emanon

I like Patrick Steward.

 

I usd watch him teach acting on Open University sometimes when I was really bored.

 

Then he went to Hollywood and made all those films and did ST:TNG.

 

He has slid well into X Men too, whose sequel is out next month...

So it was ST:TNG ... wow, I thought it was ST:TOS.

 

I remember that episode too, she has a magnetic attraction doesn't she...that is interesting...cheers...

 

Yes, it was me...back in the Summer of 2002 I would guess.

 

I'll take a look at that other thread...cheers

I am not sure if the transport layers will increase, maybe a better way will be found and they will reduce them.

 

Processor power is generally unused on personal computers so there is no real drive to increase it.

 

Server power will always need to be improved.

 

The next step will be RAM disks, currently people use these memory cards, but the use of large RAM disks on servers will increase their performance considerably, especially for data mining.

 

I think the next few big steps will come in miniturisation and compression techniques, allowing small credit-card and hand-held devices to become actually useful.

 

Especially when the Satellite networks come on line in this decade.

I have posted this topic on the Main Star Trek board. But it is worth posting it here to see if anyone has any additional thoughts on the subject.

 

I have a theory, an idea, that everything (matter) is joined by microwormholes, which are smaller than anything measurable, below the Planck length.

 

So let's assume they exist in only Carbon atoms, although they are most like to exist in all matter.

 

Using the example of carbon atoms in a bag, a John Gribbin trick, it is quite easy to see that even if the microwormholes were joined one-on-one, that even a 12g bag of carbon atoms would be able to join all points in space-time, throughout the history of the known Universe billion's upon billion's of times over.

 

So the question is not do they exist, it is more a case of if they did exist, what phenomena would we notice from them and how are they connected, one-to-one or one-to-many?

 

Parapsychology may be on the verge of answering some of these questions, since it appears that the human brain might somehow access these puddle's in space-time and use them to predict future events and interpret past events.

 

Check out my web site for more notions on the subject.

 

If nothing else it explains how the different species communicate using their minds...brain waves my backside.

What happens to the Star Trek Adventure shuttle simulators after they pack it all up at Hyde park?

 

Will they move them to the Trocaderro?

 

Or maybe to one of the big West End Cinemas?

I was at the Star Trek Adventure, without the headphone tour.

 

 

Does anyone know what ST:TOS episode The Perfect Mate dress comes from?

Waving the US flag

 

You have to remember these people do whatever the guys with guns ask them to do, or show them to do...

 

There was a reporter who discovered that the locals thought the US soldiers were Iranians!!

 

I am sure some of the people in Baghdad were pleased to the US soldiers, but the majority would be scared.

 

It is like having the former USSR 'liberate' the US...

 

The Military is not a democracy

Made me laugh, wrt the current emphasis on turning Iraq into a democracy. But modern warfare is pretty democratic, to a point. Soldiers are allowed to make their opinions known, because they do indeed live in a democracy.

 

wrt turning Iraq into a democracy. It maybe that they want to run it like Iran, since the shi'ites are in the majority. How would that sit with US policy?

 

Might prove interesting.

Geri Ryan is a good actress, and yes she has a pretty face and a mind blowing body too. But what made her character so good was the humour, as with Spock, and Data, and to a lesser extent whats-his-face in DS9, you know the changeling.

 

Never mind.

 

Anyway, Kes was a good character too, I was not sure why they felt they had to replace her? with Seven of Nine. Both characters floated.

 

Anyway, the Seven of Nine character shows alongside the Doctors shows were by far the funnier.

 

The interaction between the two also allowed some interesting interactions to occur.

 

Imagine a Borg-Hologram relationship...it blows my mind just thinking about it...

Intelligence or mobility?

 

I prefer both, it would be a tough choice...

 

I have a Brane the size of Everything...*smirks*

 

(you'll have to listen to my music to get that little joke)

 

If you fancy a laugh listen to MC Hawking's music...

 

http://www.mchawking.com/

 

He was the guy who gave me the idea of using RALPH, the Apple voice synthesiser on my music.

