https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/08/thirty-four-years-voyager-2-continues-explore/
NASA SPACEFLIGHT.COM
Thirty-four years after launch, Voyager 2 continues to explore
August 20, 2011 by Chris Gebhardt and Jeff Goldader
Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Neptune – and its closest approach to any object planet other than Earth – on August 24, 1989 at 23:56.39 EDT.
https://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/1F02.html
Homer Goes to College [ The Simpsons television series archive ]
Original airdate in N.A.: 14-Oct-93
[ Opening scenes of the television series episode ]
It's another lazy day at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Homer sits snoring at his desk, his old, faithful dog snoozing in a chair next to him. Lenny has craftily constructed a hammock for himself in another room.
In his sleep, Homer rests his head on the control panel in front of him -- directly on the "PLANT DESTRUCT: PLEASE DO NOT PUSH" button. The control room becomes awash in the red glow of emergency lights, and the automated female voice says, "Core meltdown in ten seconds...nine..." Homer's dog wakes up, hears the voice, and pulls the reset lever with his mouth. The voice announces, "Meltdown averted...good boy."
Mr. Burns, too, is asleep in his chair, its back to his wall of monitors. Yes, even the people on the monitors are asleep too. Smithers sleeps, curled up beside Burns' chair. His leg twitches, and he moans softly in his sleep.
Outside, in the parking lot, the Nuclear Inspection Van recreational vehicle pulls up. Three white hard-hatted, lab-jacketed inspectors jump out and press the buzzer at the entrance to the plant.
Agent 1: [presses the buzzer]
Burns: [awakening, over the intercom] Mmm...hmm...what? How dare you disturb me during nap time.
Agent 1: We're from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. This is a surprise test of worker competence.
Burns: There must be some mistake. We, er, we make cookies here: Mr. Burns' Olde-Fashioned Good-Time Extra-Chewy --
Agent 2: [to Agent 3] Get the axe.
Smithers and Burns watch from the window as the inspectors lead some plant employees into their vehicle.
Burns: The watchdog of public safety...is there any lower form of life?
Smithers: Don't worry sir, I rounded up our less gifted employees and led them into the basement.
[Shot of the basement with Homer and two other guys]
Bernie: Duh, Homer, why are we down here?
Homer: Aw, geez. I told you, Bernie: to guard the bee!
Man: But why?
Homer: Aw, you guys are pathetic. No wonder Smithers made me head bee-guy.
[Homer kicks the jar accidentally, smashing it, and the bee escapes]
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https://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/1F02.html
Homer Goes to College [ The Simpsons television series archive ]
Original airdate in N.A.: 14-Oct-93
The inspectors want to test Homer's competence next, but Smithers apologizes for him, saying, "He couldn't _bee_ here." Burns fobs them off with some excuse about Homer chairing a conference on nuclear fission in Geneva. Unfortunately, Homer jumps up through a manhole cover just then, exclaiming, "The bee bit my bottom!
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http://www.salon.com/2004/09/09/bush_guard_duty/
SALON
THURSDAY, SEP 9, 2004 04:45 PM PDT
Stung!
A swarm of new media stories on young George W. Bush's dereliction of duty pops his heroic-leadership bubble.
BY ERIC BOEHLERT
TOPICS: GEORGE W. BUSH, TEXAS, NEWS
On Feb. 13, as controversy swirled around President Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War, the White House released more than 400 pages of documents on the press corps, proving, it claimed, that Bush had served honorably and fulfilled his commitment. The sudden rush of records, often redundant, jumbled and out of chronological order, generally left reporters baffled. From Bush’s point of view, the document dump was a political success, as the controversy cooled and the paper trail ran dry.
In retrospect, it’s doubtful that even White House aides understood all the information embedded in the records, specifically the payroll documents. It’s also unlikely they realized how damaging the information could be when read in the proper context. Seven months later, the document dump is coming back to haunt the White House, thanks to researcher Paul Lukasiak, who has spent that time closely examining the paperwork, and more important, analyzing U.S. statutory law, Department of Defense regulations, and Air Force policies and procedures of the 1960s and 1970s. As a result, Lukasiak arrived at the overwhelming conclusion that not only did Bush walk away from his final two years of military obligation, coming dangerously close to desertion, but he attempted to cover up his absenteeism through swindle and fraud.
