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Investigating the disappearance of several ships, the Enterprise discovers two scientists who claim that warp drive is destructive to the fabric of subspace.
Lieutenant Commander Data arrives at Geordi La Forge's quarters to take back Spot after La Forge borrowed her temporarily to experience having a pet cat before getting one for himself – a wise precaution, as La Forge found that he was not ready for a cat as yet because Spot ruined his quarters during her stay. They discuss training Spot in order to rid her of her somewhat reckless behavior, but the discussion is interrupted when Commander Riker (on the intercom) calls all senior staff to the observation lounge for a mission briefing.
Act One
- "Captain's Log, Stardate 47310.2. We are investigating the disappearance of the medical transport Fleming somewhere in the Hekaras Corridor. Our search is complicated by the unique properties of this particular region of space."
All of the senior staff are present in the observation lounge while Riker is briefing them about the disappearance of the USS Fleming, a medical transport vessel that had not been in contact with Starfleet for four days. Data continues the briefing describing the hazardous nature of the space surrounding the Hekaras Corridor due to the abnormally intense tetryon fields surrounding the corridor. The corridor itself is free of the fields and ships traveling at warp speed could only travel safely through the corridor in this region of space. Captain Picard asks how long it will take to perform a level-one search of the region, and Data replies saying that it will take at least two days (much longer than normal) because the corridor is twelve light years in length and the interference from the tetryon fields severely limits the sensor range.
Lieutenant Worf suggests using probes to supplement the sensors but they would make little difference as communication with the probes would be extremely difficult to maintain – the only viable solution would be to increase the efficiency of the sensors. Counselor Troi suggests contacting the inhabitants of Hekaras II, wondering if they had any contact with the Fleming. Riker states that the Enterprise had already contacted the Hekaran government; they had no contact with the Fleming but they did say that in the past week, only one vessel had traveled through the corridor – a Ferengi trader. Because the Fleming's inventory included a supply of rare and valuable bio-mimetic gel, Dr. Crusher suggests the possibility that the Ferengi may have hijacked the ship or stolen the supply of the gel and destroyed the Fleming. Picard agrees and orders Worf to initiate a search pattern for the Fleming as the Enterprise heads in to the corridor.
Some time later, La Forge is in main engineering performing maintenance on the dilithium chamber hoping to improve the efficiency of the warp engines. Data enters and reports to La Forge that there has been a small drop in the efficiency of the sensors and Commander Riker wants them to examine the phase buffers. La Forge says that he will assist Data in a moment and orders a crewman to transfer an EPS conduit through the stabilizer matrix as he closes the dilithium chamber and moves to another console. Data is curious about why La Forge is working on the warp engines, asking if something is wrong with them. La Forge replies in the negative but Data asks why he is having the EPS conduit stabilized. La Forge says that he wants a slightly higher power conversion level even though it will not affect the engines in any way. When Data questions his motives further, he reluctantly reveals that he has been in contact with Commander Donald Kaplan, the chief engineer of the USS Intrepid and a former Starfleet Academy classmate of La Forge's. Kaplan reported the power conversion level of the Intrepid's engines was slightly higher than those on the Enterprise, which prompted La Forge to improve those on the Enterprise. Data assumes that La Forge is in competition with Kaplan but La Forge will not admit it, saying that the Enterprise should be better than any ship in Starfleet in all respects as it is the flagship. Eventually, he concedes that it is a matter of personal pride. When the computer reports that there is no change in the power conversion levels, La Forge is frustrated but is unable to refuse Data and they go to work on the sensors.
Data and La Forge are traveling through a Jefferies tube until they arrive at a junction where La Forge works on a phase buffer, hoping to improve the sensor efficiency. There is an increase, but it is not as high as La Forge had anticipated, suggesting that one of the stages in the sensor system is out of alignment. The pair proceed to another junction and en route, Data continues the discussion about training Spot, noting that his instruction has been "largely unsuccessful". La Forge cracks a joke saying that using a phaser on stun should do the trick, although Data does not recognize the humor. Data and La Forge pass up another junction and find that one of the phase buffers in the third junction is out of alignment. Repairs fix the alignment but sensor efficiency has only increased marginally. Just then, Riker calls Data on the intercom and informs him that a starship has been located on the long-range sensors and asks that he and Geordi report to the bridge. La Forge tells Data that nothing more can be done to improve the efficiency of the sensors and they acknowledge Riker's order and make their way to the bridge.
On the bridge, Worf reports that the Enterprise is now within visual range of the starship. When put on the viewscreen, a Ferengi vessel is shown – the same one that passed through the Hekaras Corridor a week ago. Data and La Forge arrive on the bridge; Data takes over for the operations officer and La Forge mans the engineering console. La Forge reports that there are no emissions from the vessel's plasma vents, suggesting that its warp drive is completely inactive. Data confirms this, adding that the impulse engines are inactive and that power levels in general are low. Life support is functioning and approximately four-hundred-and-fifty life signs are detected on board the ship. The crew is briefly puzzled; Picard orders Worf to open hailing frequencies but the hail goes unanswered. La Forge reports a lack of subspace emissions, suggesting that the field coils have been completely overloaded and explaining the Ferengi communications blackout and power loss. Since the Ferengi vessel's sensors are still functioning, he believes that using delta waves emitted from a deflector array could be modulated with a com signal, which the Ferengi ship could pick up. Picard proceeds with La Forge's suggestion and as a precautionary measure, orders for the tractor beams as the Enterprise moves to transporter range. Suddenly, Worf detects rising power levels from the Ferengi vessel. The Ferengi lock weapons and Riker quickly orders for the shields to be raised just before the Ferengi weapons fire hits the Enterprise.
Act Two
The Enterprise is hit by a second blast of weapons fire from the Ferengi vessel. Picard and Riker order for phasers, targeting the Ferengi weapons array only. The Ferengi ship is quickly disabled and the Enterprise sustains only minimal damage to deck five. The Ferengi vessel's power levels quickly stabilize and their impulse engines come back on-line. Riker realizes that they were merely playing dead, waiting for the Enterprise to come in closer. Picard is curious why the Ferengi would attack his ship in the first place and opens a channel to the Ferengi ship via La Forge's jury-rigged link. The Ferengi DaiMon, Prak, appears and Picard asks why the Enterprise was attacked. In turn, Prak is outraged, accusing the Enterprise of aggression which led to his ship becoming disabled. Picard and Riker are confused about Prak's accusation, and tell Prak the Enterprise was merely ascertaining the status of Prak's disabled vessel. Prak is skeptical about Picard's motives and threatens that the Enterprise's "attack" is an act of war but Picard insists that there has been a misunderstanding and suggests that Prak come aboard the Enterprise to discuss the situation. Prak sees no reason to trust Picard but Picard is determined to investigate what happened to the Ferengi ship, as it may have a connection to the disappearance of the Fleming. After Picard tells Prak that the Enterprise will leave Prak's ship stranded within the corridor if he refuses to speak with them, Prak reluctantly accepts the captain's offer and transports over to the Enterprise.
