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I'd leave the holodeck alone and go to work or play with my boys. Reality has always fascinated me much more than anything.

I got Data. I probably could have predicted that.

I really can't see them doing another movie at all if Stewart is leaving. The other shows don't seem like big movies

material to me. Maybe they could take the Star Wars route and do prequels.

It's agamzing that after 20 years, STII is still the most popular.

Maybe the ship had a nice thick coat of lacquer on it for protection.

Nemesis did indeed lack in character development for the sake of action. However, I think that is exactly the goal in the making of

Nemesis - an attempt to turn it into a fall blockbuster by making it a shoot-everything-that-moves-set-for-ramming-speed-brace-for-

impact type of sci-fi action thriller in order to please the populace while assuming that the die-hard fans already know the

characters.

I enjoyed it, but I'm still perplexed about the "Mad Max" scene in which Picard, Data, and Worf are riding a jeep around this desert planet. I thought cars were extinct, and the vehicle they were driving had not evolved at all since the 20th century.

I work in a laboratory where we do some of the best nuclear physics in the world, and one of the

things many people have on the shelf is a can of WD40. It's a miracle solvent.

I think a lot of guys talk on the phone just to look important. I see a lot of people wait until they get to the grocery store to get out the phone, call home, and say something profound like "What do you want from the store?"

They couldn't have asked that before they left?

I agree with Takara_Soong. The st.com chatroom is hideous. People usually don't talk about Star Trek, usually "sim," argue, or talk

about nothing in particular. I would estimate a 3% chance that when you log into the st.com chatroom, those gathered will be engaged in a conversation about Star Trek.

I read the TOS books, and still have my collection starting with the first one. I think my favorite was either Prime Directive or

Strangers from the Sky.

I guess I'm pretty boring. I'll be around until I'm 83, and here's the odds:

Heart Attack (33%)

Cancer (16%)

Alien Abduction (6%)

Third Degree Burns (6%)

Horrible Accident (5%)

Homicide (5%)

Loneliness (5%)

Auto-Fellatio (5%)

Alien Abduction??? Auto-Fellatio???? Who dies of auto-fellatio??? What is auto-fellatio?

What about David Marcus in STII? Kirk must have done SOMETHING to account for his existence... right?

I remember a instructor I had  in physics said: (please excuse the language)

?This is the real stuff! The real use of math! Not the fake crap they teach you in math class.?

 

 

Math can look at the patterns of numbers, but the fun part is once you apply that math to the real world ? physics

 

 

Master Q

StarTrek_Master_Q@yahoo.com

OMG! Sounds like my College physics professor(that class is also called General Physics, which is basically physics without using calculus)...he said something like that!!!

OMG!! That sounds like me! You guys weren't in any of my physics classes were you?

That's one thing that's always bugged me about Star Trek - or nearly any sci-fi show/movie I've seen. All the ships are aligned the same.  I can understand the

diplomacy and aesthetics of aligning ships a certain way after meeting, but even when they come out of warp from

different parts of the galaxy, they are always aligned the same.

Maybe they have a universe-wide accepted norm for alignment. Improbable, but not impossible.

Maybe they do - based on the galactic coordinate system they use. That would explain a lot.

That's one thing that's always bugged me about Star Trek - or nearly any sci-fi show/movie I've seen. All the ships are aligned the same. I can understand the

diplomacy and aesthetics of aligning ships a certain way after meeting, but even when they come out of warp from

different parts of the galaxy, they are always aligned the same.

I think Nemesis is just what Star Trek needed. It was a great movie that didn't conform too much to the

"trekkie trek" of the past several shows and movies. However, it may be a bit late.

I suppose that eventually the human population will begin to decline, whether we want it to or not. Like any

species, we rely on an environment to support our needs. When that environment becomes insufficient, the population

declines to the point at which the environment can support it.

I know what my birthdate (Nov. 20) says about me.... I'll be serving hot chocolate at my birthday party to warm people up here in the frigid north.

Espresso....

It's a great kick when up late working until the wee hours of the morning or in the last quarter of a football game.

Most likely made by a couple of farm boys on a Friday night after they ran out of beer.

I guess I'm a bit old-fashioned, but to me, it's not Star Trek unless they're warping around the galaxy shooting

anything that moves. I never bought DS9 from the beginning for the simple reason that they're not really too

proactive in going anywhere.

Do Kirk et al. count in the DS9 episode in which Bashir and O'Brien got involved in the tribble incident? (Sorry, the

name eludes me right now.)

Lollipop, try this. Take a mobius strip, draw a line down the center as master_q suggested, and then take a pair of scissors and cut along this line. You may be fascinated by the result, but it may also give insight into how it "works," a result which

can be predicted by differential geometry (or manifold geometry, just jargon really). Also, try this, instead of a single half twist, give your strip two half twists (or one full twist) before taping the ends together. Then cut along the center as before. The result (a "complex" form in differential geometry) also has special meaning in group theory and particle physics.

Finally, make another loop, but give it three half twists before taping the ends together. Then cut it down the middle as before. Impressive, no?

They should cast Michael Jackson as a Ferengi to save on makeup

costs.

Nuclear astrophysicist. It's a great job, but a huge conversation killer at parties.