Conference vaxcat::friends

Awwwe Captain, I had to wear the red uniform on the last away team 8^)

Damnit Jim, I'm a noter, not a Trekkie!

    
    
    what does anyone think of the new Star Trek with the woman captain?
    
    NS
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

    
    
    i've only seen the premiere..but i loved it!
    
    Chris
    :)

    She's ok but I think there trying to work that angle to death. I think
    they'll get into a groove in a few more episodes.
    
    CM (long time Trekkie)

    
    
    she definitely reminds me of Katherine Hepburn! I know that has been
    said before..but it is true!
    
    I love the klingon/human too! schwing!!
    
    Chris
    :)

    Well I went to see Generations last night... good special effects
    although the story was a bit suspect... I'd like to see the next movie
    involve the Borg a bit more... 
    
    ***** SHIELDS UP *******
    
    
    	I especially like Data now that he has had the emotions chip
    installed.... I loved how he wnet...
    
    	" I love searching for life signs....." and proceeds to play a
    little tune on his console as he's programming the computer.. :->
    
    	Rick.

    
    
    
    re -1
    
    
    yeah Data was a scream!
    
    I think there was too much to put into the movie to develop anyone very
    much..but Data certainly had his fair share!
    
    Chris
    :)

    
    Generations will start on Feb 24 in Austria. I hardly can wait!!!!
    
    
    Tina

    
    
    wow Tina...what a long wait!!
    
    by the way..what is a loggia..( you said you will have one at your apt)
    
    Chris_curious
    :)

Haven't seen Generations yet either. Our local theater put up a poster with a
Coming soon and then never got it in. I didn't have the time to head in and
hassle with Worcester. now it seems to be not playing localally 8^(

    
    What has Captian Kirk & Toilet Tissue both got in common ????
    
    
     They both have to tackle the Klingons......  :-)
    
     Colin

    
    
    
    they both circle uranus searching for klingons!
    :)
    

    They both have the same amount of hair? 8^)

	I went to see generations last last......what a lot there was in that!

	"Are the odds against us and our situation dire?" Kirk asked....
	.....the whole cinema fell apart......

	"YYYYYyyyyessss" cried Data....
	....had a similar affect.....

	"Lifesigns, love little lifesigns, precious little lifesigns......"
	hahahahahhahahaha....

R.

    
    
    
    All I can say is :
    
    
    			It was Fun!......
    
    
    
    Chris
    :)

For all fans of The Original Series (TOS):

    Captain Kirk and company are back on tv56
    weekday nights at 11pm.

Ok, that's too late for me, but I'll tape them.
They started with episode 4: "Mudd's Women" this
Monday.

Live long and prosper,
Martina

I can remember watching TOS when it first ran and being AMAZED at the things
that they did. Now I find it difficult to watch without laughing at the effects.
How jaded I've become in 25+ years.

CM (a lifelong Trekkie)

That's right, I'll never forget the day when I saw my first StarTrek episode.
It was about 1970/71/72 back in Germany. There the series was called
"Raumschiff Enterprise" what translates to "Spaceship Enterprise".
I was so baffled.... and from that moment on I declared Mr. Spock to be
my favourite StarTrek character. Each time we (some German kids) "played"
the episodes on our own, I was Mr.Spock.... only I could do the Vulcan
greeting without problems. ;)

Martina_Trekkie_since_the_very_first_episode
;)

    
    
    
    ;:^| 
    
    fascinating Captain!
    
    Chris
    :)

I don't know what to say, Jim, it's that damn Vulcan blood of his 8^)

My god Jim, I'm a programmer, not a drama major!

I for myself AM a programmer. ;)

Martina_Software_Engineer

And from Relics:

Mr Scott to Gordi - "My god, man, ya dinna tell him the real time it 
		     would take, did ya?"

    
    
    
    Wrath of Kahn:
    
    He stayed at his post when all the trainees ran!! 
    
