He would be forced to return to Earth alone.

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# How Michael Collins became the forgotten astronaut of Apollo 11

As Armstrong and Aldrin took their famous walk on the moon, a third member of the team sat alone in the mothership plagued by terrors of returning to Earth alone.

Michael Collins, command module pilot of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.

It was the secret terror that gripped astronaut Michael Collins throughout the Apollo 11 project 40 years ago.

As his spacecraft, Columbia, swept over the lunar surface, Collins - the mission's third and largely forgotten crewman - waited for a call from fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to say their lander craft had successfully blasted off from the Moon.

The message would banish Collins's deepest fear: that he would be the only survivor of an Apollo 11 disaster and that he was destined to return on his own to the United States as "a marked man".

The realisation that the normally icy-cool astronaut was so obsessed by such an outcome puts a fresh perspective on the celebrations that will, this weekend, absorb the United States as it commemorates the moment, on 21 July 1969, that an American first walked on another world.

Apollo 11 will be presented as a flawless technological triumph at jamborees across the nation, including a special reception at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, which all three Apollo 11 astronauts are scheduled to attend.

Yet at the time, worries that the mission would end in disaster consumed nearly all of those involved in the programme - despite their apparent calm.

And no one was more stressed than Collins, it appears.

In his case, the astronaut was obsessed with the reliability of the ascent engine of Armstrong and Aldrin's lander, Eagle.

It had never been fired on the Moon's surface before and many astronauts had serious doubts about its reliability.

Should the engine fail to ignite, Armstrong and Aldrin would be stranded on the Moon - where they would die when their oxygen ran out.

Or if it failed to burn for at least seven minutes, then the two astronauts would either crash back on to the Moon or be stranded in low orbit around it, beyond the reach of Collins in his mothership, Columbia.

All three astronauts believed there was a real chance such a disaster would occur.

Armstrong thought his prospects were only 50-50 of making it back to Earth.

And so did Collins, the pilot of Columbia and one of the world's most experienced aviators.

Richard Nixon, then US president, had even prepared a speech that he would deliver in the event of the Eagle's engine failing.

"Fate has ordained that the men who went to the Moon to explore in peace will stay on the Moon to rest in peace," it ran.

"These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery.

But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice."

Thus Collins - alone in Columbia as the world focused on Armstrong and Aldrin walking on the lunar surface - fretted about his two companions below him on the Moon and revealed, in a note written at the time, that he was now "sweating like a nervous bride" as he waited to hear from the Eagle.

"My secret terror for the last six months has been leaving them on the Moon and returning to Earth alone; now I am within minutes of finding out the truth of the matter," he wrote.

"If they fail to rise from the surface, or crash back into it, I am not going to commit suicide; I am coming home, forthwith, but I will be a marked man for life and I know it."

Then Armstrong and Aldrin prepared their lander for its launch.

Armstrong pressed the engine's firing button and Eagle soared perfectly above the lunar surface towards the waiting Collins.

His worst fear had not materialised and he returned safely to Earth in the company of Armstrong and Aldrin, unmarked by the experience.

He would not suffer a fate of global notoriety.

Today most people still know the names of the two first men on the Moon and recall the words, delivered by Armstrong, about taking a giant leap for mankind.

But the name Michael Collins is rarely recalled, despite his critical role in the historic flight of Apollo 11.

In fact, he was - in many ways - the unsung hero of the Apollo 11 mission, a point that was underlined at the time by the great American aviator Charles Lindbergh.

He wrote to Collins, not long after his safe return, to tell him that his part of the mission was one of "greater profundity ... you have experienced an aloneness unknown to man before".

It is an intriguing remark and an apposite one, it turns out - a point that can be appreciated by looking at the very set-up of the mission.

Apollo 11 consisted of a spindly lunar lander, Eagle, and an orbiting mothership, Columbia, that were both blasted into space on a giant Saturn V rocket on 16 July 1969.

For three days, Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins cruised towards the Moon inside Columbia and spent their time gazing "out the window at the Earth getting smaller and smaller and checking the spacecraft", according to Aldrin.

Then, on 20 July, Armstrong and Aldrin crawled into Eagle and flew it down to the Moon's surface.

"Keep talking to me, guys," radioed an initially panicky Collins as the pair drifted away from his ship.

Minutes later, Columbia swept behind the Moon and Collins became Earth's most distant solo traveller, separated from the rest of humanity by 250,000 miles of space and by the bulk of the Moon, which blocked all radio transmissions to and from mission control.

He was out of sight and out of contact with his home planet.

"I am now truly alone and absolutely alone from any known life.

Lindbergh's remarks were certainly accurate.

Such solitude would have unnerved most people.

He says the emotion that he experienced most during his day alone in lunar orbit was that of exultation.

And certainly he appears to have relished his time as the loneliest member of his species.

He also emerged from the post-Apollo years relatively unscathed.

Aldrin lapsed into alcoholism and depression, while Armstrong became a virtual recluse.

By contrast, Collins - shaded from the glare of publicity - has avoided such personal traumas and is still with his wife, Patricia, whom he married in 1958.

The couple have three grown-up children.

Collins was born in Rome on 31 October 1930.

His father, Major-General James Lawton Collins, was then serving overseas with the US army.

Collins later graduated from West Point and joined the US air force.

An early assignment was to the 21st Fighter-Bomber Wing at George Air Force Base, where he learned how to drop nuclear weapons.

He joined the astronaut corps in 1962 and flew on one of America's two-man Gemini capsules with veteran astronaut John Young, who flew on a later Apollo mission.

After his return to Earth, Collins gave up space travel and pursued a career in bureaucracy and business.

He was director of the National Air and Space Museum until 1978, before being appointed vice-president of LTV Aerospace in Arlington, Virginia.

He resigned in 1985 to start his own business.

Today he remains cheerful about his role on Apollo 11, although he describes himself as becoming increasingly grumpy.

"At age 78, some things about current society irritate me, such as the adulation of celebrities and inflation of heroism," he said last week.

"Heroes abound, but don't count astronauts among them.

We worked very hard, we did our jobs to near perfection, but that is what we had been hired to do."

He describes himself today as moderately busy, "running, biking, swimming, fishing, painting, cooking, reading, worrying about the stock market and searching for a really good bottle of cabernet for under $10".

As to his claim to fame, that was simple fate, he added.

Buzz Aldrin was born in 1930, and Mike Collins, 1930.

We came along at exactly the right time.

We survived hazardous careers and were successful in them.

"But in my own case at least, it was 10% shrewd planning and 90% blind luck.

