June 20 - Day 6 of Alternate Universes Week

[Kira]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Today's roundup:<ul> Andy Taylor completes the DS9 Mirror Universe series with Five-Minute "The Emperor's New Cloak (http://3sygma.com/fiveminute/ds9/theemperorsnewcloak.html)"
Marc Richard brings us a fiver that he wrote nearly a year and a half ago and that we've been saving for this theme week almost ever since: Five-Minute "The Time Trap (http://3sygma.com/fiveminute/startrek/thetimetrap.html)"
Marc has also contributed a top ten list: The Top 10 Things We Would Have Loved to See in a Next Generation-Based Universe (http://3sygma.com/fiveminute/features/37.html)
IJD GAF rounds out today's offering with part 6 (http://3sygma.com/fiveminute/features/sleapers6.html) of the "Sleapers" feature[/list]
Zeke will be making a fiver appearance, so expect a supplemental update... soon.[/color:post_uid0]

[Derek]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]- The link for the time trap fiver is missing the "/startrek/" part of the URL.
- The title for the sleapers part says "Sleapers, Part 4" instead of "Sleapers, Part 6".

But the fivers were great, Marc and Andy. And the "Dr. Crusher" line in the top 10 list was great.[/color:post_uid0]

[Kira]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Here's Zeke's supplemental contribution: Five-Minute "Non Sequitur (http://3sygma.com/fiveminute/voyager/nonsequitur.html)."[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[quote:post_uid0="Derek"][color=#000000:post_uid0]But the fivers were great, Marc and Andy.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]And so was the update, little glitches or not. I know you guys don't mean to be inconsiderate, but this "pile on Kira" thing that's been going on is exactly that. These threads are for feedback on the new material; if you see an error, by all means report it, but do it by emailing me. (I'm in a better position to fix this stuff during business hours.)

Anyway, the site is [i:post_uid0]full[/i:post_uid0] of glitches, 99% of which are my fault and not hers. Anybody want to try guessing how long I had one of Chakotay's speaker credits listed as "Caretaker" in the pilot before I noticed?[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Three months? :p[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Closer to six.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]:O Really? That's baaaaad.[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]"The Emperor's New Cloak" was quite amusing.
[quote:post_uid0]Mirror Vic Fontaine: Hi everybo-- GAK!
Mirror Bashir: That's for the cheesy '50s set!
Mirror Vic: GAK!
Mirror Bashir: That's for the screen time you stole!
Mirror Vic: GAK!
Mirror Bashir: And that's for the freakin' album you did!
Mirror Vic: Okay, OKAY! I said GAK![/quote:post_uid0]

Marc did an excellent job with "The Time Trap" too.
[quote:post_uid0]Spock: The Klingons are plotting treachery against us.
Kirk: How did you find that out?
Spock: By using the Vulcan Mind Hug, of course.[/quote:post_uid0]
:lol: I can't see Klingons getting involved in anything called a "hug" that doesn't involve death in some way, but what a funny mental image that was!

The new Top Ten List was good as well. (By the way, has Marc read "Dark Mirror"? Just curious.)

Part 6 of the Sleapers Saga was entertaining as usual, though I'm still convinced I'm missing something in Zeke's line about "Greg 'Soon' Thaid". ;)

And "Non Sequitur" is solidly funny.
[quote:post_uid0]Computer: Service record for Harry Kim, Ensign. 2367: Entered Starfleet Academy. 2371: Lost with U. S. S. Voyager. 2372: Mysteriously appeared on Earth and called up his service record, which he is currently reading.
Cosimo: (over the comm) Ahem.
Computer: Oh. Um, I mean, never left Earth.
Kim: But weren't you just saying --
Computer: No.[/quote:post_uid0]
My favorite part. :D

[quote:post_uid0]Kim: Shoot, I forget where I live.
Cosimo: On Earth, of course. You never left.
Kim: I meant what building. You'd think an alternate timeline would at least tell you that much, but noooo, that would be too fair.[/quote:post_uid0]
I hate it when that happens. Alternate timelines and dreams are just so mean.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Coolness. Again, very funny stuff.

[quote:post_uid0]1. Deanna Troi as the sadistic, leather-clad Intendant of Betazed, gleefully purring the words "I feel your pain" to errant underlings as she beats them with a riding crop.[/quote:post_uid0]

You know, this site really does highlight the lack of words that mean the same as 'funny'.

