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Blonde. Security officer on NCC-1701-D before Worf; died by the "hand" of some black ooze leftover from when some then-gone race expunged all the evil from their systems. Actress guest starred on two different episodes post-mortem; once as Tasha Yar in a temporal paradox episode, once as Tasha's half-Romulan daughter (daughter the result of the "resolution" of the earlier temporal paradox episode).

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What's this? Talking about the pretiest women on Star Trek and no mention of Seven of 9? And no mention of Uhura? well, they get my votes.

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Blonde security officer from STTNG. They killed her off after she posed in Playboy.

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Thanks Jack, now I remember. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

You are kidding, right? She posed for Playboy???

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IIRC, yes.

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[img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon47.gif[/img] I agree http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif Ain't no Arguing from me on that

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Tasha Yar - played by Denise Crosby (granddaughter of Bing)
Playboy did a photo shoot of her back in '79 entitled "A Different Kind of Crosby." Once STTNG became popular Playboy reprinted the spread ('88). Management had a fit and she was killed off the show.

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She also did a "Red Shoe Diary" movie (nudity, sexual situations), which helped punt her off the show.

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But not because she posed for Playboy. She wanted to leave the show. She was feeling ambitious and wanted to do other things. Hmm, and just what else can you recall that she has been in? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Obligatory notice: A couple years ago it was Tiffany (Darwish) trying to revive her career by posing in Playboy. Now word is out that Debbie Gibson will appear in the March 2005 edition of Playboy.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif Bwahahaha! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Hmm, it took about 20 years for those two. I predict that we will see Britney Spears and Cristina Aguilera in the same publication before the decade is over. Though with Britney we may wish we hadn't... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif

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I was very sad when Tasha died. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rant.gif

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I was more saddened by Data's reaction to her death. Brent Spiner is extremely underrated as an actor.

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Denise Crosby was in Steven King's "Pet Semetary" (sic)

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OMG! This thread was pushed back to the second page before I got here.

Whew... I saved it.

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No need to thank me. I'd do it all over again.

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I thought maybe some people here could appreciate this.

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Bearclaw, I can't thank you enough, recovering this thread from 'page 2' is the equivalent of 'taking a bullit' for me.

.. well, maybe I'm exagerating a tiny bit, but thanks none the less.

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What, no comments on the parody? I thought it was hilarious. Oh well.

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If you must know, I thought it was severely stupid, but that's just me.

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Alright! Promotion! I'm a brigadier general, whatever that is!

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It had some good gags.

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I thought it was hilarious. Jar Jar getting hit with dozens of darts. Brilliant.

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Of course it's severely stupid. That's why it's so funny! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

The death of Jar Jar. The extremely whiny/annoying Anakin. Palpatine, "I'm announcing you all... are... morons!". The muppets. EPT-1138 (in reference to THX-1138). The fake drawing causing Anakin to turn. Mace Windu being closer to Shaft than a Jedi. Obi-wan's drinking. The names for the "Death Star". "I am your baby's daddy!".

Pure genius. It's hard to imagine Episode III being any worse, and because it is the embodiment of fans' worst nightmares, it automatically becomes funny.

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I liked the parody very much, I especially liked the broken lightsaber 'blooper' at the end. Now that was funny. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I found this Eerie Psychic Thingy It's kind of neat. Try it you'll see what I mean.

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It's a math trick; every multiple of 9 (except 0, but it specifies a two digit number, so that won't happen, will it?) is the same randomly assigned symbol. It has you take a number in range, and subtract the sum of it's digits from it - the result? A multiple of 9 (unless you pick something under 10, anyway; and even then, 0 is technically a multiple of 9 - but it's not one the program flags - it would be too obvious). Consider: 99: 9+9 = 18; 99-18 = 81 = 9x9. 98: 9+8 = 17; 98-17 = 81 = 9x9. Dropping the original number by 1 will result in the same 81 until you drop below 90 - at which point, it goes to the next multiple of 9 down - 89: 8+9 = 17; 89 - 17 = 72 = 9x8. The pattern continues; from 79 to 70 you get 63 (9x7); from 69 to 60 you get 54 (9x6); from 59 to 50 you get 45 (9x5), et cetera, et cetera.

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Ok, this is creepy.

How does it know what symbol is correct one if there is NO input from me? Regardless of the fact that I choose digits in range, I still get different symbol each try and it guesses it correctly without any input. Creepy I tell you.

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Oh wow, that is really clever. Even with the explanation Jack gave it kind of freaked me out at first like it did Daynar.