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Just before he reached the far side on the third orbit, Mission Control informed Collins that there was a problem with the temperature of the coolant. If it became too cold, parts of "Columbia" might freeze. Mission Control advised him to assume manual control and implement Environmental Control System Malfunction Procedure 17. Instead, Collins flicked the switch on the offending system from automatic to manual and back to automatic again, and carried on with normal housekeeping chores, while keeping an eye on the temperature. When "Columbia" came back around to the near side of the Moon again, he was able to report that the problem had been resolved. For the next couple of orbits, he described his time on the far side of the Moon as "relaxing". After Aldrin and Armstrong completed their EVA, Collins slept so he could be rested for the rendezvous. While the flight plan called for "Eagle" to meet up with "Columbia", Collins was prepared for certain contingencies in which he would fly "Columbia" down to meet "Eagle". After spending so much time with the CSM, Collins felt compelled to leave his mark on it, so during the second night following their return from the Moon, he went to the lower equipment bay of the CM and wrote:
 In a July 2009 interview with "The Guardian", Collins revealed that he was very worried about Armstrong and Aldrin's safety. He was concerned in the event of their deaths on the Moon.


He would be the mission's sole survivor.

(meta data) TITLE:  How Michael Collins became the forgotten astronaut of Apollo 11 | Science | The Observer

(meta data) AUTHOR: http://www.theguardian.com/profile/robinmckie

(meta data) PUBLISHED DATETIME: 2009-07-18

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With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside.

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This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed.

Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.

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# How Michael Collins became the forgotten astronaut of Apollo 11

As Armstrong and Aldrin took their famous walk on the moon, a third member of the team sat alone in the mothership plagued by terrors of returning to Earth alone.

Michael Collins, command module pilot of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.

It was the secret terror that gripped astronaut Michael Collins throughout the Apollo 11 project 40 years ago.

As his spacecraft, Columbia, swept over the lunar surface, Collins - the mission's third and largely forgotten crewman - waited for a call from fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to say their lander craft had successfully blasted off from the Moon.

The message would banish Collins's deepest fear: that he would be the only survivor of an Apollo 11 disaster and that he was destined to return on his own to the United States as "a marked man".

The realisation that the normally icy-cool astronaut was so obsessed by such an outcome puts a fresh perspective on the celebrations that will, this weekend, absorb the United States as it commemorates the moment, on 21 July 1969, that an American first walked on another world.

Apollo 11 will be presented as a flawless technological triumph at jamborees across the nation, including a special reception at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, which all three Apollo 11 astronauts are scheduled to attend.

Yet at the time, worries that the mission would end in disaster consumed nearly all of those involved in the programme - despite their apparent calm.

And no one was more stressed than Collins, it appears.

In his case, the astronaut was obsessed with the reliability of the ascent engine of Armstrong and Aldrin's lander, Eagle.

It had never been fired on the Moon's surface before and many astronauts had serious doubts about its reliability.

Should the engine fail to ignite, Armstrong and Aldrin would be stranded on the Moon - where they would die when their oxygen ran out.

Or if it failed to burn for at least seven minutes, then the two astronauts would either crash back on to the Moon or be stranded in low orbit around it, beyond the reach of Collins in his mothership, Columbia.

All three astronauts believed there was a real chance such a disaster would occur.

Armstrong thought his prospects were only 50-50 of making it back to Earth.

And so did Collins, the pilot of Columbia and one of the world's most experienced aviators.

Richard Nixon, then US president, had even prepared a speech that he would deliver in the event of the Eagle's engine failing.

"Fate has ordained that the men who went to the Moon to explore in peace will stay on the Moon to rest in peace," it ran.

"These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery.

But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice."

Thus Collins - alone in Columbia as the world focused on Armstrong and Aldrin walking on the lunar surface - fretted about his two companions below him on the Moon and revealed, in a note written at the time, that he was now "sweating like a nervous bride" as he waited to hear from the Eagle.

"My secret terror for the last six months has been leaving them on the Moon and returning to Earth alone; now I am within minutes of finding out the truth of the matter," he wrote.

"If they fail to rise from the surface, or crash back into it, I am not going to commit suicide; I am coming home, forthwith, but I will be a marked man for life and I know it."

Then Armstrong and Aldrin prepared their lander for its launch.

Armstrong pressed the engine's firing button and Eagle soared perfectly above the lunar surface towards the waiting Collins.

His worst fear had not materialised and he returned safely to Earth in the company of Armstrong and Aldrin, unmarked by the experience.

He would not suffer a fate of global notoriety.

Today most people still know the names of the two first men on the Moon and recall the words, delivered by Armstrong, about taking a giant leap for mankind.

But the name Michael Collins is rarely recalled, despite his critical role in the historic flight of Apollo 11.

In fact, he was - in many ways - the unsung hero of the Apollo 11 mission, a point that was underlined at the time by the great American aviator Charles Lindbergh.

He wrote to Collins, not long after his safe return, to tell him that his part of the mission was one of "greater profundity ... you have experienced an aloneness unknown to man before".

It is an intriguing remark and an apposite one, it turns out - a point that can be appreciated by looking at the very set-up of the mission.

Apollo 11 consisted of a spindly lunar lander, Eagle, and an orbiting mothership, Columbia, that were both blasted into space on a giant Saturn V rocket on 16 July 1969.

For three days, Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins cruised towards the Moon inside Columbia and spent their time gazing "out the window at the Earth getting smaller and smaller and checking the spacecraft", according to Aldrin.

Then, on 20 July, Armstrong and Aldrin crawled into Eagle and flew it down to the Moon's surface.

"Keep talking to me, guys," radioed an initially panicky Collins as the pair drifted away from his ship.

Minutes later, Columbia swept behind the Moon and Collins became Earth's most distant solo traveller, separated from the rest of humanity by 250,000 miles of space and by the bulk of the Moon, which blocked all radio transmissions to and from mission control.

He was out of sight and out of contact with his home planet.

"I am now truly alone and absolutely alone from any known life.

Lindbergh's remarks were certainly accurate.

Such solitude would have unnerved most people.

He says the emotion that he experienced most during his day alone in lunar orbit was that of exultation.

And certainly he appears to have relished his time as the loneliest member of his species.

He also emerged from the post-Apollo years relatively unscathed.

Aldrin lapsed into alcoholism and depression, while Armstrong became a virtual recluse.

By contrast, Collins - shaded from the glare of publicity - has avoided such personal traumas and is still with his wife, Patricia, whom he married in 1958.

The couple have three grown-up children.

Collins was born in Rome on 31 October 1930.

His father, Major-General James Lawton Collins, was then serving overseas with the US army.

Collins later graduated from West Point and joined the US air force.

An early assignment was to the 21st Fighter-Bomber Wing at George Air Force Base, where he learned how to drop nuclear weapons.

He joined the astronaut corps in 1962 and flew on one of America's two-man Gemini capsules with veteran astronaut John Young, who flew on a later Apollo mission.

After his return to Earth, Collins gave up space travel and pursued a career in bureaucracy and business.

He was director of the National Air and Space Museum until 1978, before being appointed vice-president of LTV Aerospace in Arlington, Virginia.

He resigned in 1985 to start his own business.

Today he remains cheerful about his role on Apollo 11, although he describes himself as becoming increasingly grumpy.

"At age 78, some things about current society irritate me, such as the adulation of celebrities and inflation of heroism," he said last week.

"Heroes abound, but don't count astronauts among them.

