Wednesday, January 22, 2014
The Paradise Syndrome
I find myself in recent weeks looking around and I am seeing things again. I see farther. I look around as I have to walk every where I go and I am looking around and I am thinking recently about just how far I am seeing again. I look to the distance and I see again the distance as if it is something lost to me for so long.
The toaster sitting on the counter in my kitchen has four controls on it for human-toaster communication. Five if you want to count the electrical plug. I would have better luck trying to program it for conversation. Six and seven if you count the pop-up mechanism. "Your toast is ready, Mr. Burgess."
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome
Stardate: 4842.6
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
MIRAMANEE: I'm the daughter of the chief. Tribal law betroths me to our leader. If there is another, I will step aside.
KIRK: No, Miramanee, there's no one else in my mind or my heart.
MIRAMANEE: God's wish is above tribal law.
http://www.startrek.com/watch_episode/9b6N6gh2xjM1
STAR TREK
The Paradise Syndrome
Star Trek: The Original Series
Season 3 Ep. 3
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276104/quotes
IMDb
Looper (2012)
Quotes
Older Joe: My memory's cloudy. It's a cloud. Because my memories aren't really memories. They're just one possible eventuality now. And they grow clearer or cloudier as they become more are less likely. But then they get to the present moment, and they're instantly clear again. I can remember what you do after you do it. And it hurts.
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome
Stardate: 4842.6
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
(Conifers stand on the slopes down to a lake, where three figures beam down onto a trackway.)
MCCOY: Look at those pine trees.
KIRK: And that lake.
MCCOY: I swear that's honeysuckle I smell.
KIRK: I swear that's a little orange blossom thrown in. It's unbelievable. Growth exactly like that of Earth on a planet half a galaxy away. What are the odds on such duplication?
SPOCK: Astronomical, Captain. The relative size, age and composition of this planet makes it highly improbable that it would evolve similarly to Earth in any way.
MCCOY: What in blazes is that?
(A bizarre structure on a dais, with steps leading up to it.)
KIRK: Analysis, Spock.
SPOCK: An alien metal of some kind. An alloy resistant to probe. Readings can't even measure its age accurately. These incised symbols are fascinating. Evidently, some form of writing.
KIRK: Any theories about what it is?
SPOCK: Negative, Captain. Structures of this complexity require extremely sophisticated building apparatus, the kind usually found in cultures surpassing or equalling our own.
MCCOY: Meadows and no meteor craters. The whole place is an enigma, biologically and culturally.
KIRK: What's the nearest concentration of life forms, Mister Spock?
SPOCK: Bearing one one seven mark four.
KIRK: And how much time did you say we have to investigate?
SPOCK: If we are to divert the asteroid which is on a collision course with this planet, we must warp out of orbit within thirty minutes. Every second we delay arriving at the deflection point compounds the problem, perhaps past solution.
KIRK: You did say thirty minutes?
SPOCK: Yes, sir.
KIRK: Then let's go. Let's find out what life forms are blessed by this environment.
(Standing on the opposite side of the lake from a collection of tipis and a lodge.)
MCCOY: Why, they look like. I'd swear they're American Indians.
SPOCK: They are, Doctor.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/quotes
IMDb
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Quotes
[first lines]
Willard: [voiceover] Saigon... shit; I'm still only in Saigon... Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 11/5/2006 3:33 PM
Spokane Valley, Washington. March 2004.
Crossland Economy Studios Spokane - Valley
12803 East Sprague
Spokane, WA 99216
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 05 November 2006 excerpt ends]
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome
Stardate: 4842.6
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
MCCOY: What's the matter, Jim?
KIRK: What? Oh, nothing. It's just so peaceful, uncomplicated. No problems, no command decisions. Just living.
MCCOY: Typical human reaction to an idyllic natural setting. Back in the twentieth century, we referred to it as the Tahiti Syndrome. It's particularly common to over-pressured leader types, like starship captains.