The real reason this works so well is that it changes the symbols for the mutiples of nine. Every final number is a multiple of nine, and the symbols for the multiples of nine are all the same each turn, so it can't be wrong no matter what number you pick, unless you subtract incorrectly (Which I did a couple times. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif ). But the "multiples of nine" symbol changes from turn to turn, so it's not so obvious that it's always a multiple of nine you are getting.

If it didn't change teh symbols you'd catch on when you kept getting the same sybol from turn to turn. And if you tried this trick just using the numbers your subconcious would pick up the pattern pretty quick that the answer is always a multiple of nine. There are so many symbols you have to pay attention to realize they are changing from turn to turn.

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As a fellow brigadier general, let me congratulate you. There are so few of us on active duty, I am glad you are here. You are merely a general in charge of a brigade, composed of at least two regiments. In other words, your task will be to boss around everybody of a lower rank than yourself: such is the pleasure of having "general" in your title.

A shame we cannot pull authority on someone on the boards though. What good are promotions for if you do not get privileges in the process? *Goes away grumbling to the officers mess* Or to the relocated mess, as proximity with the Cantina was found to have... unfortunate side effects.

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Ok, now I get it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif
Man, I was really freaked for a moment there. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/Sick.gif

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I can read your miiiinnnnnd...All I need is electrodes, a supercomputer, about 10-20 years and unlimited funding.

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...and a thermonuclear warhead.

EDIT - Battlestar Gallactica reference. BTW Entertainment Weekly gave BS a B rating for last week's show. Which is pretty good!

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That Star Wars movie was funny. They did a good job on the light sabre effects and they put in a lot of effort into the backgrounds and costumes to make them look similar to the real ones.

The Matrix movie from the same site was really funny, too!

Thanks for posting the link, Will. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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From the humor forum on Baen:
[qoute]
Subject: THINGS IT TOOK YEARS TO LEARN
Author: Keith Golgart
Date: 30 Jan 2005 06:39 AM
THINGS IT TOOK YEARS TO LEARN


1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

2. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."

3. There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

4. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

5. You should not confuse your career with your life.

6. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. (I wish I had!)

7. Never lick a steak knife.

8. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.

9. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age 21

10. A person, who is nice to you, but rude to a waiter, is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)

11. Your friends love you anyway

12. Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
[/qoute]

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So true, so true.

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Hey! I think that a person's birthday is always a time of celebration. I'm gonna be 33 this year and I fully expect a grand production. And to be fair, I treat others the same way on their birthday.... except for the ONE time I forgot my wife's...

Which wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't for the fact that I remembered George Lucas's which happens to be the day after hers...

Not good. So not good.

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The two squares A and B on the checkerboard are the same shade of gray. Can you believe it?
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...eckerboard.jpg

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Seen it before. Tested it in a paint program, if I remember right. You'd be amazed how much effect shading has on our eyes.

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That trick is done by the 50% rule.. Make a white square, make a gray square that is 50% darker than the white one, then cast a shadow over these that is also set at 50% darker. the white square in the shadow will be the same as the dark square in the light. the dark square in the shadow will also be 50% darker and therefore create the illusion that there is a shadow. add a soft edge to the shadow and it is even more convincing.

It is a neat effect though. Escher would be proud.

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Dude, that is so a jewelry mistake.

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May 13th is a good day, so is 4 days after Mr. Lucas's.

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The "A Glitch in the Matrix" movie was a lot better than the Star Wars one. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Well if we are talking about knock-offs and parodies try giving this presentation a look:

http://www.themeatrix.com/

Especially relevant today as they have recently discovered that other animals like goats can get BSE.

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VERY well done. Biased propoganda for sure (which doesnt mean its not true, just that its purposeful). But VERY well done.

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Hmm, I didn't look at the Matrix one before... that one is better http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

And I saw the meatrix one a while ago. Really funny, I went to In-n-Out right after (for those who don't know, it's a hamburger fast food chain along the west coast USA). That made it even funnier. Too bad it wasn't supposed to be funny http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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"Even if you do not yet believe that you believe it, for it is belief, if not the doubt that certainty is probable."

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that post just made my brain divide by zero, thanks, now I can go to bed without having to count sheep. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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I can parse that...for about as long as it takes to read it.

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This definitely sounds like Matrix/Morpheus kind of thing.

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What? This thread has dropped down to the middle of page 2 ??? Can't have that happening... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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No we can't let that happen,..