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No no, phased is correct. Like in that Star Trek: TNG episode with Geordi and Ensign Ro.

Duh. The newspapers are still perfectly visible and touchable.

Does the observer have free will?

Sadly, no. This sucker is still going for $12 :(

http://store.startrek.com/product/show/7032

Today they seized a fileserver containing about 65 terabytes of files...

Gee, I guess that's why the one seeder of the torrent file I was downloading went offline. Strange, I shuddered with pain when it happened, like 65 terabytes crying out in astonishement as the server died.

I know what it feels like, being that I'm half black and half white.

Like those guys on Star Trek? Which side is black?

I remember that episode of star trek TOS A Taste of Armageddon or perhaps the future you describe would be more like the movie Robot Jox

This one (http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TOS/episode/68712.html actually scared the bejesus outta me as a kid. I know what you mean.

Don't forget the venerable Star-Trek actor for Worf (Michael Dorn) who flies an F-86 military jet.

Not fully functional.

There's a great Star Trek episode:
The Menagerie

The Talosians can simulate anything. But developing their mental powers was "a trap" it trapped them on their own planet able only to live in illusions. Will that be a VR utopia?

Not without addressing fundamental problems interfacing the virtual and physical worlds. Just one issue is the competition of resources between a virtual and physical society. Even a virtual society needs hardware to run on.

Mississippi Space Medical School Grads

Space Lawyer would eventually have turned up on Voyager.

A lot of people think baseball is boring - today it is, but take it from a geezer, not always so.

I blame television. I can no longer watch a ball game on TV. Might as well be Entertainment tonight. They used to have a camera behind the backstop so you could see the pitch, the swing (from behind) and the infield. Another camera to go to the outfield, and maybe one for the infield. They game has strategy. It has finesse. It even has - to use a term no longer apparently known in the software world - elegance.

Now, it's unshaven bums (I'm an unshaven bum today, so OK) close-up, on the mound, with bad hair cuts curling from under the caps, with their follicles in high def while they spit and scratch. High res, high def and no sense of a team at work - if there still are any!

Baseball is a noble game of strategy, ruined by Madison Avenue's need to sell multi-hundred dollar sneakers to our kids.

Want to check out a good ball game? Here you go - http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/DS9/episode/103565.html

So, if baseball's good enough for Klingons and Vulcans and Ferengi, it's good enough for /. - and this covers the alternate universe part as well.

Now - get off my lawn!

Or use an alternative 1960's solution.

Yes, but since this is obviously the work of a salt vampire, who is more qualified to investigate?

Yeah, but... http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/TOS/article/28095.html

War movies are next, count on it. Remastered, digitally enhanced, flaws removed, better than the original.

Oh wait that was a Star Trek TOS episode...with the great "Necessary Horrors of War" speech in the end...

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TOS/episode/68706.html

And BTW exactly who's live are going to be saved????

We save a few of our lives...so we can end many more of theirs...

Geez no wonder why I don't want to have kids...

Grace Tejano pretty hot and worked on the Star Trek website? Why did I not know this!

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/2316633.html

  Now it's over.

What would have been funny is if they all wore red shirts in the picture:

      http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/2316633.html

.haeger

Yeah, that's what they all used to say, until Samuel T. Cogley came along and kicked that computer's ass!

"So now people deserve special honour because they played in Star Trek"

A lot of people were inspired to take up science because of StarTrek. In fact StarTrek was one of the first TV series where you had an 'African American' (Nichelle Nichols) playing a character with some authority.

She was going to leave after the first season but a meeting with Martin Luther King changed her mind. Admittedly she only worked the telephone exchange and had to sit at the back of the Bridge .. :)

Re:Don't mix entertainment with history

So you are saying programmers should be more like Scotty on Star Trek. "I'm givin' 'er all she's got cap'n! Any more an' she'll blow!" He admitted to over inflating the difficulty of his job on an "Next Generation" episode.

While it's true that Vulcans have a much longer lifespan than humans Spock was not nearly 100 years old during TOS. He was 35 when Kirk became captian of the Enterprise, about the same age as Kirk. So, he was actually sort of young during TOS, for a Vulcan that is.

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/library/char acter/bio/1112508.html/

Bedau said there are legitimate worries about creating life that could run amok

Where is the obligatory Star Trek tie in to the word amok? http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TOS/e pisode/68728.html/

Mira Romain was more into Scotty anyway.

You actually got that pretty wrong. Picard and company used the moon to hide their warp signature from the Vulcans while the Vulcans were making first contact with Earth. They then created a portal to return to the 24th century, without using the sun. This happened in Star Trek: First Contact.

--Ivan

You gotta cut back on the Star Trek, the numerous humanoid aliens there are simply a function of make-up vs. CGI budget. Actually, it sounds like you might want to watch a little more of it. :)

Lt. Barclay?

In 1983, the series Cagney & Lacey was canceled by CBS and was subsequently brought back to the prime time schedule after fans of the show staged a major letter-writing campaign. That show went on to earn 36 Emmy nominations and 14 wins during its run. But I am not rooting for the recall of Jericho because I think it will win an Emmy or Spawn as many Spinoffs as Star Trek, I am rooting because I want the networks to realize and acknowledge that the way they count viewers is flawed. I watched Jericho on the web on CBS' website (innertube) which they conveniently forgot to count into their ratings (as well as Tivo & DVR and iTunes)You see I am not my grandmother, the Nielson box (which recorded 9 million viewers at it's ebb and 12 at it's peak for this series) doesn't apply. And I sure as hell don't think they canceled due to ratings alone, I think it was bagged in favor of a "CHEAP ALTERNATIVE" The reality show costs little money compared to a serial drama, and also seems to hold it's own today (but really Kid Nation ?? 18 to 49 yr olds are gonna love THAT!)

