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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 06/22/09 3:40 PM
That first week I was working at Microsoft beginning Monday, 12/7/1998, the group of people I worked with went to see the premiere of "Star Trek: Nemesis" [ CORRECTION: "Star Trek: Insurrection" ] during the workday, which I think was a Wednesday or it could have been a Thursday. I don't think it was Friday but I cannot recall for certain. Anyway, I had that white van from Avis that they gave me to drive until my car arrived as it was being shipped from South Carolina with the rest of my household items and I drove several people from that group at Microsoft to the theatre. I remember Ken Burns was there and Wally Simpson and Rhonda Halfmann I think, I remember Ken Burns for certain maybe Wally. I might be thinking Rhonda was there because she was with us in Texas a few weeks later and I was driving a van down there as well. So anyway I think it was Ken Burns that was commenting about the movie after it was over and we got back to the van and I was driving us back to the office and my first comment in the conversation after watching the film was that I complained about how they did not even go to "warp" speed during the movie.


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The Spokesman-Review


LOCAL NEWS

Snowstorm set to hit after sundown on Thursday

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 7, 2016, 3:05 P.M.

By Mike Prager

An impressive winter storm is now expected to reach the Spokane region after dusk on Thursday and could make driving tough for the Friday morning commute.

National Weather forecasters on Wednesday said the snow should arrive several hours later than initially thought with its intensity picking up Thursday evening and on through the night.

A winter storm watch was in effect from 6 p.m. on Thursday through 4 p.m. on Friday afternoon.

The storm’s approach will be accompanied by gusty northeast winds Thursday afternoon with a high in the middle 20s and gusts to 21 mph.

The wind chill on skin will make the air feel like the temperature is minus-1.

One to 3 inches of snow is likely by Friday morning in the Spokane region with more snow in or near the mountains, especially the Cascades, forecasters said.

But the snowfall should continue at times through Saturday, keeping roadways slippery.

The latest forecast calls for 1 to 2 inches during each 12-hour period on Friday, Friday night and Saturday in the Spokane region.

“We are most concerned now about the Friday morning commute,” said Greg Koch, forecaster for the weather service in Spokane.

Mountain passes could become a travel problem with more than a foot of snow likely.

The large Pacific storm is expected to affect western Washington and Oregon where a combination of snow, sleet, freezing rain and rain are in the forecasts there.

A feed of moisture from subtropical waters in the Pacific Ocean is going to run over cold air in place from this week’s hard freeze.

Light, dry snow with less water content will result. Dry snow is generally easier to drive through.

Also, pavement temperatures are now below freezing, which should prevent the snow from breaking down and refreezing as ice.

The latest thinking by forecasters calls for light snow falling on and off over at least 48 hours with the parent low pressure area stalling off the Washington coast.

Moderate accumulations may result because of the extended time frame for the storm.

Highs should go into the lower 30s by Saturday and Sunday with lows in the middle 20s. Those are normal temperatures for this time of year.










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IMDb


Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

Release Info

USA 11 December 1998










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Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)


[Captain's yacht]

DATA (OC): Re-routing the transport grid to avoid detection was wise, sir. However the transporter is rarely used after oh two hundred hours.

(Geordi and Riker (in uniform), Troi, Worf, Crusher and Data (in civilian clothes) descend on a lift)

TROI: Taking the Captain's yacht out for a spin?

WORF: Seven metric tons of ultritium explosives, eight tetryon pulse launchers, ten isomagnetic disintegrators.

RIKER: Looks like you're planning on doing some hunting?

PICARD: Return to your quarters. ...That's an order.

RIKER: No uniform? No orders.










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Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)


DOUGHERTY: Let me talk to Picard.

RU'AFO: Talk! We should send down an assault team and take them by force.

DOUGHERTY: That is not an acceptable option. If people get hurt, all the support we have in the Federation...

RU'AFO: Federation support, Federation procedures, Federation rules. ...Look in the mirror, Admiral. The Federation is old. In the past twenty-four months, they've been challenged by every major power in the Quadrant. The Borg, the Cardassians, the Dominion. They all smell the scent of death on the Federation. That's why you've embraced our offer, because it will give your dear Federation new life. Well, how badly do you want it, Admiral? Because there are hard choices to be made. Now! If the Enterprise gets through with news about their brave Captain's valiant struggle on behalf of the defenceless Ba'ku, your Federation politicians will waver, your Federation opinion polls will open a public debate, your Federation allies will want their say. ...Need I go on?

GALLATIN: There is an alternative to an all-out assault. Isolinear tags would allow our transporters to lock on to them.

RU'AFO: We'd have to tag every one of them. That would take time and we don't have it. The Enterprise is only nineteen hours from communications range with the Federation.

DOUGHERTY: I'll order Riker to turn around.

RU'AFO: Picard's first officer. Do you really believe he'll listen? My ships are capable of intercepting the Enterprise before it reaches the perimeter. I could send them to ...to escort it back, ...but Commander Riker might not want to come.

DOUGHERTY: Send your ships.










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DOUGHERTY: You're looking well, Jean-Luc. ...Rested.

