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...
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