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9403.15                 DATELINE:  STARFLEET                      #45


                         From the Big Chair
                         ------------------
     Greetings to the Starfleet Command BBS (219-493-1093)!  |)
     Spring, I think, is finally ready to spring.  About time, too.  I give
you a nice well-filled-out issue to commence the change of season
festivities.  Enjoy.  ;)
     --Bill


             News from Over the Hailing Frequencies....
             ------------------------------------------
THE WINNER IS DECLARED
     After only a minor eternity, Viacom secured the victory in the bidding
war for Paramount, beating out rival bidder QVC.  The deal cost Viacom about
$10 billion.  Paramount reaffirmed afterward that the merger would not change
plans for The Paramount Network, scheduled to debut in January 1995 with
"Star Trek: Voyager."  STV itself is scheduled to commence filming in August.
  Viacom received final approval from the FCC in early March.  Also in March,
the Viacom/Blockbuster merger was completed, thus ensuring that Viacom would
have the financial wherewithal to finish the Paramount deal.

UPDATING THE PARAMOUNT NETWORK
     Some helpful folk offered me some more prospective stations for The
Paramount Network.  The new list looks like this:
     Chicago: WPWR
     Dallas/Fort Worth: KTXA
     Denver: KTVD
     Detroit: WKBD
     Fresno: KAIL
     Houston: KTXH
     Little Rock: KASN
     Miami/Ft. Lauderdale: WDZL
     Memphis: WLMT
     Mobile: WJTC
     New York City: WOR (unconfirmed)
     Philadelphia: WTXF
     Portland, OR: KPTV (unconfirmed)
     Raleigh/Durham: WLFL
     San Antonio: KRRT
     Seattle: KCPQ (unconfirmed)
     St. Louis: KDNL (unconfirmed)
     Tulsa: KTFO
     Washington DC: WDCA

MOVIE UPDATE
     TNG and DS9 composer Dennis McCarthy has been selected to score the
upcoming TNG film.  (Thanks to Bruin III.)
     Meanwhile, the film finally has a name.  It is "Star Trek:
Generations" (or Star Trek VII: Generations, depending on where you read it).

HOW THE RATINGS LOOK
     For the week ending February 6 ("Sub Rosa" and "Armageddon Game"), TNG
was 4th with a 9.7 and DS9 was 9th with a 8.6.  ("Wheel of Fortune" led the
week with a 15.9.)
     For the week ending February 13 ("Lower Decks" and "Whispers"), TNG was
4th again with an 11.5 and DS9 was 7th with a 9.3 (again, "Wheel of Fortune"
led with a 17.2).
     And for the week of February 20 ("Thine Known Self" and "Paradise"), TNG
scooted up to 3rd with a 11.9 while DS9 tied (with "Roseanne") for 6th with
an 8.2.  ("Wheel of Fortune" led yet again with a 16.0.)
     (Reuters/Variety)

TNG AND DS9 SCHEDULES
     From Mage655696 and rec.arts.startrek.misc:
     TNG (dates are week of dates)
     03/13: "Attached" (rerun; Picard/Crusher episode)
     03/20: "Genesis" (Barclay returns; directed by Gates McFadden)
     03/27: "Journey's End" (guest-stars Wesley Crusher and the Traveller)
     04/03: "Force of Nature" (rerun; warp drive speed limits)
     04/10: "Inheritance" (rerun; Data meets Mrs. Soong)
     04/17: "Parallels" (rerun; Worf travels to parallel universes)
     04/24: "First Born" (involves Alexander)
     05/01: "Bloodlines" (the return of Daimon Bok from the 1st season
episode "The Battle")
     05/08: (new episode; reportedly a Beverly story; possible titles: "The
Wire" or "Emergence")
     05/15: "The Good Fight" (directed by Patrick Stewart)
     05/22: "All Good Things" (two-hour series finale; a Q episode)

     For DS9 (again, week of dates):
     03/13: "Duet" (rerun from 1st season)
     03/20: "Profit and Loss" (Quark is in love with...a Cardassian!)
     03/27: "Blood Oath" (Dax episode that guest-stars the Klingons Kang,
Koloth, and Kor)
     04/03: "Melora" (rerun; introduced the wheelchair-bound Melora)
     04/10: "Rules of Aquisition" (rerun; introduced a female Ferengi)
     04/17: "Necessary Evil" (rerun; story of Odo and Kira's first meeting)
     04/24: "The Maquis Part I" (the Maquis are the group of
"renegades" slated to be a part of "Star Trek: Voyager")
     05/01: "The Maquis Part II"

     Garek and Bashir will be teamed again in an upcoming episode as well.
(From Siddig El Fadil at Vulcon; posted on AOL by Randy Hall.)

