Every day when I walk around here in King County, Washington, behind the lines of insurrection, I see acknowledgements of my authority as a United States federal agent by the forces hostile to the United States of America.
There was that serial-killer-look-alike named Ken Fagan at Microsoft that always reminded me of this episode. There was that time, in 2000 I think, when Fagan was wearing those double-earrings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%2C_Mudd_%28TOS_episode%29
"I, Mudd" is an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series first broadcast November 3, 1967 and repeated April 5, 1968. It is a second season episode #37, production #41, and was written by Stephen Kandel, based on a story by Gene Roddenberry and directed by Marc Daniels. David Gerrold performed an uncredited rewrite, but little of his material was used.
Overview: Captain Kirk has a second run-in with the conman, Harry Mudd, and his army of androids.
The crew then engage in a series of illogical and clownishly silly activities in an attempt to confuse and overload the Norman android. When Mudd tells the short circuiting Norman "I am lying," Norman finally shuts down. Without a controlling leader, the other androids freeze up and stop working.
From 3/3/1959 to 10/20/1967 ("The Doomsday Machine") is: 3153 days
From 10/20/1967 ("The Doomsday Machine") to 6/7/1976 is: 3153 days
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TOS/episode/68730.html
The Doomsday Machine
A machine that destroys planets threatens the Enterprise.
Original Air Date: 10.20.1967
Sent to investigate the destruction of several planetary systems, the U.S.S. Enterprise discovers a crippled starship, the U.S.S. Constellation, floating in space. Commodore Matthew Decker is the only one left on the ship. Kirk and Scotty remain on board the Constellation to try and repair the starship, while McCoy beams Decker aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise.
Decker informs the crew that a giant robot ship, a planet-eating machine made by a long-dead alien race, is roaming the galaxies, consuming all in its path for fuel, including whole planets. When Decker challenged it, the "berserker," as he calls it, attacked. Decker beamed his entire crew to the planet's surface below, only to have the robot consume that planet, killing the Constellation's entire crew.
When the "berserker" returns, Decker, consumed with guilt over the loss of his crew, pulls rank on Spock and takes control of the U.S.S. Enterprise. He seems determined to destroy the machine, even at the cost of another ship and crew. Kirk, still on board the Constellation, contacts Spock and supports his claim that Decker is exhibiting suicidal behavior and is therefore unfit to command. Thwarted, Decker steals a shuttlecraft and flies it down the 'throat' of the giant robot ship, killing himself.
Realizing that Decker's idea, on a larger scale, might work, he sets the Constellation to self-destruct and send it after Decker's shuttlecraft. Due to a transporter glitch, Kirk barely makes it back to the U.S.S. Enterprise before the Constellation explodes, destroying the planet killer in its path.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708461/quotes
Memorable quotes for
"Star Trek"
The Doomsday Machine (1967)
Capt. Kirk: Matt, where's your crew?
Matt Decker: On the third planet.
Capt. Kirk: There IS no third planet!
Matt Decker: Don't you think I know that? There was, but not anymore! Th-they called me; they BEGGED me for help, four hundred of them! I couldn't... I-I couldn't...
From 3/3/1959 to 7/16/1963 is: 4 years, 4 months, 13 days
13 / 30 = 0.43 month
From 3/3/1959 to 7/16/1963 is: 4 years, 4.43 months
4-4-4-3
From 9/28/1923 to 3/3/1959 is: 12940 days
4443 / 12940 = 0.3433
34-33
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0934750/
William Windom
Date of Birth: 28 September 1923
"Star Trek" .... Commodore Decker (1 episode, 1967)
- The Doomsday Machine (1967) TV Episode .... Commodore Decker
From 6/9/1976 to 12/18/1982 is: 3 days, 340 weeks
3-3-4
http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/PHM2.htm
HERCULES (PHM 2)
PATROL COMBATANT MISSILE (HYDROFOIL)
Commission Date: 12/18/1982
The date 12/14/1972 is the day Apollo 17, the last flight to the Earth's moon, left the Moon on its return to Earth. I recognize the day 5/13/1987 as when I completed my escape from Africa after being a Prisoner of War in Libya in 1986.
From 5/13/1987 to 10/11/1996 is: 3439 days
From 7/16/1963 to 12/14/1972 (Apollo 17) is: 3439 days
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116409/
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
Release Date: 11 October 1996 (USA)
From 11/26/1976 to 9/24/1979 is: 33 months, 4 weeks, 1 day
334-1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Run_%28album%29
Released September 24, 1979
The Long Run is the sixth studio album by Eagles, released in 1979
Track listing
"The Long Run" (Don Henley, Glenn Frey) – 3:42
Lead vocal by Don Henley
Slide guitar by Joe Walsh
Organ by Don Felder
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/eagles/thelongrun.html
EAGLES LYRICS
"The Long Run"
I used to hurry a lot, I used to worry a lot
I used to stay out till the break of day
Oh, that didn't get it,
It was high time I quit it
I just couldn't carry on that way
Oh, I did some damage, I know it's true
Didn't know I was so lonely , till I found you
You can go the distance
We'll find out in the long run
(in the long run)
We can handle some resistance
If our love is a strong one (is a strong one)
People talkin' about is
they got nothin' else to do
When it all comes down we will
still come through
In the long run
Ooh, I want to tell you, it's a long run
You know I don't understand why you don't
treat yourself better
do the crazy things that you do
'Cause all the debutantes in Houston, baby,
couldn't hold a candle to you
Did you do it for love?
Did you do it for money?
Did you do it for spite?
Did you think you had to, honey?
Who is gonna make it?
We'll find out in the long run
(in the long run)
I know we can take it
if our love is a strong one
(is a strong one)
Well, we're scared, but we ain't shakin'
Kinda bent, but we ain't breakin'
in the long run
Ooh, I want to tell you, it's a long run
in the long run
in the long run, [etc.]
From 7/2/1976 to 10/19/1979 is: 3 years, 3 months, 17 days
30 * 0.59 = 17.7 days
From 7/2/1976 to 10/19/1979 is: 3 years, 3.59 months
33-59
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079550/
Meteor (1979)
Release Date: 19 October 1979 (USA)
Plot Summary: After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_%28film%29
Meteor (1979) is a film in which scientists detect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth and struggle with international, cold war politics in their efforts to prevent disaster. The movie starred Sean Connery.
It was directed by Ronald Neame and with a screenplay by Edmund H. North and Stanley Mann and co-starring Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Trevor Howard, Henry Fonda, Johnny Yune, and Katherine DeHetre. It was one of the last and least regarded films from the 1970's disaster genre.
The opening sequence involves a crew of astronauts that observes a collision between a comet and an asteroid named Orpheus. The astronauts and their ship are then destroyed by a fragment from the collision. Back on Earth, Dr. Paul Bradley (Connery) is dragged reluctantly to the offices of his former boss Harry Sherwood (Malden). He is given an account about the doomed astronauts and it's explained that Orpheus is on a collision course with Earth.
From 8/28/1943 to 3/3/1959 is: 5666 days
5666 * 0.3459 = 1959 days
'1959'
34-59
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0277512/
John Findlater (I)
Date of Birth: 28 August 1943
Meteor (1979) .... Astronaut Tom Easton
