Beam me up
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AAHHH, your all in this together, aren't you???Yes, we're all in this together. Now turn off the Red Green
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Meh. I don't really get women either.
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Chakotay was the best choice, because he was the captain of the Maquis crew.
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Beam Me Up looked at the controls and scratched his head. Apparently someone had fiddled them with some type of hologram projector. He smiled and kicked the console. The projector deactivated revealing LCARS controls.
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The Battle of Midway, fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway atoll, represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war. Prior to this action, Japan possessed general naval superiority over the United States and could usually choose where and when to attack. After Midway, the two opposing fleets were essentially equals, and the United States soon took the offensive.
Japanese Combined Fleet commander Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto moved on Midway in an effort to draw out and destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet's aircraft carrier striking forces, which had embarassed the Japanese Navy in the mid-April Doolittle Raid on Japan's home islands and at the Battle of Coral Sea in early May. He planned to quickly knock down Midway's defenses, follow up with an invasion of the atoll's two small islands and establish a Japanese air base there. He expected the U.S. carriers to come out and fight, but to arrive too late to save Midway and in insufficient strength to avoid defeat by his own well-tested carrier air power.
Yamamoto's intended surprise was thwarted by superior American communications intelligence, which deduced his scheme well before battle was joined. This allowed Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander, to establish an ambush by having his carriers ready and waiting for the Japanese. On 4 June 1942, in the second of the Pacific War's great carrier battles, the trap was sprung. The perserverance, sacrifice and skill of U.S. Navy aviators, plus a great deal of good luck on the American side, cost Japan four irreplaceable fleet carriers, while only one of the three U.S. carriers present was lost. The base at Midway, though damaged by Japanese air attack, remained operational and later became a vital component in the American trans-Pacific offensive.
With the anniversary of D-day coming up, I want to urge you all to take a moment to think about the brave men that perished during the Midway. I fear this event becomes overshadowed by D-day, even though it may have played a more major role during World War 2.
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Lieutenant Beam Me Up stared at the security console and scanners. He had not idea how to read Klingon, so he could not read the controls.
"Computer, translate the controls into English," he ordered.
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That Registry number sounds cool.
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Replace T'Pol with Q. <_<
Now T'Pol(Q) snaps his fingers and solves every problem
Replace Worf
Oh yes, and does it have to be a Star Trek character?
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Granted. You become very successful at ruining businesses.
I wish I had a lot of money.
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I don't remove my hair. <_< I like it.
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How about TEH-31337 <_<
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Tremors 2 and Tremors 3!
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They made a second one?
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Granted, but you don't know what to do with it.
I wish for more wishes.
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I'm looking forward to reading it.
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In a D-7! ROFL! :angry:
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I have seen 'To Hell and Back' several times. That is an incredible movie for an incredible man.
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The Lakota
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Granted, but then worse things suck your blood.
I wish for a bright sunshiny day.
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I have never seen the show, but if they have a car with a Confederate flag on it, I might go see the movie. <_<
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I had my wisdom teeth out when they were small. They had to put me under for that, but it was not really a major surgery.
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That's great! LOL!
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I saw the 850 million pieces of junk mail bit. Anyone that spams that much deserves prison.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
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May he rest in peace.