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LAFORGE: We all grew up hearing about what you did. Or what you're about to do.
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Robert Sheckley
American writer
Robert Sheckley, (born July 16, 1928, Brooklyn, N.Y.—died Dec. 9, 2005, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), American writer who , was the author of a number of novels and short stories considered classics in the science-fiction genre; his works were noted for their dark humour and nihilistic outlook. Exceedingly prolific, he wrote or co-wrote some two dozen novels and at least 400 short stories. Among his most notable novels were The Status Civilization (1960), Journey Beyond Tomorrow (1962), Mindswap (1966), and Dimension of Miracles (1968). Perhaps his most famous short story, “The Seventh Victim” (1953), became the basis for the 1965 film La decima vittima (also known as The 10th Victim and The Tenth Victim). It was one of four stories by Sheckley that were made into films. Sheckley served as fiction editor of Omni magazine in the early 1980s. Many of his later stories were collected in Uncanny Tales (2003).
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IMMORTALITY, INC
by Robert Sheckley
PART ONE
1
Afterwards, Thomas Blaine thought about the manner of his dying and wished it had been more interesting. Why couldn't his death have come while he was battling a typhoon, meeting a tiger's charge, or climbing a windswept mountain? Why had his death been so tame, so commonplace, so ordinary?
But an enterprising death, he realized, would have been out of character for him. Undoubtedly he was meant to die in just the quick, common, messy, painless way he did. And all his life must have gone into the forming and shaping of that death — a vague indication in childhood, a fair promise in his college years, an implacable certainty at the age of thirty-two.
Still, no matter how commonplace, one's death is the most interesting event of one's life. Blaine thought about his with intense curiosity. He had to know about those minutes, those last precious seconds when his own particular death lay waiting for him on a dark New Jersey highway. Had there been some warning sign, some portent? What had he done, or not done? What had he been thinking? Those final seconds were crucial to him. How, exactly, had he died?
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Freejack (1992)
Quotes
Nun: [Aims shotgun at Alex] What are you and what are you doing here?
Alex Furlong: I don't know what I am... or where.
[Whispers to himself]
Alex Furlong: Maybe I died. What was it they called me?
Nun: Pathetic?
Alex Furlong: No.
[Looks up to her]
Alex Furlong: A freejack.
Nun: [Gasps] Holy shit.
From 7/16/1928 ( Robert Sheckley ) To 8/18/1990 ( the dedication of the Spokane Washington State Riverfront Park sculpture "The Childhood Express" ) is 22678 days
22678 = 11339 + 11339
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/18/1996 is 11339 days
From 5/12/1991 ( I was the winning race driver at the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix ) To 11/18/1996 is 2017 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/12/1971 ( Richard Nixon - Statement About House Approval of Funds for the Supersonic Transport Program ) is 2017 days
From 5/7/1992 ( the first launch of the US space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut ) To 11/18/1996 is 1656 days
1656 = 828 + 828
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/8/1968 ( premiere US film "Planet of the Apes" ) is 828 days
From 10/24/1962 ( premiere US film "The Manchurian Candidate" ) To 11/9/1993 ( the Stari Most in Mostar Bosnia-Herzegovina destroyed by artillery fire ) is 11339 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/18/1996 is 11339 days
From 11/9/1993 ( the Stari Most in Mostar Bosnia-Herzegovina destroyed by artillery fire ) To 11/18/1996 is 1105 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/11/1968 ( Lyndon Johnson - Presidential Unit Citation Awarded to SEAL TEAM ONE ,USN ) is 1105 days
From 12/4/1963 ( premiere US TV movie "Project: Man in Space" ) To 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 11339 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/18/1996 is 11339 days
From 2/11/1929 ( Vatican City established ) To 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) is 22678 days
22678 = 11339 + 11339
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/18/1996 is 11339 days
From 1/1/1960 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Letter to the Attorney General on Receiving His Report on Deceptive Practices in Broadcasting Media ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) is 11339 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/18/1996 is 11339 days
From 1/1/1960 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Letter to the Attorney General on Receiving His Report on Deceptive Practices in Broadcasting Media ) To 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 11339 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/18/1996 is 11339 days
From 7/3/1958 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Memorandum Concerning Proposed Agreement With the United Kingdom for Cooperation on Uses of Atomic Energy for Mutual Defense ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa ) is 11339 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/18/1996 is 11339 days
From 4/9/1986 ( --- ) To 11/18/1996 is 3876 days
3876 = 1938 + 1938
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/22/1971 ( premiere US TV series pilot "Sarge"::"The Badge or the Cross" ) is 1938 days
From 1/29/1959 ( premiere US film "Sleeping Beauty" ) To 11/18/1996 is 13808 days
13808 = 6904 + 6904
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/27/1984 ( from my official United States Navy documents: "UA from class from 0600-0800" ) is 6904 days
From 12/19/1984 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess the E-3 Seaman United States Navy I reported aboard the USS Taylor FFG 50 - from my official United States Navy documents ) To 11/18/1996 is 4352 days
4352 = 2176 + 2176
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/18/1971 ( Richard Nixon - Executive Order 11628 - Establishing a Seal for the Environmental Protection Agency ) is 2176 days
From 4/18/1988 ( the United States Navy Operation Praying Mantis - my biological brother US Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan and I US Navy FC2 Kerry Wayne Burgess are both at the same time onboard the United States Navy warship USS Wainwright CG 28 when it evaded a Harpoon anti-ship missile from hostile Iran-Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush-Axis of Evil-Soviet Union-Communist forces but 2 United States Marine Corps aviators launched from USS Wainwright CG 28 killed this day ) To 11/18/1996 is 3136 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/4/1974 ( construction begins of the United States space shuttle Enterprise ) is 3136 days
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Release Info
USA 18 November 1996 (Hollywood, California) (premiere)
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Full Cast & Crew
James Cromwell ... Zefram Cochran
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RIKER: I don't think you're a saint, Doc, but you did have a vision. ...And now we're sitting in it.