    Chris
    :)

    Are you implying something about us shorttimers??? 8^)

    Here is "something interesting" as required by BenJ.
    I think Chris will find this one interesting, too....... 
    
    It is really interesting........ drumrole.........
    
    I put my collection of StarTrek pictures into my public account 
    
             LJOPUB::PUBLIC1:[LAMBRECHT.PUBLIC.STARTREK]
    
    You can find wallpapers and lots of gif files. There is a file
    README.TXT which contains further infos. The poster from StarTrek
    Generations is there as well as the station Deep Space Nine!!!
    
    ;)
    Martina_loves_StarTrek
                                                            

    Hello BenJ,
    
       now I will finally answer your question a about StarTrek.
       ;)
       Sorry it took so long. Work work work and so I completely forgot...
    
    you unfortunately watched what is to my opinion the second worst
    StarTrek movie: StarTrek III "The Search for Mr. Spock".
    You can't get anything straight from it when you don't know the
    StarTrek universe and its characters pretty well. Only StarTrek V
    "The Final Frontier" is worse. ;)
    A very nice and good movie is StarTrek IV "The Voyage Home" and
    StarTrek VI "The Undiscovered Country".
    If you like to start with StarTrek, watch some of the episodes of
    the 2nd StarTrek series "StarTrek The Next Generation". 
    If you like to understand the StarTrek movies, you have to at first
    watch some of the Original series episodes.
    
    StarTrek has a long and sometimes confusing history. It was started
    in the 60es here in the US and was designed to reflect the odds of life
    and the society in those days. The Original series episodes show this
    effort. But they also had to comply with the then common social rules.
    Eg the first pilot with a woman as 1st officer never made it through
    approval and so was never aired. It was just too bold.
     
    The Original series were canceled after 79 episodes. Then the fandome
    started actions and protests. In the 70es the old crew was "revived"
    and the movies started.
    In the 80es a new concept was layed out for a new Enterprise more
    fitted to the change of society and of people's attitudes. The new
    Enterprise was a ship for diplomatic missions. There was no more war
    going on with Earth. And the Klingons, who were the destined enemies
    in the Original Series were now allies.
    This series lasted a long time. It was canceled last year. 
    Now people refer to TNG (abbreviation for The Next Generation) as
    THE StarTrek series.
    
    There is also "Deep Space 9", an offspin that is designed around
    life on the space station Deep Space 9. It has quite some interesting
    interaction within its character set but lacks the vivacious frontier
    of exploring space. I personally like it a lot but it doesn't have
    the large audience that TOS and TNG had.
    
    Now this year a new offspin has just started out: Voyager (VOY). It
    stars a female captain and some other bold changes to the crew.
    Eg a black Vulcan science officer and a native American as 1st officer.
    It takes it from a similar scenario as TOS: The ship Voyager is lost
    in a distant part of the galaxy that is not explored yet and too far
    away to get home. This setup has the pioneer spirit again, the action
    and the nice interaction with new planets like TOS. And it has the
    modern free society and uptodate technology from TNG.
    I like it a lot.
    
    I hope this sneak view into the StarTrek universe helps you a little
    to understand its fascination. Don't get frustrated, it takes a while
    to get into it. But once you are, you're never getting away from it
    again.
    
    ;)
    Martina

    
    
    
    snarf!!
    
    
    Martina...I think the best movie is Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan
    
    or
    
    Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country
    
    Chris
    :0
    

    StarTrek II "The Wrath of Khan" is not easy to understand for people
    who are not familiar with the StarTrek universe. Therefore I
    recommended StarTrek IV.
    
    ;)
    Martina

    
    
    
    re -1
    
    then i recommend watching the original series episode " Space Seed"
    with the same characters.. then watch The Wrath of Khan.
    
