Just as I woke up today that I was thinking again of Phoebe's "Drop Dead Fred." The "Fred," as I noted, is about Frederiksted, I assume, and the "Drop Dead," I was thinking this morning, is about me losing consciousness at our 7/21/1987 wedding ceremony. In the context of my artificial and symbolic memory, I "remember" that Frederiksted, St. Croix, is where I was almost knocked over the side of the ship as we were mooring to a buoy off the coast of that town. The anchor chain broke away and we almost lost it before a stainless steel span way wire we had rigged up prevented it from going all the way to the ocean floor. I was at the very tip of the bow of the ship and didn't have much manuevering room to get away from the fast moving chain as it was headed straight for me.
Phoebe was 333 months, 4 days, old on the day after that movie premiered.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101775/quotes
Memorable quotes for
Drop Dead Fred (1991)
Fred: Well why don't we harpoon Charles straight through the head, drag him back to the apartment, and hit him with a hammer until he agrees to come back?
Elizabeth: Harpoon him through the head. That won't work Fred.
Fred: Why not? How many times have you tried it?
There was that "Futurama" episode with the lost city of "Atlanta" that makes me wonder if I salvaged that Harpoon missile the Iranians shot at the Wainwright on 4/18/1988. I have been thinking I was the leader of the USN SEAL team that was attached to Wainwright during Operation Praying Mantis, and that photo of the U.S. Navy Lieutenant on the bridge of the USS Ronald Reagan, as I noted earlier, makes think that is true, considering that I was probably still a U.S. Navy Lieutenant back then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Harpoon
The Harpoon is an all-weather, over-the-horizon, anti-ship missile system, originally developed by McDonnell Douglas of the United States, with development and manufacturing now taken over by Boeing Integrated Defense Systems. In 2004, Boeing delivered the 7,000th Harpoon unit since the weapon's introduction in 1977. The missile system has also been further developed into a coastal strike version, the Standoff Land Attack Missile (SLAM).
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Wednesday, April 18, 2007
The attack on USS Samuel B. Roberts FFG-31 resulted in Operation Praying Mantis. In my symbolic and artificial memories, I served onboard the USS Wainwright CG-28. In my role on the Wainwright, I was a computer technician for the guided-missile fire control computer systems on that ship. One of my secondary responsibilities on that ship in my artificial memories is that I was the Captain’s phone-talker on the bridge during Special Sea and Anchor Detail. I believe in reality, I was a U.S. Navy Lieutenant in charge of a U.S. Navy SEAL platoon that was embarked on Wainwright for Operation Praying Mantis. The news reports that I read indicate that the Iranian missile-boat Joshan raced in, on what was surely a suicide mission, to within 10 miles of the Wainwright to fire a Harpoon anti-ship missile at the Wainwright. I am certain that was another attempt to hit a ship specifically because I was on that ship.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Praying_Mantis
Operation Praying Mantis was the April 18, 1988 action waged by U.S. naval forces in retaliation for the Iranian mining of the Persian Gulf and the subsequent damage to an American warship.
On April 14, the guided missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts struck a mine while sailing in the Persian Gulf as part of Operation Earnest Will, the 1987-88 convoy missions in which U.S. warships escorted reflagged Kuwaiti oil tankers to protect them from Iranian attacks. The explosion put a 25-foot hole in the Roberts' hull and nearly sank it. But the crew saved their ship with no loss of life, and Roberts was towed to Dubai on April 16.
After the mining, U.S. Navy divers recovered other mines in the area. When the serial numbers were found to match those of mines seized along with the Iran Ajr the previous September, U.S. military officials planned a retaliatory operation against Iranian targets in the Gulf.
The battle, the largest for American surface forces since World War II,[1] sank two Iranian warships and as many as six armed speedboats. It also marked the first surface-to-surface missile engagement in U.S. Navy history.
