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Starfleet catalogued gaseous anomalies in Beta Quadrant... which was probably a euphemism for running surveillance on the Klingons and Romulans.
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What stomach turning, sycophantic nonsense.
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Sorry for bringing this up if it has been discussed before...or it sounds too silly
I'm not a habitual coffee drinker, so I don't frequent my local Starbucks in North America. Last year, before Christmas, I stopped by one to get a gift card, but I was intrigued by their breakfast sandwich offerings. So I ended up getting a breakfast sandwich and a gift card. I noticed a very familiar sound from their microwave oven that told my barista my sandwich and was ready. It was the proximity sensor alarm warning in either the Movies and TNG! I think it was Generations! "Beep Beep Beep! Beep Beep Beep!"
Now which one came first? Did the manufacturer of microwave oven got that sound from the shows? Or did the effects team got it from those microwave ovens?
I'm not a habitual coffee drinker, so I don't frequent my local Starbucks in North America. Last year, before Christmas, I stopped by one to get a gift card, but I was intrigued by their breakfast sandwich offerings. So I ended up getting a breakfast sandwich and a gift card. I noticed a very familiar sound from their microwave oven that told my barista my sandwich and was ready. It was the proximity sensor alarm warning in either the Movies and TNG! I think it was Generations! "Beep Beep Beep! Beep Beep Beep!"
Now which one came first? Did the manufacturer of microwave oven got that sound from the shows? Or did the effects team got it from those microwave ovens?
It was never said explicitly on any of the series, but it did come from people that worked on the show, from what I remember; it's been used in tie-in map products more than once from different people. The only explicit presentation of that that I can remember the details of was somewhat obscure: on the astrometrics map in "Endgame" that showed the various terminuses of the Borg transwarp network, the only terminus in the AQ area that was the right distance from the galactic core to be in the general area of Sol (i.e., the one they would have had to have come out of at the end of the episode) was basically right on the A/B border. I think there might've been an earlier astrometrics map in Voyager that showed a projected course to Earth stopping on the A/B border, but I can't remember specifics of that offhand.
The constant AQ references in Voyager didn't really make sense anyway, since the Alpha Quadrant is literally a quarter of the galaxy, and yet they always treated any potential means of getting to the Alpha Quadrant as a way of getting home. There are areas of the Alpha Quadrant that could've been even further away from the Federation than Voyager in the Delta Quadrant, especially later in the show, but they always used it as just synonymous with "the Federation".
As for other Beta Quadrant investigations by the Federation, the USS Excelsior was on a long-term mission cataloguing gaseous anomalies in the Beta Quadrant in The Undiscovered Country (and "Flashback"), the USS Olympia from "The Sound of her Voice" had been on a long-term mission of exploration in Beta, and the USS Prometheus was doing its test flight in Beta in "Message in a Bottle".
Just natural conversational sloppiness, I think. If they'd gotten themselves stuck in the Andromeda galaxy, we'd hear them talking about the Milky Way as home...
I want to give them credit for that, and half of the references I just chalk up to that, yeah. But every single time they find a possible route home, there's that dramatic sequence where someone says something along the lines of "Captain...it leads to the Alpha Quadrant." And that's always just taken as equivalent to getting home. You never hear "what part of the Alpha Quadrant, Ensign Kim?"
And then there's small things like Telek R'Mor saying his ship is located in the Alpha Quadrant. That would be like if someone asked me where I am, and I said "Western Hemisphere". People don't do that unless they're being cheeky, and he wasn't.
Was she the occasional pilot from late Next Gen? I didn't even know she had a name.
Yup.
One of several recurring extras that they could have done more if time/budget allowed. Others include Darien Wallace (played by Spiner's photo double Guy Vardaman), Gretchen "Jae" Naylor, Engineer Russell and Nurse Ogawa, as - apart from Ogawa who ironically was the only one to get any character development - they appeared in more episodes than Pulaski and Ogawa still beat out main characters Guinan and Ro and recurring TNG secondary characters like Q & Alexander, Lawaxana Troi, Reg Barclay and Lore.