MORE ON "ALL GOOD THINGS"
     If you don't want to know more about the TNG finale, don't read this
part.  ;)
     *****
     In the finale, Q returns to pass his judgment on humanity
(stemming all the way back to the "Farpoint" trial he staged).  The episode
looks back to the crew when they first came together, through to the present,
and even in some way to their future.
     (Reported by Michael Piller, speaking at UCLA.  Posted on AOL by
RobertP928.)
     *****

HARDCOVER Q
     This summer, look for "Q-Squared," a Peter David Trelane/Q hardcover TNG
novel.

AND ANOTHER BOOK
     William Shatner will be writing a sequel to his "Star Trek
Memories."  The next volume will cover the years of the motion pictures.

COMICALLY SPEAKING
     Malibu Comics, publishers of the DS9 comic, have also secured the rights
to a Star Trek: Voyager comic book.
     Also planned in the comic realm is a Malibu-DC DS9/TNG
crossover.  (Thanks Mage for the info!)

SHE'S THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE
     Whoopi Goldberg won the Best Actress in a Comedy Film People's Choice
award in March, for "Sister Act II."

TOONS!
     Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis are lined up to provide voices for
"Gargoyles," a new cartoon scheduled for the fall.  They voice the bad guys
Xanatos and Demona.  (From "TV Guide.")


                     Editorial: Random Thoughts
                            by Bill Mason
                     --------------------------
     ...the announcement of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Star Trek figures is
too much for my taste.  ;)
     ...how could "Saturday Night Live" come up with better material for
Nancy Kerrigan than Patrick Stewart, anyhow?
     ...heck, am I the only person who liked the new hardback TOS novel
"Sarek"?  |)
     ...now that AOL's Internet newsgroup access is online, I'm
enjoying the Trek group reading.  |)