Lukasiak’s findings, detailed on his Web site the AWOL Project, have since been bolstered and augmented by independent research by the Boston Globe and the Associated Press. On Wednesday, CBS News reported what may be among the most damaging details yet: that Bush’s squadron commander, the late Col. Jerry Killian, complained he was being pressured by higher-ups to give Bush a favorable evaluation after he suspended him from flying for failure to take his annual physical exam. Titled “CYA,” Killian’s memo concluded, “I’m having trouble running interference and doing my job.”
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http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-02-15-bush-record_x.htm
USA TODAY
Posted 2/15/2004 11:03 PM Updated 2/16/2004 9:37 AM
Why Bush stopped flying remains a mystery
By Dave Moniz and Jim Drinkard, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Officers who flew fighter-jet patrols in the early 1970s with George W. Bush describe him as a gung-ho warrior and a gifted pilot who was popular in his Texas Air National Guard unit.
"He was a hell of a good pilot," one of Bush's former commanding officers, Walter B. "Buck" Staudt, recalled in December 2000, shortly after Bush was elected president. In 1971, he rated among the top 10% of fellow pilots. (Related: President Bush's military records)
The positive descriptions of Bush's military service make his sudden decision to quit flying in the spring of 1972 — two years before his pilot commitment was up — all the more puzzling.
Why 1st Lt. Bush stopped flying F-102 fighters remains murky despite the release on Friday of more than 400 pages of records detailing his Guard service from the time he enlisted until he was discharged.
An examination by USA TODAY of all the Bush records released to the public and interviews with pilots, Bush's Guard comrades and military personnel experts suggests Bush was treated differently from most pilots:
Bush was accepted into pilot school even though he scored in the 25th percentile on a standardized test. The test was given to all prospective pilots and there was no specific score that disqualified a candidate. In addition, Bush had two arrests for college pranks and four traffic offenses before applying for pilot training. Former and current military pilots say it was uncommon for an applicant to be approved for training with such a record.
There is no record of a formal procedure called a "flying evaluation board," which normally would have been convened once Bush stopped flying in April 1972.
Bush's records do not show he was given another job in the Air Guard once he quit flying. Pilots and Bush comrades say his records should reflect some type of new duties he was assigned.
Asked for an explanation about why Bush stopped flying, the White House said Bush "served admirably" in the Guard, was given permission by commanders to fulfill his obligations in ways that did not involve flying and was honorably discharged. "President Bush is proud of his service," said Dan Bartlett, communications director.
'Highly unusual' circumstances
Bush, whose father was in Congress at the time, was selected for Air Force pilot training, a highly competitive process, despite the speeding tickets and automobile accidents. He had also been arrested for two incidents considered college pranks: stealing a wreath in New Haven, Conn., and rowdiness at a college football game.
The combination of arrests and traffic violations and the score in the bottom quarter of those who took the pilot exam usually would have cast doubt on most applicants who were applying for pilot training, four former and current National Guard fighter pilots and one former Air Force pilot said. All served in the 1970s.
After Bush stopped flying fighter jets in April 1972 and did not take an annual physical examination required of all pilots, the Air Force should have required a hearing known as a flying evaluation board to determine his fitness to fly. Because the federal government spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to train each pilot, it typically did not allow them to stop flying without a formal proceeding. Bush's records do not mention a flying evaluation board.
The president's advisers and friends have explained that Bush stopped flying because his unit was phasing out the F-102 in 1972. They also say he was not able to get a required flight physical in Alabama, where his records show he was granted permission to train in the fall of 1972. Bartlett said there was no need for a physical exam because Bush stopped flying.
Guard records, however, show pilots in Bush's unit in Texas were still flying the F-102 in 1974, a year after Bush left the Guard.