In the ready room, Prak reveals to Picard and Riker that his ship detected what appeared to be a Federation signal buoy and that when they approached it, it emitted a verteron pulse, immediately disabling the ship's warp drive, sensors and communications. Prak assumed that it was a new Federation weapon but Picard informs Prak that the Federation established the Hekaras Corridor as a safe route through the sector and that little stood to be gained from laying mines within it. Riker reinforces Picard's comment by revealing that this may not have been an isolated incident as the Fleming had gone missing in the Corridor. Prak admits that his ship encountered a Federation ship a few days before but it did not appear to be in any distress. Riker asks for the ship's heading but Prak is unwilling to divulge the information so easily and strongly hints that Picard could spare some of his engineering staff to help Prak's crew with repairs to his ship in exchange for the information they gleaned on the Fleming in the ship's sensor logs. Picard understands the hint and spares a team to assist Prak with his repairs in exchange for the Fleming's last known heading.
In his quarters, Data is still trying to train Spot as La Forge comes, in but his attempts are unsuccessful and he admits that it may not be possible to train her. La Forge tells Data that he may have found another way to improve the power conversion levels of the warp engines. In main engineering, La Forge asks Data to keep the EPS flow constant while he modulates the flow of the power taps. Data informs La Forge that the increase will be marginal but Geordi knows this and that this marginal increase may be enough – Kaplan sent La Forge a subspace message saying that the Intrepid's power conversion levels are at 97.1%. After completing their work, the computer reports that the power conversion levels of the Enterprise are now at 97.2%, and La Forge is finally satisfied with "winning" his competition with Commander Kaplan.
- "Captain's Log, Stardate, 47311.4. Based on the Ferengi sensor logs, we have traced the Fleming's most likely course. It now appears that the vessel may have come to an unfortunate end."
The Enterprise has approached a large field of debris. Picard and Data are studying the debris field on a monitor on one of the science stations on the bridge and although the origin of the field is unknown it is possible that the debris could be the remains of the Fleming because the debris consists mostly of duranium and poly-composite fragments (materials used in starship construction) and because the debris field contains enough mass to account for the Fleming. The Enterprise now navigates around the debris field to see if the Fleming can be positively identified. During the investigation, Data picks up a small, metallic object on the sensors. Riker guesses that it could be either a probe casing or some sort of a log recorder but Data doubts Riker's guesses as an unusual signal is being emitted from the object. Data's tone then changes as he realizes that the object is beginning to generate a verteron field. Picard immediately orders for shields to be raised and for a full reverse but it is too late as a bright light fills the bridge and as the light disappears, the lights on the bridge dim and several of the consoles are now dark. A damage report reveals that the warp drive has been disabled as have the shields and all other subspace systems – the Enterprise has now fallen to the same fate as the Ferengi ship. An unidentified vessel now approaches the Enterprise with two lifeforms aboard and the transporters of the vessel are initiated. All attempts to raise the shields fail and red alert is raised when the Enterprise is boarded. There is a brief moment of tension as the crew does not know where the crew of the unidentified ship are going to materialize and the moment is broken when La Forge, on the intercom, calls the bridge informing Picard that that there are intruders in main engineering. Two humanoids (one male and one female) are standing in front of the now inactive warp core. La Forge asks them what they want and the male, Rabal, says that he wants them to listen and the female, Serova his sister, says that they're killing them.
Act Three
Picard, Riker, Data, La Forge and two security guards are present with Rabal and Serova in the observation lounge. Picard wants an explanation of their accusation due to its seriousness. Rabal, the seemingly more reasonable of the two, claims that his and Serova's research shows that warp fields are slowly damaging their region of space and that their homeworld (they are Hekarans, the inhabitants of Hekaras II) will one day be rendered uninhabitable if nothing is done to prevent the damage that they claim is being caused. Picard briefly considers what the scientists have just said, but La Forge openly shows his skepticism as he has already heard of their theories – the Federation Science Council reviewed their research several years before, but dismissed it for lacking evidence. Picard appreciates their situation but cares little for their methods in getting the Federation's attention and suggests placing a request to the Council for further research, but neither are interested in the bureaucracy that would ensue and feel that their method would have got a faster response from the Federation. Riker asks them if that was how they justified attacking their ships, but Serova does not consider it to be an attack as neither the Enterprise nor the Ferengi vessel suffered any casualties or serious damage.
Riker responds furiously at their "justification" and both scientists realized that they had taken extreme measures to get the Federation's attention, but neither are going to apologize for their actions. Picard asks La Forge how long it will take to repair the warp engines but because the warp coils were completely overloaded by the verteron pulse, La Forge estimates that it will take at least thirty-six hours. Serova knows exactly how the pulse disabled the warp engines and offers her assistance, which will reduce the repair time to just ten hours but she will only assist on condition that they review the research. Picard refuses to be forced into giving in to their demands but due to the seriousness of their claims and the urgency of locating the Fleming, he agrees to review their research but makes it clear that his top priority is to recover the Fleming. Furthermore, he expects Serova and Rabal to assist the engineering staff in restoring the ship's systems and to deactivate all of the remaining probes within the corridor – if they refuse they will be placed in the brig and taken to the nearest Federation starbase where they will be charged. Serova is unwilling to back down but Rabal agrees to help Picard but insists that he review the research. Picard then orders La Forge to work with the Hekaran scientists in the effort to restore the ship's systems although La Forge is unhappy with the idea of having to work with them.
La Forge, Serova and Rabal are working in engineering and they restore the shields. Serova informs La Forge that the warp engines can be engaged in eight hours but La Forge is irritated and says that even when the engines are back on-line, it will take at least a week to recalibrate them. Serova sarcastically apologizes for the inconvenience, saying that her concerns are more important than restoring the warp drive of the Enterprise. La Forge continues to argue with her and she soon leaves after realizing that La Forge's mind has already been made up. Rabal asks La Forge to reconsider Serova's research, as Rabal himself was in a similar position a few years before and hopes that if he and Serova can persuade Starfleet to prohibit the use of warp drive through the corridor, they will convince the Hekarans to stop using warp drive as well, effectively isolating the Hekarans from the Federation – a sacrifice that Rabal and Serova are more than willing to make.