 

If Professor Hawking is around, he might want to check out my rap, What Expands Space? and Would the Real Professor Hawking Please Stand Up...

This board is much better than the official Star Trek board in design. I do not understand why they haven't improved theirs?

 

I haven't really been here that much to judge the content, but it is nice to browse, although the excessive page width is annoying, but I can live with it.

 

The InfoPop forum software is better but more expensive. I understand Invision is free so long as you advertise their product name?

 

Well done.

 

I hope to visit more often as the year goes by.

Why are the US Military Borgs?

 

Because they follow order's and do not question them.

 

The UK forces have rebelled and some have been sent back to the UK. Other's have insisted ona more Peace Keeping role, trying to ENGAGE the local population BEFORE trying to kill them.

 

Question: If the US military had been sent to 'liberate', would they not have sought the SURRENDER of the Iraqi army through negotiation?

 

Answer:

Their ORDERS were to destroy the Iraqi MILITARY and REGIME so it could then be REPLACED with one which would CAPITULATE to US demands.

 

If you do not trust my words try think it through for yourself.

 

Why does another country INVADE another country? Look at history, ignore who is doing the invading, think it through LOGICALLY like a VULCAN. Then maybe you will see through the LIES that are being used to hide the truth.

 

And what is the TRUTH?

That no one has the right to INVADE another country UNLESS the UN (Federation) AGREE'S it is necessary...

 

And they did not, now did they?

 

The US Military ARE behaving like Borg, IT'S THEIR JOB.

 

The only way to control Borg is to make sure the QUEEN does not have HOSTILE intent.

 

Yee-ha!!

Those who said that the Ba'ath Party were Cardassian:

 

Not really, The Ba'ath party is an external revolutionary idealism implemented by the Iraqi people. It is not even divided by religion or race as both Sunni and Shi'ite's are heavily involved with the Ba'ath Party.

 

I have discussed this topic on other boards, and although no one disagree's that Saddam's Regime was brutal, there appears to be no real reason put forward for the INVASION of a soveriegn state other than to look for Weapon's of Mass Destruction.

 

AND THERE ARE NO WEAPON'S OF MASS DESTRUCTION IN IRAQ.

 

Why?

 

Because WoMD are designed to deter INVASION.

 

ONLY A MAD MAN would consider using them...which makes Saddam's Regime seem a little less 'bad' doesn't it?

 

Since they haven't used WoMD.

The best day of my miserable life

 

Today was the day I was going to land on my distant planet (re:Finger Inc song), one way or another. My plan was simple, I had none. All I knew was that I was going to go to the Star Trek Adventure and see the exhibits. I had

the night before posted a request to meet someone there, if they wanted to, and although it would have made the the day that bit more special, alright, perfect, I did not expect her to show. Women, you know what they are like.

 

I had also posted my April Fools Day Invasion plan, which would help to create my distant planet, if those involved could be bothered to listen and act on their own Brian Branes. My hopes for that happening were actuall very high, as the plan was fool proof and provided a get-out clause too. 'ha-ha April Fools!!', should the (I'm trying to say a bad word but can't) hit the fan. Plus the cover of the gag itself allowed the identification of Friend-or-Foe unnecessary. If they were you Foe then they would have to play along with the gag, otherwise they would been seen for what they were, your FOE!!

 

So I did my chores, as I drove down the road, the traffic built up, and I thought, "great, they have blocked the city centre". I ignored the radio and television and set off to The Star Trek Adventure, with all my gonks and (I'm trying to say a bad word but can't). You have to have gonks AND (I'm trying to say a bad word but can't), otherwise the magic doesn't work. So off I trundle down the tube listening to my walkman, which was playing Whodini, *looks to one side and smirks*, for obvious reasons.