And Bush would likely have been able to get a flight doctor in Alabama to give him a physical. The White House released records last week showing that Bush had received a dental exam at Dannelly Air National Guard Base in Montgomery, Ala., in January 1973.
Pilots who stop flying are given other Guard duties. In Air Force jargon, it's called DNIF, or Duties Not to Include Flying, which is a written order. There is no indication in Bush's records that his supervisors assigned him another job. Aides say Bush has told them that once he stopped flying, he performed "odds and ends" for commanders whose names he can't recall.
So far just one Alabama Guard member, John Calhoun, has come forward with specific recollections of seeing Bush on duty at Dannelly. He said he saw him eight to 10 times from May to October 1972.
John Richardson, a former Air Guard, Air Force and Air Reserve fighter pilot who served from 1978 to 2001, said regulations for Air Guard pilots during the early 1970s were much more relaxed than they are today. But even by the standards of the time, Richardson said, Bush's selection for pilot training and the circumstances under which he stopped flying are "highly unusual."
When Bush joined the National Guard in 1968, the United States was losing more than 250 troops a week in the Vietnam War. The combat deaths disproportionately excluded the sons of privileged families, some of whom used family connections to enlist in the Guard, which was rarely called for Vietnam duty. At that time, before the all-volunteer military was created, the Pentagon used draftees to fill its need for forces in Vietnam.
When Bush applied for membership in the Texas Air National Guard, it was collegial, almost exclusively white and, like other Air Guard units around the USA, far less professional than today.
"The attitude of a typical unit was more like a flying club than a professional military organization," said Chuck Devlaming, a Florida attorney who served two tours of duty in Vietnam and flew fighters for the Air Force and Air Guard from 1968 to 1988.
Devlaming also said, however, that it would be inaccurate to describe Bush or his comrades as performing safe duty during wartime. Flying a fighter jet anywhere, he said, is inherently dangerous.
The unit that Bush was assigned to in Texas, the 147th Fighter Group, defended the continental USA from enemy bomber attacks. Its pilots flew a hard-to-fly fighter jet called the F-102 Delta Dagger. Because most pilots who flew for the Air Guard were part-time officers who had other jobs, commanders were more lax about records and the whereabouts of pilots than Air Force pilots.
Bush's peers remember him as a good flier who, in his first two years as a pilot in 1970-71, flew his share of missions from Ellington Air Force Base in Houston.
Failed to retake physical
Then something happened.
In the spring of 1972, Bush's records show he stopped showing up for drills at his unit in Texas at about the time he requested a transfer to an Alabama Air National Guard unit. Military records indicate he requested the transfer so he could work for the political campaign of Winton "Red" Blount, a Republican candidate for the Senate and a friend of Bush's father.
Bush's last flight physical, taken in 1971, expired on July 6, 1972. He did not renew it, as required of all military pilots, which is noted in his National Guard records. He was suspended from flying in August for missing the exam.
http://www.njarmyguard.com/cprocessing/
NEW JERSEY ARMY NATIONAL GUARD
Processing Applicants
Chapter 5
Processing Applicants
l. Test scores will be invalidated for any individual found to be a “ringer” for an applicant. A ringer is an individual who takes the ASVAB in place of the true applicant. Both the ringer and the applicant will be barred from retesting for a period of not less than 2 years.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/quotes
IMDb
Forrest Gump (1994)
Quotes
Forrest Gump: They said it was a million dollar wound, but the army must keep that money 'cause I still haven't seen a nickel of that million dollars.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20061108&slug=webrumsfeld08
The Seattle Times
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Rumsfeld quitting; will be replaced by former CIA head
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON – President Bush said today that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was resigning and named former CIA Director Robert Gates to replace him at the Pentagon.
Bush seemed stoic about the election, proclaiming: "This isn't my first rodeo."