In one of the science labs, Data reports his findings on the research to Captain Picard, Serova and Rabal. Using a monitor he explains that the two scientists' theory claims that there are regions of subspace instability within the corridor and that prolonged exposure of warp field energy to these regions of subspace will caused them to rupture resulting in a subspace rift. Picard compares the theory to running up and down a carpet – eventually you will wear it out – an essentially correct analogy. Picard asks Data if the theory can be proven but Data says that there is not enough evidence to prove it as of yet. Rabal is disappointed but Data continues by saying that the only way to determine whether or not a rift would form would be to expose a region of space within the Corridor to warp field energy at least a million times greater than that normally generated by most starships. Rabal says that the effect is cumulative and that each time a vessel travels at warp through the Corridor, they are one step closer to a rift forming in the corridor. Data agrees with the possibility and recommends that the Science Council sends a science vessel to the Corridor to hopefully resolve any further questions but Serova is dissatisfied as further delays will be caused. Before he can respond, Picard is interrupted by Riker on the intercom reporting that they have located the Fleming on the long-range sensors. The vessel appears to be intact but its subspace systems are disabled although its shields are functional. Picard says that they'll meet with the Fleming as soon as the warp drive is back online. Picard asks for Data, Serova and Rabal to put together a research proposal for the Science Council and Picard will give his full recommendation. Data complies and Rabal thanks Picard for the opportunity but Serova is not interested and refuses to have anything to do the proposal as delays will still be caused.
Some time later, La Forge returns to the bridge, reporting that the warp drive is now on-line and that the other systems are ready. Picard orders a course to rendezvous with the Fleming, but as the order is given, Worf reports that the Hekaran vessel is moving away and that Serova is on board. When a channel is opened to the ship, Rabal asks Serova what she is doing and she grimly replies that she is giving them the proof that they wanted. Data informs Picard that she is overloading her warp engines, inevitably leading to a warp core breach. Soon, Serova's ship explodes with a shock wave coming from the epicenter of the breach. The Enterprise shakes as it is hit by the shock wave and Riker orders a full reverse. Data reports when the Enterprise clears the rift and adds that tetryon emissions in the area are increasing rapidly. The Enterprise is dwarfed by a massive purple phenomenon that has appeared in front of it.
Act Four
Data analyzes the phenomenon and finds that it is one-tenth of a light year in diameter and that high levels of tetyron radiation are emanating from it. He concludes that it is the subspace rift that Serova and Rabal had theorized and the bridge crew look at the viewscreen in shock and awe. The Fleming is found to be near its previous co-ordinates before the rift formed but it is now within the rift, and when Picard asks Rabal, who is still in shock from his sister's suicide, if a ship can survive within a rift, he is not certain. Suddenly, the Enterprise shakes violently from a high-energy distortion wave coming from the rift. As long as the Enterprise maintains is current position, its shields will protect the ship from the waves, but because the waves are much more intense inside the rift, the Fleming's shields will fail within twelve hours. Riker inquires if the Enterprise can go inside the rift recover the Fleming but La Forge says that they can but not at warp speed because the rift is in a state of accelerating instability – warp fields could expand the rift even further. However traveling at sublight velocities will take weeks to reach the Fleming – time that they do not have. Picard wants better options and orders Data, La Forge and Rabal to analyze the rift and work on a way to recover the Fleming.
- "Second officer's log, Stardate 47312.1. Our new sensor readings have greatly improved our understanding of the rift. However, we have been unable to find any way to counteract it."
Data, La Forge and Rabal have been working in the science lab for quite some time and they find that the rift fully supports the theories that Serova and Rabal made and that there is no way to close or reduce the size of the rift. Data suggests finding a stable region within the rift where the Enterprise can use its warp engines but there is nowhere inside the rift stable enough to travel at warp speed. As they all look at the monitor, La Forge notices something unusual and looks closer at it with the computer. Rabal makes out that it is a subspace instability outside of the rift – something that should be impossible. Rabal says that he'll study the second instability in detail while La Forge prepares to break the bad news the Captain Picard that they cannot think of a practical way to get to the Fleming in time but Data is not so sure that that is true.
In the ready room with Commander Riker, Data suggests to Captain Picard that the Enterprise "coast" into the rift by initiating a brief but intense warp pulse from their current position where they'd be able to reach a high enough velocity to enter the rift, beam the crew of the Fleming on to the Enterprise and leave the rift without using the warp engines inside of it. However the Enterprise would only be able to stay at warp speed for two minutes before coming out of warp, giving them very little time to transport the crew of the Fleming aboard. Data's plan is far from without risk but with little alternative, Picard goes ahead with it and Data leaves to make his calculations. In main engineering, La Forge and Data make their calculations and find that saturating the warp nacelles with a warp field at 18% will give them just over two minutes of warp speed – as good as they could get. As La Forge turns saturating the warp nacelles over to the computer, he questions how he and Data could have missed the connection between warp drive and the formation of the rift, especially as he and Data have logged thousands of hours on the warp engines of the Enterprise. He feels that they were wrong this time about warp field theory but Data points out that, technically speaking, they were not wrong as Serova's theories were not based on empirical evidence but rather on assumptions that, until now, could not be proven. La Forge feels somewhat guilty about so readily dismissing Serova but Data tries consoling him by saying that perhaps her aggressive nature made the situation adversarial but La Forge realizes that he was taking everything personally – La Forge looks at the warp core as being something beautiful and never considered it to be so destructive as well. The nacelles will take a further thirty minutes to saturate and La Forge leaves engineering, asking Data to call him when the saturation is complete.
La Forge enters Ten Forward and joins Rabal, staring at the rift. La Forge feels responsible both for Serova's death and the formation of the rift but Rabal that La Forge was not at fault – he felt that it was down to time. He was confident that further research would have proved the theories but Serova was unwilling to wait. The two then consider where they'll go from this point onwards and La Forge has doubts about the Federation abandoning the use of warp drive as they are so dependent on it.
A little while later, all of the officers are manning their stations and Data reports that the warp pulse calculations are complete and that the warp drive will be engaged for just 6.3 seconds before disengaging. Damage control teams are put on standby and a course is plotted to intercept the Fleming and La Forge initiates the warp pulse. The Enterprise jumps to warp and six seconds later, the warp drive is disengaged and immediately as the ship enters the rift, it shakes. The ship is a little over eighty seconds from reaching the Fleming and transporters are on standby but Worf reports that power emissions from the medical ship are rising – it may be attempting to engage its warp engines. The crew realize the danger of a ship engaging its warp engines within the rift but the Enterprise is now just under a minute from reaching the Fleming (well outside of transporter range) and communications cannot be established between the two ships as the subspace interference is too great. The Fleming engages its warp engines and as it does, the Enterprise is shaken violently, taking damage to decks six and fourteen but the flagship's structural integrity field is holding. The Fleming, however, is much worse off, having sustained very heavy damage and life support systems on the ship are now failing. Unfortunately there is now a more serious consequence to the Fleming having engaged its warp engines – the rift has increased in size by 2.3% and the Enterprise no longer has sufficient momentum to escape the rift and the flagship is violently shaken again by a much more intense distortion wave.
Act Five
Data reports that the intensity of the energy distortion waves has increased by a factor of ten, occurring now every fifty-nine seconds. The Enterprise is now within transporter range of the Fleming and begins evacuation procedures. Because the distortion waves are both more intense and frequent, the hull stress is reaching maximum tolerance. Riker asks Data if forcing an EPS discharge through the impulse reactor would be enough for the Enterprise to escape the rift but Data does not believe so and that even if it did work, the resulting explosion would almost certainly destroy most of the saucer section in the process.
