From: ottoh3@cfsmo.honeywell.com (Otto Heuer #3)
Date: 15 Oct 93 05:04:36 GMT
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: FAQL: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS LIST for rec.arts.startrek.misc

Archive-Name: faql.rec.arts.startrek.misc

	      PERIODIC LIST OF "FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS"
	 in REC.ARTS.STARTREK.MISC (last updated 4 October 1993)

This posting is intended to cut  down on  the "often  asked questions" that
seem to pop up  every few  months in  the rec.arts.startrek.misc newsgroup.
It is one of a number of periodic postings posted to r.a.s.*:

This FAQL is basically a list of  questions that  have been  brought up and
discussed to death in rec.arts.startrek.misc, and a lot of  people would be
happy if  they never  resurfaced.   Please refer  to the  "LIST OF PERIODIC
POSINGS TO r.a.s.* NEWSGROUPS" article  for a  full list  of periodic post-
ings, and to the "LIST OF ACRONYMS" article for  acronyms used  in this and
other postings.

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 1) Uniforms
 2) McCoy's "I'm a doctor, not a ___" lines
 3) Starfleet Military?
 4) Games
 5) The Prime Directive
 6) Picard's surrenders
 7) Self destructs
 8) Leaving the galaxy
 9) Addresses for Trek memorabilia
10) Crew reading USENET?
11) Where can I see my favorite Trek stars in the nude?
12) Music & Sound
13) Is Paramount making money on TNG? 
14) How much does it cost to produce an episode of TOS, TNG, DS9?
15) Money in the future
16) Religion in the future
17) Smoking in the future
18) History of the Star Trek newsgroups
99) Misc Trivia
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1) UNIFORMS:

The uniforms were changed from the spandex  one-piece suits  (that made the
cast look muscular) to the wool two-piece suits (that make them look flabby
but are  more  comfortable).    The  new  uniforms  cost  $3000  apiece  to
manufacture.  Most  of  the  extras  are  still  wearing  the old uniforms.
Another reason for the switch is that Brent  Spiner suffers  from some back
injury.  Because  spandex  is  skin-tight,  he  couldn't   wear  his  brace
underneath.  The wool is loose enough and you can occasionally  see the top
of the brace under the costume if  you look  at his  chest.   In just about
every episode you can see Picard (and others) tugging at  their uniforms as
they ride  up.   This  has been  known on  and off  the set  as "the Picard
maneuver".

If you want a Star Trek uniform:   Look  for Simplicity  or McCalls pattern
book in  your  favorite  fabric  shop.    In the  back there  are Star Trek
uniforms for  adults  and  children,  both  sexes.    You can  also get the
patterns from Paramount's "Star Trek:  The Official Fan Club" (both TOS and
TNG uniforms).  There are about 14 unique patterns to choose from.

If you're not "sew" talented and  want one  pre-made, Intergalactic Trading
Post of Tampa Florida is one of  many companies  that make  them in several
sizes.  They generally show up at Star Trek/SF conventions.

1b) UNIFORM COLORS
          TOS:
               Yellow/Gold      Command
               Blue             Science
               Red              Engineering/Fodder  :-)

          TNG:
               Red              Command
               Yellow/Gold      Support (Security/Technical)
               Blue             Medical
	       Cleavage		Psychiatric  :-)

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2) Is McCoy a doctor?

           QUOTE                                 EPISODE
I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer              Devil in the Dark
I'm a doctor, not a escalator               Friday's Child
I'm a doctor, not a engineer                Mirror, Mirror
I'm a doctor, not a mechanic                The Doomsday Machine
I'm a surgeon, not a psychiatrist           The City on the Edge of Forever
I'm a doctor, not a coal miner              The Empath

Some more variations on the theme occur in "The Deadly Years" where he says
"I'm not a Magician, I'm just an old country doctor", and in "The Corbomite
Maneuver" where he asks "What am I, a doctor or a  Moon shuttle conductor?"
Also, in "Amok Time", Kirk  asks "Well,  are you  a doctor  or aren't you?"
and in ST5 says something like "Dammit Bones, you're a doctor",  and in TOS
says "I'm a soldier, not a diplomat."

ST2 has a more vague  reference when  Kirk says  "Physician, heal thyself",
McCoy says "Is that all you've got  to say?   What  about my performance?",
and Kirk replies "I'm not a drama critic".

The line  may  have  been  inspired by  Heinlein's 1952  novel "The Rolling
Stones."  In that book, Dr.  Edith Stone says, "How can I  be sure?   I'm a
doctor, not a fortune-teller."  The  earliest sighting  of the  quote is in
the 1933 movie "The Kennel Club Murder Case", where Dr.  Finnigan says "I'm
a doctor, not a magician" as well as "I'm a doctor, not a detective".

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3) STARFLEET MILITARY?

According to ST:TNG Writer's/Director's guide (1987):  "Starfleet is NOT a
military organization....No saluting.  We may hear the word 'Sir,' but it
is intended as the same kind of courtesy used by junior and senior officers
on commercial airliners....No stories about warfare with Klingons or
Romulans and no stories with Vulcans."  Granted the Romulan/Klingon/Vulcan
rule has laxed, Starfleet is still basically non-military (except when they
are cornered, like the Borg situation).  The fourth season ST:TNG Writer's
Technical Manual says to mentally merge NASA, the Coast Guard and research
ships like Calypso to gain a concept of the Enterprise's mission.  I guess
we're supposed to believe that court-martials are non-military, huh?

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4) GAMES:  The FASA Star  Trek game  is pretty  much ignored  by the r.a.s
community, though many seem  to like  the variety  of TOS  and TNG drinking
games that show up occasionally (see the monthly FTP posting).  There are a
few computer games based on Star Trek as well  (I even  wrote a  few).  The
rules and board layout of the 3-D chess game Kirk kept beating Spock at are
posted every once in a while (see monthly FTP list).

Star Fleet Battles (SFB) is  a tactical  "shoot'em up"  board game.   It is
very realistic.  It has a  basic game,  but there  are all  sorts of highly
complex and technical rules available to the ship's commander.   It boggles
the human mind.  None-the-less it is a very fun game.   It  takes total and
complete devotion to learning the game.  Some like it others  don't.  Those
that don't  shouldn't  knock it!   It  would be  best suited  as a computer
simulation.