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Modded by somebody who's playing "The Game". Beware! This is how it begins.

Those damn aliens are trying to take over humankind again using The Game!

I still remember a classic Holodeck scene from Star Trek: The Next Generation, where Commander Data was playing poker with Newton, Einstein and Stephen Hawking. You could tell he was enjoying himself.

Not much doubt that he's deserving of his status, celebrity or otherwise. He earned it.

  This is an old rumor from StarTrek.com. I've known about for few months now. This article just confirms CBS' support for the fan movie.

    I think any true Star Trek will be glad to see Rick Berman and Brannon Braga won't be involved in the movie. I hope JJ Abram calls in support from Majel Roddenberry if she can help out. No one knows Gene's dream better then her.

Also, check out StarTrek.com's article.

  Maybe next year, CW will have some Trek marathons to advertise the new movie.

Unless, you're a really hot black chick!

Whenever people mention good Trek games, no one seems to mention DS9: The Fallen Anyone that has actually played it, however, tends to acclaim it! Startrek-gamers gives it extensive praise in their history of Star Trek gaming.

Honestly, I was taken with the game from the moment I played the demo. Granted, I played the demo far after it had come out (as far as I can tell it wasn't nearly as well publicized as it could have been). But when I did! Even just the level of detail in the weather they had added (realistic snow falling, Sisko leaving footprints on the ground) was pretty impressive, especially for the time, and in general it had a solid and true-to-Trek feel to it in contrast to the glitchy, floaty and "mod tacked on to a game engine" nature of most licensed games. And there was a level editor! Yes, that's right, even the demo includes the brilliant UnreadEd package for creating one's own levels. Naturally this has led to some rather impressive fan-made expansions to the game, Convergence being perhaps the most notable. Alas, the oldskool UnrealEd 1 is a bit tricky to get working with newer versions of Windows, but I have it working just fine on my XP SP1 comp (the trick is compatibility mode combined with a working 98 install somewhere that you can copy missing .ocx files it warns you about when you try to start it in XP).

And hey, with everyone buying Macs nowadays it's worth noting that it was officially ported to the Mac long ago (from the official website, "OS 8 or higher (NOTE Runs in OS 9.1 emulation mode in OS X)"). And of course the game is old enough that running it under one form of emulation or another isn't too taxing on a system...in other words, yeah, I'd bet it'll run on Linux ;) (I haven't tried myself since I'm running AMD64 on my main Linux install, which, umm, doesn't make cross-platform emulation that easy, heh).

I'd recommend anyone who enjoyed DS9, or just feels like playing a well-made Star Trek game, to at least give the demo a chance. It's free-as-in-beer, after all, and to a large degree the openness of UnrealEd and it's access to the scripting underneath the game makes it closer to free-as-in-speech than most games. And keep your eyes out in bargain bins, it shouldn't be too expensive if you find a copy! (I found my copy really cheap years ago already in an EB games store while I was visiting Monroe, Michigan.)

Oh please, this was so settled back on stardate 42523.7 (aka 02/13/1989).

Oh, point.

That reminds me of one of the exceptions, too: Tuvix. Well, he's sort of an exception, in that while Tuvix came to grips with his existence fairly well, he was forced to undergo a very literal sort of racial cleansing by the local embodiment of the Star Trek ethos, Captain Janeway. So as exceptions go I guess he's not such a good example.

I see no downside to them continuing to try, who knows - it might be good.

Btw, I don't necessarily agree that the franchise peaked there but the "four lights" one was an excellent episode.

Don't let them fool you!

When they tell you that you can use the goggles to play an enjoyable game, RUN!

- RG>

The space station is being built again. India is planning manned missions into space. A shift in power in the US Government. Now we're creating a Universal Translator! How exciting these times we live in.

OTOH

CC.

I think you are confuddeling your promethiei. The Promethius was a Star Trek ship long before it was a twinkle in Stargate's eye. Not in the 'History of the Sci-Fi Future' timeline, but in 'Which Sci-Fi show named a ship the Prometheus first' timeline. http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/VOY/e pisode/71743.html

Ok, this confirms it:

Separated at Birth!

CBS now owns the rights to ST.

Stargate?

How about the Iconians from ST:TNG? Or how about the method that the terrorists used in "The High Ground"?

Ok, that one was killing them with radiation poisoning. Maybe that's a bad example.

Anyway, wormholes: good. Molecular deconstruction/reassembly: bad.

Stargate?

How about the Iconians from ST:TNG? Or how about the method that the terrorists used in "The High Ground"?

Ok, that one was killing them with radiation poisoning. Maybe that's a bad example.

Anyway, wormholes: good. Molecular deconstruction/reassembly: bad.

Right- episodic content does take longer to produce than an episode of a TV series. I would argue that each episode of a game is more equivalent to a full broadcast season of a TV show.

This analogy carries, in that, if a TV show has a bad episode, it might not get cancelled (think The Haunting of Deck Twelve from Voyager). On the other hand, if a TV series has a particularly bad season, it might get cancelled. Likewise in gaming, we could see the death of a series if a particular "episode" is not well recieved.

An interesting concept might be to move towards making games even more episodic; say, you purchase the season of the game, and once weekly an episode is released. Sort of like how You Don't Know Jack the Netshow worked, except you're paying something. Then, the publisher could more accurately gear changes to the game and make improvements as is necessary. It would lead to the whole week-long break in gaming, so the stories would have to be geared towards this, but this is true of adapting any story to television in the first place; it's doable for games.