KIRK: Ah, the Tahiti Syndrome. Let's go take care of that asteroid. But first I want another look at that obelisk.
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome
Stardate: 4842.6
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
Captain's Log, stardate 4842.6. First Officer Spock commanding. Numerous search parties and repeated sensor probes of the area have failed to locate Captain Kirk.
[Obelisk]
(Spock is standing where Kirk was when he disappeared.)
SPOCK: Spock to Enterprise.
SCOTT [IC]: Enterprise. Come in, Mister Spock.
SPOCK: Prepare to beam us up, Mister Scott. We're warping out of orbit.
MCCOY: Leaving? You can't be serious, Spock.
SPOCK: Doctor, that asteroid is almost as large as your Earth's moon. Far enough away, the angle necessary to divert it enough to avoid destruction is minute, but as the asteroid approaches this planet, the angle becomes so great that even the power of a starship
MCCOY: The devil with an asteroid! It won't get here for two months, Spock!
SPOCK: If we arrive at the deflection point in time, it may not get here at all.
MCCOY: In the meantime, what about Jim?
SPOCK: Once the asteroid has been diverted, we'll return here and resume the search.
MCCOY: That may be hours from now. He may be injured or dying.
SPOCK: (picking up two stoned to illustrate his point) Doctor, assume this is the planet we're on. This is the approaching asteroid. If we don't get to that deflection point in time, it will become physically impossible to divert this asteroid. In that case, everyone on this planet will die, including the captain.
MCCOY: Can a few more minutes matter, Spock?
SPOCK: In the time it's taken me to explain the problem, the asteroid has moved from here to here. The longer we delay, the less the likelihood of being able to divert it. Beam us up, Mister Scott.
[Obelisk chamber]
KIRK [OC]: (dazed and confused) Where am I? What place is this? What are these? (phaser and communicator) I feel should know. They're familiar and yet unfamiliar. How did I get here? Who am I? Try to remember.
(He finds a flight of stairs and walks up, out into the sunshine)
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 8:05 AM Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Pegasus
Damnit, I know I wrote several times about that woman in Coeur d'Alene Idaho. On 27 June 2004 when I crossed the finish line of that 2.4 mile swim course and 112 mile bicycle course and 26.2 mile running course she was one of two women who were apparently volunteers who were assigned to escort the course finishers away from the finish line and towards the exit area for the course finishers. On the website for the Ironman Coeur d'Alene 2004 triathlon I later watched the video that company, a racketeering organization famously associated with the State of Hawaii, and I could clearly see the video of where she put her hand on my chest. After they escorted me out of the finish line area and directed me to a tent where she told me I could find pizza, which I did but that wasn't as appetizing as it sounded, she made the comment about how she knew I did not want to be there and I responded about how I did want to be there. I was standing there about 11:20 PM in my Nike Pegasus running shoes, after walking much of the marathon course, and the day was 27 June 2004.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 12 April 2011 excerpt ends]
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome
Stardate: 4842.6
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
[Obelisk]
(Spock is standing where Kirk was when he disappeared.)
SPOCK: Spock to Enterprise.
SCOTT [IC]: Enterprise. Come in, Mister Spock.
SPOCK: Prepare to beam us up, Mister Scott. We're warping out of orbit.
MCCOY: Leaving? You can't be serious, Spock.
SPOCK: Doctor, that asteroid is almost as large as your Earth's moon. Far enough away, the angle necessary to divert it enough to avoid destruction is minute, but as the asteroid approaches this planet, the angle becomes so great that even the power of a starship
MCCOY: The devil with an asteroid! It won't get here for two months, Spock!
SPOCK: If we arrive at the deflection point in time, it may not get here at all.
MCCOY: In the meantime, what about Jim?
SPOCK: Once the asteroid has been diverted, we'll return here and resume the search.
MCCOY: That may be hours from now. He may be injured or dying.