Federation &  Empire  (Federation  Space)  is the  strategic and economical
version of SFB (bigger picture).

West End Games has three ST games  out:   Enterprise IV  Encounter, ST- The
Adventure Game, & ST-Three Solitare Games.  All came out in 1985.  They are
simple and fun box games.

Star Fleet  Battle  Manual  (Lou  Zocchi/Gamescience)  &  Alien  Space were
developed about the same time as SFB, but was much simpler.  Gamescience is
noteable for producing the ever popular 3" plastic models of the Enterprise
and dreadnoughts, destroyers/scouts & tugs.   Zocchi and  Steven Cole (SFB)
are friends  and  have  collaborated together  in checking  that they don't
replicate the same material.  SFB uses GS's plastic ships.

Fasa has  also put  out 4  microadventure games  with short  play times and
simple rules.  They are:  STIII-The Search for Spock, Starship Duel  1 & 2,
& Struggle for the Throne.

25th Anniversary by Interplay

ST:TNG the game by Spectrum Holobyte (not yet released).

In June of 1993, Sirtis was at the Chicago Consumer Electronics Show
promotingthe new ST:TNG game coming out for Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo,
3DO and IBM-compatible computers.

How to Host a TNG Murder Week-end.

     Computer Programs (commercial/PC):
	- ST-TMP (arcade); Sega
	- ST-TMP; Sega/Atari
        - Rules of Engagement ($40)
	- Star Flite, Lance Micklus/Adventure International (aka Star Trek 3.5)
	  1981
	- Kobiashi Maru
	- fractally-generated planets, interplay
	- there are many others

     Computer Programs (public domain):
	- Trek/DRS (full simulation; FSD)
	- Trek80/DRS (enhanced version of Trek/DRS; FSD)
	- TREK_DRS (same scenario each time; IBM and compat; FSD)
        - xtrek (UNIX)

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5) THE PRIME DIRECTIVE

The prime directive basically says that Federation members shouldn't
interfere with a thriving culture that doesn't know about space travel.  It
is only used when convenient, and forgotten when it would detract from the
plot.

According to FASA the prime directive states:  "As the right of each
sentient species to live in accordance with its normal cultural evolution
is considered sacred, no Star Fleet personnel may interfere with the healty
development of alien life and culture.  Such interference includes the
introduction of superior knowledge, strength, or technology to a world
whose soceity is incapable of handling such advantages wisely.  Star Fleet
personnel may not violate this Prime Directive, even to save their lives
and/or their ship, unless they are acting to right an earlier violation or
an accidental contamination of said culture.  This directive takes
precedence over any and all other considerations, and carries with it the
highest moral obligation."

According to Geoffery Mandel's book the prime directive states:  "When
contacting a planet making normal progress toward a free and united
society, a Starfleet officer shall make no identification of self or
mission; no interference with the social development of said planet; no
references to space, or to the fact that there are other worlds or more
advanced civilizations.  The Prime Directive of Non-Interference - revised
2278"

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6) PICARD'S SURRENDERS:

* "Encounter at Farpoint":  Picard says "Transmit the following in all
  languages and in all frequencies: 'We surrender'."
* "The Outrageous Okono":  Picard drops shields "In case we decide to
  surrender to them."
* "A Matter of Honor":  Picard surrenders to Riker on the Pagh.
* "The Defector":  The Romulans ask Picard to surrender, but he doesn't.
* "Peak Performance":  Riker asks Picard "Would you care to surrender now?"
  even before the wargames begin.
* "Peak Performance":  Picard surrenders to the Ferengi, but they don't accept.
* "The Last Outpost":  Picard tries to surrender to the Ferengi, but they beat
  him to it.
* "Yesterday's Enterprise":  Alternate-Picard refuses to surrender to the
  Klingons.
* "The Best of Both Worlds":  The Borg as for Picard's surrender.

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7) SELF-DESTRUCTS:

* "11001001":  Picard tries to self destruct.
* "Where Silence Has Lease":  Picard tries to self destruct for Nagilum.
* "Contagion":  Virus-induced sort-of-self-destruct-like-thing.
* Kirk tried to self destruct in "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", "By
  Any Other Name", threatens to self-destruct in "The Corbomite Maneuver",
  and finally succeeds in ST3:TSFS.

See the "Lists" postings for self-destruct sequences.

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8) LEAVING THE GALAXY

The Enterprise has attempted to cross  the barrier  at the  galaxy in "TOS:
Where No Man Has Gone Before", "TOS:  By Any Other  Name", "TOS:   Is There
in Truth  No  Beauty?",  and  "TNG:   Where  No One  Has Gone  Before".  In
"ST5:TFF" they crossed the barrier at the center of the galaxy.

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9) Any correspondence with Paramount,  the actors,  etc.  should be sent in 
care of Paramount at the following address:

               Paramount Studios
               Star Trek Offices
               5555 Melrose Ave.
               Hollywood, CA 90038-3197

Another way to reach them is through the Star Trek The Official Fan Club
(STTOFC).  They have an ad in almost every Star Trek Pocket Book.

Note that scripts have a better chance of getting  accepted if  you have an
agent.  Paramount gets about 800 fan-written scripts a year  and uses about
four of  them.    See the  separate section  in this  posting on submitting
scripts.