Interview with Dr. Lawrence Schoen of the Klingon Language Institute
                            by Bill Mason
--------------------------------------------------------
     BM: What is your personal history background?  Particularly in terms of
your educational background in linguistics, and how long you've been active
in Star Trek fandom.
     LS: Somewhat curiously, the real beginning of all of this goes back to
when I was about fourteen or so, and hanging out with an organization called
the Mythopoeic Society, a group that was basically interested in discussions
of fantasy and science fiction, particularly the works of Tolkien, Lewis, and
Williams.  A spinoff of that group was the Mythopoeic Linguistic Fellowship,
a collection of highly motivated amateur linguists interested in the elvish
languages created by Tolkien.  That's probably where I really developed my
interest in language.
     Years later in college, I started out as a psychology major,
changed to linguistics, and then changed again to a
"design-it-yourself" major in psycholinguistics, working mostly out of the
linguistics department of the university.  My Master's and Doctorate were in
cognitive psychology, and focused again on psycholinguistics, specifically
semantic representation, or how we structure and manipulate meaning in the
mind.  Heavy stuff.
     By this time I had studied, both formally and informally, about a dozen
languages, everything from Japanese to Comanche, but more importantly,
psycholinguistics gave me a feel for 'language' in the larger, more abstract
sense.  As for being involved in Star Trek fandom, well, I never have been.
I've been somewhat active in fandom in general, growing up in Los Angeles I
was a member of LASFS, and always like to sneak in a meeting whenever I'm
back that way.  I've been in a number of apae, and been a speaker at a number
of conventions (usually on psychological topics related to S.F.) but nothing
specifically Trek oriented.  At least, not until the KLI.  Obviously that's
all changed now.
     BM: What is the KLI and its purpose?  When was it founded?  How large is
its membership, and how widespread?  What generally are its activities
(particularly its journal)?
     The main purpose of the KLI is to facilitate and further the
development of the Klingon language.  That's somewhat abstract.  Our more
tangible purpose is to bring Klingon language enthusiasts
(Klingonists, if you will) together, and provide a common forum for them.
When you think about it, each of these assists with the other.
     Officially, the KLI began in January of 1992.  At that time it
was pretty much just an idea that was being kicked around on a few BBS
systems, and on the Internet.  I think it was February when I offered to give
a talk at a small convention in the Chicago area that we first really went
public.  The con was sort of a relax-a-con thing, small, casual, no big deal.
 I expected maybe a dozen people to show up for an  introduction to Klingon.
Boy was I wrong.  The room filled.  Then the aisles.  Then the back row by
the door.  The Fire Marshal would have had a fit.  And, when my time was up,
they
followed me outside into the hall and mobbed me, asking for
information on how to join.  For someone who has never been mobbed before, it
was a frightening experience.  But, that was the beginning.  Right then and
there I knew that the KLI wasn't going to be a tiny thing with just a couple
dozen members.  No way.
     Right now we've have seven hundred people sign up as members.  Now, to
be fair, some of these have dropped by the way side, but then too, with the
publicity the media has been giving us, new members are joining every week.
And while the vast majority of the members are in the U.S., we also have
members throughout the world.  From Australia to Asia, Europe to Africa, all
throughout the Americas, we've got members.  And that's not too surprising,
nor is it something I can take credit for.  It's Star Trek, pure and simple.
It's popularity has spread far and wide, and everywhere that Star
Trek has gone, the Klingons have followed.  So, we're picking up a ready-made
audience.  Every day I get letters from people saying things like "I didn't
know an organization like yours existed. Thank you !"  It's very gratifying.
     When we first began, our main activity was HolQeD, our quarterly
journal.  This is NOT a fanzine or a newsletter.  It's an academic journal.
It's been registered with the Library of Congress, and has been assigned an
International Standardized Serial Number.  Each issue contains articles
discussing the Klingon linguistics, and some of it is pretty overwhelming.
But, since most of our members aren't
language professionals, there's a lot more in there too.  The idea has been
to try and have something for everyone, articles and features at several
different levels.  And so we also try to run interviews, round table
discussions about the language, even wordplay contests (for example, we did a
contest on Klingon palindromes!).  The hope is that we'll hook people at all
levels, and slowly bring them up to the point where even the more rigorous
articles are accessible to them.  Maybe it's just the educator in me, I don't
know.  But studying Klingon, while it doesn't seem the same to people
as learning a foreign language, is just that!  You develop the same skills,
the same insights into language.  But, since most of us approach it as a
spinoff of our interest in Star Trek it doesn't seem so much like work, it
seems fun!
     Now that the KLI has grown so much, we're able to take advantage of the
diversity and skill of our membership and branch out into other projects.
Two of these that have been getting a lot of press are the Klingon Bible
Translation Project and the Klingon Shakespeare Restoration Project.  I'll
say more about these later.  Another project that has been very popular is
our free postal course, whereby anyone can write in and, for just the cost of
mailing the materials
back and forth, learn Klingon by mail at their own pace.  It's been very
popular, especially with people who have bought The Klingon Dictionary but
been unable to make much sense of it.  The postal course builds slowly, and
guides you into the language easily.  A fourth project, one which grew out of
the postal course, is our writing project.  As people become proficient in
the language, some have chosen to express themselves in it, creating original
fiction and poetry.  The KLI is currently accumulating such material, and we
hope to publish a compilation of original Klingon prose, which in
turn will provide people with more things to read, and thus more
practice in the language.  And finally, we have a project that's
trying to document ALL the Klingon, Okrandian and otherwise, from the many
Star Trek novels.  This is a massive project, that requires many volunteers
willing to read the novels and make copious notes, but it's also perfect for
the beginning Klingon student who doesn't have a strong command of the
language yet, but wants to get involved.
     BM: I presume the majority of members are Star Trek fans?  What are the
backgrounds of those who are not, that draws them to the KLI?
     LS: Almost all of our members are Star Trek fans, to a greater or lesser
extent.  I am aware of a handful though who are simply "language fans,"
people who have been drawn to us because we're working with a fairly new,
artificial language.  But most grew up with Star Trek, and have that interest
as well.  In fact, most of our members aren't language professionals.  Some
are just high school students who wanted to learn enough Klingon so they and
their friends could have a secret code.  Others are gamers who want to have
more
authenticity when roleplaying their Klingon characters.  Still others are
members of Klingon fan groups who really want to get into their roles at
conventions and such, not merely with costumes, but with the language as
well.  We get quite a mixture.  But, once we get them, they all learn more
about Klingon.
     BM: While the name is "Klingon Language Institute," I've noted that a
fair amount of Klingon cultural study and speculation goes hand-in-hand with
the linguistics.  This strikes me as possibly a standard occurrence in
linguistics?  That is, it would probably be impractical (or impossible) to
study a people's language without also understanding their culture?
     LS: There's some truth to this of course.  Language, it has been argued,
is predicated upon culture, and vice versa.  It's also very helpful to know
something about a society when trying to interpret linguistic devices.  For
example, the fact that Klingons don't really greet one another, or say
anything remotely like "goodbye" when departing isn't due to rudeness.  It's
just part of their worldview.  They're a very pragmatic, in-your-face people,
and they don't bother
with hollow social niceties.  So, by keeping in mind culture when exploring
language, you're able to gain more insight into both.
     BM: The Klingon Bible Translation Project has garnered a fair amount of
publicity of late.  What are the origins of that project?  How has it
progressed so far?
     LS: Like many things, the KBTP was the idea of several people
simultaneously with no knowledge of one another.  It's currently being
coordinated by Kevin Wilson, a seminary student at Yale University.  Kevin is
in the unique position of both having an interest in the Klingon language,
being familiar with Bible translation, and being able to read Aramaic and
Biblical Greek.  And he's willing to work on this amidst his doctoral work!
     The idea of translating the Bible into Klingon is not a
religious idea.  Obviously there are no Klingons out there to
convert, no one brave enough for such missionary even if there were, and in
fact the people involved in the project are not, for the most part, all that
interested in religion.  But there's an historic tradition of translating the
Bible.  It's the most commonly translated work in the world.  And so, we're
doing it.  I don't expect it to have any real practical value, except perhaps
for practice at reading and translating Klingon.
     One other thing I'd like to mention about this.  We're not
working from English.  The books of the Bible are being translated from their
*original* languages into Klingon.  Otherwise you end up with something
that's like a bad photocopy of a worse FAX.  We're doing it right because, if
you're going to put this much work into a project, that's the only way to go.
     (This interview concludes next issue!  For information on the KLI now,
send an SASE to: Klingon Language Institute, P. O. Box 634, Flourtown, PA
19031.)