We worked very hard, we did our jobs to near perfection, but that is what we had been hired to do."

He describes himself today as moderately busy, "running, biking, swimming, fishing, painting, cooking, reading, worrying about the stock market and searching for a really good bottle of cabernet for under $10".

As to his claim to fame, that was simple fate, he added.

Buzz Aldrin was born in 1930, and Mike Collins, 1930.

We came along at exactly the right time.

We survived hazardous careers and were successful in them.

"But in my own case at least, it was 10% shrewd planning and 90% blind luck.

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Just before he reached the far side on the third orbit, Mission Control informed Collins that there was a problem with the temperature of the coolant. If it became too cold, parts of "Columbia" might freeze. Mission Control advised him to assume manual control and implement Environmental Control System Malfunction Procedure 17. Instead, Collins flicked the switch on the offending system from automatic to manual and back to automatic again, and carried on with normal housekeeping chores, while keeping an eye on the temperature. When "Columbia" came back around to the near side of the Moon again, he was able to report that the problem had been resolved. For the next couple of orbits, he described his time on the far side of the Moon as "relaxing". After Aldrin and Armstrong completed their EVA, Collins slept so he could be rested for the rendezvous. While the flight plan called for "Eagle" to meet up with "Columbia", Collins was prepared for certain contingencies in which he would fly "Columbia" down to meet "Eagle". After spending so much time with the CSM, Collins felt compelled to leave his mark on it, so during the second night following their return from the Moon, he went to the lower equipment bay of the CM and wrote:
 In a July 2009 interview with "The Guardian", Collins revealed that he was very worried about Armstrong and Aldrin's safety. He was concerned in the event of their deaths on the Moon. He would be forced to return to Earth alone.


He would be regarded as "a marked man for life".

(meta data) TITLE:  How Michael Collins became the forgotten astronaut of Apollo 11 | Science | The Observer

(meta data) AUTHOR: http://www.theguardian.com/profile/robinmckie

(meta data) PUBLISHED DATETIME: 2009-07-18

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The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.

History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there.

With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside.

Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials.

Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.

The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.

This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed.

Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.

Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire.

If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop.

Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.

The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.

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Some of these rescues, consisting of what we could grab, are being saved here.

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# How Michael Collins became the forgotten astronaut of Apollo 11

As Armstrong and Aldrin took their famous walk on the moon, a third member of the team sat alone in the mothership plagued by terrors of returning to Earth alone.

Michael Collins, command module pilot of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.

It was the secret terror that gripped astronaut Michael Collins throughout the Apollo 11 project 40 years ago.

As his spacecraft, Columbia, swept over the lunar surface, Collins - the mission's third and largely forgotten crewman - waited for a call from fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to say their lander craft had successfully blasted off from the Moon.

The message would banish Collins's deepest fear: that he would be the only survivor of an Apollo 11 disaster and that he was destined to return on his own to the United States as "a marked man".

The realisation that the normally icy-cool astronaut was so obsessed by such an outcome puts a fresh perspective on the celebrations that will, this weekend, absorb the United States as it commemorates the moment, on 21 July 1969, that an American first walked on another world.

Apollo 11 will be presented as a flawless technological triumph at jamborees across the nation, including a special reception at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, which all three Apollo 11 astronauts are scheduled to attend.

Yet at the time, worries that the mission would end in disaster consumed nearly all of those involved in the programme - despite their apparent calm.

And no one was more stressed than Collins, it appears.

In his case, the astronaut was obsessed with the reliability of the ascent engine of Armstrong and Aldrin's lander, Eagle.

It had never been fired on the Moon's surface before and many astronauts had serious doubts about its reliability.

Should the engine fail to ignite, Armstrong and Aldrin would be stranded on the Moon - where they would die when their oxygen ran out.

Or if it failed to burn for at least seven minutes, then the two astronauts would either crash back on to the Moon or be stranded in low orbit around it, beyond the reach of Collins in his mothership, Columbia.

All three astronauts believed there was a real chance such a disaster would occur.

Armstrong thought his prospects were only 50-50 of making it back to Earth.

And so did Collins, the pilot of Columbia and one of the world's most experienced aviators.

Richard Nixon, then US president, had even prepared a speech that he would deliver in the event of the Eagle's engine failing.

"Fate has ordained that the men who went to the Moon to explore in peace will stay on the Moon to rest in peace," it ran.

"These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery.

But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice."

Thus Collins - alone in Columbia as the world focused on Armstrong and Aldrin walking on the lunar surface - fretted about his two companions below him on the Moon and revealed, in a note written at the time, that he was now "sweating like a nervous bride" as he waited to hear from the Eagle.

"My secret terror for the last six months has been leaving them on the Moon and returning to Earth alone; now I am within minutes of finding out the truth of the matter," he wrote.

"If they fail to rise from the surface, or crash back into it, I am not going to commit suicide; I am coming home, forthwith, but I will be a marked man for life and I know it."

Then Armstrong and Aldrin prepared their lander for its launch.

Armstrong pressed the engine's firing button and Eagle soared perfectly above the lunar surface towards the waiting Collins.

His worst fear had not materialised and he returned safely to Earth in the company of Armstrong and Aldrin, unmarked by the experience.

He would not suffer a fate of global notoriety.

Today most people still know the names of the two first men on the Moon and recall the words, delivered by Armstrong, about taking a giant leap for mankind.

But the name Michael Collins is rarely recalled, despite his critical role in the historic flight of Apollo 11.

In fact, he was - in many ways - the unsung hero of the Apollo 11 mission, a point that was underlined at the time by the great American aviator Charles Lindbergh.

He wrote to Collins, not long after his safe return, to tell him that his part of the mission was one of "greater profundity ... you have experienced an aloneness unknown to man before".

It is an intriguing remark and an apposite one, it turns out - a point that can be appreciated by looking at the very set-up of the mission.

Apollo 11 consisted of a spindly lunar lander, Eagle, and an orbiting mothership, Columbia, that were both blasted into space on a giant Saturn V rocket on 16 July 1969.

For three days, Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins cruised towards the Moon inside Columbia and spent their time gazing "out the window at the Earth getting smaller and smaller and checking the spacecraft", according to Aldrin.

Then, on 20 July, Armstrong and Aldrin crawled into Eagle and flew it down to the Moon's surface.

"Keep talking to me, guys," radioed an initially panicky Collins as the pair drifted away from his ship.

Minutes later, Columbia swept behind the Moon and Collins became Earth's most distant solo traveller, separated from the rest of humanity by 250,000 miles of space and by the bulk of the Moon, which blocked all radio transmissions to and from mission control.

He was out of sight and out of contact with his home planet.

"I am now truly alone and absolutely alone from any known life.

Lindbergh's remarks were certainly accurate.

Such solitude would have unnerved most people.

He says the emotion that he experienced most during his day alone in lunar orbit was that of exultation.

And certainly he appears to have relished his time as the loneliest member of his species.

He also emerged from the post-Apollo years relatively unscathed.