Lincoln Enterprises is run  by Majel  Barrett (Mrs.   Roddenberry, formerly
Majel Leigh Hudec), and is said to be the best source for fan paraphanalia,
scripts, etc.   This  is the  best place  to get  a Writer's  Guide from if
you're not an established writer.  The address is:

               Lincoln Enterprises
               14710 Arminta St.
               Van Nuys, CA 91402
               (818) 989-4978 ($15 minimum by credit card)

Star Tech has some good  stuff too,  like the  blooper reels  on tape (four
tapes for  TOS  and  one for  TNG season  one), movie  soundtrack CDs, etc.
However, some of their recorded tapes seem to be "gray market", so beware:

               Star Tech
               PO Box 456
               Dunlap, TN 37327

               Starlog (or Starlog Press)
               475 Park Avenue South
               New York, NY   10016

               Starland
               PO Box 24590
               Denver, CO   80224
               phone: 1 303 671 8735   fax: 1 303 671 0302

               Intergalactic Trading Co.
               PO Box 1516
               Longwood, FL   32750
               phone: 1 407 831 8344   fax: 1 407 332 0142

               New Eye Studio
               PO Box 632
               Willimantic, CT   06226
               phone: 1 203 450 1943

               War Games West
               3422 Central Av SE
               Albuquerque, NM   87106
               phone: 1 505 265 6100   orders:  1 800 729 4263
               Fax:   1 505 260 0752   hotline: 1 505 299 3368

Franklin Mint came out with a Pewter Enterprise ($198.00), a pewter Klingon
ship, a pewter Romulan Bird of  Prey, and  a Star  Trek Chess  Set Kirk and
Khan as opposing kings (redshirts as pawns?))  a few years back (1000), and
I think  CitiCorp or  someone has  a Star  Trek VISA  (with some outrageous
annual fee).  Franklin Mint is now issuing a 25th-anniversary commemorative
coins.  Timex has a line of Star Trek watches. ERTL have model kits for all
three Enterprise versions, a Klingon Cruiser, a Romulan BoP,  and a Ferengi
ship.

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10) None of the crew read Usenet (though we have a writer or  two on here).
Wheaton and some of the "behind-the-scenes" people  are on Compu$erve/GEnie
though.  With Wil Wheaton at UCLA, it should  be easy  for him  to obtain a
Usenet account, so he may be lurking.  :-)

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11) NAKED TREK:

Marina Sirtis:  Full frontal nudity in "The Wicked Lady" (1983), topless in
Death Wish III, and topless in "Blind Date" (1984, starring Kirstie Alley).
Be aware that this "Blind Date" is *not* the 1987 Blake Edwards' bomb of
the same title, which starred Bruce Willis and Kim Basinger.  Both "Wicked
Lady" and the 1984 "Blind Date" are available on videotape.  Any GIFs you
might find of Sirtis are probably snarfed from these movies.

Denise Crosby:  Several nude or semi-nude photos in the March 1979 issue of
Playboy, pages 99-103 ("A Different Kind of Crosby").  She also appeared in
th February 1980 issue of Playboy, page 160 ("The Year in Sex").  The
original pictures were re-displayed in the May 1988 issue, pages 74-79
("Star Treat") (along with some (non-nude) TNG photos (Yar, Enterprise, and
cast)).  She had a brief topless scene in "48 HRS," the 1982 Eddie
Murphy/Nick Nolte film as well as "Arizona Heat (1988).  In the 1992
Showtime series "Red Show Diaries" (episode "You Have the Right to Remain
Silent") she is topless making love with Nick.

Gates McFadden was in some 1970s movie in a skimpy top and bikini briefs
(but then who *wasn't* back in the 70s?).

Terry Farrel:  Topless in 1986 teen sex flick "Off the Mark" about kids
growing up and turning into triatheletes (in pink lip gloss being chased by
eight guys, in a cut-off t-shirt, naked in the showers, stripping on a
table with a bunch of guys around her) that shows up on the USA cable
network from time to time.

Jennifer Hetrick ("Vash" in "Captain's Holiday" and "Qpid"):  Had a couple
of topless scenes in a 1979 movie called "Squeeze Play."  She was credited
as "Jenni Hetrick."  "Squeeze Play" is available on videotape.

Lycia Neff ("Ensign Gomez" in a couple of episodes):  Gets honorable
mention for playing a topless three-breasted hooker in "Total Recall"
(1990), even though all three of them were latex prosthetics rather than
her actual breasts.  (Sure looked real, though.)  "Total Recall" is
available on videotape.

Angelique Pettyjohn (Shauna from "The Gamesters of Triskelion") used to
attend Star Trek conventions, selling posters of her in her drill-thrall
outfit as well as racier posters of her more nekkid.  She died in 1992, so
no more live strip acts from her.

And that, alas, is about as far as it goes, at least to my knowledge.  I've
never even heard any good rumors about Whoopi Goldberg, Diana Muldaur,
Rosiland Chao ("Keiko O'Brien"), Suzie Plakson ("Dr.  Selar" and "K'Eylar")
or April Grace ("Transporter Technician" in a bunch of 4th-season episodes)
which I think is the entire list of regular or recurring TNG actresses, or
any of the Star Trek men.

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12) MUSIC & SOUND:

The first three seasons of TNG are in stereo, the  fourth and  fifth are in
Dolby Surround stereo.  TNG was not broadcast in Dolby for  the first three
seasons, but there was out-of-phase-but-equal-amplitude stuff in the ST:TNG
soundtrack, which  your  Dolby Stereo  decoder recognizes  as "rear channel
information".  They mostly put the ship's noise (a low  thundering sound of
the engines) on the rear and some times when ships pass by or shoot.

Picard describes a program as "all Mozart" which RA says was supposed to be
"mostly Mozart" since it had Allegro from string quartet  #19 in  C, K 465,
by Mozart ("Dissonant") and Andante, ma moderato from  Sextet #1  in Bb, by
Brahms.

For lyrics to any of the various Star Trek songs, as well as a ton of other
music-related stuff, see accompanying posting "FAQL:  Star Trek Music"

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13) IS PARAMOUNT MAKING MONEY ON TNG?

     Yes.  Tons.  The following is stolen from industry trade magazines 
VARIETY and BROADCASTING, as well as Roger Tang:

     FIRST:  License fees (the fees studios charge individual stations 
to run their programs):  Let's say Paramount charges each station $2,000 
to run the first run package.  That's ball park; other stations can get 
$10-20K per episode in top 20 markets.  Also, Turner can expect $800,000 
to $1 million per episode show of THE WONDER YEARS when it goes into 
backend syndication.  $2,000 per episode times 238 stations yields 
$476,000 per episode shown in first run syndication (which does NOT 
count the later syndication or backend syndication).