I take it this means that we're going to see 'The Counter-Clock Incident' tomorrow then?[/color:post_uid0]

[Kira]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Zeke"]if you see an error, by all means report it, but do it by emailing me. Â (I'm in a better position to fix this stuff during business hours.)[/quote:post_uid0]
Uh huh. Â See: Zeke's member title. Â Then, see: Kira's member title.

[quote:post_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"]I take it this means that we're going to see 'The Counter-Clock Incident' tomorrow then?[/quote:post_uid0]

How the frell did you -- I mean, um, tomorrow's update is a surprise.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, it hasn't been done so far. I wasn't sure if you'd save it for last or not though.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Good again, all! :)

Andy, I must confess I have no clue as to what this refers:
[quote:post_uid0]Mirror Ezri: Nah. Hey, it's nothing personal; I'd just prefer to hang with a bunch of deaf gypsies that want to curse me for an eternity while simultaneously being force-fed rocks and dirt by a huge flesh-eating spider.[/quote:post_uid0]
This just amuses me for some reason:
[quote:post_uid0]7. LaForge as a dissolute rake who defects to the Alliance when he is kicked out of the resistance for spending all his time seducing women[/quote:post_uid0]as did a lot of stuff in [i:post_uid0]Non-Sequitur[/i:post_uid0].

I also must admit not having a clue about Greg "Soon" Thaid, except that it sounds like something out of a bad fanfic, spoken with a variable lisp. It'll make sense to someone, I'm sure.[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]You know, we're all gonna find out the answers and go "Oh yeah!" hehe[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I can only hope that will be true in my case.

[quote:post_uid0]Uh huh. See: Zeke's member title. Then, see: Kira's member title.[/quote:post_uid0]

I still maintain that 'Zen Administrator' suits him better. Though I can never remember which of the two Dirk Gently books it referers to.[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]That's apparently from Long, Dark Tea-Time (http://www.apietzsch.de/book_TeaTime.htm), though I don't really see the connection with Zen navigation. Â I mean, I know what you're getting at, I just don't think the parallel works.[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Seems to me as if your Sleapers technique for navigating through the Mirror Universes this week has been mostly Zen... Â :smile: Â Â ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]No, the only inherently Zen way to travel is by motorcycle.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Man, they're fun. My uncle and aunt (not the dozen-cat-owning ones, though they do have two of their own) have three of them, and I've ridden as a passenger on them on a few occasions.[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]What do you do about the bugs in your teeth?[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]No, the only inherently Zen way to travel is by motorcycle.[/quote:post_uid0]

I didn't know motocycle engines went "Ommmmm"

[quote:post_uid0]What do you do about the bugs in your teeth?[/quote:post_uid0]

Floss, or chew.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[quote:post_uid0="Zeke"][color=#000000:post_uid0]No, the only inherently Zen way to travel is by motorcycle.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]So I hear. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553277472/qid=1056160541/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/002-5556181-8024044?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)
[quote:post_uid0]What do you do about the bugs in your teeth?[/quote:post_uid0][i:post_uid0]You're[/i:post_uid0] the dental hygienist. :p[/color:post_uid0]

[FatMatDuhRat]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][b:post_uid0][i:post_uid0]#1. Deanna Troi as the sadistic, leather-clad Intendant of Betazed...[/i:post_uid0][/b:post_uid0]

[b:post_uid0][u:post_uid0]Wow![/u:post_uid0][/b:post_uid0] That's just, I mean... it's really -- [b:post_uid0]DAMN![/b:post_uid0] That's one
hell of a visual description. (And the rest of the [b:post_uid0]Top Ten
List[/b:post_uid0] was pretty good too.)
:D[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Hmm. Wasn't there, like, a seventh day in this week?[/color:post_uid0]

[Derek]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Check the front page. Kira said she's letting Zeke handle this one. Therefore, it will be up "soon".[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]What do you do about the bugs in your teeth?[/quote:post_uid0]

I [i:post_uid0]was[/i:post_uid0] wearing a helmet. And even if I hadn't been, a few flies is nothing compared to all the extra insect protein you pick up during midge seaon in the Hebrides.

[quote:post_uid0]Check the front page. Kira said she's letting Zeke handle this one. Therefore, it will be up "soon".[/quote:post_uid0]

I guess I'd better check back tomorrow then.

