That's about when I gave up chess, Keith.
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Subject : Re: [RE][scifinoir2] topic: A military analysis of Star Trek
Date : Wed, 13 May 2009 17:05:36 +0000 (UTC)
From : Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>
To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Ha-ha! Love that game! There's nothing like the anticipation of seeing if plans
you lay out come to fruition. I need to get back into chess, but I never really
learned to play it well, and it's been about fifteen years
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From: "Martin Baxter"
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 8:01:41 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [RE][scifinoir2] topic: A military analysis of Star Trek
Keith, now I KNOW I should've been hanging out with you back then.
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Subject : Re: [RE][scifinoir2] topic: A military analysis of Star Trek
Date : Wed, 13 May 2009 02:27:36 +0000 (UTC)
>From : Keith Johnson
To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Not being a drinking man, and never having gone the strip club route, you know
what I did the night before my wedding? Stayed up til 5 am laughing and joking
with buddies, making milkshakes (my only weakness on Earth), and...playing Risk
for hours! Of course I won every game. :) We used to modify Risk in ways to
make it fun. We always entered into alliances, forming unions of nations
wherein the members avoided attacking each other, promising to gang up on
weaker countries, etc. The fun part was the inevitable moment when someone
would yell "The Alliance is broken!" and then start attacking his former
friend.
A friend of mine who was in the Navy said they added an option to Risk called
"Nuclear Flash": if you managed to roll three sixes at once as the attacker,
the country you're attacking is instantly wiped out by a high megaton
thermonuclear strike! Then you just mosey on end and take over. Now I think of
it, I guess if you can immediately occupy the country, the bomb had to be a
neutron bomb...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Baxter"
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 6:05:38 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [RE][scifinoir2] topic: A military analysis of Star Trek
As do I, Fate. Once I dove into the piece, I went full-immersion, and worked
every scenario as a real-time combat sitch. Danger of being a long-time Risk
player.
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Subject : Re: [RE][scifinoir2] topic: A military analysis of Star Trek
Date : Tue, 12 May 2009 07:21:56 -0700 (PDT)
>From : Augustus Augustus
To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
but Martin, i give the author credit on some of his points. the rumsfeld
comment and the dhs were priceless!
Fate.
--- On Tue, 5/12/09, Martin Baxter wrote:
From: Martin Baxter
Subject: [RE][scifinoir2] topic: A military analysis of Star Trek
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 7:56 AM
Looks like a somewhat sound analysis. One problem that the author fails to take
into account, though.
The Romulan ship is from the future. Its tech, ergo, is going to be
head-and-shoulders above anything Starfleet can throw at it (unless the
timeline alteration also handed them a massive upgrade int hat department, that
is). It would probably take a concerted effort by everything 'Fleet had to
throw at it. It's the only way they were able to stave off the Borg, the
Dominion and the Breen until they were able to gain a technological advantage.
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Subject : [scifinoir2] topic: A military analysis of Star Trek
Date : Mon, 11 May 2009 21:58:17 -0700
>From : "Mr. Worf"
To : scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
This is a pretty interesting look at the movie. What do you think?
http://www.wired. com/dangerroom/ 2009/05/star- trek-a-military- analysis/
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=JQdwk8Yntds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