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213817/releaseinfo
IMDb
Lone Star Roundup (1951)
Release Info
USA 2 October 1951
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Full post by me on this topic: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/09/where-what-how-who-am-i.html
http://www.tv.com/shows/ncis/once-a-hero-884107/
tv.com
NCIS Season 4 Episode 8
Once a Hero
Aired Tuesday 8:00 PM Nov 14, 2006 on CBS
Episode Summary
When an honored Marine veteran is found dead in a hotel, the NCIS team must find out what happened to him. Soon they realize that the Marine didn't commit suicide and that he was a homeless man. After going through his stuff, they find compromising evidence against him, and Gibbs is determined to prove the man's innocence.
AIRED: 11/14/06
MCGEE: Corporal Luis Romero, United States Marine Corps. One tour, Afghanistan. Honorable discharge eighteen months ago. Since then, hotel maintenance supervisor.
ROMERO: So I’m a former Marine. Lot of guys are.
MCGEE: Not at this hotel.
GIBBS: We look after our own, don’t we, Luis?
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=1324
The American Presidency Project
William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993 - 2001
Remarks at the Dedication of the Harry S. Truman Building
September 22, 2000
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http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/homer-goes-to-college-1369/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 5 Episode 3
Homer Goes to College
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Oct 14, 1993 on FOX
Episode Summary
After learning that Homer is seriously underqualified for his own job, Mr. Burns enrolls him at Springfield University. While there, he befriends three nerds and accidentally gets them expelled.
AIRED: 10/14/93
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265086/quotes
IMDb
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Quotes
Pilot: Mike Durant, we won't leave you behind.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: August 25, 2006
Another day, another lifetime of humiliation.
I wonder if the Navy has a ribbon for being a political prisoner of war.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 25 August 2006 excerpt ends]
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-10-15/news/mn-45967_1_somalia-policy
Los Angeles Times
Somalis Free U.S. Pilot; Lawmakers Back Clinton Aims : Africa: President cites Durant's release as sign his policy is working. Aidid surfaces, tells reporters it was goodwill gesture. Senators agree to accept March 31 pullout date.
October 15, 1993 JOHN M. BRODER and MICHAEL ROSS TIMES STAFF WRITERS
WASHINGTON — Army helicopter pilot Michael J. Durant, badly battered but apparently in good spirits, was freed Thursday by Somali rebels after 11 days in captivity. President Clinton hailed Durant's release as evidence that his new Somalia policy is working, while insisting that he had cut "no deals" to secure the airman's freedom.
Hours later, on Capitol Hill, Clinton won at least a partial victory when the Senate passed a resolution to back the President's aims for Somalia. The measure accepts Clinton's March 31 date for withdrawal of American forces from the African nation but would force him to meet that deadline by withholding funding for the operation after that date.
The 76-23 vote to approve the resolution came early today, after three days of intense negotiations. It was the first time since the end of the Vietnam War that Congress has exercised its constitutional "power of the purse" to cut off appropriated funds for an American military venture abroad.
Somali clan leader Mohammed Farah Aidid, declaring in a Mogadishu press conference that "I am not a warlord," said he ordered the release of Durant and Nigerian soldier Umar Shantali as a gesture of goodwill after appeals from the United Nations, the United States and African leaders.
Aidid summoned Red Cross representatives to a walled compound in Mogadishu, where they removed Durant and Shantali and transported them to a U.N. hospital in the Somali capital. The Red Cross aides, accompanied by a Swiss surgeon and mediators from Ethiopia and Eritrea, carried the American pilot out on a stretcher, a clean flowered sheet covering a severely broken leg. Durant winced in pain as he was moved but flashed a thumbs-up sign to onlookers. He declined to speak to reporters.
Several hours after learning of Durant's release, Clinton called a news conference to welcome the act as vindication of his week-old Somalia policy, which combines a reinforced military presence with a new political initiative designed to end factional fighting and attacks on U.N. and U.S. peacekeepers.
"That demonstrates that we are moving in the right direction and that we are making progress," Clinton declared. "Now we have to maintain our commitment to finishing the job we started."
Clinton said that he made no implicit or explicit promises to Aidid to win Durant's freedom.
