--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 108 STAR TREK Ref: ED200012 Date: 09/01/97 From: ROBERT MCKAY Time: 02:50am \/To: BRIAN JENNINGS (Read 0 times) Subj: Best Trek Series BJ> AP> I've been doing a poll on the best trek movie, how BJ> AP> about one on the best trek series. Rate all four BJ> AP> series from #1(best) to #4(worst). BJ> 1. TOS BJ> 2. VOY BJ> 3. TNG BJ> 4. DSN A man after my own heart. --- QMPro 1.53 Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it. * Origin: * Binary illusions BBS * Albuquerque, NM * 505.897.8282 * (1:301/45) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 108 STAR TREK Ref: ED200013 Date: 09/01/97 From: ROBERT MCKAY Time: 02:50am \/To: JUSSI TOMUKORPI (Read 0 times) Subj: Best Trek Series Poll JT>> #98 TAS-> Don't watch JT>I apologise for my lack of knowledge conserning ST, but what is TAS? The Animated Series. It was the TOS characters and era, but animated. I never saw it, so I don't know how good it is; however, most of those who've spoken on it have, in my experience, loved it. --- QMPro 1.53 My other computer has Commander Sela's voice. * Origin: * Binary illusions BBS * Albuquerque, NM * 505.897.8282 * (1:301/45) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 108 STAR TREK Ref: ED200014 Date: 08/31/97 From: FANE Time: 04:49pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: ST Textfile FREQ? Is there a big site where I can FREQ a large collection of Star Trek files, especially text? Also, are box sets of the entire completed series TOS and TNG available for sale on DVD? --- {Mnemonic Oubliette} --- * Origin: Loc (1:170/853) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 108 STAR TREK Ref: ED200015 Date: 09/01/97 From: PETER SCHULLER Time: 04:19pm \/To: LUKE FISCHER (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: intresting Trivia > PS> I like SW, but ST's a helluva lot better IMO. I though ST would be > PS> topping the list. > Me too, I think Star trek is one of the best (current) movies > in the industry. :) Well, I like everything exploding and > such. :) :) I'd even say that ST:FC is the best movie I've *ever* seen. / Peter Schuller --- AdeptXBBS v1.09.00 (Registered) * Origin: Gamma Epsilon 24h/day +46-(0)18-367781 (2:206/139) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 108 STAR TREK Ref: ED200016 Date: 09/01/97 From: JACKIE BURNS Time: 01:58pm \/To: CHRIS BRYAN (Read 0 times) Subj: Kes Leaving -=> Quoting Chris Bryan to All <=- CB> By the way, y'all, have you heard that Kes is going to be leaving CB> Voyager? Yes, I had heard that. Any further-to you have for it...? I have not heard anything since the original rumour announcement... Eternally, Alpha... ... "Ten chocolate sundaes. I'm in a really, really bad mood." - Q ___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 [NR] --- ViaMAIL!/WC4 v1.30 * Origin: The Door Factory * Winnipeg, Canada (1:348/956) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 108 STAR TREK Ref: ED200017 Date: 09/01/97 From: VICTORIA MACKEY Time: 09:25am \/To: JEFF MORGAN (Read 0 times) Subj: New Frontier JM> Hi, I was just wondering if anyone had read the "Star Trek: New JM> Frontier" books by Peter David? Yep. JM> I read them and found them to be quite JM> interesting... Likewise. An interesting group of characters. Am looking forward to the next books in the series this coming year. JM> ...(although each of the four books was rather brief,)... It wasn't four books as much as it was one book in four parts, really. JM> Anyone out there have an opinion about them? Would make a really good series. Much better than "Voyager", for example. It will be interesting to see where David takes it from here. Victoria Aeron Mackey --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: ArcticNet (1:138/34) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 108 STAR TREK Ref: ED200018 Date: 09/01/97 From: JASON SIMPSON Time: 05:05pm \/To: JON FOSTER (Read 0 times) Subj: Foreign Relations I run Starfleet Academy