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Wow! Such a great response already! I agree with Tenebrae's point, and will probably ask that the survey be sent back to me via email. I am going on holiday today, but I'll do my best to get the quiz online while I'm away, getting it up on the forum within the next month. Then I'll be collecting the data, processing it and hopefully get the results up on the forum by September or October (anoymous, of course). The results, I'm sure, will be quite interesting. One of the aim of this is to get as many trekkies answering this survey as possible, so if any of you know any other Star Trek fans (friends, family, colleagues ... ) who wouldn't mind spending ten minutes on a survey. If not that many people answer it, then I might not find a common trait. But I'm hoping that there will be something there (whether down to childhood hobbies, peer pressure, similar interests, etc...). Hopefully by the end I will have enough data to make a proper, thorough analysis and conclusion. I'm aiming to find anywhere between 300-600 people to complete this survey. As you can see, not an easy task! I'll be back on the forum (and the net generally) in about a welf and a half: if anyone has any questions or suggestions about this survey, feel free to contact me through email or the forum.

Hello everyone, For my high-school diploma (or French equivillant) I have chosen to do a maths project. Specifically, a project on Star Trek fans, or people who would call themselves Trekkies. My im is to find out if there are any other common linking factors between Star Trek fans apart from their love of all things Trek, allowing me to draw up a decent conclusion. I'd like hand out a basic survey, with simple questions trying to find out a lot of information (some of which might not seem relevant, but all of which will be useful). I'd like to see first how many peopl would be interested in helping me out with this. As I said before, all it entails is answering a few pages worth of questions, which you might even find helps you understand your own love of Star Trek! I'll either post the questionaire here for people to respond to on the forum, which would be interesting for lots of other forum users, or to email it to me. I Guarentee, for all who want their data to be annonymous, I will make it so. Thanks in advance for anyone who is willing to help.

Frogland :-) (France)

What I don't understand primarily is this - what was going on with the Doctor's shirt? It looked like he could have taken the rest of his stuff of and actually played in the olympics himself. It was a real change from the usual shirt that he wears. Does anyone know why/how this could be?

Tell me about it. Life's being pretty crazy over here at the moment. For the last two days we've been off school because all around France there have been protests and strikes (as usual) about this new law, which allows trainee employees a kind of 'test period' to have a minimum of two years to prove to their boss that they're not bad at their job compared to the two months you get at the moment. So basically, if you're rubbish at your job after two years, you're fired and you have to spend a while looking for a new job in a similar area of experitise, where your new employer will ask you why you got chucked out from your old job. But it's a good excuse to have a strike ;-) . Our school has been blockaded for the last few days. Students have put those huge recycling containers for bottles and such infront of the teachers' car park entrances, and blooked all other entrances with wire mesh, furniture, and basicallly anything strong enough they can find. Some guys even put silicon in the locks of the front doors. But hey, this is France!

I agree. iTunes seems to be one of the only recognised legal downloading system. Having the files only being able to play on the iPod is just another way of saying 'you're screwed if you don't buy our rather expensive and generally-thought trendy merchendise to play the music you want to hear'. I think this is great news for France. This will probably lead to a new type of legal music downloading service which can be used for all formats. Seeing as no-one will be using the iTunes format if these news legislations go through with our government, I wouldn't be surprised if apple left here altogether - why buy an iPod when you have to go through all the trouble converting the file again?

When I was in Germany I saw the episode on RTL II, and it honestly didn't think the voice acting wasn't too bad. The only thing that annoyed me was all the commercial breaks, but apart from that, I was glad to see Bastile Day again :-D

Well, if anyone needs a hand getting settled down here... It sounds like a great move in the right direction - keeping the big coperations happy with small fee, but allowing unlimited downloads - quite personally I'd go for that any day, especially if they had something similar for TV shows in the future. It would make a lot more sense, allowing everyone to be (moderately) happy, keeping the money flow going in the big corperation's pockets, and the downloading of these things perfectly legal. Hopefully it wont be too long until this becomes a global reality... But I can always dream *sighs*

Personally, I don't particularly see anything wrong with with Chirac's statement: he's just saying what everyone else is thinking. Don't you think Bush would react in a similar way? Or any country that has nuclear warheads. It's not like Hiroshima where the victim couldn't retaliate - to be honest, nothing has changed since the Cold War, except the enemy. But now, the less advanced enemy is gaining more power, and as soon as they obtain the atom bomb, we'll all be living in the same fear that the world did back in the sixties. I can think of very few heads of states who would strike back with nuclear weapons had they been nuked themselves - but please prove me wrong! It'd be interesting to hear other people's opinions.

I've been wondering since last year why the name of this episode was Resurection Ship, and now I know... The ending was nicely done - but don't who think this whole ressurection ship idea is kind of crazy? I mean, it seems pretty convinient to me that the Cylon's only lifeline that far out is this ship - a pretty tempting target - Cylon bait perhaps?

Starfleet is like the military in ways - but from what I've seen, it also acts as a policing role. A lesson we've learnt throughout history is that whenever the army has taken over the policing role, things have got out of hand, and that it is better to have the two seperate organisations. But obviously in the Star Trek universe, things have changed. But an introduction of an impartial policing force within the Federation, unaffiliated with Starfleet could be interesting...

Elite Force was released in the Spring of 2000, which coincided with season 6 of Voyager. The stardates work out to place it in between the episodes 'Live Fast and Prosper' and 'Muse'. It's funny; I always thought it took place in season five. But it makes sense. We see the same type of aliens (I believe) that we saw in Equinox - unless they are totally different.

According to post-Voyager novels, queens are created when thezlast one is destroyed. For example. in Endgame, the BQ was destroyed, and in the following novels, we discover the process in which a new one is created. But these aren't really seen as true Star Trek cannon, so there's still quite a bit of speculation about it.

I was sooooooooo annoyed that I didn't get to go to Star Trek: The Adventure at Hyde Park. I'd moved to France the summer before, and my dad was being all dad-like and not letting us fly over to London for a day of two. It would have been great to go there. But I do seem to remeber going to Star Trek: Federation Science, which was also very cool, at the Science Museum. There wasn't as much stuff there, and some of it wasn't working, but some of the highlights was a Galaxy Class starship viewscreen, a 'subspace transmitter' which was a two way video screen (even in 2000, something like that was pretty inheard of), a voice recognition system, and a trasporter room, which was pretty much a room siszed version of the eye toy - but it seemed pretty advanced for it's time. But the Adventure had so much more that I didn't see, like a model of the Scorpian fighter from Nemesis, and a replica of the NX armory. How I would have loved to go... *sniff*

Just because they colonials or the Cylons don't use lasers, tractor beams or photon torpedoes, it doens't mean that they're not from a different universe. Granted, it'd be rather foolish for BSG to be in the same universe as Star Trek, but it's not impossible. It's like saying that just because Starfleet ships in the 21st century don't have tractor beams means that they're not in the same universe as the Vulcans. Just because two of the races are at different points of development doesn't mean they're in different universes.