"I want to . . . emphasize that we made no deals to secure the release of Chief Warrant Officer Durant," Clinton said. "We had strong resolve. We showed that we were willing to support the resumption of the peace process and we showed that we were determined to protect our soldiers and to react, when appropriate, by strengthening our position there."
However, Clinton seemed to retreat further from the previously stated American intention of capturing Aidid, whom the Administration and the United Nations hold responsible for the June 5 killing of 24 Pakistani peacekeepers. Clinton held open the possibility of Aidid's participating in Somali reconciliation talks and possibly even becoming the nation's leader.
Clinton accepted responsibility for Somalia policy having gone badly awry in recent weeks, culminating in the deaths Oct. 3 of 18 U.S. soldiers in an operation that captured two Aidid lieutenants and other followers.
"The United States being a police officer in Somalia was turned into the waging of conflict and a highly personalized battle which undermined the political process. That is what was wrong and that is what we have attempted to correct in the last few days," the President said.
He said that he had called off the military manhunt for Aidid and was open to other possible ways of going about fixing responsibility for the slayings of the Pakistanis.
The United States did not dispatch more than 11,000 troops to Somalia "to prove we can win military battles," Clinton said.
"No one seriously questions the fact that we could clean out that whole section of Mogadishu (controlled by Aidid) with minimum loss to ourselves if that's what we wanted to do," he said. "The reports today say that 300 Somalis were killed and 700 more were wounded in the firefight that cost our people their lives last week. That is not our mission. We did not go there to do that."
Clinton also said it is not the United States' job to rebuild Somalia or to create a workable political structure out of the current chaos. Washington will not dictate Mogadishu's political future or who will play a part in it, he said.
"It is not for the United States or for the United Nations to eliminate whole groups of people from having a role in Somalia's future," Clinton said.
Clinton said that it will be a U.N. decision whether to release 32 Aidid aides captured by U.N. forces. Their release was demanded by Aidid while his forces held Durant.
In an interview with a group of Western reporters in a hide-out in Mogadishu, Aidid said that he expects the U.N. force to free the detained members of his group, the Somali National Alliance.
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-10-15/news/mn-45967_1_somalia-policy/2
Los Angeles Times
(Page 2 of 2)
Somalis Free U.S. Pilot; Lawmakers Back Clinton Aims : Africa: President cites Durant's release as sign his policy is working. Aidid surfaces, tells reporters it was goodwill gesture. Senators agree to accept March 31 pullout date.
October 15, 1993 JOHN M. BRODER and MICHAEL ROSS TIMES STAFF WRITERS
Aidid, appearing relaxed and wearing a crisp striped shirt and tie, said that "respecting the international opinion," his militia decided to release Durant and Shantali, whom he referred to as "the two prisoners of war."
He said that he wants the United States to reciprocate by freeing his followers.
Aidid, leaning on a walking stick as he spoke, welcomed Washington's shift in Somalia policy as a decision to "correct its past mistakes."
After winning his freedom, Durant was carried into the 46th U.S. Army Field Hospital in Mogadishu, where fellow soldiers cheered him.
Maj. John Holcomb, an Army physician, examined the 32-year-old pilot to determine the extent of his injuries, which included a compound fracture of his leg, a broken right orbital bone just below the eye, a compressed fracture of his second vertebra and a superficial gunshot wound on his left arm and shoulder. Holcomb said that he expects the wounds to heal without complications.
After the exam, Durant called his wife, Lorrie, at Ft. Campbell, Ky. She will be flying to meet him when he is airlifted to Landstuhl, Germany, for further treatment. That trip is expected today.
Later in the day, Clinton called Durant to express his gratitude for the pilot's "service and bravery," the White House said. Durant told the President he had been well treated during his detention and looked forward to his return home.
The Defense Department also announced Thursday that it is sending an additional 1,000 Army personnel to Somalia, beyond the new troops announced last week, which will bring the total U.S. force to about 11,400, including 3,600 Marines stationed aboard ships offshore. The Senate compromise on the Somalia resolution thwarts an effort by Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) to require Clinton to remove all troops from Somalia by Feb. 1. But it also forces the President to sharply narrow the Somalia mission and to accept an absolute cutoff of funds after March 31.