 

When I listen to music, it can sometimes become synchronised with my life, this was such a time, 'Underground' played in my headphones. I hadn't planned the journey at all, I had just taken an A-Z and I knew it was in Hyde Park. So out I popped and off I walked towards Hyde Park, asking directions on the way. I put my Sunglasses on as I approached the park, you have to wear your sunglasses to see what you ain't looking at. I was looking at where I was going, maybe I missed something that was going on in the other direction. I don't know and I didn't really care. I do not really want to get involved with you lot, but really, you couldn't run a piss-up in a brewery let alone a planet.

 

So I walked down to the show, only to discover it wasn't open until 12PM, bang goes my plan. "Oh well, (I'm trying to say a bad word but can't) happens' I thought, so off I went to look at some music and video's, down TCR. Guess what? The tube was busted, so I had to go by bus. I picked up a Metro and read it at the bus stop. In it was an article with the title "Are you Psychic?", no I am not. Then there was the password for my super powers, a Sparticus picture and interview with Kirk Douglas, or something. I didn't pay attention, I wasn't interested. The bus was taking ages, so I walked down the road. I used to walk alot around central London,and in the distance I could see Centre Point.

 

As I walked down I noticed a H&M shop and wondered if my 'date' was in there shopping as she likes to do. But I

hate that (I'm trying to say a bad word but can't), so I wasn't even interested in looking in there for her. Eventually I reached HMV, as I entered I noticed here album was on sale, $5, so if you want a very good album, please buy it. I then went off and did what I do best, I browsed. I found a book on Run DMC, and a few albums that I had wanted but don't really have the cash-money for at the moment. But to see them in the shops was nice.

 

I checked what time it was, and then departed the store.

 

It was raining. That was my cue to put my sunglasses back on again. A man wearing sunglasses in the rain is an odd sight, even for London isn't? but that is me, I am weird. As I walked up to Hyde Park I saw the posters for the film 'Stand alone', which made me smile, because that is me in my mind. A man taking the World on and winning. Then there was a poster for 'Johnny English' with Mr Bean as a James Bond character. That is me too, a sort of Columbo with attitude. That poster made me burst out laughing. Which I think was spotted by some sort of security team as I was nearly bumped into by a very tall bloke, who checked me out. I just laughed, because those sorts of things happen to me all the time. Eventually we managed to negotiate past each other.

 

As I entered Hyde Park corner I decided to go for a drink. So I popped into a Pret-a-manger and ordered a cappauccino, and some napkins, for my hair. I was soaking.

 

END OF PART ONE

 

I wandered back to the Star trek Adventure, getting lost in the maze of underpasses on the way. As always, I noticed Brian Brane 'messages' and 'signs', throughout my journey, this is a feature of my view of the Universe. I walked into the building wet and soggy, bit otherwise happy. Once my ticket had been taken I walked about the exhibition in a anti-clockwise manner, looking at all of the props used by the show. The film Galaxy Quest had made me laugh as it poked fun at some aliens thinking all the Star Trek shows were documentaries. This idea fitted nicely into my Brain Brane theory. I too was disappointed at just how 'fake' the props were. But there you go, you need imagination to talk to the Universe.

 

I asked one of the security people if I could take photo's and they said yes. The whole place was virutally deserted, so off i went and snapped away. I liked the Quorks bar area and the bottles, I too have a large amount of bottles and glasses on display at home. Next were the costumes. The one that caught my eye was the wedding dress for 'The Perfect Mate', and I paused for a moment and thought about what had become of my 'date'. Maybe she never read the posting, maybe she bottled it, maybe she was watching somewhere? I looked about abit but the place was still pretty empty.

 

There was a line of shuttle crafts, so I decided to take a look. The operator directed me to the chairs inside the craft and started doing the safety talk. The the door shut. And I was alone in the darkness. "Maybe this shuttle can take me to my Distant Planet", I thought. The whole shuttle moved violently about as the CGI graphics screen displayed a Star Trek scene and proceeded to manauvre about a destroyed Borg vessel, eventually landing on the nearest M-class planet. I laughed my head off during the ride, as it was very, very violent. The doors opened and I asked the operator if the ineertial dampeners were off line or something, but he was not a Trekkie so the gag was wasted on him. That ride, did sort of get me going. But there were no aliens waiting to greet me, other than the operator, a human being. Maybe you lot are the aliens after all?