     SECOND:  Commercial fees:   According  to Vidiot,  Paramount has seven
minutes of national advertising in each  show.   BROADCASTING has published
figures of $60-80,000 per 30 second  spot.   They have  also mentioned that
rates for the third and fourth  seasons are  around $135,000  per 30 second
spot.  Adweek's  Marketing  Week  mentioned that  a 30-second  ad for fifth
season TNG runs $200,000 (higher  than some  network shows).   Paramount is
garnering $2,800,000 per showing of an episode.

     THIRD:  But wait!  Shows are shown more than once even in first run 
syndication.  Let's assume a cut rate of $100,000 per spot in reruns 
(doubt it, since people are STILL watching during reruns).  Even a rerun 
episode will garner $1,400,000 in commercial revenue.

     THE BOTTOM LINE:  $476,000 + $2,800,000 + $1,400,000 = well over $4.5
million in revenue per episode in first run syndication.  And we all know 
studios base their financing on just breaking even in backend syndication.  
So the claim that Paramount is losing $8 million is just creative financing.

     Then again, we can throw away our calculations and take Richard 
Arnold's word that (at least in Season One) TNG was grossing $10 million 
per episode.

     The 1/13/93 issue of Broadcasting Magazine reported that Paramount is
making $100 million-plus annually in front-end ad revenues alone (not
including cash revenues from the back-end repeats).

16b) Star Trek merchandising up 572% sales increase.  Total 1990 sales were
in excess of $66.6 BILLION (yeah, that's *BILLION* folks).   Novels sold an
estimated $26 million.

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14a) HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO PRODUCE AN EPISODE OF TOS?

DeForest Kelley  mentioned  at  a con  once that  TOS cost  $200,000 for an
average episode, though records seem to show it as $100,000 to $120,000).

14b) HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO PRODUCE AN EPISODE OF TNG?

The average TNG episode COSTS  Paramount between  $1,500,000 and $2,000,000
(depending on the cost of guest stars, sets, and special effects).  This is
up from  $1,400,000  that  it cost  for each  episode in  the first season.
These figures include the weekly paycheck of Stewart  ($100,000) and Burton
($100,000).

14c) HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO PRODUCE AN EPISODE OF DS9?

Deep Space Nine is rumored to have around $2,000,000/episode budget.  The
1/11/93 issue of Broadcasting Magazine reported that Paramount has budgeted
$1.5 million per episode on production of DS9.  The two-hour premiere cost
them either $12 million or $20 million, depending on which reports you
listen to (but they will no doubt re-use a lot of the footage in later
episodes).

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15) MONEY IN THE FUTURE

TOS "Catspaw":  Lt.(Cmdr?)  DeFalco says "I'll bet credits to navy beans we
can punch a hole in it."

TOS "Errand of Mercy":  Kirk says that the Federation spent a  lot of money
on their training and it's timr they got a return on their investment.

TOS "Mirror, Mirror":   Mirror-Kirk  says "You  want credits,  Spock?  I'll
make you a rich man."

TOS "Mudd's Women":  H.F. Mudd mentions  that the  miners  are rich.   This
seems to imply some type of economic structure.

TOS "Operation--Annihilate":    Kirk says  "I don't  care what  it takes or
costs, just help him."

TOS "The Doomsday Machine" (possibly also "Balance of Terror"):   Kirk says
"Scotty, you've earned your pay for the week."  He says the same to Sulu in
"The Apple" (?)

TOS "Amok Time":  Kirk says "Do you know how much Starfleet has invested in
you?", to which Spock  begins to  reply "twenty-two  thousand, two hun...".
Might be hours, exercises, food quantity but seems to be money.

NOVEL "Crisis on Centaurus":   Kirk  uses back  salary to  purchase a great
deal of wilderness  land on  Alpha Centauri.   There  are offers  to buy it
should he fall behind on his taxes, but he refuses to  sell or  allow it to
be developed.

NOVEL "Enterprise":  Kirk orders the computer to "close out his [bank] 
account".

NOVEL "Vendetta":  Riker makes the comment "That's why  I get  paid the big
money."  Data responds with, "I thought a higher  salary was  due to higher
rank, seniority,..."  so there are apparently salaries.

NOVEL "The  Wounded  Sky":    The  reward  money  for   passing  through  a
singularity, to be awarded to the E's crew,  is enough  to "buy starfleet".
Also, at one point, Kirk mentions to himself  something along  the lines of
"Starfleet personnell are tax-exempt."

ST4:  Kirk tells the female lead that there is no money in  the future (but
he might just mean that they don't have U.S.  dollars, or  any "hard" cash,
which is what she was enquiring about).

TNG "Encounter at Farpoint":  Bev Crusher buys a roll of cloth  and has her
account on the ship billed.

TNG "The Neutral Zone":  Picard mentions that they don't have money.

TNG "The  Price":    There  is  a  bidding war  going on  for the  use of a
wormhole, and Picard  mentions how  much toll  the Ferengi  might charge if
they get the rights to use that wormhole.

TNG "Peak Performance":  Riker is playing strategema against Kolrami.  Worf
whispers to  Riker  that he  has bet  a "sizeable  amount" on  Riker in the
ship's pool.   He may have made a similar comment about Tasha Yar in  "Skin
of Evil".

TNG "Conspiracy":  the planet the starship captains meet on  (Ditalix B) is
said to  be  owned  by  the  Ditalix  Mining  Corporation,  which may imply
something of the Federations's economic structure.

TNG "Unification II":  Riker is trying to get info out of the piano player.
She said to "drop a few coins in the jar" for  info; Riker  says he doesn't
carry money.

TNG:  In the first Fenengi episode, they called the comm badges a shamefull
use of a precious metal, yet they said they have their own "matter-energy
device".

TNG:  People are always offering to buy each other coffee, etc.  in Ten
Forward, but this may just be a gesture, since we never see anyone pay for
anything.  Also, they must be playing poker for *some* stakes, just playing
for chips would be meaningless.

DS9:  On the promenade, people can be seen gambling, buying time in the
holosuite, buying food, buying drinks, etc.  Also, for large cash
purchases, the monitary unit seems to be gold-pressed latinum (sp?)