SPOCK: (picking up two stoned to illustrate his point) Doctor, assume this is the planet we're on. This is the approaching asteroid. If we don't get to that deflection point in time, it will become physically impossible to divert this asteroid. In that case, everyone on this planet will die, including the captain.
MCCOY: Can a few more minutes matter, Spock?
SPOCK: In the time it's taken me to explain the problem, the asteroid has moved from here to here. The longer we delay, the less the likelihood of being able to divert it.
From 3/4/1959 ( the birthdate London England time of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) to 7/4/1992 ( the United States Navy aircraft carrier warship USS George Washington CVN 73 commissioned into United States Navy battle force fleet active service and my brother United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan the General of the Armies of the United States is the first commanding officer of USS George Washington CVN 73 and as Kerry Wayne Burgess the active duty chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps I was a member of the ship's crew ) is 12176 days
12176 = 6088 + 6088
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) to 11/2/1975 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut bound for deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship launched from the planet Earth by himself to intercept the Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system and divert it away from the planet Earth ) is 6088 days
http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/CVN73.htm
NVR
Naval Vessel Register
USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73)
MULTI-PURPOSE AIRCRAFT CARRIER (NUCLEAR-PROPULSION)
Class: CVN 68
Fleet: Pacific
Status: Active, in commission
Force: Battle Force
Award Date: 12/27/1982
Keel Date: 08/25/1986
Launch Date: 07/21/1990
Commission Date: 07/04/1992
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome
Stardate: 4842.6
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
[Engineering]
SCOTT: I can't give you warp nine much longer, Mister Spock. These engines are beginning to show signs of stress.
[Bridge]
SPOCK: Stress or not, we cannot reduce speed. I do not intend to miss that
[Engineering]
SPOCK [OC]: Deflection point.
SCOTT: All right, but we're moving further into the danger range all the time.
[Bridge]
SCOTT [OC]: If these circuits
SPOCK: Objection noted, Mister Scott. Carry on.
[Lodge]
ELDER: Miramanee has said that you appeared to her and to her handmaiden from the walls of the temple, just as our legend foretells. We do not doubt the words of our priestess, but these are troubled times, and we must be sure.
KIRK: I'll answer anything I can, but as I told you, many things are strange to me.
SALISH: He knows nothing of our danger. How could he save us?
ELDER: It is against custom to interrupt a tribal elder at council, even for the medicine chief.
SALISH: Elder, words will not save us when the skies darken. We must be certain. I say he must prove he is a god.
http://www.marines.mil/news/publications/Documents/SecNavInst%201650.1H.pdf
SECNAV INSTRUCTION 1650.1H
From: Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs)
Subj: NAVY AND MARINE CORPS AWARDS MANUAL
1. Purpose. To provide guidance and regulations concerning awards available for recognizing individuals and units in the Naval Service.
2. Navy Cross
a. Authorization. 10 U.S.C. S6242.
b. Eligibility Requirements
(1) Awarded to individuals who, while serving in any capacity with the Navy or Marine Corps, distinguish themselves by extraordinary heroism, not justifying the award of the Medal of Honor.
(a) While engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States;
(b) While engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force; or
(c) While serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force, in which the United States is not a belligerent party.
(2) To warrant this distinctive decoration, the act or execution of duty must be performed in the presence of great danger, or at great personal risk, and must be performed in such a manner as to set individuals apart from their shipmates or fellow Marines. An accumulation of minor acts of heroism normally does not justify the award. The high standards SECNAVINST 1650.1H demanded must be borne in mind when recommending the award.
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome
Stardate: 4842.6
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
SALISH: Elder, words will not save us when the skies darken. We must be certain. I say he must prove he is a god.
ELDER: Our skies have darkened three times since the harvest. The last time worst of all. Our legend predicts such danger and promises that the Wise Ones who planted us here will send a god to save us, one who can rouse the temple spirit and make the sky grow quiet. Can you do this?