Besides terminating the funding for the Somalia mission, the resolution limits the tasks to be performed by U.S. troops until March 31 to protecting themselves and other U.S. personnel in Somalia and providing logistic and security support to ensure that supply lines remain open for the U.N. forces distributing relief aid.
It says that a "limited number" of American troops could remain in Somalia after March 31, but only in such small numbers as would be necessary to protect U.S. diplomatic personnel and "noncombat" American U.N. advisers.
Battlestar Galactica - television miniseries premiere episode - Monday 08 December 2003 USA
(from internet transcript of incomplete dialog)
Lt. Gaeta: Morning, sir.
William Adama, commander of the interstellar warship Battlestar Galactica: Good morning.
Gaeta: Comm traffic from the mid-watch.
Adama. Hmm. Anything interesting?
Gaeta: Uhh, mostly housekeeping. Ah, there was one odd message, the one that we were copied on from fleet headquarters there, sir. Courier officer's overdue coming back from Armistice Station. They've asked for a full status report on all FTL (faster-than-light) capable ships, just in case they need someone to jump out there today, see if his ship is having any mechanical problems.
Adama: I think we're a little bit busy today, wouldn't you say so, Lieutenant?
Gaeta: (smiling) Yes, sir.
Adama: I'm glad we agree.
Battlestar Galactica - television miniseries premiere episode - Monday 08 December 2003 USA
(from internet transcript of incomplete dialog)
[ Opening scenes of the miniseries television program ]
Caption: The Cylons were created by man.
They were created to make life easier on the Twelve Colonies.
(Image of a ship docking with a space station.)
And then the day came when the Cylons decided to kill their masters.
(Door opens. Man in Colonial uniform walks down a hallway, sits at a small table with two chairs, opens his briefcase.)
After a long and bloody struggle, an armistice was declared. The Cylons left for another world to call their own.
(The man is looking at paperwork on the Cylons - drawings, specifications.)
A remote space station was built...
...where Cylon and Human could meet and maintain diplomatic relations.
Every year, the colonials send an officer.
The Cylons send no one.
No one has seen or heard from the Cylons in over forty years.
(Close-up on pictures of the man's wife and young son.)
(The man is nodding off to sleep. Suddenly, the doors open and two metallic Cylons walk in and flank the doorway. We hear high heels clicking in the corridor, and a blonde woman in a red suit enters the frame and walks down the hallway towards the man. She leans against his side of the table and bends over him.)
Woman (let's call her Number Six): Are you alive?
Man: (confused but eager) Yes.
Battlestar Galactica - television miniseries premiere episode - Monday 08 December 2003 USA
(from internet transcript of incomplete dialog)
(Dualla gets a printout from one of the machines)
Gaeta: What's the latest, Dee?
Dualla: A lot of confusion. I keep getting these weird reports about equipment malfunctions.
Gaeta: Why is that weird?
Dualla: It's the number of malfunctions. One report said an entire Battlestar lost power just before it came in contact with the enemy. They said it was like someone just turned off a switch.
(Back with the squadron as ominous music plays)
Helo: Cylon formation ahead. We're down to two confirmed Cylons now. Approaching visual range.
CAG: Okay, Boomer, we'll take it from here. You back way off.
Boomer: Roger that.
CAG: All right boys and girls, you break into attack formation. Now, there might only be two of them, but I want you to stick with your wingman, and do not get overconfident.
Random pilot 1: Anybody know what these things look like?
Random pilot 2: Pictures I've seen of the old Cylon fighters, it's gonna look like a big flying wing.
Random pilot 1 (I think): Those pictures are 40 years old.
CAG: Okay, keep the chatter down.
Boomer: CAG, Boomer. We've got a lot more contacts showing up. Looks like a couple of squadrons at least.
CAG: All Vipers, weapons free. Let's go get 'em.
