mrskirk

Thanks for the tip, but I have a concern. I've heard that file sharing programs (Kazaa, Morpheus, etc.) are loaded with spyware. Is that the case with the program you are using? I do use AdAware and SpyBot Search and Destroy, but I've also heard that deleting the spyware will cause the file sharing program to malfunction. What about this program you're recommending in your "spoiler"?

I, too, plan on travelling solo. This will also be my first trip to Las Vegas, so I just may hang out for longer than a weekend if the mood strikes me. Also, the black t-shirt idea sounds pretty sweet to me.

Well, to tell you how I voted, I'm going to quote the immortal words of Stone Cold Steve Austin:

"Gimme a hell yeah!!!"

What about Miramanee?  (Or however you spell it.)

I don't know if Kirk and Miramanee were married. She was "offered" to the god Kirok after Kirk stumbled out of the obelisk after getting his memory zapped away. He didn't know who he really was at the time, and Miramanee was killed right after he regained his memory, so she wasn't actually married to James T Kirk.

At the moment, I do plan to be there and I think I can get y company to pay for all the travel expenses.  We have a branch studio in Vegas and I can probably write the whole trip off if I work it right.

Hey!! Maybe we can record our own song as a group..kinda like the "We Are The World" thing....

We are the geeeeeks

We are the trekkieeeees....

Another one who's nickname makes it obvious..I'm female.

Add me to the "not a morning person" list..that's why I work the evening shift. When I get up, it's a cold can of Mountain Dew and a cigarette!

I have to agree with cyphrx... "Way to Eden"

HERBERT!! HERBERT!! HERBERT!! HERBERT!!

OMG!! Are there really other FEMALE Trek fans here???  I was convinced I was the only one!

Yep! Another female fan here (note the screen name) and a fellow refugee from st.com

Mrs. Kirk - consider yourself coloured!

LOL!! Thanks Takara! I hope none of these colors clashes with my "colorful metaphors"!

Color me there! Keep me posted as to the wheres and whens, so I can arrange vacation time to attend.

I felt "let down" by Generations myself, and not simply because of the death of James T Kirk. When I first heard that they were making a TNG/TOS crossover, I had great expectations. I pictured the Enterprise A being drawn through a time warp and coming across the Enterprise D. Picard meeting Kirk! Spock meeting Data, and both of them driving McCoy nuts! Kirk and Riker competing for the girl! I was excited! What did I get? Kirk and Picard beating up the bad guy and Kirk getting killed by falling off a cliff!!! It was a big letdown.

I remember Battlestar Gallactica very well! Commander Adama, Apollo, Starbuck, and my favorite villans..the Ceylons (by your command...)! I stopped watching in 1980 when the network ruined the series.

YAY!!! I finally did it!! I was beginning to feel left out! Thanks everyone!

I, too, am a fan of Mad magazine and I remember the Star Trek parody..Star Bleeccch I think they called it. I still remember a line from that parody..after Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down to the planet and Kirk arrives a mangled mess. McCoy asks Kirk if he's all right and his reply is, "I think so, but I keep getting this overwhelming feeling that my face wants to sit down." I loved it!!!

It's funny you mention it. I actually had a dream the other night that we had a STARTREKFANS.NET convention in Las Vegas.

Why not try to make that dream a reality? I would really like to meet all of you face to face, and I've got a week's vacation coming in July....

I don't see the Romulans joining the Federation, either. Too much political in-fighting. Maybe a group of Romulans, led by Ambassador Spock, could approach the Federation and make them think they want to join. After all, their Vulcan "brothers" are already part of the Federation. But they would be considered "traitors" by the Romulan government, and the story could go from there. A good way to bring Spock back, if Leonard Nimoy could be talked out of retirement!

yes he was married. in the WRATH OF KAHN we meet his ex-wife, and son. i dont think she dies, but his son does in THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK. so one woman has gone their before.

No, James T Kirk and Carol Marcus never got married. If you remember the conversation between them in the Genesis cave it points that fact out. The first thing Kirk says to Carol is, "I did what you wanted. I stayed away. Why didn't you tell him?" This alludes to the fact that David has no idea who his father really is. Carol's answer is. "How could you ask me that? Were we together? Were we GOING to be?" The back story was that when Carol discovered she was pregnant with David, she kicked James T Kirk out of her life, because she knew he would never be happy earth bound. The two never married.

James Kirk did marry, but that was in Shatner's novels. He falls in love with and marries a Romulan/Klingon woman named Telani, who is killed soon after bearing Kirk a son named Joseph. But again, that was in the novels, and not considered "canon".

The reason I chose my nickname should be obvious. It's the answer to my dreams and where no woman has gone before!

I've completed the test question.  May I go outside now?

ROTFLMAO!!!!!

I'm there! My house will be on Kirk Avenue. And of course, our little town would have a movie theater which would constantly run a Star Trek film festival!

Actually, I'm not losing any sleep being here.  I access this site more when I'm at work then anywhere else.

Me too!!! But my pod is right out in the open, so I'm looking over my shoulder alot. I only visit when the call volume is nothing and I've got a minute or two between calls. I don't have to worry about getting up early, either. I work the evening shift.

One of my favorites was titled "The Lost Years" but the name of the author escapes me. It does a really nice job of filling in the blanks between the end of Kirk's five year mission aboard the Enterprise and Star Trek-The Motion Picture.

I guess it was when I started naming my pets after ST characters. 

 

Please tell me I am not the only one to do that. 

You are definitely not alone. I had a female cat named T'Pring. Pointed ears, get it?

I was "downsized" back in 1998. I was employed as a customer service representative in the Milwaukee office for Ameritech. It was in March, and the annual all-employee meeting was scheduled for that night. These meetings consisted of management telling us how we did last year and what was coming up for the following year. One of my co-workers was unsure how to get to the place where the meeting was being held, so he called the facility for driving directions. He was informed the meeting had been cancelled. Very odd. Then, about an hour later, all the supervisors on the floor disappeared. Nobody knew where they all had gone. Then, a couple of hours later, we were ALL told to report to the cafeteria. That was REALLY odd, because we had never all been taken off the phones at the same time before. All 400 of us-every single person who worked in the building-crammed into the cafeteria, and it was buzzing with questions. Then, the general manager of the call center got up in front of us and made an announcement. As of June 1st, the Milwaukee customer care center was being closed. We would all be out of jobs in 90 days. That was it. She left the room and wouldn't answer any questions. All she said is that we could go home for the rest of the day with pay. I felt like someone had kicked me in the stomach. Others were in tears. My car was in the shop! I'm a single mother! What the hell am I going to DO???? Over the next few days, we found out our options. We could take jobs in other Ameritech call centers. The nearest one was in Appleton, WI-about 150 miles north of Milwaukee. We could take severance pay (at the time, with my seniority, that came out to 3 weeks pay) and collect unemployment compensation until we found another position. My son was a junior in high school at the time and I depended on that paycheck and the benefits offered by Ameritech. I opted to move to Appleton, a decision my son HATED. We lived up there for almost 3 years, and I soon discovered my decision was a bad one. My son moved back to Milwaukee, and in to his own apartment, in November 2000. I soon moved back to Milwaukee myself-in March 2001. I now have a stable, permanent job with AOL Time Warner and things are looking up. I'm sure things will work out for you, too.