La Forge then cuts in suggesting that the Enterprise could clear the rift without using the warp engines by "surfing" the distortion waves – by phase-matching the deflector shields with the EM variance of the distortion wave they would be pulled along in the wave. As soon as the crew of the Fleming has been beamed over, La Forge phase matches the deflector shield and the distortion wave hits the ship fourteen seconds later but it doesn't work as the Enterprise was unable to maintain contact with the wave. La Forge then realizes that the speed differential between the Enterprise and the distortion wave was too great so the ship was thrown off of the wave. Riker points out that the hull stress is already critical and that the ship cannot take much more punishment from the waves. Data suggests engaging the impulse engines at full power to lessen the shock of the wave hitting the ship and Picard agrees. Another distortion wave hits the Enterprise but this wave pulls it along. Hull stresses are exceeding their maximum tolerance and the structural integrity fields on decks ten through sixteen are failing although backups are put in place. The Enterprise begins to break away from the distortion wave but La Forge attempts to compensate and hull stresses are at 120% of their maximum tolerance and the destruction of the ship is imminent. As the Enterprise approaches its demise, the ship breaks from the distortion wave and is thrown clear from the subspace rift and all of the ship's systems return to normal as do the hull stresses.
- "Captain's Log, Stardate 47314.5. We have been continuing our research, while the Federation Council studies our reports on the subspace rift. It now appears certain that what we've seen here will have repercussions for many years to come."
All of the senior staff are present in the observation lounge in a somber mood where La Forge and Rabal are standing by the main monitor giving their report. La Forge shows that the scans of the sector have shown several more subspace instabilities and that if they are exposed to warp field energy, they too may create other subspace rifts. Rabal activates the monitor and displays the probable locations where subspace rifts will form over the next forty years based on warp drive patterns – subspace rifts will occupy a significant region of the sector. Picard thanks the two and they take their seats while he reads out new directives from the Federation Council on a PADD.
- "Until we can find a way to counteract the warp field effect, the Council feels our best course is to slow the damage as much as possible. Therefore, areas of space found susceptible to warp fields will be restricted to essential travel only, and effective immediately, all Federation vessels will be limited to a speed of Warp 5 except in cases of extreme emergency."
Worf reports that the Klingons will observe the restrictions but the Romulans will not, and Troi wonders if the Ferengi or the Cardassians will be willing to observe them, but the Federation will inform all warp-capable species regardless and hopes that they realize that it is in their best interests to take similar action. Crusher knows that the warp speed limitations will prevent further rifts from forming but asks what will be done with the one that has formed. Unfortunately there is nothing that can be done at the moment and although Hekaras II is not in immediate danger, gravitational shifts caused by the rift have already affected the planet, changing its climate. Picard informs Rabal that Starfleet will be setting up a weather modification network for Hekaras II that will suffice for now although it will only work on a short-term basis. As the seriousness of the problem sinks in, Picard dismisses the staff while La Forge remains in the observation lounge. The chief engineer tells his captain that the thermal stabilizers will be ready for the Hekarans in a day's time. Picard acknowledges La Forge but he can't help but feel that through his forty-three years as a Starfleet officer he was helping to destroy the one thing that he held dear. La Forge confidently replies that it won't end that way and that there's time to repair the damage that they had done.
Memorable Quotes
"How about a phaser? A low stun setting at just the right moment might do the trick..."
"Geordi, I cannot stun my cat."
- - La Forge and Data, on training Spot
"Hey, hey, don't you spit at me!"
- - Geordi La Forge, to Spot
"What did she train her cat to do?"
"She had that cat jumping into her arm on command."
"Interesting...Perhaps I could modify your sister's techniques to keep Spot from jumping on the console. Do you know how she was able to train her cat?"
"Well, as I recall, she walked around for two months with a piece of tuna in her blouse."
(Impressed) "Mph!"
- - La Forge and Data, on training cats
"This is down. Down is good. This is up. Up is no."
- - Data, attempting to train Spot
"Too bad, Mister Kaplan."
- - La Forge, after getting a higher power conversion rate than Commander Kaplan
"They wanted proof. I'm going to give it to them... I'm sorry..."
- - Serova, before causing a warp core breach, killing herself, to prove that warp fields can cause subspace rifts
Background Information
Story and production
- The episode derived from a premise Joe Menosky had created back in the sixth season, known as "Limits". Menosky's allegory for modern day environmental problems was dropped as an element from several episodes that season, including "Suspicions". (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion)
- Jeri Taylor recalled, "This was a troubled episode from the first...We had tried it in many guises and it never worked. At the beginning of the seventh year, I sent Naren and Brannon to a big breakfast meeting of an environmental watchdog group that we have here in Hollywood and they came back inspired. Naren was so galvanized. He said, 'I want to take a crack at "Limits." I want to do this. This is important.' I agreed. It was a story I really wanted to do and I think it does make an important statement, but dramatizing a huge issue like that is always the trouble. We started down many roads. At first, we had Geordi's sister come on board to help him adjust to the death of his mother, but that seemed to muddle everything completely. We then started the whole little thread of Geordi in competition with the engineer from another ship so we could show Geordi's deeply felt belief in technology and the benefits of technology, so that he would be at war with himself when realizing that it was contributing to something disastrous.
- "When the script was written, it turned out to be very, very short and so we then started adding scenes about Data's cat. By luck, or by bad luck, all of those scenes turned out to be at the beginning of the show, so you had an episode that started very fitfully and seemed to be about Data's cat and then it took a turn and seemed to be about Geordi and his rivalry with this other guy. Then it went back to the cat and then, finally, in about the third act, the real story began and, by that point, I think people were hopelessly lost. It sort of never got back on track, but it's still an important idea and our intentions were good." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)
- Regarding the weak link between the episode's A and B plots Shankar explained, "The slightest dramatic connection between those two is the notion that you can't control a force of nature like a cat." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)
- Several wall displays in this episode read "RS Corridor". According to Michael Okuda, this was a mistake – the name of the Hekaras Corridor was misspelled on the graphic and then all but the last two incorrect letters were accidentally deleted. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion)
- Bio-mimetic gel was coined by science consultant André Bormanis, who based it on news that Cambridge researchers had developed a material that created small tubules that could mimic certain cellular-level biological activities and structures. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion)
- This was the first Star Trek episode where the maximum warp speed limitation was imposed by the Federation on all Starfleet vessels. Further references were made to the speed limit in "The Pegasus" and "Eye of the Beholder" later in the season. According to the unpublished VOY Season 1 edition of the Star Trek: Voyager Technical Guide, by Rick Sternbach and Michael Okuda, it was suggested that because of the variable-geometry pylons, warp fields may no longer have a negative impact on habitable worlds as established in this episode.
- This was the first episode in which Data's cat, Spot, was referred to as "she" rather than "he". Though unexplained, the cat's change in gender would go on to play a significant role in TNG: "Genesis", in which she has kittens.
