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Remember thinking the same thing when I saw it originally, about time somebody besides Kirk got the babe.

The corresponding ep for McCoy (RIP, Dee) was For the World is Hollow.., also third season.

Are here. Noticeably absent are William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.

Anyways, there are write-ups about this past weekend's farewell convention here and the ceremony here.

Are here. Noticeably absent are William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.

Anyways, there are write-ups about this past weekend's farewell convention here and the ceremony here.

it's ironic that you should mention Data in your sig.. because Data pwned the Enterprise using the method mentioned in the grandparrent

*runs away screaming, refusing to acknowledge that he is a Star[Trek | Wars | Gate] fan*

Oh, a keyboard, how quaint.
We solved this problem with voice recognition software some years ago. The trouble is, we can't tell if the person is addressing the computer, or is simply talking about a computer. For example:

"Computer run a level 3 diagnostic on the transporter assembly" ...would trigger the computer to run a level 3 diagnostic on the transporter assembly.

or

"Damn machines, I did not tell my computer to self destruct." ...would trigger the computer to initiate the self-destruct mechanism. Kaboom.

Hopefully this problem will be fixed before Zefram Cochrane takes off in a few years.

While procrastinating in BioChem one day, talking of the enrgy state of atoms, it was spoken/written, that atoms have an affinity for being in the lowest energy state possible. Now put togehter a whole bunch of these atoms, say in a biological system (such as a human/monkey/programmer) and you have sort of the collective state of billions and billions of atoms that are all desperately trying to reach its lowest energy state at all costs! What happens? Instinctive procrastination/laziness/lack of energy-motivation! I am of course theorizing here (rather jokingly), but what if there is some truth to that? We as humans will always be looking for the drug/gene-therapy to get us (and when I say "us", I mean our collective atomic BORG ) into an excited state!

This same idea was advanced by a short story called We'll Return, After This Message, by AutoDesk founder John Walker, written in 1989 and published in 1993.

I also mentioned the same general idea in my 2002 OReillyNet weblog item, SETI not through telescopes but microscopes, about how rugged microscopic messages might be the only ones to survive millions of years.

In turns out that an alien message designed to last millenia should be 'inside a large number of self-replicating, self-repairing microscopic machines programmed to multiply and adapt to changing conditions', otherwise known as living cells. Are we the message?

What, like in the Star Trek episode The Chase?

and daughter

There has been a website devoted to bringing back Kirk for awhile, and looking back over his acting and writing work it would be a good call when enterprise is the only game in town.

Heinlein's 'The Man Who Sold the Moon'

TOS' 'Court Martial'.

This quote was found here...

"What brings you so far from home ?"
"We look for things."
"What were you looking for ?"
"Things we need."
"Can you be more specific ?"
"Things that make us go. We need help."
"What is the nature of your mission ?"
"We look for things."

-- Riker and Grebnedlog in ST:TNG "Samaritan Snare"

[sarcasm] I'm glad to learn that we are making rapid progress to where humans will learn to control their military with drugs. Good thing we're not still a dangerous, savage child-race, or anything.[/sarcasm]

These new high tech computers tell us clearly everything we need to know.

In ST:Generations movie, the original series crew learned that Kirk was killed, when Enterprise was caught in the Nexus (actually Kirk got caught in Nexus and died several decades later). However in ST:TNG S06-E130 Enterprise with Picard finds Chief Engineer Mongmery Scott caught in a transporter beam, lost for 75 years. In the episode Scotty asks what happened to Kirk and the crew.......erhm but dear Scotty, in the movie filmed years later than the series you witnessed Kirk's death. You see my point?

In ST:Generations movie, the original series crew learned that Kirk was killed, when Enterprise was caught in the Nexus (actually Kirk got caught in Nexus and died several decades later). However in ST:TNG S06-E130 Enterprise with Picard finds Chief Engineer Mongmery Scott caught in a transporter beam, lost for 75 years. In the episode Scotty asks what happened to Kirk and the crew.......erhm but dear Scotty, in the movie filmed years later than the series you witnessed Kirk's death. You see my point?

Actually this was explained. The TOS Kingons were Kingon/Human hybrids that were created to help the klingons better understand the humans so as to conquer them. During the TOS series the Federation only had contact with these hybrids. The Hybrids were treated as secondary citizens in Klingon culture, and finally deemed unnecessary.