DS9 "Past Prologue":  The Cardassian merchant wants Bashir to buy a new
suit.

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16) RELIGION IN THE FUTURE

TOS "Balance of  Terror":   Kirk says  something about nondenominationalism
during the wedding ceremony he's performing.

TOS "Bread and Circuses":  McCoy says  "If you  speak of  worship, we serve
many beliefs".  Uhura figures out that they aren't worshipping the sun, but
the "Son of God".

TOS "Errand of Mercy":  Spock says "Even the gods did not spring into being
overnight".

TOS "Metamorphosis":    Spock  asks The  Companion if  it has  the power to
create life. The Companion says, "No, that is for the maker of all things."

TOS "Obsession":  Scotty says "Thank heavens", to which  Spock replies "Mr.
Scott, there was no deity involved;  it was  my cross-circuiting  to B that
recovered them."  McCoy then says "Wee,  then thank  pitchforks and pointed
ears!"

TOS "The Paradise Syndrome":  Kirk is thought  (by the  Indian populace) to
be a god when he emerges from the temple.

TOS "The Trouble with Tribbles":  Someone said  "Kirk may  be a swaggering,
overbearing, tin-plated dictator  with delusions  of godhood,  but he's not
soft."

TOS "The Ultimate Computer":  M5 says  "Murder is  contrary to  the laws of
man and God."  Kirk says  "Daystrom felt  that such  an act  was an offense
against the laws of God and man, and the computer that  carried his engrams
also believed it."

TOS "The Way to Eden":  Space-hippies search for the mythical planet Eden.

TOS "Where No Man Has Gone Before":  Gary Mitchell gets god-like powers and
creates a "Garden of Eden" on a desolate planet

TOS "Who Mourns for  Adonais":   Apollo journeyed  to earth  5000 years ago
from Pullox 4 and was worshipped along with the other gods by the populace.
Chekov says  "Sorry,  I've  never met  a god  before."   McCoy says "Scotty
doesn't believe in gods."

ST5: Sybok takes the Enterprise in search of God.

NOV "Star Trek II:  The Wrath of Khan":  Chekov is looking at  the books on
board the  Botany  Bay,  and  when  he  comes  across  the  Bible he thinks
"...twentieth century mythology, if he remembered rightly" or words to that
effect.

TNG "The Chase":  The progenitor race created Romulans, Klingons, Ferengi,
Cardassians, Humans, etc. around the time the Milky Way was forming.

TNG "Data's Day": Data mentions that it's a Hindu holiday.  Keiko and Miles
O'Brien are married.

TNG "Devil's Due": The crew meet "the Devil".

TNG "Justice":  The crew talk to a planet's "God".

TNG "Who  Watches the  Watchers":   Picard is  thought to  be a  god by the
populace.

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17) SMOKING IN THE FUTURE

TOS:  I don't recall anyone ever smoking.  Maybe in "A Piece of the Action"
or one of the "Earth's past" episodes.

TNG:  Holodeck characters are often smoking.

TNG:  Data smokes a pipe when he acts out Sherlock Holmes scenes.

TNG:  Beverly (?) was smoking a cigarette on the holodeck and just about
gagged (she also ATE her gum).

Marina Sirtis just quit smoking by going to a hypnotist (March 1993).
Brent tried it, but started smoking again after a year.  Whoopi smokes
cigars.

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18) HISTORY OF THE STAR TREK NEWSGROUPS

Roger Noe was the force behind creating a group just for discussing Star
Trek, and thus was created net.startrek (1982?), which later was renamed
rec.arts.startrek during "The Great Renaming" (1986?).

In the spring of 1991, people got tired of seeing large parodies, scripts,
artwork, etc in r.a.s, and there was a proposal to create a new group
called rec.arts.startrek.creative.  There was some controversy over
copyrights (that apparently didn't matter if the same postings showed up in
r.a.s) so the vote was abandoned.  During the proposal and vote, someone
created alt.startrek.creative, which serves the purpose, except that it is
unmoderated, and only about half the sites actually carry the group.  

Then rec.arts.startrek.info was voted on and created, moderated by Jim
Griffith.

At the end of 1991 a vote was taken to split the main group into four
components (tech, fandom, current, and misc) which passed by a landslide.
The groups were created early in January 1992.  

In early 1993, with the high volume of posts that came with the coming of
"Deep Space Nine", came two CFVs, one for r.a.s.reviews (a moderated group
for the subset of misc and current that are objective reviews), and
r.a.s.characters for discussion of the characters.  The reviews group
passed in early March 1993 with Mike Shappe as moderator.

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99) MISC TRIVIA

For a list of awards that TOS and TNG have won/been nominated for, please
reference Hack-Man's TOS Guide and Vidiot's TNG Guide.

Asteroid #4659 (discovered by S.J. Bus at Siding Spring Observatory on 2
March 1981) was named "Roddenberry".  The official citation reads as
follows:  "Named in memory of Eugene "Gene" W.  Roddenberry (1921-1991),
creator and producer of the television series "Star Trek", "Star Trek:  The
Next Generation", and six Star Trek motion pictures.  Roddenberry explored
the human condition through the medium of science fiction, often
circumventing television network censors to expound on controversial social
and political topics.  His unique vision of a positive future for a united
humanity inspired a variety of devoted fans.  Today Roddenberry, the
starship Enterprise, and its crews are known worldwide, and fans number
in the millions."

Gene Roddenberry was posthumously awarded on 2/10/92 with  the VISION AWARD
from Education First.  It was accepted by Majel, so said, " This would have
been the most important award  he ever  received, with  [out] a  doubt.  As
much as Gene would say he wasn't an educator, he was  a learner.   He spent
his life reading, discussing, thinking, debating.  And he wanted to install
in people  that  they  could  create  their  own  worlds  and  thoughts and
messages."  Present  was  the  TNG  cast,  Richard  Arnold,  and  Paramount
Communications CEO and former VISION AWARDee, Brandon Tartikoff.

