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The LCARS Computer Network | A Star Trek Fan Site. Sensor Activity & Particle AnalysisDivX .AVI 1024x768 8.5mb ZIP FileExtracts to 8.9mb Dominion War Casuality Report. The Egg. Author's Note: The Egg is also available in the following languages: The Egg By: Andy Weir You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. And that’s when you met me. “What… what happened?” “You died,” I said, matter-of-factly. “There was a… a truck and it was skidding…” “Yup,” I said. “I… I died?” “Yup. You looked around. “More or less,” I said. “Are you god?” “Yup,” I replied. “My kids… my wife,” you said. “What about them?”

“Will they be all right?” “That’s what I like to see,” I said. You looked at me with fascination. “Don’t worry,” I said. “Oh,” you said. “Neither,” I said. “Ah,” you said. “All religions are right in their own way,” I said. You followed along as we strode through the void. “Nowhere in particular,” I said. “So what’s the point, then?” “Not so!” I stopped walking and took you by the shoulders. “How many times have I been reincarnated, then?” Star Trek: Final Frontier - Project Overview. Star Trek: Final Frontier was developed by Zero Room Productions in late 2005 as a series of five animated segments with a continuing plot that could lead to more adventures.

With Star Trek on television dying out and nothing new in the foreseeable future, Final Frontier was designed to give Startrek.com original content, provide fans with a new and different vision of the franchise, and do so in a way that was relatively low risk for CBS. Most of the work you see here was done for free by people who are not only talented professionals, but also Star Trek fans who contributed their time to bring these new stories to fans all over the world.

Animation would allow us to tell stories with a scope that would be impossible in live action and help return the franchise to its roots of optimism, exploration, and fun. At the end of 2007, the entire staff of Startrek.com was laid off and a reshuffle of management at CBS Interactive soon followed.

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Steampunk. Jeff Russell's STARSHIP DIMENSIONS. Protecting Earth and space from people. Don't muck around in the affairs of planets that are less technologically advanced than yours. Despite how often it gets ignored, Star Trek's Prime Directive is a pretty nice attempt to take a universe brimming with life and figure out how to interact with it in an ethical way. Unfortunately, the Prime Directive isn't terribly nuanced. How do we relate to alien life that's as, or more, advanced than us? What if alien life is bacteria—do we still have to leave its home planet alone? How do we explore the galaxy without spreading—or picking up—any deadly diseases?

The Prime Directive can't really help you here. That's why scientists from NASA and the SETI Institute are boldly going where no bureaucracies (real or fictional) have gone before—drawing up the safety protocols we Earthlings will use as we explore new worlds, and the social and ethical guidelines we'll turn to if we ever do find life on other planets. It's all part of NASA's Office of Planetary Protection.

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