From 10/3/1964 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"Behold, Eck!" ) To 7/19/1989 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush kills 111 passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 232 and destroys the United Airlines Flight 232 aircraft because I was a passenger of United Airlines Flight 232 as United States Navy Petty Officer Second Class Kerry Wayne Burgess and I was assigned to maintain custody of a non-violent offender military prisoner of the United States ) is 9055 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/18/1990 is 9055 days
From 10/3/1964 ( Lyndon Johnson - Statement by the President Announcing a Change in the Foreign Service ) To 7/19/1989 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush kills 111 passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 232 and destroys the United Airlines Flight 232 aircraft because I was a passenger of United Airlines Flight 232 as United States Navy Petty Officer Second Class Kerry Wayne Burgess and I was assigned to maintain custody of a non-violent offender military prisoner of the United States ) is 9055 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/18/1990 is 9055 days
From 12/6/1979 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" ) To 8/18/1990 is 3908 days
3908 = 1954 + 1954
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/10/1971 ( premiere US TV movie "The Cat in the Hat" ) is 1954 days
From 8/8/1974 ( Richard Nixon - Address to the Nation Announcing Decision To Resign the Office of President of the United States ) To 8/18/1990 is 5854 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/12/1981 ( my biological brother United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan was the commander aboard the United States STS-2 Columbia spacecraft launching into orbit of the planet Earth ) is 5854 days
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spokanecity
Riverfront Park
Red Wagon
The Childhood Express
Have you ever seen a red wagon this big?
This “larger than life” symbol of childhood is also an interactive sculpture. The handle doubles as a slide! Relax on a park bench and enjoy the beauty of the park while your kids play. Or hey, slide down the handle yourself! (We won't tell anyone...)
The Junior League of Spokane plaque, dated August 18, 1990 reads: This sculpture is dedicated to Spokane's children, as a reflection of the past, created in the present, to last into the future.
Facts about the Red Wagon
Created for the Centennial Celebration of Children - 1989
Dimensions - 12' high x 12' wide x 27' long.
Weight - 26 tons.
Made of steel and reinforced concrete.
Will hold as many as 300 people supporting 100 lbs. per square foot.
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The Cat in the Hat (1971 TV Short)
Release Info
USA 10 March 1971
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
KIRK: V'Ger, ...V'Ger, ...V'Ger, ...we are the Creator.
ILIA PROBE: That is not possible. Carbon units are not true lifeforms.
KIRK (OC): We will prove it. We will make it possible for you to complete your programming. Only the Creator could accomplish that.
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The Cat in the Hat (1971 TV Short)
Quotes
Cat in the Hat: When you've mislaid a certain something, keep your cool and don't get hot. Calculatus Eliminatus is the best friend that you've got. Calculatus Eliminatus always helps an awful lot. The way to find a missing something is to find out where it's not.
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
CHAPEL (on viewscreen): I remember Lieutenant Ilia once mentioning that she wore this.
DECKER (on viewscreen): Put it on. ...On Delta, ...remember?
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The Cat In The Hat (2003)
Look out below!
Oh! Sorry. Over there.
Hey! Hey, hey!
Hey, hey!
Ohh!
Oh!
I got you!
Here he comes!
Cat!
- Where's my hat? Oh! Go! Go, go!
Go! Let's go!
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Release Info
USA 6 December 1979 (Washington, D.C.) (premiere)
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The Washington Post
By Art Buchwald
Tuesday, July 30, 1974; Page B01
In an old blue shoe.
Just go, go, GO!
Please do, do, do, DO!
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NASA
STS-2
Mission: Second Shuttle Mission/Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications-1 (OSTA-1)
Space Shuttle: Columbia
Launch Pad: 39A
Launched: Nov. 12, 1981 at 10:09:59 a.m. EST
Landing Site: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
Landing: Nov. 14, 1981 at 1:23:11 p.m. PST
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Homer Goes to College [ The Simpsons ]
Original airdate in N.A.: 14-Oct-93
Nixon: [bitterly] Oh, you'll pay. Don't think you won't pay!
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The Outer Limits - Original Season 2 Episode 3
Behold, Eck!
