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Star Trek: Parallels
WARNING: This article contains extremely large amounts of very detailed spoiler information regarding TNG's "Parallels". I strongly suggest that anyone not already privy to this information avoid the article for the time being. Two words: "Schrodinger's Klingon." Great, great fun. Well, it took a number of shows last year for TNG to really kick in -- and with "Inheritance" being pretty decent and "Parallels" being superb, I think we may be in for history repeating itself. More details to follow, of course, but first this friendly synopsis: Worf is returning from a bat'leth tournament on Forgus Three, in which he won top prize. He is looking forward to rejoining the Enterprise, but also somewhat jumpy. This is because it's his birthday, and as Riker briefs Worf it becomes more and more clear that Worf is expecting Riker to have arranged some sort of celebration. "A surprise party?" says Riker, ag...
FURY FROM THE DEEP
FURY FROM THE DEEP. Written by Victor Pemberton. 6 episodes. 16th March - 20th April 1968. COMPANIONS:- Jamie and Victoria. The TARDIS lands on a gas rig in the North Sea which is experiencing some kind of sabotage. The refinery boss, Robson, blames them for the disappearances of his rig crews and leaks and pressure build ups. The Doctor can hear a strange heartbeat in the pipes but Robson refuses to stop the gas flow. The riggers have penetrated a deep stratum, releasing a weed parasite which absorbs humans or ingests their brains, turning them into creatures which are half man, half weed. The weed attacks the refinery but when Victoria kills one with a scream, the Doctor realises that amplified sou...
A M I G A T R E K 4.2
From: smithwik@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (R. Michael Smithwick -- FSN) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: AmigaTrek 4.2, the Official Release! Date: 4 Jul 90 06:23:29 GMT ["Intuition is the only one-word oxymoron I know of", Peter Cherna upon winning the Boing award] After months of tedious R&D, days of gut wrenching beta testing, I am ready to finally announce the official release of AmigaTrek 4.2. [wait for cheers to die down] Sorry guys for the real long delay, I know I promised this about 3 months ago, but I decided to hold on to it for the traditional DevCon AmigaTrek reading. So, at long last, I present . . . A M I G A T R E K 4.2 ---------------------------- And now, for your listening pleasure, we are proud to present : Amiga Trek 4.2. Sanitized for your protection. WARNING : The Surgeon Gen...
Here's AmigaTrek episode 4.1
From: Mike Smithwick <mike@rahul.net> To: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu Subject: Re: AmigaTrek? Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 09:52:18 -0800 Here's AmigaTrek episode 4.1, copyright 1990 by Mike Smithwick. --------------------------------------------------------- Just when you thought that it was safe to go into HyperSpace! AMIGA-TREK 4.1! (leaves no sticky film!) WARNING : Reading the following may cause damage to unborn children. -------------------------------------------------------------- When we last left our doleful band of playful Byte Warriors, the StarChip EnterBoing had just been pre-empted by a roguish unsigned character, Baron Piechart Von Windshield, the great "Notorious Intergalactic Scoundrel", (or so it says on his business card). Piechart was needing a StarChip to fulfill two lifelong goals : #1 - to find out just who this GURU guy really was, and why he had to meditate so darned much. And #2 Why was Manuel Noriega so darned ugly. For th...
["Here, hold this armadillo . . ."]
From: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: And the the moment you've been waiting for. . . Keywords: bilge, munch, drivel, band-waster Date: 29 Jul 89 09:41:22 GMT ["Here, hold this armadillo . . ."] the following is copyright 1989 by mike smithwick of Starship Enterprises. . . ------------------------------------------------------------- (Fascinating Note : The following was conceived BEFORE I was even aware of the plot to Star Trek 5) ------------------------------------------------------------- AmigaTrek, 4.0! WARNING : Do not operate any heavy equipment when reading the following. . . ------------------------------------------------------------- teee teee teee teee. . . Dumb, te dumb, te dumb deedee dumb. . . These are the continuing voyages of the StarChip EnterBoing : to explore new algorith...