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THE KEYS OF MARINUS

 THE KEYS OF MARINUS.   Written by Terry Nation.   6 Episodes.                         11th April - 16th May 1964                        The Sea of Death, The Velvet Web, The Screaming Jungle, The Snows of Terror,  Sentence of Death, The Keys of Marinus.  COMPANIONS:- Ian, Barbara and Susan.    The TARDIS lands on an island on the planet Marinus where the sea is  acid and the sand is made of glass. The TARDIS is captured by Arbitan,  Keeper of the Conscience Machine of Marinus, a machine that controls the  planet, preventing crime.    Four of the five control keys for the machine are lost and Arbitan  "persuades" the TARDIS crew to hunt for them using travel dials: wrist-  watch like personal transportation systems. The travellers go to the  futuristic city of Millenius...

Steve Gibson's Heuristic Combinatorial Cube Solver

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Star Trek: TNG "Inheritance"

WARNING:  The following post contains large amounts of spoiler information concerning TNG's "Inheritance".  Those not wishing to inherit spoiler information without proper precautions should avoid the article at this point. In brief:  Not perfect, but quite nice indeed; one of the more solid outings of the season so far. Despite some of my initial skepticism, I was pretty impressed with "Inheritance".  Details to follow, after the usual synopsis: The Enterprise crew is assisting in re-liquefying the core of Atrea Four by drilling holes to "magma pockets" near the core and injecting hot plasma into the core from there.  However, Data soon finds he has more concerns than this one project, because one of the scientists, Dr. Juliana Tainer, claims to have been Data's co-creator -- and Noonian Soong's wife! Her story is, in many ways, quite convincing.  She says that she married Soong in secret owing to parental pressure, and tha...

COMPLETE EPISODE GUIDE TO STAR TREK - THE NEXT GENERATION. SEASON ONE.

This list has been updated and amended to include the last few episodes of season 4 and correct any cast errors.As of writing this, season 5 is being filmed. Tony Gogay. COMPLETE EPISODE GUIDE TO STAR TREK - THE NEXT GENERATION. SEASON ONE. Regular Cast. ------------- Captain Jean-Luc Picard...............................Patrick Stewart Commander William Ricker..............................Jonathan Frakes Lt Commander Data........................................Brent Spiner Doctor Beverly Crusher.................................Gates McFadden Counselor Deanna Troi...................................Marina Sirtis Lt Geordi La Forge.......................................LeVar Burton Lt Natasha Yar..........................................Denise Crosby Lt Worf..................................................Michael Dorn Wesley Crusher............................................Wil Wheaton Story Code/Title Teleplay By ---------------- ----------- A1 /Encounte...

UFO/Alien message board part 9

Newsgroups: alt.postmodern,alt.religion.kibology,alt.sex,alt.alien.visitors Subject: Re: La, la, la... Message-ID: <1992Mar18.052356.8422@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Date: 18 Mar 92 05:23:56 GMT References: <16MAR199213451607@vax.cc.williams.edu> <1992Mar17.001338.21368@cs.odu.edu> <1992Mar17.171552.7784@athena.cs.uga.edu> Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois. Lines: 44 Xref: ns-mx alt.postmodern:2369 alt.religion.kibology:1226 alt.sex:59073 alt.alien.visitors:4949 In article <1992Mar17.171552.7784@athena.cs.uga.edu> david@rosalyn.stat.uga.edu (David Gundlach) writes: >Newsgroups: alt.postmodern,alt.religion.kibology,alt.sex,alt.alien.visitors >Subject: Re: La, la, la... >Summary: still going... >Expires: >References: <1992Mar16.090405.27432@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <16MAR199213451607@vax.cc.williams.edu> <1992Mar17.001338.21368@cs.odu.edu> >Sender: >Followup-To: >Distribution: world ...