The attack by the U.S. helped pressure Iran to agree to a ceasefire with Iraq later that summer, ending the eight-year conflict between the Persian Gulf neighbors.
Surface Action Group Charlie
USS Wainwright (DLG/CG-28) - guided missile cruiser
USS Bagley (FF-1069) - frigate
USS Simpson (FFG-56) - guided missile frigate
SEAL platoon
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Thursday, May 10, 2007
http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/070420-N-2959L-071.jpg
070420-N-2959L-071 CORONADO, Calif. (April 20, 2007) - Assistant Navigator Lt. Joseph Levy looks out the bridge windows of USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) while his watch team works to ensure a safe pull in to homeport. Ronald Reagan Strike Group returned to homeport following a surge deployment in support of operations in the western Pacific. During the three-month deployment, the Navy's newest aircraft carrier took part in naval exercises with the Republic of Korea and Japan Maritime Self Defense Force. Sailors also enjoyed port visits in Sasebo, Japan; Hong Kong; Buson, Republic of Korea; and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Dominique M. Lasco (RELEASED)
From 7/16/1963 to 4/20/1991 (Saturday) is 333 months, 4 days
'33-34'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101775/
Drop Dead Fred (1991)
Release Date: 19 April 1991 (USA)
Phoebe Cates ... Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Cronin
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101775/quotes
Memorable quotes for
Drop Dead Fred (1991)
[Polly has just finished reading a Fairy Tale]
Young Elizabeth: Did they live happily ever after?
Polly: Of Course Elizabeth.
Young Elizabeth: How do you know?
Polly: Because, she was a good little girl, if she would have been naughty, the Prince would have run away.
From 6/7/1976 to 4/16/2000 ("The Deep South")(Sunday) is: 1244 weeks, 6 days
'1244'
From 3/4/1959 to 7/16/1963 is 12 days, 4 months, 4 years
'1244'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0584455/
"Futurama"
The Deep South (2000)
Original Air Date: 16 April 2000 (Season 2, Episode 16)
Plot Outline: When the crew goes fishing, a giant fish pulls the ship under water. There they find an ancient city, where Fry falls in love with Umbriel, a mermaid.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756891/quotes
Memorable quotes for
"Futurama"
The Series Has Landed (1999)
Fry: Look! It's the moon landing site! Wow, there's that flag from MTV, and Neil Armstrong's footprints.
[Puts his foot over Armstrong's footprint, leaving a Nike footprint in its place]
Fry: Hey, my foot is bigger.
From 6/23/1930 (Donn Eisele) to 3/3/1959 is: 10480 days
From 3/3/1959 to 10/22/1968 (Apollo 7 landing) is: 3521 days
3521 / 10480 = 0.3359
'33-59'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donn_F._Eisele
Donn Fulton Eisele (June 23, 1930 – December 2, 1987) was born in Columbus, Ohio and was an officer in the USAF and a NASA astronaut.
On October 11, 1968, he occupied the command module pilot seat for the eleven-day flight of Apollo VII — the first manned flight test of the third generation United States spacecraft. With spacecraft commander Walter M. Schirra, Jr., and lunar module pilot Walter Cunningham, Eisele participated in and executed maneuvers enabling the crew to perform exercises in transposition and docking and lunar orbit rendezvous with the S-IVB stage of their Saturn IB launch vehicle; completed eight successful test and maneuvering ignitions of the service module propulsion engine; measured the accuracy of performance of all spacecraft systems; and provided the first effective television transmissions of onboard crew activities.
Apollo 7 was placed in an Earth-orbit with an apogee of 153.5 nautical miles (284.3 kilometers) and perigee of 122.6 nautical miles (227.1 km); and the 260-hour, four-and-a-half million mile (7.25 Gm) shakedown flight was successfully concluded on October 22, 1968, with splashdown occurring in the Atlantic, some eight miles (15 km) from the carrier Essex (only three-tenths of a mile or 0.6 km from the originally predicted aiming point).