:D[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[quote:post_uid0="Guest"][color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]What do you do about the bugs in your teeth?[/quote:post_uid0][i:post_uid0]You're[/i:post_uid0] the dental hygienist. :p[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]shhhhh. No one is supposed to know. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]You might wanna change your sig then....[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[quote:post_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"][color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Check the front page. Kira said she's letting Zeke handle this one. Therefore, it will be up "soon".[/quote:post_uid0]

I guess I'd better check back tomorrow then.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Yep, it'll be there when you check tomorrow. Of course, it'll also be there when you check today. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Really? My today or your today? Because mine ends in two hours. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Andy Taylor]

[quote:post_uid0="Guest"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Andy, I must confess I have no clue as to what this refers:
[quote:post_uid0]Mirror Ezri: Nah. Hey, it's nothing personal; I'd just prefer to hang with a bunch of deaf gypsies that want to curse me for an eternity while simultaneously being force-fed rocks and dirt by a huge flesh-eating spider.[/quote:post_uid0][/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]*runs in a few days too late to catch up*

mudshark, I can honestly say that I have no idea what was running through my head when I wrote that. It was just one of those scary things that was running through my mind, although I can say that at my uni, there's this giant hill (with a huge chunk of steps at the end of it) which everyone *hates* climbing. Long sentences stating anything we'd rather do than climb the hill became the norm in my flat. Yep, the Welsh air made me crazy...

This week has been cool. Lots of great fivers and top ten lists. Sleapers is brilliant guys. As for the last update, I loved:

[b:post_uid0]1. Deanna Troi as the sadistic, leather-clad Intendant of Betazed, gleefully purring the words "I feel your pain" to errant underlings as she beats them with a riding crop[/b:post_uid0]

And especially loved:

[b:post_uid0]5. Beverly as a Ripley/Sarah Connor-like Resistance fighter who is so deadly in hand-to-hand combat that she's known as "Dr. Crusher"[/b:post_uid0]

Great jobs everybody! :)[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Almost ready now. The update will probably be posted in an hour, and [i:post_uid0]absolutely[/i:post_uid0] no more than two.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Yep, it'll be there when you check tomorrow. Â Of course, it'll also be there when you check today.[/quote:post_uid0]

Well, as it happens it's currently 23:35, so you'd better get a move on. Otherwise I'd be right, and we wouldn't want [i:post_uid0]that[/i:post_uid0] to happen. I mean, if I go around being right about stuff, then there's no telling where it might end.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, there's no telling where it might end. :D

Besides, Zeke, you have 10 minutes left. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]You can't blame Zeke, 3sygma was down for a bit. :) He'll be able to get it up now![/color:post_uid0]

[Saxamaphone]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, 3sygma was down, now it's back up - just give him some time. Besides, I got 6 hours and 20 minutes ;)

Think of 17, she only barely gets them in time, I think.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Actually, I was talking about the two hours Zeke gave himself. And I'm not blaming anyone, just stating the obvious. You see, I'm not planning on reading it now anyway, in fact, I'm going to go to bed now.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Go to bed? [i:post_uid0]Now?[/i:post_uid0]

I couldn't stand the anticpation. It's worse than Christmas Eve.[/color:post_uid0]

[Saxamaphone]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]lol - I know :) It's awful - I'm about to get kicked off the computer too - my mom wants it, I'm fighting for it tho.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oh yes, well, it's just one hour later here...
NO! I'm too tired. I'll read them tomorrow.[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Don't give in! You can make it! :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Saxamaphone]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Search your feelings, you know it to be true.[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[quote:post_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, as it happens it's currently 23:35, so you'd better get a move on.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]I'm always referring to my time zone when I say "today" or "tomorrow" about updates, and I make no apologies for that. :)

You guys are right that (a) I didn't make the two hours and (b) it's partly because of the server downtime. Sorry about the suspense, but if it helps, I can say without reservation that it'll be worth it.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[quote:post_uid0="Zeke"][color=#000000:post_uid0]... if it helps, I can say without reservation that it'll be worth it.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]I don't think [i:post_uid0]that[/i:post_uid0] was ever in doubt. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]I don't think that was ever in doubt.[/quote:post_uid0]

[b:post_uid0]Warning[/b:post_uid0]: Don't feed Zeke's ego.[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]::Bounces up and down and claps her hands:: Is it done now? Now? Now? Now!? Is it done now!? how about now? Now? no? now? Aww.

Now?