    Chris
    :)

    Yeah, I like this one. I even remember having seen it in German
    20 years ago. ;) ;)
    
    Martina
    ;)

  I never watched ST:TOS. I didn't get interested in ST until TNG began. I
really liked TNG, especially the first 5 years or so. After Gene Roddenberry
died, I felt that the quality of the material declined, that is, it became
more like the run-of-the-mill programming that 90% of American commercial TV
consists of.
  Here in New England, Ch. 38 carries ST:TNG at 7:00 on weekday nights and I
watch about one episode a week.
  I watched one or two ST:TOS episodes after having seen TNG and they seem
really hokey. Maybe if I had watched lots of these when they were new, I would
have developed a taste for them.
  I don't like ST:DS9. The first few episodes of ST:VOY were good, but I have
already gotten disenchanted with it. There is only so much true science fiction
you can get from a single spaceship that is isolated from the rest of the known
universe. And they seemed to exhaust the really good stuff in the first 10 or
so episodes.

    
    
    
    Bob...the writers hold the universe in their hands..all it takes
    is a good script...and boom you'll be happy again! :))
    
    Chris
    :)

    I watched StarTrek II "The Wrath of Khan" again. I watched the episode
    "Space Seed" first, where Khan Noonyen Singh was first introduced and
    directly afterwards the corresponding StarTrek movie.
    It is, as to my belief, still the best one of all 6 I know.
    (I haven't seen Generations, to my own shame, but unfortunately true)
    Well, the end of ST II always moves me very deeply: Mr. Spock dies.
    about 10 years ago, when I first heard that there will be a 2nd movie
    and that Mr. Spock will die in it I hardly couldn't believe it. Well
    in the movie theatre I then saw him die. It was hard. Very hard. I
    think not only me, but the whole audience was crying. I heard the
    noises. It was like a trauma to me because, well, since the day I
    watched my first StarTrek episode there was something like "love at
    first sight" between Mr. Spock and me. He encorporated what I always
    lacked and never had any chance to accomplish: logic, freedom of
    emotions, a crystal clear look at facts and a bright analytical mind.
    All these years I loved him and watched every episode possible.
    I tried to develop as many of his virtues as possible and integrate
    them into my emotional spontaneous and associative human personality.
    To a certain degree I even succeeded. More than that, I evolved to a
    state of combining some Vulcan brilliance with my female human mind.
    But Mr. Spock is and always shall be my superior friend.
    So each time I see him dying, it is hard to bear. I can watch Mel
    Gibson's pretty head being beheaded in "Braveheart" but I cannot watch
    Mr. Spock dying. Too many tears. :(
    So each time I watch StarTrek II I instantaneously put in StarTrek III
    afterwards "The Search for Mr. Spock"..... because HE comes to life
    again in there. ;)))))))))
    
    Lieutenant Commander Martina-Data 
    "Thoughts on the Bridge night shift"
    

    34
    
         years on planet Earth
    
                                ;)))))))
    
    Androidian Age snarfffffff

    Coming up:   
    
                      StarTrek Convention on July 1/2
    
    Where:     Royal Plaza Hotel & Trade Center in Marlborough
    Starring:  Scotty        (James Doohan from StarTrek The Original Series)
               Major Kira    (Nana Visitor from StarTrek Deep Space 9)
               Neelix        (from StarTrek Voyager)
    When:      each day from 11am - 6pm
    
    I'll go on the 1st, but I cannot make it the 2nd day.
    
    ;)
    Martina-Data_anxious

  Re -.1: Thanks for the pointer. I am not on the snail mail list for these,
and I don't read the Star_Trek conference often enough to find out about them.
I went to one of these in Boston a few years ago and had a good time, but it
was too expensive ($16). I heard that the ones out here are just as good and
less expensive. I will probably go on Sat.

