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Offline Valka

Re: Valjiir
« Reply #495 on: April 18, 2014, 12:25:34 AM »
One of the Vulcan characters in the John Ford novel "How Much for Just the Planet?"

I wonder what reason Spock gave for having to requisition a new computer after the events of "Amok Time"? (remember, he punched his first one into a shapeless blob when he got angry)

Edit: Oh, and since this is the Valjiir thread, there's a story where Jilla gets angry and throws her dilithium jewelry around the her/Sulu's quarters.

Also, it's made clear in several Valjiir stories that both Jilla and Spock leave some of their stuff - personal and job-related - lying around their quarters. Plus somehow, Spock adopted a Tribble, which means vacuuming up Tribble hair (don't tell me those hairy things don't shed!)

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Re: Valjiir
« Reply #496 on: April 18, 2014, 12:28:41 AM »
I thought How Much for Just the Planet? was insanely disappointing.  I was expecting something different from the author of The Final Reflection...

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Re: Valjiir
« Reply #497 on: April 20, 2014, 12:46:08 AM »
The first time I tried to read it, I considered returning it to the bookstore. It was just too WEIRD.

A year or two later I tried again - this time looking at it as an operetta in prose form. So I read the book while imagining myself sitting in the audience of a theatre, watching everything happen on stage. Since I used to work backstage in musical theatre, that's what got me through the book.

It would have made a good operetta - too bad nobody was able to produce it in that form.

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Re: Valjiir
« Reply #498 on: April 20, 2014, 12:55:12 AM »
I'm sure reading it for the first time without The Final Reflection infecting my expectations would have made a huge difference...

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Re: Valjiir
« Reply #499 on: April 26, 2014, 01:29:11 AM »
I wonder what reason Spock gave for having to requisition a new computer after the events of "Amok Time"? (remember, he punched his first one into a shapeless blob when he got angry)

I'm guessing some version of "someone spilled plomeek soup on it"  or maybe "I tripped over my tribble in the middle of the night and fell on it" (snicker, grin, chortle)

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Edit: Oh, and since this is the Valjiir thread, there's a story where Jilla gets angry and throws her dilithium jewelry around the her/Sulu's quarters.

True - but Jilla is also Indiian, and they are a very emotional people, so one can't always count her reactions as Vulcan.

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Also, it's made clear in several Valjiir stories that both Jilla and Spock leave some of their stuff - personal and job-related - lying around their quarters. Plus somehow, Spock adopted a Tribble, which means vacuuming up Tribble hair (don't tell me those hairy things don't shed!)

Also true.  I can understand where one would have the impression that Vulcans are neat and orderly - I would say that while they are ORDERLY, that doesn't always mean NEAT.  I have a lot of things in piles and I know just what is in every pile.  My desk isn't neat, but it IS orderly.  I think it's the same with Vulcans.  And Maintenance vacuums up after Sylvester.  ;)
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Offline Valka

Re: Valjiir
« Reply #500 on: April 26, 2014, 01:35:33 AM »
I wonder what reason Spock gave for having to requisition a new computer after the events of "Amok Time"? (remember, he punched his first one into a shapeless blob when he got angry)

I'm guessing some version of "someone spilled plomeek soup on it"  or maybe "I tripped over my tribble in the middle of the night and fell on it" (snicker, grin, chortle)
"Dear Starfleet Command:

My pet Tribble, Sylvester, ate my computer, so please send another one (computer, not Tribble). Thank you.

Live long and prosper,

Commander Spock"

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Re: Valjiir
« Reply #501 on: April 26, 2014, 01:54:04 AM »
Logical.   ;spock

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Re: Valjiir
« Reply #502 on: April 26, 2014, 04:06:26 AM »
They didn't had replicators in ToS? I thought it a natural extension of the transporter technology...

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« Reply #503 on: April 26, 2014, 04:15:38 AM »
They had very basic ones, but they weren't called "replicators." Kirk complained that the Tribbles got into (and presumably ate) his "chicken sandwich and coffee." McCoy often had Kirk's diet card programmed for salads, and there was a food slot in the transporter room (where Kyle offered the 20th-century Air Force sergeant a bowl of chicken soup). You needed plastic chips to feed into a slot to get the food; you couldn't just tell the machine what you wanted.

I presume there must have been kitchen facilities as well, since the "chefs" were referred to in "Charlie X" (disguising meatloaf to look like turkey) and Christine made plomeek soup for Spock in "Amok Time."

Basic rations looked like gelatin cubes.

So I'd guess in TOS the food selectors were more like vending machines than replicators.

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Re: Valjiir
« Reply #504 on: April 26, 2014, 04:18:19 AM »
Harlan Ellison allegedly shot a VO as a chef on the intercom...

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Re: Valjiir
« Reply #505 on: May 28, 2014, 10:07:20 PM »
Last week I liked the last several pics on the Valjiir Universe FB page and nagged Mylochka into posting something new, which I also just now liked.