- The Talarian warship studio model was reused here as the Hekaran starship.
- The production staff were unanimously disappointed with this episode. Michael Piller remarked, "I think this is the worst show I collaborated on this season. It certainly inspired us to have several meetings on where the season was going because I felt we were letting it slip away." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)
- Taylor commented, "I've been on enough series and tried to do environmental issues to realize that they are so hard to dramatize, because you're talking about the ozone hole, and...it's so, so hard to make it emotional and personal and give impact on that kind of level." She praised Shankar's attempts to deal with the "doomed premise." (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion)
- Shankar regretted that the emotional arc of Geordi's sister coming aboard was dropped rather than reworked. He admitted that the finished episode was "not one of my finer moments." (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion)
- Braga observed, "There were preposterous moments in that show. On the other hand, we knew the risks, but we felt it was real important to at least try to do an environmental show. We struggled with making it a personal story and in the end it just didn't work as well as we wanted it to. We couldn't find a personal angle. When you limit warp drive, the rug is being pulled out from under Star Trek. I wish more time had been spent with that, and less time with Spot and cat." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)
Video and DVD releases
- UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 81, 6 June 1994.
- As part of the TNG Season 7 DVD collection.
Links and References
Also starring
- LeVar Burton as Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge
- Michael Dorn as Lieutenant Worf
- Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher
- Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
- Brent Spiner as Lieutenant Commander Data
Guest stars
- Michael Corbett as Rabal
- Margaret Reed as Serova
- Lee Arenberg as Prak
- Majel Barrett as the computer voice
Uncredited co-stars
- David Keith Anderson as Armstrong
- Lena Banks as an operations division ensign
- Michael Braveheart as Martinez
- Carl David Burks as Russell
- Tracee Lee Cocco as Jae
- Fumiko Hamada as a command division officer
- Michael Moorhead as a science division ensign
- Joyce Robinson as Gates
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Word of the Day: synecdoche
Posted by ESC on September 15, 2003
The Word of the Day for September 15 is:
synecdoche \suh-NEK-duh-kee\ noun
: a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole or vice versa, the species for the genus or vice versa, or the name of the material for the thing made
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The poetic use of "fifty sails" for "fifty ships" is an example of synecdoche.
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Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 2:31 am
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...hope this is a good post. having fun doing it.
NOW we are talking!
Good pics.
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Yo Tstizzle,
These are the best posts I've seen in a long time!!
Thanks so much for taking the time-and the photos are great!!
Your point-and-shoot seems to be woking pretty well actually.
I always heard about Lake Arenal but didn't pay as much attention to it.....
but now, because of your great posts, I'm totally jones-ing to go!
How difficult/easy is it to get there? (From S.F.)
And what about cost?
I also have always wanted to go to Jeri in Brazil, but man, what a haul just to get there. So Lake Arenal may be a good alternative.
I also have 2 Fanatic freewaves (2009 86 liter and 96 liter) that I sail in S.F. Bay/Delta and I absolutely love them. So, of course, I too am curious about the new shape.
It's so great to check out your posts while I'm waiting/missing the "regular" season.
Thanks again.
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yes, howler monkeys will pee on you and throw their poo at you. Experienced it in Nicaragua a couple of weeks ago. Had to beat a hasty retreat to the rental car...
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hey greg (poussin),
thanks for the kind words! i dig doing this kind of thing, but mainly i dig it when other people enjoy it too. a lot of work but it's easier if you get feedback from people like you and others here who have mentioned they are listening...
lake arenal is pretty easy to get to if you live on the west coast (perhaps easier from the east coast). for me, a flight from SFO to houston that leaves at 10 a.m. (4 hours). then another 4 hour flight from houston to liberia, costa rica that arrives at 9:30 p.m.
i then took a cab from liberia to lake arenal, which i shared with a friend, for $90. round trip $180 (total). i walk to the sailing site every day, which feels good on my tired and old legs in the morning.
that said, i came with my friend from brooklyn, so i went through nyc on the way here (huge mistake - weather) so we could arrive on the same flight.
the cost is not too bad. there are some things here which are very expensive, and others which are not. after all, costa rica is essentially an american protectorate, so costs can be relative to the american influence; plus, tourism.
as an example, i just had dinner at equus: pork costillas (holy bobba-jazoley they are GOOD!!!!) along with tortillas, black beans, rice and pickled peppers, and the price was $7. i also had a centenario rum and a pilsen beer, which brought the total to $11. so, not too expensive. if you're used to mexico prices, you'll be happy. our friends from sf bay area had a gigantoid breakfast yesterday for $3 per person.
the thing i will say about here is, if you like wind, this is the place to go. yes, sometimes it's a lot of wind, but to me anyway, nothing is worse than going on a windsurfing vacation and not windsurfing. here that's not likely to happen:
it's windy here almost all the time.
as for jeri, i went there a couple of years ago too. it's a fun place as well. and windy as snot. but it's a loooooooonnnnnnnngggggg way to go. i thought the sailing was good, but don't go for wave sailing. the wave is perhaps a little overrated. however, the food is fantastic: STRAIGHT out of the ocean. and the weather is awesome. the, ahem, "views" are also quite good. honesty in reporting, however: it tends to be pretty crowded.
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Post subject: lake arenal costa rica windsurfing report - day 7
woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head....
the wind was shaking the trees again this morning when i woke up. perhaps a bit less than yesterday, but it was definitely still windificating.
from all i gather from the people "in the know", this is NOT a pressure driven spot. there are people who have lived and sailed here for 25 years that, when i ask them what the forecast is say, "hard tellin', not knowin'. "
there is some magic voodoo that drives the wind here, and residents who were born and raised here have no idea. it's a tradewind from africa that lifts and vectors over the country. they have apparently had sand in the air here that is dragged from the sahara desert; after all, it's not that far from africa to central america.
after the tradewinds arrive, perhaps some local pressure gradients influence it and either enhance it or drag it back down. the forecasts DO NOT do it justice. i was watching on facebook before this trip and windguru was often predicting 0 to 10 mph, meanwhile they were saying on facebook it was 25-30.
that said, it was windificating today! here's some pics of the "proof":
the mellow morning at the site today:
latched onto a north 5.4 sail (i'm 195 or so pounds {of pure sex appeal} ):
said hola to a familiar face:
and hit the water:
da sf bay / delta crew hitting the water (last day here):
the other half:
it got pretty windy. here's half of the sf bay / delta crew on a 5.0 practicing their tail walking:
as was told to me by them, the sf bay delta requires a sailor to be good at backwind sailing and also tacking. because the delta is affected by the tides, it's possible (and common) to sail 4.0 conditions when the wind is going the same direction as the water (flooding, in this case). so they need to be able to tack and, interestingly, backwind sail to get back to their launch. i didn't believe it at first, but it seems true: backwind sailing will allow you to hold a much, much stronger upwind angle than simply schlogging. we were guessing it was because of the pressure on the windward rail of the board, which might help to increase the board's traction in the water. any help with this?
so they practice their tacking...