    Hello Bob,
    
       I attended one in the Hynes Convention Center this year, which
       was 18$... So don't expect anything cheap in Marlborough.
       The StarTrek conference held no information about the conference,
       until I put it in there. ;)
       I got the "hint" from the DS9 episode on the weekend.
       I would love to enter a mailing list, but don't know how to get onto
       one. :(
       But I am looking forward to a nice and exciting event. ;)
    
    martina

    
    
    
    HI Martina....I told you about that conference!! :))))
    
    Chris_in_the_UK
    :)

    
    CHRIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    ;)
    
    Hello Captain, how are you?
    
    ;)
    Lt. Cmdr. Martina-Data happy to see her Captain again

    
    
    
    Hello Mr Data!!
    
    I'm doing fine thanks....glad to see everyone is getting on well!
    
    Chris
    :)
    

    
    Chris,
    
    I thought I'd post a reply to your question here rather than in MFT
    since I actually LIKE to follow the topics! :^)
    
    Anyway, at the Amusement Industry conference I attended two weeks ago
    one of the presentations was from a Las Vegas resort.  They showed a
    movie and press clips and talked about this new casino.  It is totally
    star trek / future themed.  You enter thru transport tubes, there is
    a movie you watch telling you of your mission and then a 6 minute 
    simulator ride.  
    
    Also inside are restaurants, shops, and a full casino operation.
    
    /jen

    
    
    
    sounds fun!! And i guess they have Dabo girls! :))))
    
    Chris
    :)

    I aint htinking of anything wude Shell - just my good-natured
    personality!!:-))
    
    Deb

>    I thought I'd post a reply to your question here rather than in MFT
>    since I actually LIKE to follow the topics! :^)

You non-conformist... 8^)

    
    
    CM  
    do you know when the Q/Riker episode of Voyager airs in the states?
    
    Chris_hoping_to_catch_it
    :)

Monday night on UPN network at 8pm

Q/Janeway and Riker/Torres should be interesting, eh?

Some of the affiliates rerun last weeks episode on sunday night so check
around for that as well.

    
    
    
    excellent!! I hope there is a VCR so I can tape them too! :)))
    
    thanks CM
    
    Chris
    :)_

    Happy Birthday wishes go out to Earl Charles Grey the 2nd, born March
    13th, 1764
    
    We salute you with a cup of Earl Grey, Hot!
    
    ChucklingMan

    Ha!   I was sort of right.
    
    Jackie_smug!

I even think Chris had it as his P/N at one point but I couldn't find the note.
155.1098 is the closest I could get 8^)

hey, the calendar is hanging next to the phone and I couldn't resist when I
noticed it 8^)

    
    
    
    I gotta admit, It never even occured to me! Choc did say something
    about tea when i told her your warm hot clues but Earl Grey didn't
    click in! Oh well.....guess I need to drink it a bit more often! :))
    
    Good one CM and Choc for getting it!
    
    Chris
    :)

Well, I thought you had used it as a P/N at one point but I couldn't find a
reference.

    
    
    CM, your quite right which makes it even more odd that I didn't get
    it!! I guess you overlook obvious everyday things like tea when your
    looking for clues.
    
    Chris
    :)

Someone else in the ST file got it 8^)

    
    
    
    yes ..another conference member's wife!! Must be a pattern or
    something!
    
    Chris
    :)

I got the question off MY wife's calendar 8^)

    
    
    
    It looks like a conspiracy to me!!! The question was designed
    by women, organized by women and answered by women to outflank
    the male star trek population on the quiz front! :)))
    
    Chris_suspicious
    :)

    Tea drinkers of the world unite! ;-)
    
    Jackie

Shhhh... Chris... They're in control now 8^)

    >>They're in control now 8^)
                  
    
    Now?   !!
    
    And you only just realise this? ;-)
    
    
    Jackie :-)
    

>    And you only just realise this? ;-)
    
Well, I've only got a man's brain and too few brain cells are allocated to
rational thought 8^)

Besides, the best way to control us is to dupe us into thinking we're in
control. Then we take the blame for the consequences