KIRK: I came from the temple, as Miramanee said, and it was a beginning for me here. But I came from the sky, too. Only I can't remember. I can't remember.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 05:17 AM Pacific Time Seattle USA Friday 22 February 2013 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/02/chain-reaction.html
Back in the year 2003 I wrote a letter on my computer at home and I printed it out on to paper and I put that letter in a stamped envelope for the postal service and I sent that letter through the United States Postal Service. I had the envelope of the letter addressed specifically to the Chief of Operations United States Navy and I referenced a special projects branch I had found on the internet.
I mailed the letter to the Chief of Operations United States Navy and told them I should have received the Silver Star.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 22 February 2013 excerpt ends]
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome
Stardate: 4842.6
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
ELDER: Only a god can breathe life into the dead. Do you still question? Give him the medicine badge.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 8:02 PM Monday, March 19, 2012
After I left Redmond Washington in February 2004 and moved to Spokane Valley, look at your maps if you want to know how to get there, I was living at a long-term hotel where I planned to stay until I found other employment and then I was going to rent an apartment. Just about every day I saw a chief petty officer in a khaki United States Navy uniform pass by my window. I guess they had him in the unit next door to mine. I saw him often enough that I identified the chief petty officer insignia on the shirt collar of his uniform.
They certainly went to great lengths to discredit me. I mean, am I not discredited even to this very day?
But hey, let's give the Devil some credit where credit is due. I was never a chief petty officer of the United States Navy.
Between 1990 and 1993 contiguously I was a chief warrant officer of the United States Marine Corps.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 19 March 2012 excerpt ends]
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome
Stardate: 4842.6
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
MIRAMANEE: Perhaps you would like to bathe now.
KIRK: Miramanee, tell me about the Wise Ones.
MIRAMANEE: Tell? But a god knows everything.
KIRK: Not this one. Tell me.
MIRAMANEE: The Wise Ones brought us here from far away. They chose a medicine chief to keep the secret of the temple and to use it when the sky darkens.
KIRK: Secrets of the temple.
MIRAMANEE: There are no lacings. (his uniform top) How is this thing removed?
KIRK: The secrets were passed on from father to son?
MIRAMANEE: Yes. How does this open?
http://www.noones-saloone.com/RaceReports/IronmanLakePlacid-2002.html
Ironman
Some pre-race babble from the officials, mostly telling us that if we saw the big red flag on the dock, the swim was over and we were supposed to stop. I think they mentioned something about getting in a boat or heading to shore. A new safety feature added to the swim, because of the Ironman Utah adventure I guess.
Wetsuit strippers are one of the great inventions of triathlon. Laying on my back and having two cute girls take my wetsuit off is a good way to finish the swim. Then the long run to the transition area. Run past my gear bag and have to go back. Over to the changing tent.
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome
Stardate: 4842.6
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
MIRAMANEE: Yes. How does this open?
KIRK: Well, why doesn't Salish use it? Why are the people in danger?
MIRAMANEE: His father did not wish to share his power too soon. He died before he told Salish the secret.
(Two young women enter with trays of fruit, then the tribal elder comes in.)
ELDER: Our people rejoice and wish to honour your name, but I did not know what you wish to be called. What may I tell them?
KIRK: Ki, Kir
ELDER: Kirok?
(The women leave.)
ELDER: Have we displeased you?
KIRK: No, no, everything is fine.
ELDER: Then it must be ourselves, the way we live. Perhaps we have not improved as quickly as the Wise Ones wish.
KIRK: Your land is rich, your people happy. Who could be displeased with that?
ELDER: But there is something. Tell us. We will change it.
KIRK: I can't tell you anything. All I can tell you is that I'm happy and peaceful here. I'm not sure, but I think I've never felt that way before.
2006 film "The Lake House" DVD video:
00:25:17
Alex Wyler: Come on, take a walk with me this Saturday. Let me show you.