(these two from the delta are
tacks never look very dramatic when captured as a still on a camera:
post tack. this guy is an
sailor. he was pitching loops all over the place and he tacks faster than bill clinton forgot the name "monica" (note the wicked freewave underfoot):
i stood on the shoreline, nursing a mildly injured foot, and watching the action. when you look through the lens of a crappy point-n-shoot, you don't see the "bigger picture" very well. that's why i had no idea i was going to be staring at a nearly-out-of-control kiter who burst into my scene, seemingly scared about the likelihood he might suffer from deceleration trauma caused by impact with the shoreline:
i had just gotten over the surprise of seeing a kiter in the fits of "Angry Lake Syndrome", when appeared from stage left, "Vulcan Dude". You've seen him before: the guy who throws vulcans on his 100 liter freestyle all day long, even though the wind has come up to something that can only be measured in psi:
his landing was, shall we say, "poor". but, good on him for trying, right?
sailing done, we headed for equus for pilsen, centenario rum and some goodbyes. our Sac-Town posse is off tomorrow for home. we will miss them and all the good times. good fellas, those delta sailors (even if they won't let me drive their car through the jungle whilst possessed by the Henchman of Inebriation).
for those of you in the gorge, they are your brethren: the delta is a mini version of the gorge and, while they love the gorge, the delta has a little something unique to offer as well. been there myself so, if you haven't been there, i will tell you it's worth the trip...
but, like i said, off to equus for those beers i mentioned.
for those of you who don't know, equus is a pole-barn bbq on the shores of lake arenal. it's perhaps a touch "rustic" looking, but the owners are as nice as the day is long and the food is better than a rob ford press conference.
here's a pic form the upper "deck":
the nightly crew at equus changes as fast as the wind. here a shot of tonight's crew:
so there you have it. day 7 of lake arenal 2014. camera charging. hasta luego, tierra del fuego.
and ciao delta posse!
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Thank you tstizzle for one of the best threads on this Forum.
It has got me thinking about a trip next winter!
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Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 10:28 am
Post subject: Re: lake arenal costa rica windsurfing report - day 7
tstizzle wrote:
they need to be able to tack and, interestingly, backwind sail to get back to their launch.... backwind sailing will allow you to hold a much, much stronger upwind angle than simply schlogging. we were guessing it was because of the pressure on the windward rail of the board, which might help to increase the board's traction in the water. any help with this?
First, tell us what you mean by "backwind sailing". I don't know the term in this context, despite having sailed tidal currents in several places including the Delta.
Fantastic pictures, BTW. Loving them, as Arenal is still on my list of trip prospects.
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Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 11:16 am
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Backwinded sailing is normally slogging while standing on the backwinded side of the sail. Something fun to do, but I never considered it necessary for sailing the SF bay or Delta. Now tacking is another matter. Especially if trying to get upwind in the delta during a strong flood tide. That comes in real handy.....
Thanks tstizzle for the info. Lake Arenal is a place I've considered for quite some time. Nice to see it delivers all I heard about...
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Backwinded sailing is normally slogging while standing on the backwinded side of the sail.
That was my understanding, too, but it doesn't fit this context.
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Hey Tstizzle,
Thanks for all the info you've provided for Lake Arenal.
I look forward to doing some research now on flights, places to stay etc. and your input really has helped.
Glad you had a great trip and hopefully I'll be the next to report about my journey there.
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I can't always persuade K to come walking with me, and indeed I haven't been out for a while myself, but I've spent too much time in the house this week and have come down with cabin fever, so here we are, walking up a rough road into the cork forests that overlook the Strait.
We've been to the visitor centre for the national park that surrounds us – two national parks in fact – and a nice lady has sold us a cute little pack that contains sixteen maps. The morning has been rainy but the clouds have cleared a little and the sky is pocked with blue patches as we tackle the first of them, the sun bursting through to dapple the world in moving circles of light.
It has helped my mood not one whit that we've spent the last hour in an enormous supermarket getting the weekly shopping done, me following K around like a sulking child, she eventually giving up on any notion of deploying my fetching capabilities.
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You know, Charlie's 45 years old. He's not a kid. Emotionally he still is," says the elder Sheen. "Because when you're addicted, you don't grow emotionally. So when you get clean and sober you're starting at the moment you started using drugs or alcohol. You're emotionally crippled."
But I know what hell he's living in," he adds. "I've had psychotic episodes in public. One of them was on camera – the opening scene of 'Apocalypse Now.' So I know what Charlie is going through. And when you do something like that, that is out of control, that's the most difficult thing. You have to have courage."
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Salty and slippery, Louisiana oysters are a delicacy long enjoyed by natives and visitors to New Orleans and its surrounding areas. They're consumed in a variety of ways, from raw, grilled, or charbroiled to fried on a po' boy and served as oyster dressing on holiday tables. We're currently in the heart of what is deemed to be the true oyster season, which lasts from September till April and is the non-breeding season for these tasty mollusks.
Oysters are found in their various forms across the city. Some restaurants are known for their oyster specialties, such as Oysters Rockefeller, created by Antoine's in the French Quarter, founded in 1840. Casamento's on Magazine St is famous for their oyster loaf, a specially dressed and fried oyster po' boy.
Throughout the week, you can find oyster specials all around the city. John Besh's restaurant Luke in the CBD has a $.50 raw oyster happy hour every day from 4 to 6pm that has become extremely popular among locals and tourists alike. The oyster happy hour at Blind Pelican on St. Charles offers $.25 oysters, likely the best price you'll find in the city.
Acme Oyster House in the French Quarter often has a line out the door for their raw and cooked Louisiana oysters. They are arguably some of the biggest and best in the city, but they come at a price. Drago's too in the CBD has some of the best charbroiled oysters in the city, but they too come at a steeper price. Quality oysters tend to these days, especially since they have become rarer (but still fine to eat) since the Gulf oil spill.
Every summer, Oyster Festival celebrates this delectable bivalve in the green space of the U.S. Mint at the edge of the French Quarter and the Mississippi River. In 2013, the fest will be held June 1st and 2nd and will bring together some of the best dishes featured throughout the city—like Drago's famous charbroiled oysters, Borgne's Oyster Almondine, Royal House's Oyster Patties with Fried Oyster and Crystal Beurre Blanc, and more—plus live music from some of NOLA's finest musicians.


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by Gustavo Visalli, KF14, Guatemala
Commutes are a part of life. In college I lived in a town with more bikes than people, so I had a relaxing bike ride to class every day. Back home in San Francisco I had the pleasure of reading about my World Series Champion Giants on the train to work. Easy transport increases our range. This allows us to access more resources with little effort (even those of us without cars).