Aldrin lapsed into alcoholism and depression, while Armstrong became a virtual recluse.

By contrast, Collins - shaded from the glare of publicity - has avoided such personal traumas and is still with his wife, Patricia, whom he married in 1958.

The couple have three grown-up children.

Collins was born in Rome on 31 October 1930.

His father, Major-General James Lawton Collins, was then serving overseas with the US army.

Collins later graduated from West Point and joined the US air force.

An early assignment was to the 21st Fighter-Bomber Wing at George Air Force Base, where he learned how to drop nuclear weapons.

He joined the astronaut corps in 1962 and flew on one of America's two-man Gemini capsules with veteran astronaut John Young, who flew on a later Apollo mission.

After his return to Earth, Collins gave up space travel and pursued a career in bureaucracy and business.

He was director of the National Air and Space Museum until 1978, before being appointed vice-president of LTV Aerospace in Arlington, Virginia.

He resigned in 1985 to start his own business.

Today he remains cheerful about his role on Apollo 11, although he describes himself as becoming increasingly grumpy.

"At age 78, some things about current society irritate me, such as the adulation of celebrities and inflation of heroism," he said last week.

"Heroes abound, but don't count astronauts among them.

We worked very hard, we did our jobs to near perfection, but that is what we had been hired to do."

He describes himself today as moderately busy, "running, biking, swimming, fishing, painting, cooking, reading, worrying about the stock market and searching for a really good bottle of cabernet for under $10".

As to his claim to fame, that was simple fate, he added.

Buzz Aldrin was born in 1930, and Mike Collins, 1930.

We came along at exactly the right time.

We survived hazardous careers and were successful in them.

"But in my own case at least, it was 10% shrewd planning and 90% blind luck.

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Just before he reached the far side on the third orbit, Mission Control informed Collins that there was a problem with the temperature of the coolant. If it became too cold, parts of "Columbia" might freeze. Mission Control advised him to assume manual control and implement Environmental Control System Malfunction Procedure 17. Instead, Collins flicked the switch on the offending system from automatic to manual and back to automatic again, and carried on with normal housekeeping chores, while keeping an eye on the temperature. When "Columbia" came back around to the near side of the Moon again, he was able to report that the problem had been resolved. For the next couple of orbits, he described his time on the far side of the Moon as "relaxing". After Aldrin and Armstrong completed their EVA, Collins slept so he could be rested for the rendezvous. While the flight plan called for "Eagle" to meet up with "Columbia", Collins was prepared for certain contingencies in which he would fly "Columbia" down to meet "Eagle". After spending so much time with the CSM, Collins felt compelled to leave his mark on it, so during the second night following their return from the Moon, he went to the lower equipment bay of the CM and wrote:
 In a July 2009 interview with "The Guardian", Collins revealed that he was very worried about Armstrong and Aldrin's safety. He was concerned in the event of their deaths on the Moon. He would be forced to return to Earth alone. He would be the mission's sole survivor.


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## Dominican Priory of St. Michael the Archangel

The Dominican friars opened some eighteen houses in major English towns during the first twenty years after the arrival in England in 1221.

The priory in Cambridge, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was founded either in or shortly before 1238.

In that year the King, Henry III, gave oak trees to help with its construction.

The site (now occupied by Emmanuel College), was out beyond the Barnwell gate, away from what was then the town centre.

The success of the early preaching mission may be gauged by the friars' piecemeal acquisition over the next few decades of surrounding properties to create a site covering some ten acres.

By 1296, through the generous benefaction of Alice de Sanford, the Countess of Oxford, the friars were able to enlarge greatly their original buildings.

Cambridge was already a growing university centre of study and learning.

A group of scholars had moved to the town from Oxford in 1209, and in the early 1230s they had found recognition both from the pope and the king.

The latter had required Cambridge students to be registered with recognised Masters, and in 1233 Pope Gregory IX granted the Chancellor and his scholars the right not to be sued outside the diocese of Ely.

Every Dominican priory contained a 'school' where there were daily lectures on the Bible for the friars, other interested clerics and lay people, but the Cambridge Priory would interact with the nascent university to become a more advanced theological school.

By 1260, several friars were acknowledged lectors in the university's Theology Faculty

In perhaps 1314 the Cambridge Priory was made into a 'studium generale' for the Order, one welcoming the brightest student friars from different countries.

It long continued in this role until the house was dissolved by King Henry VIII in 1538.

The most famous medieval Dominican to teach in Cambridge was probably Robert Holcot.

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## Dominican Priory of St. Michael the Archangel

The Dominican friars opened some eighteen houses in major English towns during the first twenty years after the arrival in England in 1221.

The priory in Cambridge, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was founded either in or shortly before 1238.

In that year the King, Henry III, gave oak trees to help with its construction.

The site (now occupied by Emmanuel College), was out beyond the Barnwell gate, away from what was then the town centre.

The success of the early preaching mission may be gauged by the friars' piecemeal acquisition over the next few decades of surrounding properties to create a site covering some ten acres.

By 1296, through the generous benefaction of Alice de Sanford, the Countess of Oxford, the friars were able to enlarge greatly their original buildings.

Cambridge was already a growing university centre of study and learning.

A group of scholars had moved to the town from Oxford in 1209, and in the early 1230s they had found recognition both from the pope and the king.

The latter had required Cambridge students to be registered with recognised Masters, and in 1233 Pope Gregory IX granted the Chancellor and his scholars the right not to be sued outside the diocese of Ely.

Every Dominican priory contained a 'school' where there were daily lectures on the Bible for the friars, other interested clerics and lay people, but the Cambridge Priory would interact with the nascent university to become a more advanced theological school.

By 1260, several friars were acknowledged lectors in the university's Theology Faculty

In perhaps 1314 the Cambridge Priory was made into a 'studium generale' for the Order, one welcoming the brightest student friars from different countries.

It long continued in this role until the house was dissolved by King Henry VIII in 1538.

The most famous medieval Dominican to teach in Cambridge was probably Robert Holcot.

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## Dominican Priory of St. Michael the Archangel

The Dominican friars opened some eighteen houses in major English towns during the first twenty years after the arrival in England in 1221.

The priory in Cambridge, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was founded either in or shortly before 1238.

In that year the King, Henry III, gave oak trees to help with its construction.

The site (now occupied by Emmanuel College), was out beyond the Barnwell gate, away from what was then the town centre.

The success of the early preaching mission may be gauged by the friars' piecemeal acquisition over the next few decades of surrounding properties to create a site covering some ten acres.

By 1296, through the generous benefaction of Alice de Sanford, the Countess of Oxford, the friars were able to enlarge greatly their original buildings.

Cambridge was already a growing university centre of study and learning.

A group of scholars had moved to the town from Oxford in 1209, and in the early 1230s they had found recognition both from the pope and the king.

The latter had required Cambridge students to be registered with recognised Masters, and in 1233 Pope Gregory IX granted the Chancellor and his scholars the right not to be sued outside the diocese of Ely.