Aired Monday 8:00 PM Oct 03, 1964 on ABC
A scientist invents a pair of glasses which enable him to see and communicate with a two dimensional being.
AIRED: 10/3/64
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The Outer Limits - Original Season 2 Episode 3
Behold, Eck!
Aired Monday 8:00 PM Oct 03, 1964 on ABC
QUOTES
Control Voice: (closing narration) Paradoxically, man's endless search for knowledge has often plundered his courage and warped his vision, so that he has faced the unknown with terror rather than awe, and probed the darkness with a scream rather than a light. Yet there have always been men who have touched the texture of tomorrow with understanding and courage. Through these men, we may yet touch the stars.
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
[Enterprise-E bridge]
PICARD: Data, put Starfleet frequency one four eight six on audio.
DATA: Aye sir.
FLEET COMMUNICATIONS: Flagship to Endeavor. Standby to engage at grid A-fifteen. ...Defiant and Bozeman, fall back to mobile position one. ...Acknowledge. ...We have it in visual range. A Borg cube on course zero point two one five, speed warp point nine six.
BORG COMMUNICATIONS: We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
FLEET COMMUNICATIONS: All units open fire. ...They've broken through the defence perimeter. ... Continue to attack. ...We need reinforcements. ...Ninety-six dead and twenty-two wounded on the Lexington.
PICARD: Lieutenant Hawk. Set a course for Earth.
HAWK: Aye sir.
PICARD: Maximum warp. ...I am about to commit a direct violation of our orders. Any of you who wish to object should do so now. It will be noted in my log.
DATA: Captain, I believe I speak for everyone here, sir, when I say ...to hell with our orders.
RIKER: RED ALERT! All hands to battle stations.
PICARD: Engage.
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
COCHRANE: Okay, that wasn't so good.
TROI: Will, I think we have to tell him the truth.
RIKER: If we tell the truth the timeline...
TROI: Timeline! This is no time to argue about time. We don't have the time! ...What was I saying?
RIKER: You're drunk.
TROI: I am not.
RIKER: You are.
TROI: Look. He wouldn't even talk to me unless I had a drink with him. And then it took three shots of something called tequila just to find out he was the one we're looking for.
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
BARCLAY: Doctor Cochrane. I know this sounds silly, but can I shake your hand? ...Thank you, Doctor. I can't tell you what an honour it is to work with you on this project.
LAFORGE: Reg!
BARCLAY: I never imagined I'd be meeting the man who invented the warp drive.
LAFORGE: Reg!
BARCLAY: I'm sorry. Right. ...Thanks.
COCHRANE: Do they have to keep doing this?
LAFORGE: It's just a little hero worship, Doctor. To tell you the truth I can't say I blame them. We all grew up hearing about what you did. Or what you're about to do. You know I probably shouldn't be telling you this but I went to Zefram Cochrane High School.
COCHRANE: Really?
LAFORGE: You know? I wish I had a picture of this.
COCHRANE: What?
LAFORGE: Oh well, you see, in the future this whole area becomes an historical monument. You're standing almost on the exact spot where your statue's gonna be.
COCHRANE: Statue?
LAFORGE: Yeah! It's marble, about twenty metres tall and you're looking up at the sky. Your hand sort of reaching to the future.
COCHRANE: I gotta to take a leak!
LAFORGE: Leak? I'm not detecting any leak.
COCHRANE: Don't you people from the twenty-fourth century ever pee?
LAFORGE: Oh, leak, I get it. ...That's pretty funny.
COCHRANE: Excuse me.
CREWWOMAN: Commander?
(a female engineer shows Geordi a padd)
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IMMORTALITY, INC
by Robert Sheckley
PART ONE
1
The other car's headlights were very near.
Blaine noticed, with a sense of shock, that he had increased speed to eighty miles an hour.
He let up on the accelerator. His car swerved freakishly, violently, toward the oncoming headlights.
Blowout? Steering failure? He twisted hard on the steering wheel. It wouldn't turn. His car struck the low concrete separation between north and south lanes, and bounded high into the air. The steering wheel came free and spun in his hands, and the engine wailed like a lost soul.
The other car was trying to swerve, too late. They were going to meet nearly head-on.
And Blaine thought, yes, I'm one of them. I'm one of those silly bastards you read about whose cars go out of control and kill innocent people. Christ! Modern cars and modern roads and higher speeds and the same old sloppy reflexes…
Suddenly, unaccountably, the steering wheel was working again, a razor's edge reprieve. Blaine ignored it. As the other car's headlights glared across his windshield, his mood suddenly changed from regret to exultance. For a moment he welcomed the smash, lusted for it, and for pain, destruction, cruelty and death.
Then the cars came together. The feeling of exultance faded as quickly as it had come. Blaine felt a profound regret for all he had left undone, the waters unsailed, movies unseen, books unread, girls untouched— He was thrown forward. The steering wheel broke off in his hands. The steering column speared him through the chest and broke his spine as his head drove through the thick safety glass.
At that instant he knew he was dying.
An instant later he was quickly, commonly, messily, painlessly dead.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 7:39 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 07 October 2015
