latches on to Data and Data says "I would gladly experience pain for the ability to taste my drink" (paraphrased from memory). I guess you have to see it to notice it, but it wasn't an isolated incident.
Another one was when Picard took off his rank pins, those circles on his neck, when he was going down to the planet against the orders of that admiral (Why didn't picard just arrest that guy, anyway?). That was a complete ripoff of when Worf quit the Federation (taking off his comm. badge and throwing it on the table in front of Picard and Riker) to join Gowron in Redemption.
Also, Insurrection had the gayest thing ever to appear in a ST episode or movie, even gayer than tribbles. It had Riker flying the Enterprise with a joystick. "Computer, activate manual steering column!" Like the enterprise has ailerons and flaps. That was the most retarded thing I've ever seen, at least that I can remember right now.
Anyway, while a good new series would be welcome, fodder along the lines of Insurrection surely is not. I would rather the series be honorably laid to rest than to see it run into the ground with inanity. But of course, there are people far more obsessed with Trek than I, who will go to see anything starring anyone remotely connected with Trek, and so the movie/series will be made for them and the paltry few million that can be squeezed out of them.
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Found it.
Well what do you know -- I found it: Living Witness
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Star Trek: Voyager
In Star Trek: Voyager, the crew of Voyager uses technology extensively. Ask the replicator for the food you want, without having to print off a copy of the recipe to keep next to the cooker. Want to know something? Pull it up on a display or ask the computer directly. Old media, such as TV shows, and music are played in crew's quarters by the computer from databases on the ship.
But interestingly enough, in several episodes, crewmembers (such as Janeway in "Fairhaven"), have books replicated to read, instead of reading the texts on the computer screen.
So yes, although media delivery may change in many profound or not-so-profound ways, I would argue that books will be around for quite some time to come. But will technology change the way we receive at least some content? Absolutely.
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First Y2K issue, where no man has gone before..
according to
this story on News.com, Startrek- voyeger's web site claims that the next episode will be aired.. 99 years and 364 days ago.
check it out here.
(and it's running a ASP script... why isn't this suprising?)
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Re:Who cares?
Good for you! Why not just use Lynx and have done with it?
The point of Flash is not functionality, it's the interactive experience (and whatever other buzzwords you wish to add). Look at the Star Trek: Insurrection web site for a perfect example of Flash being used to enhance the basic site. If you just wanted to grab a picture and leave, great. Go to the straight HTML version. But using the Flashed site, you get an interface that looks and sounds like a real TNG computer. It's also fairly quick loading, and I imagine that the vast majority of web users (read: the great unwashed) couldn't give a pair of dingoes kidneys for the fact that it doesn't actually impart any extra information.
Flash is made for fun, not practicality. And isn't that what you're on the net for, really?
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