Trek through the Internet

Cyberspace, the final frontier. These are the pages of the trekkie, Jason Corfman. Your ongoing mission, to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new sites and new information, to boldly go where you have never gone before!

First off, let me describe how to convert the current date into stardate format. For this example, I will use January 31, 1997. Start by using two numbers for the month, day, and year. (i.e. 01/31/97). Move the year in front of the month, take out all the separators, and place a period between the month and the day. You are left with 9701.31, which sounds like it came off the show.

Captain's log, stardate 9701.31: We saved the galaxy once again. What would they ever do without us?

Incidently, this is the system that would have caused the so called "Y2K" problem. Following this system, which is similar to what computers use, Jan. 1, 2000, will read as 0001.01, which, if you compare it, looks like it comes before 9701.31, and so computers would have treated it as such. Fortunately, as you are well aware, there were very few Y2K problems.

In case anybody is wondering, Capt. Kirk is much better than Capt. Picard ever could be, and this proves it! Also, Picard was never a serious consideration for the 1996 Presidential race, unlike Kirk.

The best trek is the original series. Granted, the special effects aren't that great by today's standards. Their big super computers look like cardboard boxes with blinking lights. However, that show did more by showing racial unity than any other show of its time, and most other times, for that matter. The characters were closer, more believable, and more complex than the other three series. If it had been given a budget comparable to The Next Generation, it would have been the best show ever. As it is, they got less money per episode than "I love Lucy."

In case you are wondering, after TOS, I like (in order) Voyager, The Next Generation, and Deep Space Nine. I won't bore you with those details, however.

I really love to read, especially original Star Trek novels. I have almost all of the novels published by Pocket Books. I have even compiled a complete list of the books and their authors, and a brief synopsis for most, of The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space 9, Voyager, and New Frontier. Also, for reference, I wrote a brief synopsis of each of the first nine movies. As soon as I get some info on the tenth, I will try to put that up as well.

I only have three pictures right now that you can download if you want them. The first was a bitmap that I designed as a Windows background which shows the four main insignias from Star Trek (the original, movies 2-6, TNG/DS9, and the current one). It has been converted to .gif so you can easily see it. The second is a .jpg showing the first five Starship Enterprise's scaled to each other with the Federation flag behind them. The third is a really sharp picuture depicting the 30th anniversary of Star Trek with the original crew. Check them out.

Don't forget to join the club, when you get around to it.