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http://www.tv.com/shows/space-patrol/treachery-of-mars-228868/
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Space Patrol Season 1 Episode 1
Treachery of Mars
Aired Weekdays 5:45 PM Dec 30, 1950 on ABC
Episode Summary
Buzz Corry, the Commander of the Space Patrol is in route from the planet Terra to Earth. He is accompanied by Cadet Happy, a new Cadet and winner of the Corry Scholarship. They spot what appears to be a derelict guided missile. As they move to destroy the derelict, its engines fire and the missile launches toward the commander's craft. The missile narrowly misses and changes course to intercept. In reality, the missile is a disguised "cosmic" bomb controlled by Major Gorla from his fortress on Kars. The Major is assisted by Matra, an assistant to Terra' Secretary General. Together they plan to conquer the United Planets beginning with the murder of Commander Corry.
AIRED: 12/30/50
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http://www.tv.com/shows/battlestar-galactica/battlestar-galacticathe-mini-series-1603714/
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Battlestar Galactica Episode 1
Battlestar Galactica:The Mini-Series
AIRED: 12/8/03
Battlestar Galactica - television miniseries premiere episode - Monday 08 December 2003 USA
(from internet transcript of incomplete dialog)
Tigh: If he's really a Cylon, why hasn't the storm radiation made him sick by now?
Baltar: Well, I can only theorize that it takes a while for the storm's effects to become readily apparent on Cylon physiology. By the time you'd encountered Leoben, he'd been here for several hours.
Doral: I don't suppose it matters to you that I am *not* a Cylon.
Tigh: Smartest thing you could do right now would be to shut your mouth. (to Baltar) Are you sure?
Baltar: One can never be a hundred percent sure. But the evidence, the evidence seems conclusive. Basically, basically all I did was, I expanded on, on your doctor's analysis of Leoben's corpse. I then went around the CIC discreetly taking random hair samples of people who've been working there, subjected that to a special form of spectrum analysis that I've been experimenting on for quite some time now. I then wrote a clinical computer subroutine to screen that for synthetic chemical combinations. Uh, his ones, his samples were the only samples to register as synthetic. As you can see...
Tigh: I'll take your word for it.
Six: And just like that, Dr. Baltar invents the amazing Cylon detector.
Doral: Look, gentlemen, I understand your concerns here. This is a very difficult situation, but I think you need to take a step back, take a deep breath, and really look at what you're doing here.
Tigh: I want everyone aboard this ship screened. No exceptions.
Baltar: I promise.
Doral: (He stands up, the guards point their guns at him.) Whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't know about anybody else, but I can tell you that I'm human. I'm, I'm from Oasis, you know it? It's a hamlet a couple stops out of Caprica City. I grew up on the South Side. I went to school at the Kobol Colleges on, on Geminon and I studied public relations!
Baltar: Oh, by the way, I don't know if this is important - might be important, might not be important - but earlier, when I was on the CIC, I noticed that Mr. Doral seemed to be doing, umm, well, I'm not exactly sure what it was that he was doing, but he seemed very interested in this odd-looking device on the battam - bottom of the DRADIS console.
Doral: What are you - What?
Baltar: (nodding) Yep.
Six: We should really make a copy of your brain patterns at some point.
Doral: What device? What are you talking about? He's lying, he is frakking lying.
Tigh: (on the phone) Combat, this is Tigh. Isolate the DRADIS console -
Doral: Don't listen to him!
Tigh: - no one comes near it until I get up there.
Doral: Lords of Kobol, this isn't - this isn't happening to me.
Guard: Colonel, your orders, sir?
Tigh: If he moves, kill him.