From 4/14/1981 (STS-1 landing) to 6/1/1992 ("The Inner Light") is 133 months, 18 days
30 * 0.59 = 17.7 days
From 4/14/1981 (STS-1 landing) to 6/1/1992 ("The Inner Light") is 133.59 months
'1-33-59'
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TNG/episode/68556.html
The Inner Light
Picard lives another life on a faraway planet.
Air Date: 06.01.1992
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inner_Light_%28TNG_episode%29
"The Inner Light" is the twenty fifth episode of the fifth season of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the penultimate episode of the season.
Airdate June 1, 1992
The Enterprise-D is followed by a space probe. When the probe scans the ship, Picard staggers and is rendered unconscious.
He wakes to find himself being tended to by a woman, who tells him he has come out of a fever. She refers to him as Kamin, and claims to be his wife. He establishes that he is on a non-federation planet called Kataan, and sets about finding a way to send a message. Outside he meets a man by the name of Batai, who is troubled by his strange questions and apparent lack of memory. Picard visits a lookout offering a view of the town of Ressik. Later his "wife" tells him that he works as an ironweaver and he enjoys practicing the flute. He notices she is wearing a necklace with a decoration in the shape of the probe.
On the bridge of the Enterprise, Dr. Crusher finds that the probe is transmitting a signal to Picard, and that he is experiencing dramatically increased neural activity. They are unable to block the probe but decide that firing on it may put the captain's health at risk.
On Kataan, five years later, Picard charts the stars while his wife remarks that none of his stories of his supposed former life mention a loving partner. At a town meeting, Picard impresses a regional administrator by suggesting that atmospheric condensers be built to relieve the prolonged drought. Batai feels that Kamin is once again acting as a member of the community. Later that night, Picard confesses to his wife that the relationship has been one-sided, and decides that it is time to start a family.
On the bridge, Data finds a way to block the signal. Riker, believing the probe is hostile, gives the go-ahead despite Dr. Crusher's objections.
Four years later, with a daughter and newborn son, Picard realises that his life wouldn't be complete without children. He collapses when the probe's beam is blocked, and on the Enterprise his body quickly begins to die. Crusher attempts to stabilize him, but only re-establishing the signal averts his death.
Many years later, Picard chides his fully grown daughter for placing scientific pursuits above the social. By now the drought has become serious enough to threaten all life on the planet.
The Enterprise tracks the probe's trail to its planet of origin, Kataan, a lifeless planet whose star went nova a millennium ago.
An old Picard discusses his adult son's career choices. He presents his findings about the planet's fate to the administrator, who by now is an old friend. However the administrator has been aware of the problem for the past two years, but the government chose not to inform the public. He assures Picard that despite the lack of spacefaring technology the government does have a plan to save some remnant of the society. His son calls him back to the house where his wife soon dies. Some years later, an ancient Picard interrupts his play with his grandson to watch a missile launch: the launch of the probe. His wife and old friend Batai appear as when he first saw them, and they tell him that the probe is a way for them to live on.
On the bridge, the transmission from the probe ceases and Picard wakes up, recalling distant memories of his life aboard the Enterprise. He can scarcely believe that only 25 minutes have passed in realtime.
Later, in his ready room, Riker gives Picard a small box that was found inside the probe and leaves him alone. Inside, Picard finds Kamin's flute, which he had gradually mastered over the years. Treasuring the memory of his life on Kataan, he adeptly plays a tune.
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/library/character/bio/1116127.html
Eline
Played by Margot Rose
Episode: TNG 225 - The Inner Light
Native of the now-dead planet Kataan and the beloved wife of the ironweaver Kamin. Eline lived over a thousand years ago in the village of Ressik. Memories of her life were preserved aboard a space probe launched from Kataan. The probe encountered the U.S.S. Enterprise -D in 2368, transferring its memories, including those of Eline, to Jean-Luc Picard.