PICARD: I won't let you move them, Admiral. I will take this to the Federation Council.

DOUGHERTY: I'm acting on orders form the Federation Council.

PICARD: How can there be an order to abandon the Prime Directive?

DOUGHERTY: The Prime Directive doesn't apply. These people are not indigenous to this planet. They were never meant to be immortal. We'll simply be restoring them to their natural evolution.

PICARD: Who the hell are we to determine the next course of evolution for these people?

DOUGHERTY: Jean-Luc, there are six hundred people down there. We'll be able to use the regenerative properties of this radiation to help billions. ...The Son'a have developed a procedure to collect the metaphasic particles from the planets rings.

PICARD: A planet in Federation space.

DOUGHERTY: That's right. We have the planet. They have the technology. ...A technology we can't duplicate. You know what that makes us? ...Partners.

PICARD: Our partners are nothing more than petty thugs.

DOUGHERTY: On Earth, petroleum once turned petty thugs into world leaders. Warp drive transformed a bunch of Romulan thugs into an Empire. We can handle the Son'a. I'm not worried about that.

PICARD: Someone probably said the same thing about the Romulans a century ago.

DOUGHERTY: With metaphasics, life spans will be doubled. ...An entire new medical science will evolve. I understand your Chief Engineer has the use of his eyes for the first time in his life. ...Would you take that away from him?

PICARD: There are metaphasic particles all over the Briar Patch. Why does it have to be this planet?

DOUGHERTY: It's the concentration in the rings that makes the whole damned thing work. Don't ask me to explain it. I only know they inject something into the rings that starts a thermolytic reaction. When it's over, the planet will be uninhabitable for generations.

PICARD: Admiral, delay the procedure. Let my people look at the technology.

DOUGHERTY: Our best scientific minds already have. We can't find any other way to do this.

PICARD: Then the Son'a can establish a separate colony on this planet until we do.

DOUGHERTY: It would take ten years of normal exposure to begin to reverse their condition. Some of them won't survive that long. Besides, they don't want to live in the middle of the Briar Patch. ...Who would?

PICARD: The Ba'ku. ...We are betraying the principles upon which the Federation was founded. It's an attack upon its very soul. ...And it will destroy the Ba'ku ...just as cultures have been destroyed in every other forced relocation throughout history.

DOUGHERTY: Jean-Luc, we are only moving six hundred people.

PICARD: How many people does it take, Admiral, before it becomes wrong? A thousand? Fifty thousand? A million? How many people does it take, Admiral?










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(Picard knocks at the door, Anij answers it)

PICARD: How old are you?

SOJEF: We came here from a solar system on the verge of self-annihilation, ...where technology had created weapons that threatened to destroy all life. A small group of us set off to find a new home, ...a home that would be isolated from the threats of other worlds. ...That was three hundred and nine years ago.

PICARD: And you haven't aged a day since then?

SOJEF: Actually, I was a good deal older when we arrived ...in terms of my physical condition.

ANIJ: There's an unusual metaphasic radiation coming from the planet's rings. It continuously regenerates our genetic structure. You must have noticed the effects by now.










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(Picard and Anij are taking a walk)

ANIJ: We've always known that to survive, we had to remain apart. It hasn't been easy. Many of the young people want to know more about the offland. ...They're attracted to stories of a faster pace of life.

PICARD: Most of my people who live that faster life would sell their souls to slow it down.

ANIJ: But not you?

PICARD: There are days!

ANIJ: You don't live up to your reputation as an offlander, Picard.

PICARD: Well, in defence of offlanders, there are many more people like me.

ANIJ: Who wouldn't be tempted by the promise of perpetual youth? ...I don't think so.

PICARD: You give me more credit than I deserve. Well, of course, I'm tempted. Who wouldn't be? ...But some of the darkest chapters in the history of my world involve the forced relocation of a small group of people to satisfy the demands of a large one. I'd hoped we had learned from our mistakes, but ...it seems that some of us haven't.

(Picard pauses to inspect some beautifully handcrafted quilts)

PICARD: This is extraordinary craftsmanship.

ANIJ: It's the work of students. ...They're almost ready to become apprentices. In thirty or forty years, some of them will take their place among the artisans.

PICARD: Apprenticing for thirty years... ...Did your people's mental discipline develop here?

ANIJ: More questions. Always the explorer. ...If you stay long enough, that'll change.

PICARD: Will it?

ANIJ: You stop reviewing what happened yesterday, ...stop planning for tomorrow. ...Let me ask you a question. ...Have you ever experienced a perfect moment in time?

PICARD: A perfect moment?

ANIJ: When time seemed to stop ...and you could almost live in that moment.

PICARD: Seeing my home planet from space for the first time.

ANIJ: Exactly. Nothing more complicated than perception. ...You explore the universe. We have discovered that a single moment in time can be a universe in itself, ...full of powerful forces. ...Most people aren't aware enough of the now to even notice.

PICARD: I wish I could spare a few centuries to learn.

ANIJ: It took us centuries to learn that it doesn't have to take centuries to learn it.



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 4:42 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 07 December 2016