Daily travel is not so simple here in Guatemala. It is a significant barrier for many looking for access to resources such as food markets or financial services. To keep microfinance accessible to the rural communities, MFIs like ASDIR must travel to the client for visits and loan interviews. Fellow KF14 member Nila's breakdown of one MFI expenses show that staff travel expense is second only to staff salaries. That's a lot of client visits!
Allow me to illustrate the difficulty of car-less travel here in Guatemala by giving a taste of my evening commute:
First is the Sardine Act: the microbus to the main road. At a $0.12 fare, drivers will pack in as many passengers as is illegally allowable. In a 10 seat minivan, I have counted an estimated 22 high school kids and one full sized Gustavo. It is not uncommon for us to spill out onto the top and side steps of the van. On a road full of mostly ignored speed bumps, this makes for a very interesting ride.
Next comes the highway shoulder hike, which I briefly mention in my previous post. This is pretty self-explanatory. As you can see, there isn't much of a shoulder. I have found that pickup trucks in particular are not shy about keeping things uncomfortably close.
After a hike through the nightly market in town, it's time for the main event:
"El Carnicero" is the final boss. I call it the butcher because I pass the municipal slaughterhouse before facing this monster hill. Elder Guatemalan women seem to be able to conquer this beast on a daily basis without losing too much breath. My sea-level lungs are not quite at that point.
Medium distance travel is a burden for many rural residents in Guatemala. It often takes hours and is rarely as comfortable as a cushioned train seat. This limits many residents to the shops, services, and resources of their surrounding area. Limited resources equals limited development, which is something ASDIR and other social organizations are working to change here.
As for my daily commute: bring on the carnicero. I'll be back on the train reading about the Giants soon enough.
Gustavo is a Kiva Fellow working with Asociación ASDIR in Nimasac, Guatemala. Check out the brand new ASDIR Lending Team on the Kiva website.
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Wow, this really makes all my complaining about my hour long bus ride to work seem like nothing, because as least it's never just my body and other cars! And high five to the old Guatemalan women who practically run up the hill without even getting short of breath! Great post bro…like Jere says, keep them coming!
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As previously reported, Jonathan is featured on new song "Open Mouth" by Suzy's Field. You can now purchase "Open Mouth" on Amazon as well as pre-order their new album "Blossom". "Open Mouth" is no longer available on SoundCloud so the only way to listen to this fantastic song is to purchase it via Amazon.


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More than 200 militants captured in Iraq and Afghanistan over two years have been passed to their countries' intelligence services.
WASHINGTON — The United States military has secretly handed over more than 200 militants to the intelligence services of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other countries, nearly all in the past two years, as part of an effort to reduce the burden of detaining and interrogating foreign fighters captured in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to American military officials.
The system is similar in some ways to the rendition program used by the Central Intelligence Agency since the Sept. 11 attacks to secretly transfer people suspected of being militants back to their home countries to be jailed and questioned.
But there are significant differences; the prisoners can block their transfers to home countries, military officials say. Officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross interview all detainees before they are returned to their home countries, Bernard Barrett, a Red Cross spokesman, said.
Many of these militants are initially held, without notification to the Red Cross, sometimes for weeks at a time, in secret at a camp in Iraq and another in Afghanistan run by American Special Operations forces, the military officials said.
They said that foreign intelligence officers had been allowed access to these camps to question militants there, as a prelude to the transfers.
In interviews, the military officials said the transfers represented an effort by the United States to find a better way to detain and interrogate the militants.
The American military's prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and the secret prisons abroad run by the C.I.A. have drawn criticism, and there have been concerns over the use of Iraqi and Afghan jails. Some have questioned whether those facilities should play any future role in housing terrorism suspects.
As a rationale for the approach, the American officials said that language skills and cultural knowledge in most cases made the Saudis, Egyptians and others best suited to question the captured suspects, and best equipped to act on any intelligence they provide about militant networks in their countries.
The effort was described in interviews over the last six weeks with more than a dozen current and former American military, intelligence and foreign policy officials, some of whom would speak only on condition of anonymity.
Unlike in Afghanistan, where many prisoners captured by American forces were sent to Guantánamo Bay in the first five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, prisoners captured by the United States in Iraq have never been sent to American detention centers outside Iraq, and until The New York Times began to conduct interviews for this article in July, military officials had not acknowledged that any had been repatriated.
American military officials said the transfers required assurances that the prisoners would be well taken care of, but they would not specify those assurances, and human rights advocates questioned whether compliance could be monitored.
While the militants are in American custody, Pentagon rules allow them to be held at the Special Operations sites in Balad, Iraq, and Bagram, Afghanistan, for up to two weeks, with extensions permitted with the approval of Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates or his representative, military officials said.
About 30 to 40 foreign prisoners are held at the Iraq camp at any given time, the officials said; they did not provide an estimate for the Afghan camp, but suggested that the number was smaller.
Saudi and Egyptian intelligence officers have been permitted to interrogate militants at the camps, although United States military officials say that the foreign interrogators who operate in the American camps are monitored by American soldiers, and that they must follow American rules.
They said restrictions on interrogation techniques and on the length of secret detentions were carefully regulated, a response to problems within the American military detention system, including the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the Special Operations site in Balad, Iraq, that emerged beginning in 2004.
The officials said the prisoners who were repatriated were sent home only after being moved into the general American-run prison population, a step that meant that their names were reported to the Red Cross.
In all, they said, 214 prisoners in Iraq and at least two more in Afghanistan have been transferred to the custody of their home countries over the past four years, and while the Iraqi government has helped to facilitate some of the transfers, they were not subject to the approval of either the Iraqi government or the Afghan government.
Henry A. Crumpton, who in 2006 was the State Department's top counterterrorism official, said the decision to begin repatriating detainees was driven "by the realization that Guantánamo was a strategic failure."
"All of us in the discussion agreed that Guantánamo was not working for lots of reasons and that the simplest way to proceed is that when you have foreign fighters captured you send them back home," he said. "If you don't send them to Gitmo, and the C.I.A. doesn't want them, then where do you put them?"
The American military now holds about 170 foreign prisoners in Iraq, down from about 465 in December 2005, and the current group includes more than 30 Egyptians, 20 Syrians, 20 Jordanians, 10 Yemenis, 10 Saudis and 10 Libyans, according to Maj. Neil V. Fisher II, a spokesman for Task Force 134, the American unit in charge of detention operations in Iraq. In addition to these numbers, the Iraqi government is holding 426 foreigners, mostly combatants, in its own prisons, and American officials say some foreign fighters have been convicted in Iraqi courts and executed.
Defense Department officials would not say how many prisoners in all had been held in the Special Operations camps, or how many had been held under the rule that allowed their secret detentions to be extended beyond two weeks.
The Defense Department officials also refused to talk in detail about the interrogations conducted at the military camps by representatives of foreign intelligence services. A Pentagon spokesman said that all foreign interrogators who were taken to the Special Operations sites were "monitored by D.O.D. personnel, and their conduct must be consistent with D.O.D. policy," specifically the United States Army Field Manual, which bans coercive interrogation techniques.