BBS (The Sole surviving Star Trek BBS in Sydney). I'd like to forge a relationship between our BBS's. Just to keep up with Star Trek Information. Please Netmail me your response if you are interested. Jason Simpson Sysop - Starfleet Academy BBS Australian BBS Registry (NSW) 3:712/103 sfabbs@earthling.net --- Ezycom V1.10 * Origin: Starfleet Academy BBS - Sydney, Aust. (3:712/103) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 108 STAR TREK Ref: ED200019 Date: 09/01/97 From: LUKE FISCHER Time: 03:07am \/To: JUSSI TOMUKORPI (Read 0 times) Subj: Best Trek Series Poll -=> Quoting Jussi Tomukorpi to Luke Fischer <=- > #98 TAS-> Don't watch JT> I apologise for my lack of knowledge conserning ST, but what is TAS? The animated series.... Luke ... My puter deleted my reply packet, sorry for small replies!! --- Blue Wave/TAG v2.20 [NR] * Origin: Ham-Net BBS (315)682-1824 * TAG Alpha * Node 1 (1:260/375) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 108 STAR TREK Ref: ED300000 Date: 09/02/97 From: BILL NICHOLS Time: 08:25am \/To: ROBERT MCKAY (Read 0 times) Subj: Best Trek Series Poll RM>BN>AP>Watch some original series episdos, they are a lot better. Watch RM>BN>And then of course there were the timeless classics like "The Way RM>BN>to Eden." RM>It may not have been as serious as those others, but it was just as RM>good, and *extremely* entertaining. Yup, everything's POV, as it were. Alan was saying TOS was the best & the rest was garbage, though, so I just thought I might add one from TOS that many people think was an example of bad Trek, too, just to balance the scales a little. :) --- OLXWin 1.00b "Dr. Grant, welcome ... to Jurassic Park!" * Origin: Derby City LiveWire - Louisville, KY - 502-933-3217 (1:2320/110) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 108 STAR TREK Ref: ED300001 Date: 09/02/97 From: BILL NICHOLS Time: 08:28am \/To: KEN QUICK (Read 0 times) Subj: Warp 13 KQ> BN> one point says "We're passing W10." Later in the episode, however, KQ> BN> it's discovered that at no point in the whole mess did they ever KQ> BN> actually exceed W1.5. Verdict? Blown out of the water. KQ> Actually, IIRC, the Wf1.5 limitation applied only to the final trip, KQ>not the previous 2. However, I tend to rationalize that the I'd have to go pull out the tape & watch it again, but from what I remember, they were talking about everything that had happened since Kozinsky & the Traveller started tweaking the engines; could well be wrong on that one, though. KQ>a consideration for the computer system, therefore all it's careful KQ>calibration went "bonkers," to use a technical term, and mis-reported KQ>the >Wf10 speed. That might be, too, which of course still blows this example of the W10 theory that many people use as "proof" totally out of the aquifer. KQ> RM> along with the simple silliness of altering the warp scale (can you KQ> RM> imagine altering our current speed scale, so that what is now 70 KQ> BN> Exactly -- it's so wildly illogical & irrational a proposition KQ> BN> that I'm Frankly Amazed that supposedly intelligent Trek fans even KQ> BN> consider it to be a possibility. It's moronic -- there's no other KQ> As I believe Time Edwards is fond of pointing out, Warp Factors KQ>aren't necessarily a denotation of a specific velocity, but rather of KQ>power required to reach a certain velocity. (my apologies to Tim if I'm KQ>mangling his words here) It's not as if what used to be referred to as KQ>70mph is now referred to as 25mph, as RM suggests above, or even a KQ>conversion between mph and km/h as I've seen others compare it to. Except, of course, for the fact that the Tech Manual uses it as a standard. And again in this case, even if we take Tim's explanation as the truth, it still eliminates this one from consideration as "proof you can go faster than W10," just by the very nature of the explanation. :) --- OLXWin 1.00b Never trust a smiling Trash. * Origin: Derby City LiveWire - Louisville, KY - 502-933-3217 (1:2320/110)