...is not even 'Sir or Immort' that I speak to, but more their ICONIC essence, what I see as the 'establishment' now...the 'institution of human knowledge'...the "MAN"...the AUTHORITY...the brainiac forcefield that I cannnot pass to find some comfort in a...well...let's just call it 'in a storied past'.  You guys ARE the Oxford University Library.  You guys ARE the accumulation of FACT...

...is not even 'Sir or Immort' that I speak to, but more their ICONIC essence, what I see as the 'establishment' now...the 'institution of human knowledge'...the "MAN"...the AUTHORITY...the brainiac forcefield that I cannnot pass to find some comfort in a...well...let's just call it 'in a storied past'. You guys ARE the Oxford University Library. You guys ARE the accumulation of FACT that...

..."Anim8rFSK" <ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net> wrote How about 'Picard comes out in time to save his family' Or 'Picard comes out in the nick of time but on the right side of the forcefield' Or 'Picard comes out ANYWHERE but where and when he did' Paris. The day he stood up his girlfriend. He marries her and changes careers. GeneK ...

...> "Anim8rFSK" <ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net> wrote How about 'Picard comes out in time to save his family' Or 'Picard comes out in the nick of time but on the right side of the forcefield' Or 'Picard comes out ANYWHERE but where and when he did' Paris. The day he stood up his girlfriend. He marries her and changes careers. GeneK works for me ...

..." <ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net> wrote How about 'Picard comes out in time to save his family' Or 'Picard comes out in the nick of time but on the right side of the forcefield' Or 'Picard comes out ANYWHERE but where and when he did' Paris. The day he stood up his girlfriend. He marries her and changes careers. GeneK works for me How about at that duel ...

... for a story" stage. Besides all else, couldn't the Enterprise locate Picard and Soran on the surface, them being the only beings on an uninhabited planet and all, or at least Soran's "50 Gigawatt forcefield"? Then, y'know, beam down some redshirts or something? Well, let's backtrack a bit. Get rid of this unknown "Antonia" bird and have Kirk shacked up with Carol Marcus (...

"Anim8rFSK" <ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net> wrote How about 'Picard comes out in time to save his family' Or 'Picard comes out in the nick of time but on the right side of the forcefield' Or 'Picard comes out ANYWHERE but where and when he did' Paris. The day he stood up his girlfriend. He marries her and changes careers. GeneK

... Soren into the Nexus INSTEAD of Kirk! C'mon, writers... and I didn't even go ot on strike! How about 'Picard comes out in time to save his family' Or 'Picard comes out in the nick of time but on the right side of the forcefield' Or 'Picard comes out ANYWHERE but where and when he did' -- Star Trek 09: No Shat, No Show. http://www.disneysub.com/board/noshat.jpg

... some sort of carbon based lifeform, which really can't take the type of shock that a forcefield would give. A ship's shield, on the other has to repel phaser or photon fire, ... punch. <a> wrote in message news:EL-dnQNPg4J8qTzanZ2dnUVZ_g-dnZ2d@comcast.com... Ever notice how every forcefield in Trek universe is indestructible except for the ship's shields, which is eminently, painfully ...

...com... In article <EL-dnQNPg4J8qTzanZ2dnUVZ_g-dnZ2d@comcast.com>, <a> wrote: Ever notice how every forcefield in Trek universe is indestructible except for the ship's shields, which is eminently, ...> / shield can be made to be. yes, that's waht I was thinking. The forcefield protecting doorways may not be so indestructible if you wanted to actually call down the ships phasers...