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Nope.

I didn't like the novels. I wouldn't like the movie.

Each is fine on its own and doesn't need the other. In fact, I think they actually hurt each other when blended. Just my opinion.

Now, I'd be for a Star Trek/Farspace crossover, or Star Trek/Stargate.

Also, the X-Men could crossover with Spider-Man or Hulk.

I found Leonard Nimoy's "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" music video at ifilm.com. I've posted a link. If it doesn't work, just go to ifilm and scan through their "webjunk" until you find it. It's hilarious.

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Absolutely.

Not having Spock was a wasted opportunity. His appearances on TNG were the perfect set-up for him to have played a major role in the reunification (possibly) of Vulcan and Romulus, cementing his legacy in Galactic history forever.

I watched it.

It was interesting seeing how Star Trek influenced (directly or indirectly) so many people into creating new technologies. But I was annoyed with the constant references to Trek fans as "geeks". That got real old to me pretty quickly.

I'm not a geek. I just like Star Trek.

Cool site. Thanks for posting it!

No problem.

I'm glad you all like it. :angry:

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The above site has a lot of animated ships. Hope you find one you like.

Later!

Interesting stuff.

Has Star Trek ever explained (or attempted to) why so many ships and installations carry human names? Or why so many crews are dominated by humans?

I know it's because it's convenient from a production standpoint. But is there a good reason within canon for it?

I've often wondered about these questions myself.

I know in my fan fiction, Starfleet tends to be far more military than in the canon.

In one of the TNG novels I have ("Encounter at Farpoint"), I recall Picard being uncomfortable when Data (was it Data or Yar? :angry: ) saluted him. He felt it made the 'Fleet feel military, when he preferred to think of it as scientific.

Starfleet's lack of enthusiasm for it's military role probably was responsible for the 1st Class butt kicking the Dominion handed the Federation early in the Dominion War. You'd think after the various Borg incursions and Dominion Conflict (not to mention counter-terrorism ops against the Maquis), Starfleet would be just a shade more militaristic by the 2380's.

If I were a Starfleet officer, I'd probably go on a power trip and make my subord's salute me. :(

I was shocked when I read this. Only 45 years old and dead of a stroke. It makes me wonder what use is it for me to be torturing myself at the gym every day.

If it makes you feel any better, I've heard that he wasn't in the best of health and his weight had ballooned up on him over the past few years. So Kirby wasn't in top form.

He was an awesome player. He'll be missed.

Whopper.

DS9 on Spike.

If Milla Jovovich is in the film, I'm watching it. Period.

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Yes, I just read this at Yahoo.

Can't help feeling bad for the boyfriend. I doubt this news will make him feel too much better.

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I can't seem to find much information at all about this ship. Does anyone here know anything about it, other than that it was on an episode or two of Enterprise?

What I'd like to know is this:

(1) Is it an older class than NX-01, or newer?

(2) Is it's propulsion systems equivalent (warp 5)?

(3) It's designated NV-01. What's the NV stand for (if anything)?

I'm using it in a fan fiction story set in Enterprise's time period. If I have to, I'll just make something up. But if there are some facts out there, I'd appreciate whatever help you have.

Thanks. <_<

I like 'em all.

I would vote for Behind the Music, but there hasn't been a good one in eons. So I picked E! True Hollywood Story.

In 8th grade, my homeroom teacher missed most of the year after getting cancer and she was replaced by a young British teacher from Nottingham (yeah, I thought that was cool ). He was a really nice guy. Totally different from the woman who had been our teacher.

He liked to run out during break and get soccer matches going. He also taught us some British games, like British Bulldog. Before long, even the kids who weren't in his math class were drawn to him. Great guy.

Until then my idea of what a Brit was like was based on the few examples I'd seen on television, which made british people seem sort of cold, proper, and elitist. Colin (his name, he allowed us to call him by his name....something else I thought was cool) totally changed my perception of what the british were like.

I think what I remember most was our conversations about movies. He was a science fiction nut like me. Until then I'd never heard of Dr.Who.

When Gary and I lived in the apartment, we had to have the door replaced. Some (Ignore me, I'm using profanity) kicked it in and tried to rob us. Scariest night of my life. That ended, though, when the neighbor came out of his apartment and jacked a shell into the chamber of his shotgun...

Three guys tried to break in on me in my first apartment as well.

My dog was barking like crazy and woke me up. So I went to the door and opened it a crack to yell "Shut Up!" and three guys were on my porch, taking the screws out of my doorknob. Soon as they saw me, they froze, which allowed me to slam the door shut again. While they were banging against it, I called the cops. Cops showed up 45-minutes later (and yes, I told them I was being broken into! ). Luckily I had a high-power pellet gun that looked like a real pistol. So I went to my window, pulled back my curtain and aimed it at them, and they almost killed themselves getting over my fence to avoid being shot. B)

The cops yelled at me when they arrived because nobody was there.

