My husband recently discovered a lively discussion, on another site, about the myriad inconsistencies in Data's character over the years. I thought his response might amuse you, so I reproduce it here:

While I ponder, weak and weary
The inconsistent Data theory
Trying to poop an answer I would sign.
Could an arrow bust him up, er
A phaser make him late for supper
This easily damaged form of his so fine.
Would the viewers be a-crapping
Should our hero come a-tapping
Tap, tap, tapping on Seven of Nine?
Quoth the 'scientist', I resign.

Jumping in a hole, first season
Then in movies for some reason
Exhibiting a confidence he surely shouldn't feel.
Machine guns raise and start to chatter
But his guts refuse to scatter
Saying only 'Greetings' with much zeal.
Such confusion is a-hatching
Are or aren't his ears detaching
Doth the shiny skin and eyeballs peal?
Quoth the 'scientist', This aint real.

© April 5, 2011 INTLNETNEWS (redistribution cleared with INTLNETNEWS credit)

"Warp Drive" Inventor Proves He's Man To Be Reckoned With

By Farrah Milz


Last night was the internet radio debut of one of more interesting people to hit the net recently. A man who seems on the verge of literally changing the world. He's the inventor of warp drive.

No, not Zepherim Cochran who 52 years from today is supposed to do a maiden flight with warp drive and the rest is Federation history, that is if you're one of the many Trekkies celebrating it today. No, this is Marshall Barnes, research and development engineer and seemingly all around super-genius, telling from the things I've found about his very eclectic career that goes back over 30 years. Ron Mills of the web radio show The Chosen, had Marshall on to talk about his STDTS prototype warp drive technology which accelerates things that are already moving by using a specially synthesized electromagnetic field that contracts space in the front and allows it to expand in the rear.

Hello,

We have just released to the public our FREE Star Trek game based on the Torque 3D engine. It is title Star Trek: NCC1701 and features for the first time the entire original Enterprise rendered in full-scale 3D. This means players can actually walk the entire interior of theship from top to bottom when all interior decks are completed.

For now, our playable demo includes the bridge and the shuttlebay (you can turbolift between the two), and the ability to fly a shuttle around the outside of the ship and practice various combat and flight missions.

Check out our website at http://gambitrealm.com for the free download link and more information.

Please feel free to pass this link around to any other Star Trek fan sites you can think of - we are trying to get a lot of people to download it as it also has multiplayer functionality. It would be great to get a large enough user base to have 20-40 people on our dedicated server, all flying around blasting each other.