Why is everyone called "Mister" and "Sir", even the  females?   This is yet
another extension of the US military.  When addressing an officer of lesser
rank you may call him by  his first  name, such  as:   "Ensign," or "Ensign
Kirk," or "Mister," or "Mister Kirk," or  "Jim".   Typically, command level
ranking officers are addressed by rank, or by rank  and last  name, such as
"Admiral" or  "Admiral  Kirk".    Between  officers  of same  rank, or with
permission, first names can be used, otherwise the "Sir" factor is added.

TOS:  James Doohan is missing the middle finger of his right hand.   It can
be seen in brief shots (especially in the  early episodes).   Whenever they
needed to show Scotty's hands (like when he operated  the transporter) they
had a stand-in and  showed a  close-up.   ("Cut!   All right,  bring in the
stunt hands.")  It is very noticable in ST5 when Uhura tosses  Scotty a bag
of SmartFood.

TOS:  Majel Leigh Hudec is Majel Barrett's  real name.   She  took the name
Barrett to fool NBC so they would hire her for Christine Chapel (they never
knew that the blonde Majel Barrett was the same person as the brunette whom
they fired as Number One).  Some volume of "The  Best of  Trek" stated that
Number One and Christine Chapel were sisters.

TOS "Balance of Terror":  Neutral zone outposts 1, 3, 4, and 8 were 
trashed by the Romulan ship before the Enterprise was able to engage (#4 
was the one they saw get destroyed on the viewer)

TOS "The Tholian Web":  The name of the Tholian commander who first attacks 
the Enterprise after Kirk is lost is Commander Loskene.

TOS "Wolf in the Fold":  The names that the entity was referred  to by were
Jack the Ripper, Baratis, Redjac, Kesla,  Mr.   Hengist (and  yes, that was
John Fiedler, the wimpy guy from the Bob Newhart Show).

TOS "Amok Time":  T'Pau was the only person to ever turn down a seat on the 
Federation council.

TOS "Amok Time":  The episode where Ensign Chekov makes his debut (1st 
episode, 2nd season).  "Catspaw" was the one he was first filmed in, 
although this aired after "Amok Time".

TOS "The Paradise Syndrome":  "He Has Walked Among Us"  and "Paleface" were
combined into "The  Paradise Syndrome",  according to  speculation by Allen
Asherman and David Gerrold.  Reportedly, only Gene Coon knew  for sure, and
of course he's been dead for about 15 years...

TOS "The Menagerie":  The ONLY doorknob seen in a Federation setting (ship
or starbase etc.)  was on the door to Christopher Pike's quarters, which
was kind of ironic, since he's about the only person who COULDN'T use a
doorknob! :-)  The door to Dr. Tom Lathom's house in "The Conscience of the
King" has a doorknob, but may not be a Federation setting.  In TNG "The 
First Duty", we see that dorms at SFA have doorknobs.

TOS "Plato's Stepchildren":  The first inter-racial kiss on television took
place between Kirk and Uhura.

TOS "City on the  Edge of  Forever":   If you  want H.   Ellison's original
script for  "City  on the  Edge of  Forever", look  for a  book called "Six
Science Fiction  Plays",  edited  by  Roger  Elwood.    It's  a  paperback,
published in  1976  by  Pocket  Books  under  the  Washington  Square Press
imprint.  It was distributed in the U.S.  and  Canada by  Simon & Schuster.
I have no  idea if  it's still  in print.   If  it isn't,  check your local
library, used book stores, and the dealer's  room at  your next convention.
There must be copies out there somewhere.  According  to Elwood's foreword,
this was  the  first  time Ellison's  original uncut  script was published.
It's preceded by a ten-page introduction that Ellison  wrote especially for
this book, telling  his version  of the  transformation of  his script into
what was eventually telecast.  The book also contains these scripts:
     "Sting!" by Tom Reamy
     "Contact Point" by Theodore R. Cogswell and George Rae Cogswell
     "Stranger with Roses" by John Jakes
     "The Mechanical Bride" by Fritz Leiber
     "Let Me Hear You Whisper" by Paul Zindel
("Sting!" is a movie screenplay; "The Mechanical Bride" is a teleplay; 
the others are stage plays)

According to the Star Trek Compendium:
     Kirk:   was in 79 TOS episodes
     Spock:  was in 79 TOS episodes + "The Cage"
     McCoy:  was in 74 TOS episodes
     Uhura:  was in 65 TOS episodes
     Scotty: was in 61 TOS episodes
     Sulu:   was in 47 TOS episodes
     Chekov: was in 33 TOS episodes

ST:  TMP:   The oval  things on  the belts  were originally  supposed to be
biorhythm devices.  In the novelization of  ST:TMP, the  little oval things
are described in a  footnote.   They are  called "perscan"  devices and are
used to monitor crew members life signs from sick bay.   Only  the CMO gets
to see the captain's perscan output.  According to the  footnote, the lower
abdomen is supposed to be an ideal location for a medical  scanner.  Making
it into a belt buckle seemed the obvious way to integrate it into the Fleet
uniforms.

ST4:  A storyline cut was a bunch of lines which indicated  that Saavik was
pregnant.  When they started running out of screen time,  these scenes were
cut, since they were  not essential  to the  main story  in the  movie.  Of
course, this means that, officially, IT NEVER HAPPENED.  :-)

ST4: Kirk Thatcher:
     - Was associate producer of ST4.
     - Was the actor who played the Punk on the Bus in ST4.
     - Wrote the song "I Hate You" which the punk was listening to.
     - Is a member of the band "Edge of Etiquette" which performed the song.
     - has recently done work on the "Dinosaurs" series (Co-producer and
       creature creator?) which had an episode with the same plot as TNG
       one week.
     - Is Margaret Thatcher's son. (not THE Margaret Thatcher, though)

ST5:  Yes,  the  marshmallow  (or  rather  "marshmellon"  (read  the book))
dispenser used by Spock in the campfire scenes was available from Kraft for
a number  of proofs-of-purchase  when the  movie came  out.   It would hold
several marshmallows and  dispense them  one at  a time.   I  think the end
credits for the movie even said "Kraft--the official marshmallow of ST5" or
some such thing.

