Healer T'Lynne

Been doing some surfin'. Wikipedia has some interesting stuff about

A 'Wikia wiki' about the Star Trek Expanded Universe . . .

I have also found the Klingon Language Institute . . .and a title I hope to see sometime soon "Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water"

It is still fresh in my mind - and knowing that 3 such events occurred within this one week time period through the years . . .

:P

I never really watched In Living Color . . . but I did catch bits and pieces everywhere. I did find this:

<_<

Watching some things gives me an idea that it is Garth or the alternate universe . . .

:P They are going to load

Kor, I wouldn't use a strong a word as 'hate' myself . . . I just try to shoot every cat in my yard with a wrist-rocket (souped-up sling shot) . . . and I prefer Odie and Pooky (my hubby) to Garfield . . . though we have the same love of a certain food . . .

Okay. I was with my hubby and son at this Chinese buffet when I noticed a lone gentleman reading as he ate. He had a hard-bound graphic novel. I was trying to look past my son to see what he had. It looked like Data was on the cover. After much rubber-necking, i finally just came out and asked him what he was reading. Sure enough, he had a ST:TNG comic novel that takes place during the Dominion War. We got to talking about this, that, and the other. We all went back to noshing. As he left, he plopped a napkin down in front of me. It contained the following joke:

What do you get when you genetically combine a Tribble with a Ceti Alpha V Eel?

(scroll down)

A Klingon killing Q-Tip !

I about died laughing!

How can a guy with such a fat gut have such skinny legs?..... :)

Beats me . . . but I have seen people with guts and bird legs or small waists and big hips/thighs . . . I'm built square - short and squat.

:)

To go off on a strange note . . . you need a bit of background info. Sweet Adelines is the women's organization that specializes in Barbershop Harmony . . . It was started in Tulsa, Oklahoma, my town! I need to rejoin my second mom in Jubilee Chorus #1. I am a Baritone.

High Country Chorus in 2006 did this take off of Star Trek here: parts

Notice the green line in my sgnature? A friend was using it as a part of her signature at another forum I'm on . . . I just about shorted my keyboard with pop when I first read it . . . I can just see Mr Scott having a fit!

:) This is not mine - a friend posted it at another forum; kudos to whoever thought this up!

If Dr Suess wrote for ST:TNG

Picard: Sigma Indri, that's the star,

So, Data, please, how far? How far?

Data: Our ship can get there very fast

But still the trip will last and last

We'll have two days 'til we arrive

But can the Indrans there survive?

Picard: LaForge, please give us factor nine.

LaForge: But, sir, the engines are offline!

Picard: Offline! But why? I want to go!

Please make it so, please make it so!

Riker: But sir, if Geordi says we can't,

We can't, we mustn't, and we shan't,

The danger here is far too great!

Picard: But surely we must not be late!

Troi: I'm sensing anger and great ire.

Computer: Alert! Alert! The ship's on fire!

Picard: The ship's on fire? How could this be?

Who lit the fire?

Riker: Not me.

Worf: Not me.

Picard: Computer, how long til we die?

Computer: Eight minutes left to say goodbye.

Data: May I suggest a course to take?

We could, I think, quite safely make

Extinguishers from tractor beams

And stop the fire, or so it seems...

Geordi: Hurray! Hurray! You've saved the day!

Again I say, Hurray! Hurray!

Picard: Mr. Data, thank you much.

You've saved our lives, our ship, and such.

Troi: We still must save the Indran planet --

Data: Which (by the way) is made of granite...

Picard: Enough, you android. Please desist.

We understand -- we get your gist.

But can we get our ship to go?

Please, make it so, PLEASE make it so.

Geordi: There's sabotage among the wires

And that's what started all the fires!

Riker: We have a saboteur? Oh, no!

We need to go! We need to go!

Troi: We must seek out the traitor spy

And lock him up and ask him why?

Worf: Ask him why? How sentimental.

I say give him problems dental.

Troi: Are any Romulan ships around?

Have scanners said that they've been found?