Every Dominican priory contained a 'school' where there were daily lectures on the Bible for the friars, other interested clerics and lay people, but the Cambridge Priory would interact with the nascent university to become a more advanced theological school.

By 1260, several friars were acknowledged lectors in the university's Theology Faculty

In perhaps 1314 the Cambridge Priory was made into a 'studium generale' for the Order, one welcoming the brightest student friars from different countries.

It long continued in this role until the house was dissolved by King Henry VIII in 1538.

The most famous medieval Dominican to teach in Cambridge was probably Robert Holcot.

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The album's first promotional single is "Common."

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"When it's over, when it's done, when we're standing at the gates/Will we see that all along, we're a different kind of same?" sings Morris, accompanied by some chilly synth chords and a primitive, metronomic beat.

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The singer debuted the song live onstage during Carlile's Girls Just Wanna Weekend last week.

Both Morris and Carlile are among the most nominated performers at the 61st Grammy Awards, with Carlile leading among women with six total nods including Album of the Year (By the Way, I Forgive You) and Record of the Year ("The Joke").

Morris is up for five honors, including Record of the Year (for the Zedd and Grey collaboration "The Middle") and Best Country Song ("Dear Hate").

Both are set to perform during the Grammy telecast Sunday, February 10th, on CBS.

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Carlile gets her own verse and adds some chorus harmonies, the two singers pushing the song toward a cathartic finish that emphasizes how we may be all more alike than we're capable of admitting.

The singer debuted the song live onstage during Carlile's Girls Just Wanna Weekend last week.

Both Morris and Carlile are among the most nominated performers at the 61st Grammy Awards, with Carlile leading among women with six total nods including Album of the Year (By the Way, I Forgive You) and Record of the Year ("The Joke").

Morris is up for five honors, including Record of the Year (for the Zedd and Grey collaboration "The Middle") and Best Country Song ("Dear Hate").

Both are set to perform during the Grammy telecast Sunday, February 10th, on CBS.

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Rather than trafficking in uplifting platitudes, "Common" takes a more somber, alienated look at human relations.

"When it's over, when it's done, when we're standing at the gates/Will we see that all along, we're a different kind of same?" sings Morris, accompanied by some chilly synth chords and a primitive, metronomic beat.

Carlile gets her own verse and adds some chorus harmonies, the two singers pushing the song toward a cathartic finish that emphasizes how we may be all more alike than we're capable of admitting.

The singer debuted the song live onstage during Carlile's Girls Just Wanna Weekend last week.

Both Morris and Carlile are among the most nominated performers at the 61st Grammy Awards, with Carlile leading among women with six total nods including Album of the Year (By the Way, I Forgive You) and Record of the Year ("The Joke").

Morris is up for five honors, including Record of the Year (for the Zedd and Grey collaboration "The Middle") and Best Country Song ("Dear Hate").

Both are set to perform during the Grammy telecast Sunday, February 10th, on CBS.

Morris' second album, Girl, will be released March 8th and includes the recently released title track.

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In 2017, Popular Mechanics said that "Starship Mine" was one of the top ten most fun episodes of "Star Trek: The Next Generation."

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# The 10 Most Fun 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' Episodes

They're not the best, but they're the ones we can't help but watch again and again.

This is not a list of the ten best episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

You can find many such rankings highlighting the top moments aboard the USS Enterprise-D.

These are the fun episodes, the ones we fire up on Hulu when we need 45 minutes of comfort television in the 24th century.

"The Chase" is a love-it-or-hate-it episode.

The Cardassians, Klingons, Romulans, and Federation are all on the hunt for the same object, each trying to outsmart the next.

But —SPOILER ALERT—the object in question turns out to be a recording revealing that the humanoid races of the Star Trek universe were all intentionally seeded by an ancient humanoid species.

This is a cheeky attempt to explain one of the fundamental problems with making sci-fi movies and TV—that the aliens usually look humanoid since they must be portrayed by human actors.

On Star Trek, Klingons and Humans could have a child together despite arising several dozen light years away from each other.

In reality, most astrobiologists find it unlikely that aliens will look much like anything on Earth, let alone like humans.

In other words, "The Chase" is an attempt to handwave a massive flaw in Star Trek and in wider science fiction.

That said, there's a thrilling mystery-adventure element to this episode of pseudoscientific gobbledygook that eventually adds up to an inconsistent but exciting whole.

At least its understanding of biology is more advanced than the one where Barclay becomes a spider and Worf a de-evolved rabid wolf.

One of the marks of a good plot twist is that it ultimately makes the show or movie leading up to it more watchable, not less.

Think of a great one such as The Prestige—once you know the ending, it's almost more fun to rewatch how the rest of the film hints at the conclusion.

This episode of Star Trek isn't quite The Usual Suspects, but it's pretty damn good for sci-fi TV.

"Clues" starts out as a classic "Why is Data acting so weird" plot (one of several plot devices TNG reused liberally).

The slow reveal about his odd behavior is the show at its best, raising fun philosophical and sci-fi questions about when it's okay for a machine to deceive for the greater good.

And hey, you don't usually end an episode rooting for the crew to get fooled again.

TNG, especially the early seasons, loved to tease that Riker's ambition would lead him to the captain's chair on some other ship, only to have his loyalty to the Enterprise bring him back to the role of Number One.

"Future Imperfect" has some fun by finally following through on all the build-up, putting Riker in charge of the ship—albeit in a fake future.

This episode is more than the fan service of showing us Admiral Picard, Captain Riker, and the return of Minuet the Holodeck minx.

It's a clever slow build that's ultimately about when not to believe your eyes.

Especially when they show you something that's too good to be true.

What's true about the Trek movies is true about the show itself.

Nothing breathes a little life into the proceedings like having Capt. Picard, galactic diplomat and intellectual heavyweight, put down the tea and throw a few punches.

In "Starship Mine," Jean-Luc acts out a kind of Air Force One in space, the lone commander crawling around his ship to save it from bad guys.

The Enterprise-D is undergoing a "baryon sweep" that supposedly cleans the hull of built-up radiation.

While the ship is deserted (because the sweep kills organic matter), villains sneak onto the ship to steal material from the warp core that could be used in a weapon.

But, you guessed it, they're found when Picard has to return to the ship, and he spends the rest of the episode playing cat-and-mouse with the crooks.

It's a race against intergalactic terrorists and against the clock.

"Parallels" is one of the few episodes that can qualify as "best" and also "most fun."

It starts out with a common premise—someone comes back from shore leave and something is wrong!—but escalates from there.

Worf returns from a bat'leth tournament to an Enterprise that's juuuust a few steps off from the one he left.

Gradually things get stranger and stranger.

Worf seems to step into new reality after new reality, whether that means Riker is his captain, Troi is his wife, or Bajorans really hate the Federation.

The temporal madness culminates in the Enterprise rupturing a time-space anomaly, causing nearly 300,000 versions of the ship to converge at once.