                            Book Review:
  The Star Trek Encyclopedia, A Reference Guide to the Future
                             by Maytree
   ------------------------------------------------------
     (This book is due to arrive in bookstores in April.  This review was
produced from an advance copy. Some editing may have occurred between the
version I reviewed and the final version.)
     Quick now:  In what ST:TNG episode did the Acamarians appear? What
starbase was Dr. Dalen Quaice posted at?  What planet did the Starnes
Expedition survey? And just how many different Ferengi *has* Armin Shimerman
played?
     If you don't know the answers to these questions, and you want to, you
need this book.  (To be kind, I've also included the answers at the end of
the review for the idly curious.)  You also need this book if you're a fan of
Star Trek, be it TOS, TNG, or DS9, and are looking for hours of irresistible
browsing fun, or just want to be able to blow away any Trek Trivia contest
from now until the twenty-third century.   And last but not least, if you're
an aspiring writer of Trek-related material, you might well find a use for
this book as a straight reference work.
     The Star Trek Encyclopedia (authors: Michael and Denise Okuda and Debbie
Mirek) is exhaustively researched and cross-referenced, to an extent I can
only characterize as obsessive. The authors state in the introduction that
they have used the final aired versions of the films and television shows
(excluding the officially discounted Animated Series) as their reference
material, employing the scripts
only as a spelling reference -- which heavily implies that they
gathered their material by sitting though all six films and *every single
episode of TOS, TNG, and DS9* so far produced and taking notes.  This sounds
very much like a recipe for "Death by Trek" to me, but luckily the authors
appear to have escaped with their lives. (Whether they made it out with their
sanity as well is something about which we can only conjecture.)  The result
of this heroic action is a shining new addition to the growing library of
Star Trek reference works.
     The Trek Encyclopedia features individual entries on every
episode, each with up to several dozen cross-references to other entries,
most with additional commentary by the authors.  There are also three
appendices: a short chronology of the Trek universe, another chronology of
the show itself, and an episode list with writer credits.  To complement the
wealth of informational detail, the  Trek Encyclopedia is handsomely
illustrated with a large number of photos (black and white, not color, sadly)
as well as many detailed drawings, diagrams, and charts (you really *wanted*
a chart of all of the different kinds of food featured on Star Trek, listed
in alphabetical order, didn't you?)   The final package, topped off
with a lovely full-color Trek mosaic cover, is well worth the asking price.
     If the Okudas and Mirek had decided to make the Encyclopedia a straight
reference work, the results, while interesting, would probably have been
somewhat dry reading. Fortunately for those of us who read this stuff,
however, they have gone a step further and liberally sprinkled in-jokes,
personal commentary, and other similar goodies throughout the book.  For
example, an entry detailing the ludicrous biological technobabble used to
explain the de-aging of
Picard et al. in "Rascals" is delivered deadpan, but followed by the wry
comment, "Yeah, well, we don't think it makes much sense either."  There are
also such tasty tidbits as a reproduction of the only existing  copy of the
"Buckaroo Bokai" baseball card, pictures of the dedication plaques from
various Starfleet vessels showing their ship's mottos, drawn from such noted
literary sources as the Beatles, Gilligan's Island, and Buckaroo Banzai, and
many other hidden treasures for the careful reader.  (And yes, the Okudas are
Buckaroo
Banzai fans: among the extensive list of thank-yous and
acknowledgments appears a credit for the Banzai Institute, as well as one for
Kermit the Frog and Luke Skywalker.)
     One concern, of course, is that since the Trek universe is
continually growing and evolving, the Trek Encyclopedia is becoming outdated
even as I write this. Nevertheless, I highly recommend the Trek Encyclopedia
to anyone with any significant level of interest in the show. Perhaps if the
Encyclopedia is popular enough, the Okudas
can be talked into provided new editions every other year or
thereabouts.  After all, with DS9 and now the upcoming Voyager series, the
Trek Universe isn't going to stop expanding any time soon.
     Grade: A+
     [Trivia question answers:  "The Vengeance Factor", Starbase 133,
Triacus, and three.]