Kor

And how do they explain him showing up as a non-hybrid on DS 9.

I don't think so...

Last time I checked, it was Colonel Shaun Geoffrey Christopher that was the captain of the first Earth-Saturn probe way way back in 2009

Please do tell more ... what was the name of the book? Anything like Puzzle Palace? Deep Black? Blind Man's Bluff? I need more geek spook reading material for my library ;-);-);-)

very true based on this particular Dresden Tech Professional's tale told during a one-week training class I taught in the Netherlands ... although he said the better optical people had fled to the West at the end of WWII ... claiming that almost all of Zeiss was moved to West Germany in the confusion at the end of WWII

BTW, people tend to forget that Infinion (still cranking out 8051-derivative chips) also has a FAB in Dresden. There were also rumors that DuPont Photomasks was constructing a facility in Dresden also.

I guess that probably depends on the product in question :-):-):-)

With respect to petroleum facilities (LNG?) I have to take your word for it.

With respect to what was going on in Warsaw Pact Dresden semiconductor FABS, I have to take his word for it ... as he actually lived & worked in a Warsaw pact FAB in the Dresden area and continues to work in either the AMD or the Infinion FAB @ Dresden ... for these particular semiconductor capital equipment items at his particular location it was as he said ... in otherwords ... Export Controls were working successfully to prevent the Warsaw Pact from developing (as quickly, as successfully) same/similar "high-tech" semiconductor chips ... this is NOT to say that skilled motivated Warsaw Pact Tech Professionals did not achieve what Spock achieved in the "Edith Keller must die" episode building a mnemonic memory circuit out of bear skins and stone knives ... someone from a NATO country (us included) would demand several interns, an Engineering CAD CAM workstation, months of NRE time, and a color printer for the color Harvard Graphics (i.e. power point) slides ;-);-);-)

As I said in my earlier post, there is a ton of neat geek stories to be had if a technology historian would travel around the former Warsaw pact talking with people.

Source:

When the summer heat begins to bake Las Vegas, the last thing you want to be doing is hoofing it around town from one hotel casino to the next. To solve the problem, the Vegas city planners have implemented a solution reminiscent of Disneyland -- a monorail! Now, before you start recalling old Simpson's episodes, bear in mind that this is no ordinary monorail. The Las Vegas version will stop at seven stations covering a four mile circuit around town. Traveling at speeds up to 50 m.p.h., the journey will take approximately 14 minutes. The monorail should alleviate some traffic and also encourage people to visit multiple venues, including the Las Vegas Hilton, featuring Star Trek:The Experience, Quark's and the new "Borg Invasion 4D."

When the monorail finally opens this summer, at least one of the trains will appear Borgified on the outside. For an unspecified period of time, this car will carry a promotional message to visit the all-new "Borg Invasion 4D" attraction. Until then, the car is still visible, often times parked outside the Hilton.

For those paying a visit to the Hilton, you can swing by Quark's and feast on a revamped menu, complete with some new, powerful sounding drinks like the "Borg Sphere" and the "Warp Core Breach."

Food wise, you may want to sample such apetizing items as the Targ Empanadas, Chakotay Pizzette or the Coconut Tribble Skewer. Added to the exotic drinks (The James Tea Kirk is a fave) the menu at Quark's is a veritable feast of great Star Trek puns.

Ah, but DS9 [had the guts to show two women attracted to each other]. Check out Reassociation.

I presume you actually mean Rejoined here since I couldn't find any reference to a DS9 episode called "Reassociation". The problem, though, is that the air date for this was October 1995. Though sexual tension between two female characters may not have been as commonplace then as it is today, DS9 was by no means a trailblazer here. Three years earlier Poison Ivy starring Drew Barrymore and Sara Gilbert managed to turn a largely forgettable movie into a media sensation with a kiss that isn't even in all cuts according to IMDB. It was a big deal then, but by the time Trek got around to this subject it was already becoming old news.

TOS used to do things that had the network execs threatening to pull the plug on nearly every episode but the people working on the show pushed back. Nobody involved in Trek since about the second movie was made (that includes Gene, by the way) seems to have any idea what those old days were like. Someone should tell the current Trek team that good stories make people uncomfortable by challenging them to think about things they take for granted. If you don't have the bosses threatening to fire you because of the story you just told, you aren't doing your job as a storyteller.