A bit of hand-wavey psuedoscience fixes the issue eventually, but leaves us with thousands of scenarios to think about—especially one where a harried Riker from another reality refuses to go back to a losing battle against the Borg.

In some ways, it's the perfect TNG episode: time travel, treknobabble, multiple timelines, "I'm the only one that knows something is wrong" tropes, and a character-focused episode.

In this case, it's nice to see Worf step away from an episode about Klingon honor and into a more original and rich story that rounds out his character.

It's also much more interesting than "Frame of Mind," a thematically similar Riker-oriented episode.

This is the one that sees Troi baked into a cake during Data's fever dream.

Cellular peptide cake with mint frosting, to be exact.

As part of the android's quest to be more human, Data creates a dream function.

However, it breaks down and he begins experiencing nightmares.

The "cellular peptide cake" is just the beginning of a jargon-heavy, horror-influenced episode that draws a bizarre "is this real or all just a dream" element to the show to varying degrees of success.

But it's the visual cues that make "Phantasms" far too strange to ignore.

Troi as a cake the rest of the crew is eating.

Data with an old-timey telephone in his chest cavity.

You may not end up liking this late entry in the series, but any time it's on, our guess is that you won't be able to turn away.

•The Indiana Jones or National Treasure-in-space plot line, where our modern heroes are fascinated with—and then nearly done in by—tricks and booby traps built centuries ago

• The less-is-more reversal to save the ship.

As Star Trek is fond of reminding you, 24th century technology can't solve all your problems.

• Geordi's totally bizarre intellectual partnership/love affair with a hologram, the only woman on the ship who gets him.

It saves the ship, but my goodness is it uncomfortable.

Would you rather be invisible, or have the ability to fly?

I always suspected that people who answer "invisible" to this age-old question share a common desire to go where they are not supposed to, to be a fly on the wall in rooms they normally cannot enter—and I think that's part of the weird appeal of "Timescape."

Returning from an academic conference full of long, unbroken sentences moving from topic to topic, Picard, Troi, Data, and Geordi find the Enterprise … frozen, apparently right in the middle of a battle against a Romulan warbird.

Beaming aboard both ships to investigate the incident, they walk among mannequins trapped in time.

In addition to indulging the voyeuristic appeal of visiting a Romulan bridge, "Timescape" also goofs with the idea of time and space interacting in weird and interesting ways, such as "temporal fragment" that makes Picard's fingernails grow an inch in what seems like a moment.

Time episodes tend to be fun episodes, and this one might be the best.

Besides, who doesn't love the smiley face?

To be clear, "Conspiracy" is a very bad episode of Star Trek.

It is a Stuart "Reanimator" Gordon ripoff with Starfleet uniforms.

That said, the entire first season of TNG is largely a failure, but this is one of the few episodes that allows itself to cut loose and get really weird.

The surreal horror elements give way to the goriest Star Trek entry on this side of Klingon Pepto Bismol blood.

"Conspiracy" could have resulted in an interesting story arc.

The episode introduces the idea that Starfleet has been infiltrated by an alien parasite that takes over the brains of several higher-ups in the organization.

Lower officers who are on the trail get killed, leaving Picard to face off against a group of possessed admirals.

It has all the markings of horror movies of the era.

There's a gruesome, disgusting meal, bizarre mannerisms, paranoia, and splatter.

There's also an ominous cliffhanger ending that more parasites are coming, leaving the doors open to a later sequel.

Poor reception of the episode may have called off this idea, or it may have metamorphosed into one of the best antagonists of the series—the Borg.

How many Sherlock Holmes plots do you really need?

Sure, it's a good way to allow Picard to dress up like a private eye or Geordi to become Dr. Watson.

If you're going to be silly you might as well go all the way.

"A Fistful of Datas" takes the broadest possible premise—going to the Old West—and makes it impossibly fun.

In "Fistful of Datas," Marina Sirtis seems like she's actually having fun playing Troi, who gets to dress up like a badass cowgirl named Durango.

A not-very-amused Worf steps into the straight man role.

And while his boy Alexander was often a grating presence in the series, he serves a good grounding force in this episode.

It's one of the least serious episodes of TNG, one that takes all the spaghetti western tropes and churns out a spectacularly goofy episode that doesn't need a hamfisted manifesto on the ethics of holodeck life or whatever to arrive at a conclusion.

Plus, you get to see a Klingon dressed up as a cowboy.

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Tor.com praised David Spielberg's performance has Hutchinson, especially the scene between Data (played by Brent Spiner) and Hutchinson. They also praised actress-stuntwoman Patricia Tallman for her presentation of Kiros.
 In 2017, "Radio Times" ranked "Starship Mine" the 3rd best episode of "Star Trek" for rookie trek watchers. The episode has been compared to the 1988 American action film ""Die Hard"".
 In 2018, Tom's Guide rated "Starship Mine" one of the 15 best episodes featuring Picard.


The article noted that Captain Picard must save his ship as he races against the clock.

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# The 10 Most Fun 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' Episodes

They're not the best, but they're the ones we can't help but watch again and again.

This is not a list of the ten best episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

You can find many such rankings highlighting the top moments aboard the USS Enterprise-D.

These are the fun episodes, the ones we fire up on Hulu when we need 45 minutes of comfort television in the 24th century.

"The Chase" is a love-it-or-hate-it episode.

The Cardassians, Klingons, Romulans, and Federation are all on the hunt for the same object, each trying to outsmart the next.

But —SPOILER ALERT—the object in question turns out to be a recording revealing that the humanoid races of the Star Trek universe were all intentionally seeded by an ancient humanoid species.

This is a cheeky attempt to explain one of the fundamental problems with making sci-fi movies and TV—that the aliens usually look humanoid since they must be portrayed by human actors.

On Star Trek, Klingons and Humans could have a child together despite arising several dozen light years away from each other.

In reality, most astrobiologists find it unlikely that aliens will look much like anything on Earth, let alone like humans.

In other words, "The Chase" is an attempt to handwave a massive flaw in Star Trek and in wider science fiction.

That said, there's a thrilling mystery-adventure element to this episode of pseudoscientific gobbledygook that eventually adds up to an inconsistent but exciting whole.

At least its understanding of biology is more advanced than the one where Barclay becomes a spider and Worf a de-evolved rabid wolf.

One of the marks of a good plot twist is that it ultimately makes the show or movie leading up to it more watchable, not less.

Think of a great one such as The Prestige—once you know the ending, it's almost more fun to rewatch how the rest of the film hints at the conclusion.

This episode of Star Trek isn't quite The Usual Suspects, but it's pretty damn good for sci-fi TV.

"Clues" starts out as a classic "Why is Data acting so weird" plot (one of several plot devices TNG reused liberally).

The slow reveal about his odd behavior is the show at its best, raising fun philosophical and sci-fi questions about when it's okay for a machine to deceive for the greater good.

And hey, you don't usually end an episode rooting for the crew to get fooled again.

TNG, especially the early seasons, loved to tease that Riker's ambition would lead him to the captain's chair on some other ship, only to have his loyalty to the Enterprise bring him back to the role of Number One.