 

I continued with my investigation of the exhibits. Looking at the Nemisis ship and taking some pictures. Eventualy I decided to go for a coffee and rest. Like the fool I am, I could not get the coffee machine to work, so the lady behind the counter helped me. I sat down and had my drink and a bun. The place was still empty, probably only twenty people in the whole building. I finished off my tour and then made my way to the exit.

 

Oh I nearly forgot. There was a film your own Star Trek show bit. The lady on it was very nice, I looked into her eyes and had the old warm feeling you get when you like someone. We chatted for a bit and she showed me the video screens for the films other people had made. They were really very good, funny good, better than You've been framed, and the concept would make a good TV show, should anyone wish to use it.

 

The lady asked me whether I liked Star Trek, the original show. I replied yes, and she said something about how charming captain Kirk was. I smiled and mentioned something about how he always manged to shag the aliens. This was a conversation killer, and she went to sit at her desk and watch TV. I noticed her hair was red. This was part of my A Silence Affair album, with the track Red Head. But she was not my 'date', even though she was quite lovely, and if my 'date' had not already taken my heart, she might have been a nice alternative. *smirks* I will explain that smirk later.

 

So off I went to the exit. That last part is a mini-show, with a warp coil and a bridge set-up. Before you enter there is a short video. The narator discussed the Enterprise, and how it was the 'show'. I sensed a bit of emotion coming through his voice, and I thought about how I had equated the 'enterprise' with The Internet, 'enterprise' is the term given to a corporate network. Which might be thought of as ships in the Federation.

 

Funny how Brian Brane links all these things together, isn't it?

 

So off I went through the mini-show. The lift broke down between engineering and the bridge, and I commented on how nothing had changed to one of the other occupants. I was trapped in a lift with my son for an hour in 2001, before I was ill.

 

So off we went to the bridge to watch a Borg cube being destroyed. "Hurrah we got the mutha's" I thought, it's nice and easy when you know the ending of these show's isn't it!!??

 

So off I walk into the unknown, had I reached my distant planet? Not really, the merchandise was still there, and it was still overpriced, although it was good quality. There were also not phasors, or communicators there, I had hoped to buy these, rather than order them from the Internet. There was a book by William Shatner called 'Turning Start Trek science into real science' or something like that.

 

That's what I have already done with my book, TV show and music, if you want to take a look. I had sent a copy of my World Peace album series to the Star Trek magazine, thinking they might want to publish it as a free-bee, but they never did. Oh well, there you go.

 

As I walked out into the wet afternoon I thought "I wonder if my April Fools Day Invasion worked?". Is this my Distant Planet or am I still stuck on Planet (I'm trying to say a bad word but can't)-up?

 

I meandered back to the tube station, and took an East bound train back to home.

 

END OF PART TWO

 

So the best day of my life had turned out to be just another good day. But there you go, Brian has no sense of time and so maybe the timeline and (I'm trying to say a bad word but can't) needs to sort itself out a bit. You know these multi-dimensional entities they are so fickle (re:'Q').

 

I bought the Evening Standard to see if anything had gone down. No. What a pity. Still on Planet (I'm trying to say a bad word but can't)-up then.

 

The next day I was watching Kiss on TV, and there Kylie's video 'please stay'. Suddenly I thought back to the lady at the Star Trek video exhibit. She was Australian and looked a bit like Kylie, and in that video Kylie has reddish hair. "Interesting" I thought, "Very interesting". Now most celebrities could walk past me and I wouldn't notice them. In fact, would you be looking for a celebrity behind a counter, or sweeping the road?

 

Another interesting concept.

 

Then I remembered a lady in my sons school who looked like one of the Corrs. I hadn't noticed her before, but really I don't really notice people that much anyway, I am a tad autistic.

 

So maybe my Distant Planet is just taking a bit of time to kick in.

 

Let's see shall we?