Want to know what it's like when you tell a story that really makes an impact? Girlfriend is challenging the society in which it was made and getting a reaction. Trek managed that with the first interracial kiss on television. There hasn't been one minute of Trek that radical since the 1960s.

On the other hand, Voyager, IMO, is the biggest peice of crap to ever become part of the trek genre.

Whoa, let's not say things we can't take back.

Didn't Joe pitch a Star Trek series to TPTB before?

For too long Star Trek, the most important series in Geek history, has had second class status to Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings and even The Matrix. Those series has their own topics. Star Trek deserves better. Join the others who have signed the petition to give Star Trek a topic on Slashdot.

Like when Reed and Mayweather did...

Just be sure you get back to the ship before the comet's orbit changes causing ....Umm...nevermind..wrong reality..

Yea, he could have just snapped his fingers and changed the local gravity or something.

Apparently he doesnt turn up for a few hundred years yet, though...

Thank god I'm not the only one that remembers this... where did you find this tidbit?

I remember a special on tv where they explained the beginning of the show and showed "The Cage".

I've visited Enterprise, U.S.S. to get all the names right. Who needs a good memory when there's cut & paste? :-)

> Whoever speculated that Shatner would be playing Kirk either has an even lower opinion of Berman than I do (which is saying a great deal), or is even more of a moron than Berman and Braga (which is saying even more).

That would be me you're talking about. I speculated that Shatner would play Kirk because I can't see him playing anything else; seriously, can you? He's typcast, and even in other stuff he's done since I can't get the green chicks out of my mind, and the DUH-DUH DAH DAH DAH DAH DAH Duh-duh, music when he fights Spock, who is suffering from Pon Farr in the episode Amok Time.

I'm sure most people are dreading this, many will watch the episode with Kirk, and I'm guessing that is why Berman decided to do this. Like him or not, Shatner is an "anomaly off the port bow", and that means ratings, whether we like it or not, whether it's good or not; viewers will be a'plenty.

> Whoever speculated that Shatner would be playing Kirk either has an even lower opinion of Berman than I do (which is saying a great deal), or is even more of a moron than Berman and Braga (which is saying even more).

That would be me you're talking about. I speculated that Shatner would play Kirk because I can't see him playing anything else; seriously, can you? He's typcast, and even in other stuff he's done since I can't get the green chicks out of my mind, and the DUH-DUH DAH DAH DAH DAH DAH Duh-duh, music when he fights Spock, who is suffering from Pon Farr in the episode Amok Time.

I'm sure most people are dreading this, many will watch the episode with Kirk, and I'm guessing that is why Berman decided to do this. Like him or not, Shatner is an "anomaly off the port bow", and that means ratings, whether we like it or not, whether it's good or not; viewers will be a'plenty.

He's the Balok puppet from The Corbomite Maneuver.

When I read the subject I thought it was flowery language referring to the recent news that Star Trek: Enterprise has been renewed for at least one more season.

In ST:Generations, the saucer seperation occurred and demonstrated a mild-powered explosion-induced glided (or should I say firely) though Veridian III atmosphere.

Also, in ST:Voyager Episode 201 shows Voyager crash landing on an ice planet.

In ST:Voyager #192 (Demon), shows a graceful landing on a demon planet.

No no no, I belive the Star Trek episode you are thinking of is:

"There ... are ... four ... lights!"

They mention screwing 4k lightbulbs into the Heart of Gold. Anybody else flash on another sci-fi franchise when they read that?

Surely they could have picked a Klingon phrase for the title? The "ugly bags of mostly water" comes from the "Home Soil" episode where a crystal "brain" uses it to describe humans.

The episode was called Yesterday's Enterprise, which aired 19 Feb 1990. It just so happens to be one of my favorite TNG episodes. This episode also opened the door to the Romulan side-arc, Commander Sela, the daughter of the captured Enterprise-C Tasha Yar.

The episode was called Yesterday's Enterprise, which aired 19 Feb 1990. It just so happens to be one of my favorite TNG episodes. This episode also opened the door to the Romulan side-arc, Commander Sela, the daughter of the captured Enterprise-C Tasha Yar.

As suggested by NASA's Michael Meyer, there is an ethical component to decisions we make as we move outward from our planet to explore other worlds. As such, NASA's Planetary Protection Advisory Committee has a bioethicist on it. The first cases of interaction between life from two worlds could happen as we explore Mars, or perhaps Europa. This will likely be limited to simple lifeforms. At some point we'll have to deal with more complex issues.