Or is it Borg or some new threat

We haven't even heard of yet?

I sense no malice in this crew.

Now what are we supposed to do?

Crusher: Captain, please, the Indrans need us.

They cry out, "Help us, clothe us, feed us!"

I can't just sit and let them die!

A doctor MUST attempt -- MUST try!

Picard: Doctor, please, we'll get there soon.

Crusher: They may be dead by Tuesday noon.

*COMMERCIAL BREAK, COMMERCIAL BREAK

HOW LONG WILL THESE DUMB ADS TAKE?*

Worf: The saboteur is in the brig.

He's very strong and very big.

I had my phaser set on stun --

A zzzip! A zzzap! Another one!

He would not budge, he would not fall,

He would not stun, no, not at all!

He changed into a stranger form

All soft and purple, round and warm.

Picard: Did you see this, Mr. Worf?

Did you see this creature morph?

Worf: I did and then I beat him fairly.

Hit him on the jaw -- quite squarely.

Riker: My commendations, Klingon friend!

Our troubles now are at an end!

Crusher: Now let's get our ship to fly

And orbit yonder Indran sky!

Picard: LaForge, please tell me we can go...?

Geordi: Yes, sir, we can.

Picard: Then make it so!

I agree about the meld in Star Trek VI. When Spock forced Valeris to reveal the information she had, I felt like I was witness to a crime. But as he and Captain Kirk know, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one". Preventing war was admirable but still dirty.

I enjoyed "The Vulcan Academy Murders" and the many melds described - a marriage, a funeral, and a healing. I also enjoyed "Yesterday's Son" and Zar's meld with the Guardian of Forever.

I was unsure of what the mind meld with McCoy was at the end of Star Trek II, but the answer McCoy gave Kirk for the "How many fingers am I holding up?" question in Star Trek III was priceless!

I wanted to cry when the adult Spock/cousin Selek eased I-chaya's suffering.

My hubby and I really weirded people out at work when we didn't converse about what we were working on together. We just knew!!

Okay, I've been snooping in the Star Trek New Voyages thread. At first I was thinking nobody could do justice to the roles. I find that they are true to the characters yet try not to be like the actors playing the characters. They pull it off real well. After reading about all the seat of the pants, scrounge where we may get what we can, I am really impressed with the quality. I recognize the items and I can forgive not having the exact duplication. I would like to be that 'fly on the wall' and I like the tying up of loose ends. Very nice explanation of Spock's fascination with the song Amazing Grace - I happen to like that hymn myself.

I would also have liked better animation. There are things you can do with animation you can't do with special effects (though with computer animation and live action we can get pretty close). They did have budget constraints where certain scenes were reused and it also made for only certain poses and not much else.

My favorite episodes make season 2 my favorite . . . Amok Time; Journey to Babel; I, Mudd; Mirror, Mirror; The Trouble With Tribbles; and A Piece of the Action to name the most prominent . . .

If you love the music that was created before you were born, so? You can be just as knowledgeable about it, and love it as much, as those who grew up with it. (me included - I was born 1962)

I've read Vulcan's Heart and Spock's World and I much prefer the latter . . . Even now the Earth history we have is colored by regional bias and various, rampant theories that may or may not be close to the truth. History, as we perceive it, also has emotional bias. What was a crushing defeat to one people is a rousing victory to another. Even now there are debates going on saying the Holocaust never happened and that man never walked on the moon. I am not going to debate either; I am in the 'Yes, they happened" camp for the record.

Some of the ideas in Spock's World are pretty sound when applied to what we do know about Vulcan society. But in turn, the Vulcans would have a rather colorful explanation about why they think the Humans were lucky to even make it through the Dark Ages let alone to space.

I have a question. How many Constitution class ships were there? How many made it back to be refitted? Was the Enterprise the first to be refitted? Or of the old Constitution class ships, was she the only one refit to the design of the 1701-A making it the only ship of the 'Enterprise class'?

I would think, once the ship had been refitted it no longer met the criteria for a Constitution class ship. Hence I believe it became a new class.