I voted for Spock, because his character was so unusual...a warlike logical species who control their emotions...great concept.

 

His humour always played a good counter foil to Kirk et al.

 

Kirk would be the other choice, along with Scotty, which probably says more about me and my liking of humour, than whether or not they were better characters.

Is it just me or does the US Military behave like the Borg wrt to the invasion of Iraq?

 

They tell the Iraqi's to capitulate, resistence is futile

 

They use technology to overwhelm them

 

They do not try to communicate with them, just attack

 

They offer freedom, inside the 'collective'

 

Just a thought...

That is right, the Universe talks to us through art and random events...look and you will see them quite clearly...

As a bit of a fuddy duddy, I have to agree with him...although ST:TOS was full of insightful plot's for it's time and revolutionary, visually...the 'next generation' has played safe...taking the money, rather than the risks...

 

Once you understand just how many risks were taken by ST:TOS you will understand his disdane for the 'trademark' shows...which are really good, but lack the rebel nature displayed by ST:TOS.

 

Star Trek has become corporate, and for an rebel and explorer character, this is against ST:TOS's nature.

 

The idea was to boldly go (go boldly) into the unknown...your imagination...rather than wander aimlessly around some maze of special effects...

 

What he is saying is not rubbishing the new Star Trek genre's just voicing disappointment with the concept of playing safe...in an adventure series.

What do you think Captain Kirk would do? faced with the current situation with Iraq?

 

Do you reckon he would remove Saddam Hussien or stop the War.

 

Would he try tohelp to overthrow Bush and Blair?

 

Or would he try to find some alien to fall in love with?

 

Personally I would go for the alien option...:)

I have to say Kirk, he really was the typical 'hero' character and ST:TOS was really ground breaking.

 

Having said that I liked the way Janeway handled her crew (*smirks* ... not like that) and Picard was very good too, as were the others.

 

ST:VOY is actually my favourite series, simply because it covered so much intellectual ground and was so entertaining, following pretty firmly in the ST:TOS footsteps of character-play and humour...as the series progressed.

I have actually written a book which is sort of related to Star Trek in a very round about way...

 

Mind Trek DSR

 

The title is a play on Star Trek : DS9...

 

In the book I make reference to the episodes of Star Trek that helped me to develop a theory I call Bio-Physical Microwormholes. These wormholes connect space-time together and exist in all matter. Or at least some matter. I really haven't a clue. The idea came about through a series of delusional episodes in which I felt like I was at the centre of the Universe and that Universe was trying to commute with me.

 

When you watch Star Trek this happens quite a lot in the story lines, so I thought nothing of it and instead used my understanding of physics, science and music to understand what was happening better.

 

Now I was probably out of my head, but the things I came up with are pretty cool none-the-less so even as science-fiction they hold water.

 

See what you think...

 

The music side of things is a bit more surreal and was created as a promotional platform for the book, but it has actually turned out to be more important than the book in terms of personal progression, since it has moved onto more commercial based songs.

 

Maybe one day they will become your favourite tunes, I don't know and I really don't care, but they are there if you want to listen.

 

PEACE.

Is there anyone here younger than 14 i'm starting to wonder.

I was born yesterday...does that mean I am younger... :) ???

 

Actually you probably are, I am really much, much, much older than just a day.

 

In fact it would be pretty safe to say I am one of the older members here since I used to watch the ST:TOS as a little boy on it's first showing in the UK, I think it was the first showing anyway...it was in black&white for the first few episodes until we managed to pursuade a grown-up to let us what it in colour...

 

Kids these days complain if it is not a 32" wide-screen with surround sound!!

 

:)

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Well at least it looks like a proper forum...

 

You might know me as Brian Brane on the Star Trek Forum but I tend to use EMANON (no name backwards) on other boards, Brian Brane is a fictional name and is part of my TV show and music idea's.

 

Brian being the name for the Universe or else 'Joe Bloggs'

 

Anyway, i might spend more time here, now I now it is here... :) :)

 

And you have a smirk....