                           Happy Birthday!
                           ---------------
     March 20: John de Lancie
     March 22: William Shatner
     March 26: Leonard Nimoy
     March 29: Marina Sirtis
     April 1: Grace Lee Whitney


                  Trek-related Products/Happenings
                  --------------------------------
     In the voice "The Pagemaker" I mentioned last month (featuring the voice
of Patrick Stewart), also listen for the voices of Leonard Nimoy and Whoopi
Goldberg.  (Thanks JWOOD!)

     Due from Playmates: disguised-as-Romulans Data and Picard, Worf in black
rescue outfit, Malcorian Riker, Troi in Blue Starfleet uniform), Lt. Barclay,
and a Tarchannen 3 Geordi LaForge.  (Thanks to RikerTNG.)

     Scanning the comic book realm this month, we find:
     "William Shatner's TekWorld" #21 (Marvel): "Sins of the Father," part 3.
     "Star Trek" #60 (DC): Continuing the hostage saga from last
issue.  Written by Howard Weinstein.
     "Next Generation" #60 (DC): "Children of Chaos" part 2 of 3, by Michael
Jan Friedman.  Picard must find an entire Starfleet crew gone missing,
without starting a war with the Chalnoth.
     "Star Trek Special" #1 (DC): A special issue with two stories.  One is a
Spock tale set between Star Trek III and IV on Vulcan.  The other is a Kirk
story written by Peter David.
     "Deep Space Nine" #8 (Malibu): "Requiem," part 1 of 2.  While O'Brien
and DS9's former Cardassian Chief Engineer try to save the station's failing
reactors, they find a Bajoran girl's diary that ties into a mystery involved
Kira.
     (From "The Westfield Newsletter")

     If you're feeling adventurous, you can look for the new-on-video
"Bloodlust: Subspecies III," a vampire horror flick with Melanie Shatner in
it.  ("Philadelphia Inquirer")


                    Personal Logs, Stardate Today
                    -----------------------------
     Our current position demands brevity: They won.  We lost.  Next.
     (QVC's entire press release after losing the Paramount bidding war to
Viacom.)

     Most outside locations from the original script have been axed.  I have
a feeling they're going to shoot it like the series -- very fast, very cheap,
crank it out and make $100 million.
     (Brent Spiner, talking about the TNG movie script.  From the "San Diego
Union.")

     The Profile:  Protocol Systems, Inc.
     Officials of Protocol Systems, Inc., count among their tributes a
touring exhibit of Star Trek props.  The exhibit includes a demonstration of
one of their patient monitors as the closest in modern medicine to Dr.
McCoy's hand-held scanner.
     "We set out to do what nobody had done before," says James B. Moon,
president and chief executive officer of the medical instrumentation company
he helped plan seven years ago in a Portland, Oregon, basement.
     The patient monitor designed by Moon and his colleagues draws on
American innovation in microprocessing, engineering plastics, probes, sensors
and displays.  From the start it was designed to meet all international
medical standards--some more rigorous than U.S. requirements.
     The result is a basic unit that weighs less than six pounds and monitors
electrocardiogram (ECG), non-invasive blood pressure, heart rate and
temperature.  It may be plugged into a bedside power supply or operated by
batteries during patient transportation or in emergency situations.
     (From the AEEG [American Entrepreneurs for Economic Growth] Winter
Quarterly 1994.  Thanks to Lt jg EEL for the quote!)

     The only thing I ever wanted to be on was Star Trek....  I could have
played a great villain and been driving one of those space things around.
     (Folk singer Arlo Guthrie, currently appearing in the new series "The
Byrds of Paradise."  From the AP...thanks Tamar for the quote!)


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                    -----------------------------
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