TNG:  The ship's computer core looks like a building... and it is!  It's
based on the RCA building in LA.

TNG:  Denise Crosby is Bing Crosby's granddaughter.

TNG:  Picard's fish is named Livingston.  It originally had some
Shakespearean name, but is now said to be named after David Livingston, one
of the first season line producers.

TNG:  Data isn't supposed to be able to  utter any  contractions, though he
seems to be speaking something awfully close.  Perhaps his "I have"s and "I
am"s are just being  spoken rapidly  enough so  they sound  like "I've" and
"I'm".

TNG:  They  have  dropped  the  love  interest  plotline  they  started  in
"Encounter at  Farpoint",  and  also (apparently)  that Wil  and Deanna can
communicate telepathically.

There are *tons* of anime references (far  too many  to list  here) in TNG,
from the names of ships  and alien  races to  the scribblings  on the wall.
Rick Sternbach  and  others  are  big  fans  of  "Dirty   Pair"  and  other
japanimation.  There are also reference to other SF shows;  "4077" shows up
in sickbay a lot (Mike Okuda is a MASH fan).  Some of the references can be
found in Mike Brown's TNG Guide, appendix G.

TNG season 1:  According to Marina Sirtis, during the first season the very
small dressing  rooms were  marked with  "funny" identification.   Hers was
"Token Betazoid",  Wheaton's  was  "Token  Teen",  Burton's  was  "Negro in
Space", and  Stewart's  was "Unknown  Shakespearean Actor"  (after an early
ST:TNG review).

TNG season 1:  Dr.  Crusher's orderly (ensign  Freeman) was  supposed to be
gay (according to the script writer).

TNG "Encounter at Farpoint":  Lets get this straight, once and for all.  
What we have is a "Special Appearance by DeForest Kelley" in which he 
plays an unnamed officer who just happens to have the following 
traits/qualities:
(1) He is a retired Admiral from Starfleet Medical division
(2) He has a definite affection for starships named 'Enterprise'
(3) He is 137 years old, which is (in the eyes of the Federation) an 
    exceedingly long Terran life span, which could be explained, 
    possibly, by carrying the spirit of a Vulcan around inside him for 
    an extended period of time
(4) He has a pronounced aversion to the use of transporters
(5) He has an unusual reaction to Vulcan-style logic
(6) He just happens to look, walk, talk, act, and in every other 
    conceivable way behave exactly like Leonard 'Bones' McCoy :-).
Given these criteria, we can only logically conclude that this was, in 
fact, not Leonard McCoy, but rather some little known Admiral who would 
have no special meaning to anyone watching Star Trek, but deserved four 
minutes of an episode devoted to him. :-)  Actually, the novelization of
EaF *does* call the Admiral  McCoy, and in the letter column of the first
issue of a TOS comic mini-series, it is mentioned that Richard Arnold said:
   - that IS Dr. McCoy in EaF
   - that IS Spock's wedding that Picard was at.

TNG "Where No One Has Gone Before":  The UFP has explored 11% of the 
galaxy.

TNG "11001001":  Binary 11001001 is decimal 201, and 2:01 kept showing up on
displays in the episode.

TNG "Home Soil":  You can hear in the background "Three[?] are trapped in a
turbolift and  two[?]  are trapped  in the  programmers' restroom."   So, I
guess we have proof that there are restrooms  on the  Enterprise-D (as well
as the two references in the movies (on the Excelsior, and Kirk in the Brig
in ST5 ("do not use in spacedock")) as well as the one you can't really see
in "Q-Who" when the Borg slice up the Enterprise).

TNG "Skin of Evil":  No, contrary to the rumors,  you can't  see Troi's bra
in this  episode.    What  people were  seeing was  a shadow  (and with the
flasing red light, it appeared red).

TNG "The Royale":  The  scene where  Data was  shooting craps  seemed to be
lifted right out of "The Questor Tapes".   In  both cases,  the android and
his companion(s)  needed some  quick cash,  and so  they play  at the craps
table.  In both cases, the android placed the dice in his  hand and applied
the correct pressure to rebalance the dice, thus altering the odds.

TNG "The Neutral Zone":  Rick Sternbach was in one of the life support
canisters.

TNG "The Neutral Zone":  There is a family tree for Clare Raymond (one of
the 20th century frozen people).  When they created the tree, they
populated it with members of the cast and characters from other shows
(MASH, Giligan's Island, etc.)  I think Riker was married to Picard.

TNG "We'll Always Have Paris":  The Cafe de Artiste had a couple of strange
items on the menu,  including Croissant  Dilithium, Targ  Klingon ala mode,
Tribble in a Blanket, and John Cougar Mellencamp.

TNG:  Each  starship  has  a  dedication  plaque.    The plaque  on the USS
Tsiolkovsky ("The Naked Now") reads "Earth is the  cradle of  the mind, but
one cannot remain in the cradle forever".  The  plaque on  the Hoatio shows
that it built by Yoyodyne and reads "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"

TNG "Samaritan  Snare":   when  Picard and  Wesley arrive  at the Starbase,
there is  a  directory  listing  departments  and  personnel.   Filming was
stopped for  a  while  when this  directory was  installed while *everyone*
looked to see where they appeared,  since the  Starbase was  staffed by the
TNG crew.

TNG "The Defector":  Yes that  was Stewart  as one  of the  King's men with
Data on the holodeck.  The other man was NOT Frakes, however.

TNG "Q Who":  The  general consensus  is that  it *was*  Spiner playing the
part of Borg#1.  There is no screen credit, however.

TNG "The High Ground":   "He Has  Walked Among  Us" was  reportedly a minor
inspiration for "The High  Ground", albeit  uncredited (this  coming from a
Creation con).    "THG" was  one of  those supposedly  conceived during the
strike as a possible filler (a la "The  Child"), and  the use  of the older
TOS script ("The Paradise  Syndrome") would  have made  it acceptable under
the union crap edicts.

TNG "Up the Long Ladder":  No, that is *not* Eddie Murphy as one of the 
clones, though it does look a bit like him.

TNG "Deja Q":  Q gives his IQ as 2005.