Doral: You mixed the samples up! I'm human!
http://www.tv.com/shows/227/a-matter-of-choice-13836/
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227 Season 2 Episode 12
A Matter of Choice
Aired Saturday 9:30 PM Jan 17, 1987 on NBC
AIRED: 1/17/87
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http://www.tv.com/shows/stargate-sg-1/children-of-the-gods-1-7319/
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Stargate SG-1 Season 1 Episode 1
Children of the Gods (1)
AIRED: 7/27/97
Stargate SG-1 - Children of the Gods - television series premiere Season 1 Episode 1 - Sunday 27 July 1997
Episode Summary
The System Lord Apophis launches an attack through the Stargate, tucked away by the military after the events of the movie, and the SGC program is reactivated and given a new objective - seek out and find the alien invaders and defeat them. Jack O'Neill is called out of retirement and sent to locate Daniel Jackson on Abydos.
(from internet transcript of incomplete dialog)
Apophis' dungeon, at the back of the chamber. United States Air Force Colonel Jack O'Neill hoists himself up to a tiny window, peering out. There's no glass to shatter, but he's blocked by a metal lattice. He drops back down to the floor, where Skaara is standing, looking out in case any guards notice. Daniel and Carter watch from a distance.
United States Air Force captain Samantha CARTER: So Ra isn't dead after all.
Doctor Daniel JACKSON: It wasn't Ra. It was Apophis.
CARTER: Who?
JACKSON: Um... it's from Egyptian mythology. Ra was the sun god who ruled the day, Apophis was the serpent god, Ra's rival, who ruled the night. It's right out of the Book of the Dead. They're living it.
http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek-deep-space-nine/dramatis-personae-20831/
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 1 Episode 18
Dramatis Personae
Aired May 30, 1993
AIRED: 5/30/93
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043389/releaseinfo
IMDb
Cattle Drive (1951)
Release Info
USA 1 August 1951 (Los Angeles, California)
USA 8 August 1951 (New York City, New York)
Stargate Atlantis - Rising - television series premiere episode part 1 and 2 - Friday 16 July 2004 (DVD extended version)
Episode Summary
The discovery of an outpost, left behind by the Ancients in the most unlikely of places, leads a new Stargate team to the distant Pegasus galaxy. Once there, they discover a planet of humans being decimated by a terrible alien race know as the Wraith.
(from internet transcript)
WRAITH HALL.
WRAITH Queen: What do you call yourself?
SUMNER: Colonel Marshall Sumner, United States Marine Corps.
WRAITH Queen: So little fear. Is it valour ... or ignorance?
SUMNER: We travelled through the Stargate as peaceful explorers.
WRAITH Queen: You must eat, yet you resist your hunger. Why?
SUMNER: Why have you taken my people prisoner?
WRAITH Queen: You trespassed upon our feeding ground.
SUMNER: Feeding ground?
SUMNER: Is that the kind of treatment I can expect for myself and my people?
WRAITH Queen: As I have said, all living things must eat.
SUMNER: Then we're done talking.
WRAITH Queen: I think not. Kneel. (Sumner doesn't move. She reaches towards his head. He grabs for her hand but she runs a fingernail down the side of his face. Her voice echoes in his mind.) Kneel. (Sumner falls to his knees.) I have not tasted such strength in so long. (She reaches down and rips his shirt open.)
SUMNER: Go to hell.
WRAITH Queen: Earth first.
(She bends down and slams her open palm onto his chest over his heart, her nails piercing his skin. He screams.)
(Nearby, Sheppard hears the scream and hurries towards the sound.)
WRAITH Queen: How many years must I take from you before you tell us what I wish to know? Or shall I take them all?
https://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/1F09.html
The Simpsons television series episode
Homer decides to report the robbery to the Springfield police.
Homer: Hello, Police? Are you sitting down? Good! I wish to report a robbery.
Wiggum: [bored] A robbery, right. Thanks for the report. [hangs up] That's _another_ one, Lou...723 Evergreen Terrace. [Looks at a map with the robbery locations marked on it] Well, there doesn't seem to be any pattern yet, but if I take this one and move it here...and I move these over here...hello! It _almost_ looks like an arrow!
Lou: Hey, look, Chief: it's pointing right at this police station.
Wiggum: Let's get out of here!
- posted by Kerry Burgess 06:46 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Friday 12 October 2018