I asked them whether or not I should have invited the guys in for tea or something until they showed up to arrest them.

I think I moved back to Mizzou two or three months after that.

Your first apartment?

The very first apartment I ever had all to myself was bulldozed today, to make room for a new mini-mart.

It had originally been a 2-car garage which had been poorly converted into a 3 room flat. It had a combination living room/kitchen, a short hall (barely wide enough for an average sized adult to walk down), a bedroom, and a "bathroom" (a toilet crammed into a closet-sized space). And for all this luxery I paid $350 each month for 2 years.

I loved it though, because it was my place. I froze each winter, sweated through every summer (for years). But it was all mine, and my parents couldn't tell me anything.

It was also an apartment in California. Living that far from Ozark, Missouri, where my folks were, made me feel down right Continental. I hated seeing that little shack being plowed under. It was as if that dozer was plowing under an old friend.

1. Almond

2. Tan

3. No, I think it's silly.

Marc Alaimo is awesome.

A talented actor. I've seen him in a lot of films, and he's always able to make his character dynamic.

As evil as Gul Dukat was, Alaimo made him a character that you almost sympathised with and wanted to fight for.

The husky, tough-talking actor who starred in several TV series, played a grouchy dad in the holiday classic "A Christmas Story" and had other strong roles in such films as "The Man with the Golden Arm" and "The Natural," died Saturday. He was 83.

McGavin died of natural causes at a Los Angeles-area hospital with his family at his side, said his son Bogart McGavin.

McGavin made his film debut in 1945 when he switched from painter of movie sets to bit actor in "A Song to Remember." After a decade of learning his craft in New York, he returned to Hollywood and became one of the busiest actors in television and films.

He starred in five series, including "Mike Hammer" and cult favorite "Kolchak: The Night Stalker," and became a prolific actor in TV movies. Among his memorable portrayals was Gen. George Patton in the 1979 TV biography "Ike."

Don Knotts, the irrepressible comic actor who won five Emmys as Deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show, died Friday night in Los Angeles; he was 81. Knotts died of pulmonary and respiratory complications at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, and had recently suffered health problems that kept him from making an appearance at his hometown of Morgantown, West Virginia, last August. Knotts started out in entertainment as a ventriloquist before returning to college and then enlisting in the army at the onset of World War II. After the war and college, he returned to New York and pursued a career in radio and television; he nabbed a part as a psychiatrist in the Broadway play No Time for Sergeants, which starred actor Andy Griffith. He reprised his role in the film version, and after moving to Los Angeles, was cast opposite Griffith in the actor's eponymous sitcom, The Andy Griffith Show. The show ran from 1960-1968, and Knotts won an unprecedented five Best Supporting Actor Emmys in a row as manic deputy Barney Fife, a role for which he would forever be identified. After leaving the show, Knotts embarked on a film career, appearing in family-friendly films such as The Incredible Mr. Limpet, The Reluctant Astronaut and The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, among others. His career in the 70s was marked primarily by Disney films such as The Apple Dumpling Gang and No Deposit, No Return, until he joined the sitcom Three's Company in the middle of the show's run as the bumbling landlord Mr. Furley, forever interfering in his tenant's lives. After Three's Company, Knotts made innumerable appearances in television shows and occasionally films; one of his most notable recent roles was as a mysterious television repairman who sets strange events in motion in the film Pleasantville. Knotts was married twice, to Kay Mets from 1948-1969, with whom he had two children, and to Lara Lee Szuchna from 1974 to 1983.

Great. I was hoping that was the case.

Thanks.

Just a question.

I'm going to be shopping around for a new monitor (CRT) for my PC (HP Pavilion a814x). And I was wondering, will any CRT monitor work with the computer, or will I have to buy an HP monitor? Because I found a really cheap (relatively cheap...$110.00) monitor produced by gateway. But the cheapest HP monitor I could find was about $60 more.

This afternoon, I noticed a discolored blotch in the upper left-hand corner of my monitor screen and a second area of discoloration running along the length of the extreme right-hand side of the screen. I think that may mean the monitor is dying on me. Probably from too much use. Between me and my nephew and sister, it is generally active 14 or more hours a day....every day. (Yes. I have no social life.)

Just exercised the "Nuklear Option" on my PC.

For some reason my screen resolution was set really high and my administrative controls wouldn't let me lower it back to normal. Also, other things were just not acting as they were earlier today. My antivirus was disabled, some components were missing. I don't know what happened, but I had to use system restore ( for the first time ever). Everything seems better now.