TNG "The Nth  Degree":   Barclay estimates  his IQ  to be  between 1200 and
1450.

TNG "Contagion":    Yes,  they  used  Toronto  City  Hall  as  one  of  the
"furutistic buildings" seen in the portal.

TNG:  Dr.  Selar appeared in "The Schizoid Man"  and has  been mentioned in
"Yesterday's Enterprise" (paged in background) and "Remember Me" (Bev can't
find Dr.  Selar or Dr.  Hill).

TNG:  In a War of the Worlds episode ("Thy Kingdom  Come"), there  is a kid
playing with action figures.  One of them is in the likeness  of Yar, Data,
Picard, or Riker and he mentions something about Ferengi.

TNG:  Paramount has confirmed that the bar on the enterprise (with its 
"Whoopi cushion") is non-alcoholic.

TNG "Ensigns of Command":  The original script called for Data  to have sex
with the leading lady in  order to  get her  cooperation later.   This idea
never made  it through  the first  draft.   Gene's reason  for dropping it:
"Only a human male would use a woman like that"...

TNG "The Schizoid Man":  Shots of Genesis, Yar, "Encounter at Farpoint" 
scenes, etc. in Data's psych test.

TNG "Sarek":   The quote  is "Amanda,  Spock, Perrin",  not "Amanda, Spock,
burried" and there is NOTHING that claims that Spock is dead.

TNG:  Facial hair:
 - Geordi was seen shaving in "Code of Honor"
 - Riker grew a beard after the first season
 - Data had a beard in "Unnatural Selection"
 - Admiral Picard had a beard in "Future Imperfect"
 - Geordi had the start of a beard in "The Outcast"

TNG is now available on video tape.  It  is the  first series  *ever* to be
available while  still  in  first-run.   It is  through the  CBS Video Club
(Cutsomer Service  number is  1-800-457-0866 and/or  1-800-538-7766).  They
started releasing the copy of "Encounter at  Farpoint" as  the two one-hour
version (which  has  scenes  missing and  other scenes  re-ordered from the
original single two-hour broadcast), but (due to enough of  us telling them
what we thought of that) now comes as the two-hour original broadcast (even
though the box still lists it as two one-hour shows).

"Encounter At Farpoint", "The Naked Now", and "Code Of Honor" are available
directly from Paramount Home Video in both video tape and (possibly) laser
disc through your local video store.  However, there is no word on when or
if more episodes will be released.  More episodes may have been released;
this section hasn't been updated recently.

Two episodes of TNG  have appeared  to be  clones of  "Red Dwarf" episodes.
The episode  where  Picard  ordered  Data to  lie and  everyone wiped their
memories was a clone of "Thanks for  the Memory".   The  5th season episode
"The Game" was a clone of "Better Than Life".

(The following from Richard Arnold):  Leonard  Nimoy was  presented with an
idea for  a  ST:TNG  two-part episode  which was  given a  working title of
"Return to  Forever".    The  "official"   word  is   that  midway  through
negotiations Nimoy's agent suddenly started asking for $1  million.  Since,
at the  time, the  budget for  an average  week's episode  was $1.4 million
(it's now  $1.6  million),  this  was a  clearly unreasonable  demand.  The
script with Spock is still supposedly floating  around somewhere.   But the
"official" word is  that Leonard  is simply  more interested  in working on
movies (mainly directing)  than he  is in  making guest  appearances on TV.
This was the news until late 1990.   Nimoy told  us himself  in August 1991
that he would be in an episode or  two of  TNG during  the November Sweeps,
but it  won't  be  "return to  Forever" (Guardian  of Forever  script?)  or
"Broken Mirror" ("Mirror Mirror sequel?).  It turned out to be "Unification
I" and "Unification II".

After Stewart  came  to  the  USA and  started TNG,  he bought  a new Honda
Prelude.  Then  Wil Wheaton  drove up  in the  same car--except  he had the
Honda Prelude *Deluxe*.  Stewart didn't want to be beneath Wil,  so he went
out and  bought  a Jaguar  XJ6.   Since I  know *someone*  will ask, Frakes
drives a black Limited Edition Jeep, Spiner drives a Toyota Corolla, Burton
drives a  black BMW,  Sirtis drives  a white  Chrysler LeBaron convertible,
Dorn drives  a  VW  Jetta, and  McFadden drives  a station  wagon (Capri or
Caprice).

List of people who have been Captain of the Enterprise:
	Robert April
	Christopher Pike
	James T. Kirk
	Will Decker
	Spock
	James T. Kirk (again)
	Rachel Garrett
	Jean-Luc Picard
	William T. Riker
	Jean-Luc Picard (again)
	Jellico
	Jean-Luc Picard (again)

TNG:  The "horseshoe" rail on the bridge is actually made of wood.   Yes, I
know it *looks* like wood, but it isn't the  result of  staining.  Staining
the horseshoe couldn't bring out the grain  enough to  be picked  up by the
cameras, so the horseshoe had to be *painted* to look like wood.

TNG:  People keep asking about the  weird production  schedule.   Why do we
keep getting breaks of repeats when it isn't  summer yet?   A  lot of shows
(especially the hour-long ones)  go to  repeats around  December and March.
The average episode of TNG takes about ten days to  film.   They start well
before the season begins, but they wouldn't be able  to keep  ahead for the
entire season.    So  while  we're  watching the  December repeats, they're
trying to get a few episodes ahead of the viewers again!

TNG satellite uplink times (Keystone wide band carrier (6.2 left, 6.8 right,
5.8 mono)):
	Saturday  18:00-19:00 ET  Telstar 302 transponder-3 (2 vertical)
	Sunday    14:00-15:00 ET  Telstar 302 transponder-3 (2 vertical)

DS9 satellite uplink times (Keystone wide band carrier (6.2 left, 6.8 right,
5.8 mono)):
	Saturday  10:00-11:00 ET  Telstar 302 transponder-3 (2 vertical)
	          16:00-17:00 ET  Telstar 302 transponder-3 (2 vertical)
	Sunday    16:00-17:00 ET  Telstar 302 transponder-3 (2 vertical)

By January 1994 they should be moving to Telstar 401.
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