Actually she'd been poking around since season 3. Probably one of the 2 more recognizable helm officers, the other being Rager
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The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition have become available & well-known, but ... what of Robin Lefler's "Laws"? Have they been published - all one hundred and two, complete?
Nope, not compiled, though New Frontier (and a couple other sources) added a few. The Rules of Acquisition were never published complete either, though; the book that was published included some new ones, but it wasn't a full list.
Yeah ... see? That's why it's best going the Fan Fiction route, because you at least get what you pay for. I tried taking a crack at FF, but when I started writing just the outline, it ended up becoming the better part of a page. I had to stop and remind myself ... this little diversion has crossed the frontier from being a cute, little diversion to "work" .... I'm going to want to see some compensation, or just forget about it.
It sounds more like you just weren't all that into the idea? There are tons of hobbies that take a lot of effort; I'm in the middle of a coding project for fun, probably dozens of man-hours at this point, with no thoughts of compensation at all. Running tabletop games, model-building, art, writing, woodworking, metalworking, electronics stuff: there's a lot of effort-filled hobbies out there.
No ... I kind of liked it, actually. The story revolved around an alien from a border world along the Klingon side of the Neutral Zone ...
He'd intercepted an encrypted transmission regarding further schemes and plans involving the conspiracy so central to TUC. Though the alien had recorded it and knew he had something important, he was unable to crack the code himself and finally gave up.
When he died, decades later, his son discovered it and after many attempts himself, finally cracks the code. As he tries to find some way of using this information for profit, or to other advantage, his clumsy attempts don't work out quite the way he'd hoped and it stirs up a hornet's nest as Powers That Be attempt to contain the information in various, dramatic ways ... which eventually involves Sarek and the Enterprise-D.
Anyway, it became clear to me that it was starting to get too involved for the time I'd allotted for the diversion. So, I took on an original sculpturing project, instead. Just a small thing, it was involved a figurine of a Man dressed as Bogie, standing near a park bench. He'd stirred up some feeding pigeons, maybe, which were quite small and placed on wires near and in front of him. At the end of the day, I was pleased that I didn't go the Fan Fiction route. I prefer swinging off my ideas to anybody else's, usually. But TNG is a thing of beauty ...
He'd intercepted an encrypted transmission regarding further schemes and plans involving the conspiracy so central to TUC. Though the alien had recorded it and knew he had something important, he was unable to crack the code himself and finally gave up.
When he died, decades later, his son discovered it and after many attempts himself, finally cracks the code. As he tries to find some way of using this information for profit, or to other advantage, his clumsy attempts don't work out quite the way he'd hoped and it stirs up a hornet's nest as Powers That Be attempt to contain the information in various, dramatic ways ... which eventually involves Sarek and the Enterprise-D.
Anyway, it became clear to me that it was starting to get too involved for the time I'd allotted for the diversion. So, I took on an original sculpturing project, instead. Just a small thing, it was involved a figurine of a Man dressed as Bogie, standing near a park bench. He'd stirred up some feeding pigeons, maybe, which were quite small and placed on wires near and in front of him. At the end of the day, I was pleased that I didn't go the Fan Fiction route. I prefer swinging off my ideas to anybody else's, usually. But TNG is a thing of beauty ...
I thought of this when the the first episode of the second season of TNG was mentioned recently in another thread. Actually I thought it when I first watched it years ago. When Troi has a child because of the alien entity. When they are discussing it in the briefing room, Pulaski (I guess it was her), said the male child had the exact same DNA as Troi which would be Betazoid/Human. Where did the Y chromosome to make the child male come from?
On Youtube there is a series of fan made films based on the scripts for Star Trek Phase 2. The above mentioned episode about Troi was based on one of those scripts as well. Only in Star Trek Phase 2 it was the Deltan woman Ilia instead of Troi who had a child. The child was a girl in that one.
On Youtube there is a series of fan made films based on the scripts for Star Trek Phase 2. The above mentioned episode about Troi was based on one of those scripts as well. Only in Star Trek Phase 2 it was the Deltan woman Ilia instead of Troi who had a child. The child was a girl in that one.
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