ber@gummo.UUCP (ber) (03/05/84)
net.startrek --week of Feb 27 to Mar 3 --by Stewart Wiener (princeton!tilt!smw) o Request for role-playing game people in central N.J. to test new wargame scenarios for "Star Fleet Battles." Favorable review of FASA's "Star Trek" RPG. Inquiry: does it include expendable extras to do all the dying? o Prediction: Kirk and Saavik will have a romance in ST3. Quickly shot down; Jim's past his prime. But probably David Marcus takes after his old man. o Discussion of incidental music in ST episodes, particularly a flute piece played as Kirk's love theme in "Shore Leave," and heard again in "This Side of Paradise," and "The Apple." Is it by Debussy? No. Conclusion: it IS incidental music. Also covered: Uhura's song "Beyond Antares" (words by Gene Coon), sung in "Conscience of the King," and hummed in "The Changeling" which gets her zapped by Nomad. An inquiry: any details on the fake Brahms piece from "Requiem for Methuselah"? o Request for names of other starships. Several answers from sources reliable and otherwise. Most agree on 13 original Constitution-class heavy cruisers. o Person thinks he saw an episode where Kirk and Spock first meet. Wrong. o Tail end of discussions: The Ceti Eel (super-slug) in Chekov's ear in ST2; power of ship's phasers on planet surfaces.
ber@gummo.UUCP (ber) (03/31/84)
net.startrek --March 1984 --by Stewart Wiener (princeton!tilt!smw) o More on ST3... Dame Judith Anderson plays Amanda, Spock's mother. James B. Sikking (of Hill Street Blues), and Christopher Lloyd (of Taxi) are in it. Opens Friday, June 1, at a theater near you. o Request for names of all shuttlecraft. Replies mention the Galileo (well known) and Columbus; also (from Saturday morning animated ST) Copernicus, and a special aquashuttle. o Inquiry on whether any Klingons have been seen in multiple episodes, or novels or comics. Responses include an index of EVERY Klingon in EVERY work of ST fiction. (EVERY work? Wrong, phaser-breath!) Well, most of 'em. o Saavik's ancestry. NO, SHE'S NOT SPOCK'S DAUGHTER. Daughter of a Romulan raping a Vulcan, doesn't know (nor want to know) who either parent is. o Paramount is releasing all 79 original episodes on videotape... by mail subscription only. $19.95 each, one episode per month. o Discussion of the 'prefix code' used by Kirk to drop Reliant's shields. Why should there be such a security loophole? Maybe for coordinated maneuvers. o Sarek & Amanda. Why was marrying a human "the logical thing to do"? Maybe Spock was illegitimate? Probably not; two very different species need help from a test-tube to conceive. o KRAITH, a collection of stories in a slightly different Star Trek universe. Written by pros, before they turned pro. Available only by mail-order. o Answers to last month's trivia quiz. Amendments to the answers. o Flame on Pocket Books for inconsistencies in their novels. They need an editor we can trust as an AUTHORITY on the ST universe. Fontana, Gerrold, even Roddenberry. The author of "Corona" is flamed to a crisp. o Outstanding inquiries: What other TV shows have ST actors made guest appearances on? Shape changing creatures. How is it done on film; how do they explain away the clothes changing as well? They never do. Request for published pictures of Nomad (from "The Changeling"). Anybody know what an original (1966) Paramount ST press release package (with photos, etc.) is worth? o Discussions tailing off: "Shore Leave"/"This Side of Paradise" flute theme: listening test confirms it IS from Debussy's "Afternoon of a Faun". Or ripped off from it. Why Kirk didn't use the transporter on the Genesis Device: either it wasn't possible, or the writers just didn't want him to. Enough already. More starship names. Gripe that the "Star Fleet Technical Manual" was a money-making ripoff with too much imagination for its own good.
ber@gummo.UUCP (ber) (04/30/84)
net.startrek --April 1984 --by Stewart Wiener (princeton!tilt!smw) o A net.startrek survey. The outcome: Favorite character is Spock, with 14 votes out of 39. Kirk is a very close second, with 13 votes, and Scott is third with 10 votes. Favorite episode is "City on the Edge of Forever," with "The Trouble With Tribbles" and "Balance of Terror" the runners-up. o Lots of traffic on appearances of ST stars in other TV shows and films. Followed by some notes on double appearances of guest stars (playing two roles) within ST. It happened many times. o The Enterprise's port of registry is noted on a plaque beside the bridge elevator. Her home port is: San Francisco. o A teaser reel for ST3 was shown at MassConFusion. Selected details of the five minute extract are given. This will be an AWESOME movie. o The energy barrier at the galaxy's edge, in "Where No Man Has Gone Before," is neatly explained away in Diane Duane's "The Wounded Sky." Inconsistency discussed in 2 other episodes where the Enterprise left the galaxy. o Animated Star Trek, the Sat. morning cartoons. 22 episodes were made in 1973-74. Worth watching; compares favorably to the original. Includes producers, authors, and voices of actors from the series. NOT kiddie cartoon dreck; it really IS Star Trek. o Lists of all episodes by title, with a brief plot summary. Useful for novices. One gives stardates for each episode. o Debate on rank in ST2:TWOK, whether the person in command must use the rank of "Captain," even though he's an Admiral. o A brief Star Trek film clip in a Kodak commercial is identified as being from "The Squire of Gothos." o Star Trek Trivia Quizzes: an offer to post quizzes from a published book is argued down due to copyright flames. o Three reactions to Spock's death, taken from the survey responses. o Praise for the existence of mod.ber by a reader who would've missed an important (to him) notice last month.
uucp@harpo.UUCP (uucp) (06/01/84)
net.startrek --May 1984 --by Stewart Wiener (princeton!tilt!smw) o STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK. The spoilers keep getting more and more detailed as the June 1 release looms closer. Some people know the whole story already. Discussion of the fate of the starship Enterprise, the means by which Spock might still live, and the crimes of Admiral Kirk. o *** SPOILER, IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE TV ADS (rot13) *** Cnenzbhag vf ehaavat nqiregvfrzragf juvpu tvir njnl sne gbb zhpu: "Wbva hf sbe gur SVANY iblntr bs gur Fgnefuvc Ragrecevfr." E.V.C. Zbfg bs arg.fgnegerx vf nyernql va zbheavat. o Review of the novel "The Final Reflection" by John M. Ford. Set 50-60 years before normal ST, it shows the Klingon culture very well. A brief lexicon of the Klingonese language was posted, compiled from this book. One of the very best Trek novels ever. o Trivia, e.g., McCoy's "I'm a doctor, not a -------!" lines. o Praise for the DC Comics' series of Star Trek comic books; the writer is doing excellent characterization, and the project shows fantastic attention to the small details that only devout Trekkers would notice. o More trivia, on the source of a Vulcan name seen in the last comic: Xon. o The chain of command. Who comes after Kirk, Spock, and Scott, and why. Why Uhura never got to command the ship (until the animated version). o A request for the different classes of ship sparks renewed flaming of the Starfleet Technical Manual (a bogus, albeit creative, reference).