Kate Forster: You're crazy. Why are you going through all this trouble for me?
Alex Wyler: No trouble. Summer's here.
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome
Stardate: 4842.6
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
[Spock's quarters]
MCCOY: I thought you were reporting to Sickbay.
SPOCK: There isn't time, Doctor. I must decipher those obelisk's symbols. They're a highly advanced form of cipher writing.
MCCOY: You've been trying to do that ever since we started back to that planet. Fifty eight days.
SPOCK: I'm aware of that, Doctor. I'm also aware when we arrive at the planet, we'll have barely four hours to effect rescue. I believe those symbols are the key.
MCCOY: Well, you won't read them by killing yourself. You've hardly eaten or slept for weeks. Now if you don't let up, you're going to collapse.
SPOCK: I am not hungry, Doctor. And under stress, we Vulcans can do without sleep for weeks.
MCCOY: Well, your Vulcan metabolism is so low it can hardly be measured, and as for the pressure, that green ice water you call blood
SPOCK: My physical condition is not important, Doctor. That obelisk is.
MCCOY: Well, my diagnosis is exhaustion brought on from overwork and guilt. You're blaming yourself for crippling this ship, just as we blamed you. Well, we were wrong. So were you. You made a command decision. Jim would have done the same. My prescription is rest, now. Do I have to call the security guards to enforce it?
(Spock goes and lies on his bed. McCoy leaves. Spock gets up again and returns to his study of the symbols.)
[Forest]
(Bare-chested Kirk is chasing laughing Miramanee through the trees.)
KIRK: Miramanee. Come here. Miramanee.
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome
Stardate: 4842.6
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
MIRAMANEE: Here there is much time. For everything.
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome
Stardate: 4842.6
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
[Bridge]
SPOCK: Co-ordinates, Mister Chekov.
CHEKOV: Tau eight point seven. Beta point zero four one.
SPOCK: That is our target. The asteroid's weakest point.
CHEKOV: Almost dead centre, sir.
SPOCK: Lock all phasers on that mark. Maximum intensity, narrow beam. I want to split that fissure wide open.
MCCOY: You sound like you're cutting a diamond.
SPOCK: Very astute, Doctor.
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome
Stardate: 4842.6
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
SALISH: Miramanee. What are you doing?
MIRAMANEE: I must see to the needs of the god, as is my duty.
SALISH: You should be working on our ritual cloak.
MIRAMANEE: There will be no ritual between us now, Salish.
SALISH: What do you mean? We cannot go against tradition.
MIRAMANEE: It is because of tradition that I cannot marry you.
SALISH: But you are promised to me.
MIRAMANEE: That was before he came.
SALISH: Tribal priestess and medicine chief are always joined.
MIRAMANEE: He is medicine chief now.
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome
Stardate: 4842.6
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
KIRK: I'm happy. I'm so happy. If it weren't for the dreams, my mind would be completely at peace.
MIRAMANEE: I thought you no longer had the dreams, that you no longer saw the strange lodge which moves through the sky.
KIRK: They've come back. They were gone for a while, but they've come back, and I see faces, too. Very dim. I feel I should know know them. I feel my place is with them, not here. I don't deserve this happiness.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083929/quotes
IMDb
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Quotes
Mr. Hand: What are you, people? On dope?
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome
Stardate: 4842.6
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
MIRAMANEE: Kirok. It is true. You are safe.
KIRK: And so are your people, Miramanee.
MIRAMANEE: I knew you would save them, my chief.
http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/t/thirteenth-floor-script-transcript-donofrio.html
Thirteenth Floor
Hi, honey, I'm home.
Did you miss me?
David.
When did you download?
Obviously, not soon enough.
I was just doing my job.
Sure you were.
He's shutting down
the system, isn't he?
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 04:18 AM Pacific Time somewhere near Seattle Washington USA Wednesday 22 January 2014
