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I think wasway gets the credit: and the responsibility of coming up with the next post.

Well, that settles it. The City on the Edge of Forever One of my all time favorite Star Trek quotes: "How could you, a star ship fleet captain, believe that a Federation crew would blindly obey your order to destroy the entire Antos race, a people famous for their benevolence and peaceful pursuits?" "That was my only miscalculation!"

NEXT!!!

That's an awfully lonesome looking dove you've posted there, wasway.

Supergirl Helen Slater The Legend of Billy Jean

Clever. Birds of Prey

yup

The Way of the Warrior

I thought that was a wild card matchup. Forget everything I said. I have no idea how they'd resolve that. I was trying to eliminate two teams.

By the way, Greg, welcome. We can really be a friendly bunch here. I hope the sharpness of this first exchange doesn't put you off.

Unmistakably.

I do not know Lamsa's motives. I do know there is an Aramaic word lama and it means why. Incidentally, this is the same conclusion Walter Cummins came to, which is why TWI's very own Aramaic interlinear translation of this verse is different from Lamsa's. Am I to assume that Walter Cummins was trying to pull the wool over our eyes? Or that he's a liar? If the translation should be "for this purpose I was spared," then why, of ALL organizations, did TWI itself discredit it in a research book? It was in TWI's interest to let Lamsa's translation stand. They could look like they were right all along. But when they looked at the evidence, they realized Wierwille's view, Lamsa's view, was wrong. They could have looked the other way and perpetuated what they'd been teaching all along, but they didn't. Will you?

"You hit me! Picard never hit me!" "I'm not Picard."

The Naked something. Time, I think.

It'll kill some fish in Greenland. The rest of us are safe. Dang. I thought it would work...

Woo hoo! That one with the aliens. :)

SNORT!

Yeah. My brother's a twit.

I have no idea what that second pic is, but my wild guess is The Twilight Zone.

Yes, you can do that, but for those of us who don't click on every link, can we get the title and artist, just for the record?

He correctly described the episode, but it wasn't silicon (which was a whole different episode about the Crystalline Entity), it was the Sheliac, a race that made the Vogons look like rule-breaking loose cannons. They were sticklers for the law, and the treaty they had was something like a half-million pages. Picard begged them for extra time, and they would not relent, so he invoked that paragraph in the treaty, giving him 6 months rather than 3 weeks. When they protested, he cut them off. I think it was Worf who replied, "Captain, the Sheliac are hailing us. Picard responded by liesurely walking along the bridge, checking the railing for dust, and then patiently saying "on screen." The Sheliac agreed to give him his three weeks. Picard thanked them and they signed off. That's when Riker said, "You enjoyed that." And Picard replied, "You're damn right." The Episode was called The Ensigns of Command. A masterpiece, if you haven't seen it.

"I formally request third party arbitration.... I name the Grizellas to arbitrate. Unfortunately they are currently in their hibernation cycle. However they will awaken in six months, at which time we'll get this matter settled. Now do you want to wait... or give me my three weeks."