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Re: CHAT: RPGs (was Re: Wargs)

From:Grandsire, C.A. <grandsir@...>
Date:Friday, November 12, 1999, 11:46
Don Blaheta wrote:
> > Quoth Grandsire, C.A.: > > Don Blaheta wrote: > > > Whereas Data (of ST:TNG) is _clearly_ actually an android. :) > > > > Even more, In First Contact, he says to the Borg Queen that he is > > sexually complete and able to function :) (like the humaniform robots of > > Asimov like Daneel by the way). > > In the second episode of the series, he gave a line that was later to > become one of his most quoted lines: "Oh, yes, I'm fully functional in > _every_ capacity." (after which he proceeded into the bedroom with Lt. > Yar) That's what I meant by the "clearly" above---his statement to the > Borg Queen was nothing the longtime fans didn't already know. :) >
That I didn't know. The reason is that we never had the ST:TNG series in France (except on Canal+ which is a crypted channel, and on cable TV, which is also unusable when you don't have any cable going to your apartment), and I began to see it more regularly when I arrived here in the Netherlands, that's to say in August! The French exception, as you see...
> -- > -=-Don Blaheta-=-=-dpb@cs.brown.edu-=-=-<http://www.cs.brown.edu/~dpb/>-=- > Due to a shortage of devoted followers, the production of great leaders > has been discontinued.
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