"Future Imperfect" has some fun by finally following through on all the build-up, putting Riker in charge of the ship—albeit in a fake future.

This episode is more than the fan service of showing us Admiral Picard, Captain Riker, and the return of Minuet the Holodeck minx.

It's a clever slow build that's ultimately about when not to believe your eyes.

Especially when they show you something that's too good to be true.

What's true about the Trek movies is true about the show itself.

Nothing breathes a little life into the proceedings like having Capt. Picard, galactic diplomat and intellectual heavyweight, put down the tea and throw a few punches.

In "Starship Mine," Jean-Luc acts out a kind of Air Force One in space, the lone commander crawling around his ship to save it from bad guys.

The Enterprise-D is undergoing a "baryon sweep" that supposedly cleans the hull of built-up radiation.

While the ship is deserted (because the sweep kills organic matter), villains sneak onto the ship to steal material from the warp core that could be used in a weapon.

But, you guessed it, they're found when Picard has to return to the ship, and he spends the rest of the episode playing cat-and-mouse with the crooks.

It's a race against intergalactic terrorists and against the clock.

"Parallels" is one of the few episodes that can qualify as "best" and also "most fun."

It starts out with a common premise—someone comes back from shore leave and something is wrong!—but escalates from there.

Worf returns from a bat'leth tournament to an Enterprise that's juuuust a few steps off from the one he left.

Gradually things get stranger and stranger.

Worf seems to step into new reality after new reality, whether that means Riker is his captain, Troi is his wife, or Bajorans really hate the Federation.

The temporal madness culminates in the Enterprise rupturing a time-space anomaly, causing nearly 300,000 versions of the ship to converge at once.

A bit of hand-wavey psuedoscience fixes the issue eventually, but leaves us with thousands of scenarios to think about—especially one where a harried Riker from another reality refuses to go back to a losing battle against the Borg.

In some ways, it's the perfect TNG episode: time travel, treknobabble, multiple timelines, "I'm the only one that knows something is wrong" tropes, and a character-focused episode.

In this case, it's nice to see Worf step away from an episode about Klingon honor and into a more original and rich story that rounds out his character.

It's also much more interesting than "Frame of Mind," a thematically similar Riker-oriented episode.

This is the one that sees Troi baked into a cake during Data's fever dream.

Cellular peptide cake with mint frosting, to be exact.

As part of the android's quest to be more human, Data creates a dream function.

However, it breaks down and he begins experiencing nightmares.

The "cellular peptide cake" is just the beginning of a jargon-heavy, horror-influenced episode that draws a bizarre "is this real or all just a dream" element to the show to varying degrees of success.

But it's the visual cues that make "Phantasms" far too strange to ignore.

Troi as a cake the rest of the crew is eating.

Data with an old-timey telephone in his chest cavity.

You may not end up liking this late entry in the series, but any time it's on, our guess is that you won't be able to turn away.

•The Indiana Jones or National Treasure-in-space plot line, where our modern heroes are fascinated with—and then nearly done in by—tricks and booby traps built centuries ago

• The less-is-more reversal to save the ship.

As Star Trek is fond of reminding you, 24th century technology can't solve all your problems.

• Geordi's totally bizarre intellectual partnership/love affair with a hologram, the only woman on the ship who gets him.

It saves the ship, but my goodness is it uncomfortable.

Would you rather be invisible, or have the ability to fly?

I always suspected that people who answer "invisible" to this age-old question share a common desire to go where they are not supposed to, to be a fly on the wall in rooms they normally cannot enter—and I think that's part of the weird appeal of "Timescape."

Returning from an academic conference full of long, unbroken sentences moving from topic to topic, Picard, Troi, Data, and Geordi find the Enterprise … frozen, apparently right in the middle of a battle against a Romulan warbird.

Beaming aboard both ships to investigate the incident, they walk among mannequins trapped in time.

In addition to indulging the voyeuristic appeal of visiting a Romulan bridge, "Timescape" also goofs with the idea of time and space interacting in weird and interesting ways, such as "temporal fragment" that makes Picard's fingernails grow an inch in what seems like a moment.

Time episodes tend to be fun episodes, and this one might be the best.

Besides, who doesn't love the smiley face?

To be clear, "Conspiracy" is a very bad episode of Star Trek.

It is a Stuart "Reanimator" Gordon ripoff with Starfleet uniforms.

That said, the entire first season of TNG is largely a failure, but this is one of the few episodes that allows itself to cut loose and get really weird.

The surreal horror elements give way to the goriest Star Trek entry on this side of Klingon Pepto Bismol blood.

"Conspiracy" could have resulted in an interesting story arc.

The episode introduces the idea that Starfleet has been infiltrated by an alien parasite that takes over the brains of several higher-ups in the organization.

Lower officers who are on the trail get killed, leaving Picard to face off against a group of possessed admirals.

It has all the markings of horror movies of the era.

There's a gruesome, disgusting meal, bizarre mannerisms, paranoia, and splatter.

There's also an ominous cliffhanger ending that more parasites are coming, leaving the doors open to a later sequel.

Poor reception of the episode may have called off this idea, or it may have metamorphosed into one of the best antagonists of the series—the Borg.

How many Sherlock Holmes plots do you really need?

Sure, it's a good way to allow Picard to dress up like a private eye or Geordi to become Dr. Watson.

If you're going to be silly you might as well go all the way.

"A Fistful of Datas" takes the broadest possible premise—going to the Old West—and makes it impossibly fun.

In "Fistful of Datas," Marina Sirtis seems like she's actually having fun playing Troi, who gets to dress up like a badass cowgirl named Durango.

A not-very-amused Worf steps into the straight man role.

And while his boy Alexander was often a grating presence in the series, he serves a good grounding force in this episode.

It's one of the least serious episodes of TNG, one that takes all the spaghetti western tropes and churns out a spectacularly goofy episode that doesn't need a hamfisted manifesto on the ethics of holodeck life or whatever to arrive at a conclusion.

Plus, you get to see a Klingon dressed up as a cowboy.

Everything We Know About 'Star Trek: Lower Decks'

Do We Really Need an R-Rated Star Trek Movie?

Star Trek: DS9 Gets the Documentary It Deserves

This Week 'Discovery' Tackles Death and Friendship

'Star Trek: Discovery' Gets Back to Basics

'Discovery' Wants You to Forget About Season One

What We Know About 'Star Trek: Discovery' Season 2

What Is Going on With Star Trek Right Now?

Your Kid Needs This Enterprise Rocking Horse

Star Trek TNG: The Last Sci-Fi Hopeful About the Future

Tor.com praised David Spielberg's performance has Hutchinson, especially the scene between Data (played by Brent Spiner) and Hutchinson. They also praised actress-stuntwoman Patricia Tallman for her presentation of Kiros.
 In 2017, "Radio Times" ranked "Starship Mine" the 3rd best episode of "Star Trek" for rookie trek watchers. The episode has been compared to the 1988 American action film ""Die Hard"".
 In 2018, Tom's Guide rated "Starship Mine" one of the 15 best episodes featuring Picard. In 2017, Popular Mechanics said that "Starship Mine" was one of the top ten most fun episodes of "Star Trek: The Next Generation."