My account is only a sock full of misinformation to protect my privacy, but I suddenly find myself with three FB friends and it being the best way to get a response from sisko about anything, so now I have to keep a tab open a lot of the time, and just as well do every little bit I can to help - those 'likes' spread the word around...  The current GotM has done record traffic on the strength of Facebook promotion, the promo threads at the SMACX section of Civilisation forums having been disappointing for views, despite special-interest traffic.

Is there a reason that can be fixed why I can't like the page itself?  I see my like of the last pic didn't bump it because it was already in my timeline when M posted it.

Incidentally, the searchbots have found this thread, and occasionally I see lurkers whose IPs I can't identify.  Some successful promotion is happening...

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Re: Valjiir
« Reply #506 on: June 04, 2014, 02:46:23 PM »
I've been mentioning this thread on TrekBBS, in the fan film sub-forum. Maybe a few people there have decided to check it out. I exchanged a few PMs with somebody who was connected with the Phase II production of "Mind-Sifter", who claimed to know me and wanted to know who I am on the Valjiir site, and seems to think I ought to know her. I told her that on the Valjiir site I am nobody - have no connection at all, other than as a long-time fan, I don't own or run the site, have never written for it, etc.

@Cher, Dave, and Mylochka: Do you recognize the name "Patty/Patricia Wright"?

Yes, I know the name, but am currently having a senior moment about who exactly she is.  Trek. definitely, but other than that.....
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Offline Valjiir1

Re: Valjiir
« Reply #507 on: June 04, 2014, 02:51:37 PM »
They had very basic ones, but they weren't called "replicators." Kirk complained that the Tribbles got into (and presumably ate) his "chicken sandwich and coffee." McCoy often had Kirk's diet card programmed for salads, and there was a food slot in the transporter room (where Kyle offered the 20th-century Air Force sergeant a bowl of chicken soup). You needed plastic chips to feed into a slot to get the food; you couldn't just tell the machine what you wanted.

I presume there must have been kitchen facilities as well, since the "chefs" were referred to in "Charlie X" (disguising meatloaf to look like turkey) and Christine made plomeek soup for Spock in "Amok Time."

Basic rations looked like gelatin cubes.

So I'd guess in TOS the food selectors were more like vending machines than replicators.

Correct.  They were called 'food synthesizers' and used protein, vegetable (etc.) cubes to approximate normal food.  And yes, the Big E had a galley.  Actual replicators were introduced late in the series and could fabricate limited things, like replacement parts, but nothing fancy.  Valjiir just took the concept and ran with it, much the way TNG did  ;)
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Re: Valjiir
« Reply #508 on: June 04, 2014, 02:53:49 PM »
Last week I liked the last several pics on the Valjiir Universe FB page and nagged Mylochka into posting something new, which I also just now liked.

My account is only a sock full of misinformation to protect my privacy, but I suddenly find myself with three FB friends and it being the best way to get a response from sisko about anything, so now I have to keep a tab open a lot of the time, and just as well do every little bit I can to help - those 'likes' spread the word around...  The current GotM has done record traffic on the strength of Facebook promotion, the promo threads at the SMACX section of Civilisation forums having been disappointing for views, despite special-interest traffic.

Is there a reason that can be fixed why I can't like the page itself?  I see my like of the last pic didn't bump it because it was already in my timeline when M posted it.

Incidentally, the searchbots have found this thread, and occasionally I see lurkers whose IPs I can't identify.  Some successful promotion is happening...

I'd answer this, except you already know I didn't understand a word except I know what 'posting pics' means  :-[
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Re: Valjiir
« Reply #509 on: June 04, 2014, 07:12:19 PM »
Well, since you have something on the net you want promoted, you ought to know this stuff - it's not like it's code and math, which would glaze my eyes over, too.

"Like" is a Facebook function; it shows up in the timeline of your profile and spreads the word to everyone you've "friended".  My Facebook account is a "sock", (like sock-puppet,) with a fake name, because Facebook is Big Brother and knows way too much about me from digging through the email I gave them.  I don't like Facebook, but it's an incredibly useful promotional tool.

Lurkers are non-members browsing.  IPs are Internet Providers - they show up as a numbers the web uses to keep track of things, so I know non-members look at this thread when I check.  Searchbots are programs internet search engines like Google use to find what's on a website so they can index it and it can be found when searched for.  You REALLY want that happening if you want your audience for Valjiir to be able to find you.  Random people may well turn out to like your style if they look, so you want to maximum people looking.  The more sites the URL (web address for the Valjiir site) happens to be on, the more it will turn up in searches and the higher Google and the others will rank your Valjiir site in searches.  That matters.

Is that enough to translate my last?  Any questions?
« Last Edit: June 04, 2014, 07:27:46 PM by BUncle »

 

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