As the right of each sentient species to live in accordance with its normal cultural evolution is considered sacred, no Star Fleet personnel may interfere with the healthy development of alien life and culture. Such interference includes the introduction of superior knowledge, strength, or technology to a world whose society is incapable of handling such advantages wisely. Star Fleet personnel may not violate this Prime Directive, even to save their lives and/or their ship unless they are acting to right an earlier violation or an accidental contamination of said culture. This directive takes precedence over any and all other considerations, and carries with it the highest moral obligation.

Star Trek, the original series, season 1, episode 003 (released as episode 10 on 11.10.66) The Corbomite Manueuver ; in which Kirk bluffs his way out of an encounter with a vastly superiour ship by aledging that the Enterprise is comprised of a super explosive material called corbomite which will destroy the agressor's ship along with the Enterprise should it be attacked.

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The head is that of "Balok" in fact a puppet used by a child like alien, commander of the First Federation ship named Fesarius.

An explanation of "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" can be found here.

And yes, perfect reference. Leave it to Will Wright to create an interpretation of Love based upon Star Trek.

Mac OS X is, ahem, Unix-based, unlike that other thing you mentioned.

Don't know about NCC-1701, but NX-01 did.

It would be nice if the people behind a certain other fading decrepit classic series would take the hint.

Not that big a coincidence. They both the "starry background" effect from this site. Of course, the Heavan's Gate bunch also liked the TNG jumpsuit uniforms that made the Enterprise crew look like eunuchs. Hopefully, that's not an issue for the airship people....

that would certainly kill some of the latency inherent in traditional subspace communication. though you might be able to do it on the cheap with a quantum micro-singularity. my buddy reg in san francisco can help you out.

There was actually a Star Trek episode about this very idea. Basically, two worlds were involved in a bloody war. Somehow a deal was struck that they would continue the war with computer simulations, and the outcome would be accepted. The problem was that war became so easy that the two nations remained in this state for over two hundred years! Kirk destroyed the computers so that the two worlds finally had an incentive to stop their conflict: mutually assured destruction.

I'm not saying that the Pentagon's idea is bad, but that it raises a lot of interesting questions.

Postscript: Darn! xleeko beat me to it!

PS: Please aim at the section of space that in the 23rd century will be off limits to all spacefarers, in which resides the Genesis planet. Please make sure to also provide good embalming and a capsule capable of shielding body from cosmic rays.

PS: Please aim at the section of space that in the 23rd century will be off limits to all spacefarers, in which resides the Genesis planet. Please make sure to also provide good embalming and a capsule capable of shielding body from cosmic rays.

I can honestly attest to the above statements as per image quality, the lack of need for conversion of formats between DirecTV and TiVO integrated units. The quality is outstanding!

Not to mention that in addition to the need to convert from MPREG to analogue and back to MPEG using "digital" cable (resulting in inevitable loss of quality) is not the only thing to consider. A lerned fellow once told me that "digital" (and I use those quotes advisedly) cable is indeed digital from satellite to your local cable CO, but ANALOGUE from CO to your home on some cable systems. Which is then converted BACK to digital by your box.

As to interference causing loss of signal to your satellite, I can only say that this has only happened less than a handful of times in over 3 years of service. In fact I would say it would be only 3 exact times in that period (that I was there to witness it). Of those 3 times ONCE was during a Noreaster (severe thunderstorms for those not from my area, I once confused a Californian with that term) and both of the other times were during BLIZZARDS (white stuff falling from the sky (LOTS OF IT!) for you Hawaiians ;).

Prior to having DirecTV I had cable for something on the order of 20 years, since I was a child. Now, I don't know exactly how many times the cable went out in our household, but I can say with honesty that it seemed to happen far FAR more often than my direcTV has gone down (proportionately speaking. Come back to me in 20 years for a more scientific analysis!). And I remember ALWAYS having sub-standard quality images on my TV using cable. I've never used digital cable. But given my experiences with them and my overall loathing for their monopolistic business practices (I'm still not sure how such monopolies can exist legally!) I stay about as FAR away from cable as I can. I am at this point a dyed in the wool DirecTV head!

Don't get me wrong though, as big a trekkie as I am (and I am indeed) no amount of DirecTV digital goodness will turn Enterprise into something worth watching!