Sorry I just had cake. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Eh, I don't plan on dying or otherwise losing my eyesight or sense of humor between now and whenever anyway. I can wait. Maybe. :D Â Â Â ;)

My unusual patience is probably due to the fact that I decided by the afternoon (as in "here" afternoon) that Zeke was planning on making a dramatic entrance at the eleventh hour, proudly bearing the tray of shiny new fivers aloft for all to see. :smile: ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]...that Zeke was planning on making a dramatic entrance at the eleventh hour, proudly bearing the tray of shiny new fivers aloft for all to see.[/quote:post_uid0]

That's probably not such a good idea. I mean, he'd get seriously injured if not killed in the stampede. Much safer to just airdrop them in.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Don't give in! You can make it! [/quote:post_uid0]
Well apperently not, because even those two minutes were too much.

Anyway, I don't mind it being late either, as long as it's there. :D Too bad I don't have time to read it today, we're going to do d&d all day.

I've read Sleapers though.
[quote:post_uid0]and he's already killed 8. Stand back![/quote:post_uid0]
:lol:

And by the way: Yay, I'm in it![/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Anyway, I don't mind it being late either, as long as it's there. Too bad I don't have time to read it today, we're going to do d&d all day.
[/quote:post_uid0]

Dammit. Quick, I need a plane ticket to the Netherlands.

An all-day D&D session? Haven't had one of those since high school. How I envy you.

Stupid real life.[/color:post_uid0]

[Standback]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]We get conventions every now and then. Not one game all day (unless you go to multi-parters), but 2 or 3 four-hour games. This past spring, I was able to go for a full three-day con for the first time... SOOOOO much fun. Especially since it was in my school, which I can tell you is a LOT nicer when you switch the students with roleplayers and the teachers with GMs, dress everyone up in stuff, and sell cool junk in the corridors.

There's, like, half a dozen one day events throughout Israel over the summer... so of course that's when I'm in the USA. ;) But there's a nice big joint roleplaying-science fiction convention in October, and lemme tell you, I am counting the days. I get to run, like, three games... and [i:post_uid0]Orson Scott Card[/i:post_uid0] is coming! How incredible is that?[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]the voy fiver was great expecialy:

Computer: Service record for Harry Kim, Ensign. 2367: Entered Starfleet Academy. 2371: Lost with U. S. S. Voyager. 2372: Mysteriously appeared on Earth and called up his service record, which he is currently reading[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]An all-day D&D session? Haven't had one of those since high school. How I envy you.[/quote:post_uid0]
Actually, it was two session, and two different campaigns too. And I'm still in high school. Don't envy me.[/color:post_uid0]

[Marc]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]>> By the way, has Marc read "Dark Mirror"? Just curious. <<

I've heard of the book, but no I haven't read it.[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Marc"]>> By the way, has Marc read "Dark Mirror"? Just curious. <<

I've heard of the book, but no I haven't read it.[/quote:post_uid0]
I was just curious about whether it might have influenced your list one way or the other.


(For the record, the list really doesn't match the book at all. Which doesn't detract from the list's funniness at all. :D)[/color:post_uid0]

[Marc]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]>> For the record, the list really doesn't match the book at all. Which doesn't detract from the list's funniness at all. <<

I would have been surprised if the Deanna Troi item, which a couple of people mentioned earlier, had matched anything that had been published with Paramount's approval. On the other hand, it wouldn't surprise me at all if there were some fanfic stories out there that have portrayed our favourite Counselor as a leather-clad dominatrix.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]In Dark Mirror, she's a cross between Al Bester (of Psi Corps), a Soviet political officer, and enthusiast of sadistic mindgames. The latter one is exacerbated by her psychic powers.

Also with the midriff-revealing tunic-y thing.

Then there's that weird, alternate-universe book series.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Then there's that weird, alternate-universe book series. [/quote:post_uid0]

Y'mean that badly-written duology where Troi is the Intendant of Betazed and the consort of the Regent Worf?[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Maybe. I never read it.

I'd sooner set the series alight than touch it. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[quote:post_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"][color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Then there's that weird, alternate-universe book series. [/quote:post_uid0]

Y'mean that badly-written duology where Troi is the Intendant of Betazed and the consort of the Regent Worf?[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]wellllll.... actually I do have both books and I actually like them. Yeah, burn me on the stake for blasphemy! I thought it was a rather cool concept because all the characters we know and.... erm, know are all... deliciously, darkly different.


Erm, no that didn't come out the way it was supposed to. Ugh. I'll just go lock myself in a small dark closet now...[/color:post_uid0]