He was a former spokesman for Praja Rajyam Party.

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# AP govt advisor and Nirmala Sitharaman's husband Parakala Prabhakar quits, blames Jagan

That Parakala Prabhakar is married to the Defence Minister

has been used by the opposition to target the TDP govt in Andhra in the past few weeks.

In a sudden move, Parakala Prabhakar, the Communications Advisor to the Andhra Pradesh government, resigned from his post on Tuesday.

Parakala Prabhakar is the husband of Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, and has been a target of the opposition parties in Andhra ever since the TDP broke up with the BJP.

Prabhakar's resignation letter to the Chief Minister said, "For the past few days, a few opposition leaders are pointing fingers at me and questioning why you have been accommodating me, even as you are fighting with the BJP and the Union government."

Opposition parties including the YSRCP have repeatedly pointed out that Prabhakar continued to hold his position, even as his wife, Nirmala Sitharaman, held the post of Defence Minister in the NDA government, after the ruling TDP parted ways with BJP.

"They are trying to rake up doubts on the struggle that you are leading against the Union government.

They are using my existence in the government to mock your commitment towards the state.

When some unknown leaders made such statements, my friends asked me not to bother about it.

However, today, a responsible opposition leaders like YSRCP chief Jaganmohan Reddy, too, has raised the same issue, and reduced your struggle and commitment.

Parakala Prabhakar went on to add, "Claims are being made that because my family member belongs to another party, and has different political views, I might compromise on the state's interest.

These rumours have been manufactured by some people, which have deeply hurt me."

"Mature people will have their own political opinions and their relationship will not come in the way (of their work).

It's a pity that the opposition parties do not have minimum common sense.

I would not want that to tarnish the image of the government or this agitation," Parakala said.

Parakala further said: "My wish is that there should not a black mark on your commitment and Dharmaporata Deeksha.

I do not want you or your government to be disrespected."

"Yesterday, as I brought this matter to your notice, you said that you have complete trust in me, told me not to bother about the words uttered by mannerless people for vested interests, that reflects how broad-minded you are."

"I have thought a lot regarding this matter.

No one should be using my name and my family's name to sling mud at you or your government."

Parakala also said that he didn't want to be a hindrance to state's interests.

Stating that Chandrababu Naidu had repeatedly placed trust in him, he also said that he doesn't want his name and his family's name to be used in this manner.

He also said that he will soon meet the Chief Minister personally over the issue.\

The TDP pulled out of the central government and BJP-led NDA in March over the issue of special status to the state.

Naidu has since been targeting BJP and Modi for going back on their promise to accord special status.

Parakala Prabhakar used to be the spokesperson of the former Praja Rajyam Party, which was started by actor-politician Chiranjeevi, before it merged with the Congress.

A political commentator, he tried to contest from Narsapur on a Congress ticket in 1994, and had close ties with former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao.

It is unclear whether his resignation has been accepted by the Chief Minister.

Parakala Prabhakar (born 2 January 1959) is an Indian political economist, political commentator, economic, and social affairs. He served as Communications Advisor, held a cabinet rank position in Andhra Pradesh Government between July 2014 and June 2018. For several years he presented a current affairs discussion programme on television channels of Andhra Pradesh. His programmes, Pratidhwani on ETV2 and Namaste Andhra Pradesh on NTV.


He was one of the founding general secretaries of Praja Rajyam Party.

(meta data) TITLE: AP govt advisor and Nirmala Sitharaman's husband Parakala Prabhakar quits, blames Jagan | The News Minute

# AP govt advisor and Nirmala Sitharaman's husband Parakala Prabhakar quits, blames Jagan

That Parakala Prabhakar is married to the Defence Minister

has been used by the opposition to target the TDP govt in Andhra in the past few weeks.

In a sudden move, Parakala Prabhakar, the Communications Advisor to the Andhra Pradesh government, resigned from his post on Tuesday.

Parakala Prabhakar is the husband of Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, and has been a target of the opposition parties in Andhra ever since the TDP broke up with the BJP.

Prabhakar's resignation letter to the Chief Minister said, "For the past few days, a few opposition leaders are pointing fingers at me and questioning why you have been accommodating me, even as you are fighting with the BJP and the Union government."

Opposition parties including the YSRCP have repeatedly pointed out that Prabhakar continued to hold his position, even as his wife, Nirmala Sitharaman, held the post of Defence Minister in the NDA government, after the ruling TDP parted ways with BJP.

"They are trying to rake up doubts on the struggle that you are leading against the Union government.

They are using my existence in the government to mock your commitment towards the state.

When some unknown leaders made such statements, my friends asked me not to bother about it.

However, today, a responsible opposition leaders like YSRCP chief Jaganmohan Reddy, too, has raised the same issue, and reduced your struggle and commitment.

Parakala Prabhakar went on to add, "Claims are being made that because my family member belongs to another party, and has different political views, I might compromise on the state's interest.

These rumours have been manufactured by some people, which have deeply hurt me."

"Mature people will have their own political opinions and their relationship will not come in the way (of their work).

It's a pity that the opposition parties do not have minimum common sense.

I would not want that to tarnish the image of the government or this agitation," Parakala said.

Parakala further said: "My wish is that there should not a black mark on your commitment and Dharmaporata Deeksha.

I do not want you or your government to be disrespected."

"Yesterday, as I brought this matter to your notice, you said that you have complete trust in me, told me not to bother about the words uttered by mannerless people for vested interests, that reflects how broad-minded you are."

"I have thought a lot regarding this matter.

No one should be using my name and my family's name to sling mud at you or your government."

Parakala also said that he didn't want to be a hindrance to state's interests.

Stating that Chandrababu Naidu had repeatedly placed trust in him, he also said that he doesn't want his name and his family's name to be used in this manner.

He also said that he will soon meet the Chief Minister personally over the issue.\

The TDP pulled out of the central government and BJP-led NDA in March over the issue of special status to the state.

Naidu has since been targeting BJP and Modi for going back on their promise to accord special status.

Parakala Prabhakar used to be the spokesperson of the former Praja Rajyam Party, which was started by actor-politician Chiranjeevi, before it merged with the Congress.

A political commentator, he tried to contest from Narsapur on a Congress ticket in 1994, and had close ties with former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao.

It is unclear whether his resignation has been accepted by the Chief Minister.

Parakala Prabhakar (born 2 January 1959) is an Indian political economist, political commentator, economic, and social affairs. He served as Communications Advisor, held a cabinet rank position in Andhra Pradesh Government between July 2014 and June 2018. For several years he presented a current affairs discussion programme on television channels of Andhra Pradesh. His programmes, Pratidhwani on ETV2 and Namaste Andhra Pradesh on NTV. He was a former spokesman for Praja Rajyam Party.