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I know it's not canon, but there's a great TOS book called Kobayashi Maru (by

Diane Duane, I think). In this book, Kirk, Checkov, Scotty, and a few others are

stranded somewhere (due to a shuttle accident, no doubt). While they are waiting for

a rescue, they all sit around and reminisce about their experiences in the Kobayashi

Maru test. The book was very entertaining, and a bit humorous. The spoiler tells you

how each faired, to the best of my memory:

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Scotty: Took advantage of a known miscalculation in the way the simulator calculated shield strengths to destroy wave after wave of incoming Klingon vessels. Eventually, he ended up going up against 20-30 Klingon ships before finally being overwhelmed.

Checkov: Destroyed the opposing Klingon ship in a Kamikaze manuever by crashing his vessel into it.

Kirk: Reprogrammed the simulation so that the Klingons were scared of him, and didn't want to fight, resulting in a local peace treaty and safe passage. Very funny.

Having two boys three and under, every day brings a funny new story. I just taught my three-year-old how to do an impersonation of Marlon Brando in The Godfather. It's hilarious.

ok now think, its a show its all for astetics. someone just watching and seeing a ship upsidown while the other is rightside up would probably look at it and go what the heck. so thats all.

Agreed.

Don't forget those exponents, everyone!

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I know it's not canon, but in the books, they always replicate new uniforms. I'm not sure what they do with the old, but they probably transport it back into the transporter memory engrams so not much energy is lost.

In STI:TMP, when they found Ilia [sic] in the sonic shower, did the shower not replicate

clothing for her - beaming it onto her body? I'm not sure.

I definitely don't mean to pee in your Cheerios, but you guys are young! I certainly

am not trying to tell you what to do with your life. Is that how they do it in Australia?

I'm going "Up North" to see my mother. After averaging 80+ hours per week for

the past 18 months, it's time to sit in her cabin and stare at the fire for a few days.

Looking forward to it.

Based on how I look?

One of the TOS Klingons I guess.....

I believe that when history examines his Presidency without a biased political eye his will be seen as one of the most successful of the 20th Century, and one of the most important.

I agree that Reagan was a great one, but its tough to pick out the greatest. I'd be tempted to say any of the "George's" (Washington, Bush Sr., Bush Jr.) but I'm probably biased having lived through two of them, so I might have to say Washington - a pioneer in a great experiment.

Many years ago (early 90's, I think) William Shatner did an automobile ad with his daughter (I can't even remember which car). If I remember correctly, his daughter was driving alone, and then Shatner beamed into the passenger seat. At the end, the car took off down a desert highway and then flew into space.

TOS and non-TOS.

Definitely Bones. A doctor that can connect a Vulcan up to a remote control and then

re-attach his brain, all while being a borderline alcoholic can treat me any day.

I'm not too good at chess, but I still love the game. My favorite variation is the

one-sided reflexive game (I think that's what it's called) - the player plays both sides of the board, but only uses one set of pieces, visualizing the opponents pieces in his head.

Of course, it's not as good at developing skill as playing a better opponent, but it's a great way to relax.

Interesting theory. I always thought that the "Squire of Gothos" was some sort of

Q or pre-Q entity.

Isn't the Excelsior's motto, "Wherever you go, there you are." I think that's funny.

Post-doc, and I've started looking for a professorship.

By the way, that last post - which looks like it got posted three times - was done

using a Windows system......

yeah, they make it at the Fermilab in America.....but its vvery unstable

Fermilab has a device to accelerate protons and antiprotons (in a ring in opposite directions) at energies of about 1TeV or so (99.99996% the speed of light), so that

collisions between the two beams (about the diameter of a human hair, and much, much , much less dense than air) produce sub-nuclear interactions so that scientists can study the internal nature of nucleons. However, the antimatter produced here is

miniscule. If suddenly released into the atmosphere, it would not explode violently as

in the movies. It also takes about a billion times more energy to produce this antimatter than the energy it would produce in a matter/antimatter collision.

The facility I work at also produces antimatter as more of a by-product of our studies. It's produced in nearly negligible amounts.

Princeton Univerisity has a device called a TOKAMAK, which is essentially a magnetic storage bottle for antimatter. It's a fascinating device as well.

It seems like from reading the novels involving Vulcan (e.g., The IDIC Epidemic, The

Vulcan Academy Murders, Vulcan's Forge, Spock's World, et al.) that lematyas and

sehlats are not only large, but extremely vicious (Spock's pet being a notable and

rare exception), meaning that one probably would not want one on a starship. It would

be intersting to see more of Vulcan, though. It has always maintained a mysterious

presence in the Star Trek Universe. Maybe the ST gods want it that way.

Spock's mind meld with V'Ger was another interesting one. I still wonder about the

wisdom of that decision.

I guess I'm really in the minority (so far). I said Travis. I can see giving a promotion to anyone of the three, though.

I use Linux almost exclusively. It's quite powerful and versatile. It does, however,

have a stigma of begin non-intuitive, but this isn't too much of a problem anymore given the number of "X" environments out there. I would recommend checking out the following web sites:

Linux.org = A nice informative site with links

GNU web site = Although "GNU's Not Linux", there is a lot of information on Linux here.

Sourceforge = A source of a huge amount of

FREE Linux software (Nearly all Linux software is free.)

and, one of my favotite Linux distributions:

The Knoppix Web site.

I would recommend NOT using VM, as I've tried this before, and it was a pain in the

neck. (I might add that the purpose was for compiler-intensive scientific computing

using several languages and compilers, so maybe everyday applications would work fine.)

Good Luck!

I use Linux almost exclusively. It's quite powerful and versatile. It does, however,

have a stigma of begin non-intuitive, but this isn't too much of a problem anymore given the number of "X" environments out there. I would recommend checking out the following web sites:

Linux.org = A nice informative site with links

GNU web site = Although "GNU's Not Linux", there is a lot of information on Linux here.

Sourceforge = A source of a huge amount of

FREE Linux software (Nearly all Linux software is free.)

and, one of my favotite Linux distributions:

The Knoppix Web site.

I would recommend NOT using VM, as I've tried this before, and it was a pain in the

neck. (I might add that the purpose was for compiler-intensive scientific computing

using several languages and compilers, so maybe everyday applications would work fine.)

Good Luck!

I use Linux almost exclusively. It's quite powerful and versatile. It does, however,

have a stigma of begin non-intuitive, but this isn't too much of a problem anymore given the number of "X" environments out there. I would recommend checking out the following web sites:

Linux.org = A nice informative site with links

GNU web site = Although "GNU's Not Linux", there is a lot of information on Linux here.

Sourceforge = A source of a huge amount of

FREE Linux software (Nearly all Linux software is free.)

and, one of my favotite Linux distributions:

The Knoppix Web site.

I would recommend NOT using VM, as I've tried this before, and it was a pain in the

neck. (I might add that the purpose was for compiler-intensive scientific computing

using several languages and compilers, so maybe everyday applications would work fine.)

Good Luck!

I like that e-mail VBG! It really kicks *buttocks*!