"The U.S. has aggressively looked for opportunities to repatriate detainees," said Rear Adm. Gregory J. Smith, the chief spokesman for the United States Central Command. "In countries where we know they have a program to rehabilitate detainees, like Saudi Arabia, we've had good success."
The Saudis have sought to use their jails to convert militants into ambassadors against extremism, a program that American officials have praised, though they caution that it is too soon to say whether it will have a long-term impact.
A Saudi official said, "What you have is a situation in which the U.S. wants to get all the Saudi prisoners to Saudi Arabia because the Saudis know how to deal with them."
Admiral Smith said the current repatriation system hinged on a series of bilateral agreements that the United States had reached with participating countries. He said the United States must receive assurances from each country that detainees would be treated humanely and that they would not simply be released.
Christoph Wilcke, who researches the prison systems of Middle Eastern countries for Human Rights Watch, said that international organizations had very little information about the treatment of detainees in the prisons run by the Saudi intelligence service, in part because the Red Cross had never been allowed to operate inside the country.
"When it comes to sending people back home, there is really no way for us to find out how they are doing," he said.
Current and former American officials interviewed for this article said the Bush administration decided in 2006 to begin steadily reducing the number of foreign fighters in military detention.
The decision was influenced by several factors, the officials said. First, there was a growing realization that the prison at Guantánamo Bay was doing irreparable damage to America's image abroad and might actually be a catalyst for the spread of Islamic radicalism. Also, that year the Supreme Court shot down the Bush administration's plans for trying Guantánamo detainees by military commission.
There was also pressure building at the time to empty the secret prisons run by the C.I.A. and reduce the agency's role in detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects.
In September 2006, President Bush ordered that the 14 prisoners who at the time were in C.I.A. detention be transferred to Guantánamo Bay.
Maj. Gen. Douglas M. Stone, who until June led detention operations in Iraq, said in a telephone interview that he was not aware of any detainee held beyond two weeks without an authorized seven-day extension, nor of any detainee being held at a field detention site longer than a total of three weeks.
But General Stone said foreign fighters detained in the general prison population in Iraq could be interrogated again by Special Operations forces if interrogators obtained new information. "Detainees can be checked out," said General Stone, who noted that he monitored such cases very closely. "It happens all the time."
The Special Operations prison in Afghanistan has occasionally been a temporary holding site for prisoners captured outside of the country, a move that has drawn criticism from some American officials.
One person suspected of belonging to Al Qaeda, who was captured by American Special Operations forces during the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia in late 2006, was taken to Bagram.
Ronald E. Neumann, who was the United States ambassador to Afghanistan from 2005 to April 2007, recalled in a telephone interview that he objected to the plans because the military intended to spirit the detainee into the country without notifying the Afghan government.
Mr. Neumann, who is now president of the American Academy of Diplomacy in Washington, said: "It's the kind of action that if it leaks, can cause political reverberations in the street. There were qualities of imperial hubris that I thought were wrong."
In the end, a compromise was reached. The detainee was taken to Bagram briefly before being transferred to another undisclosed location, and the Afghan government was notified after the prisoner was transferred out of Afghanistan.
"The guy didn't stay very long," Mr. Neumann said.


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B8538-002: The Leader's Voice: Communication Skills for Leading Organizations
W - A Term, 04:00PM to 07:15PM
Credit hours: 1.5
Location: WJW 310
Previous Terms Offered: Fall, Spring
Instructor: Bradley Aspel
Prerequisite(s): B6500: Lead: People, Teams, Organizations
First Class Attendance is Mandatory. The class is best suited to students taking leadership roles during the MBA experience (club officer, cluster officer, peer advisor, etc.). Leadership roles can involve a wide range of communication challenges— mentoring a struggling colleague, persuading investors of your brand, rallying an auditorium of new employees, working the room at an industry event, handling tough questions from the media, running team meetings in ways that elicit candid conversation and learning. While all of us at CBS are strong communicators, few of us are adept at all these different kinds of communication. The goal of this class is to broaden your repertoire, to make you a more versatile communicator who can adapt your way of communicating to meet many different challenges. The world is full of communication experts: actors, screenwriters, coaches, political speechwriters, networkers, public relations experts, diplomats and so forth. This class draws on these different crafts and professions looking for tools and methods that help in the kinds of situations business leaders face. We aim to develop two kinds of knowledge--conceptual understanding and procedural skill. Each session will involve some class discussion about frameworks cases and some active participation in exercises. We rely on role-play simulations and personalized feedback (from peers and through video) to practice and polish the behavioral skills. Our first topic, for instance, is story. We introduce concepts of story structure (e.g. protagonist, five-act structure, sensory details) and apply these to topics you anticipate speaking on as a leader (e.g. Who am I? Why hire me? What makes our organization different?). Then we practice delivering our stories with impact (silence, vocal variety, visuals). Keeping this dual emphasis on concepts and performance, we move on to topics such as coaching, public speaking, networking and making an impact in small groups, facing audiences during crises, and leading meetings.
Bradley Aspel
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
Brad Aspel teaches MBA courses on Leadership Communication and is one of the Executive Coaches for the Executive Education program's Columbia Management Institute (CMI). He also teaches workshops on Communication & Presentation skills. Brad started his career as an actor (including five Broadway shows) and theatrical director with a particular focus on developing talent. He worked in Media & Entertainment for multiple companies...


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Two pelicans taken care of by the Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of Rhode Island hang out in a camping tent before being flown to Florida.
Two brown pelicans blown to Rhode Island by the winds of Hurricane Sandy were flying back Saturday to their natural habitat in Florida -- via a private plane.
The first of the large birds, whose wingspans measure 6 to 7 feet, was found on the side of a road at Fishermen's Memorial State Park on Nov. 7, nine days after the storm made landfall in New Jersey, said Jennifer Brooks, clinic director at the Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of Rhode Island.
The bird, a juvenile likely from a nest in North Carolina, had been tagged by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and records showed it was presumed to have died, she said.
The second pelican landed on a fishing boat about 120 miles south of Block Island the following day, she said. The crew of the boat, which provides fish to SeaWorld theme parks, fed the bird for several days before docking.
"They were a little bit thin, they were a little beat up from the storm," Brooks said of the birds. They had lost tail feathers and suffered scratches to their throat pouches, which are prone to frostbite in northern climates, Brooks said.
Animal workers had been keeping the birds in an outdoor shelter before moving them into a camping tent inside the clinic.
On Saturday, they were flown in containers similar to dog crates to the Mary Keller Seabird Rehabilitation Sanctuary in Florida, she said.
The cost of the flight -- about $2,000 -- was covered by public donations, Brooks said.
Brown pelicans typically fly as far north as North Carolina during the summer to form breeding colonies before flying south for the winter, Brooks said.
Birds naturally are blown northward by storms, but "it's unusual for us to have pelicans," she said.
"They do get pushed by these northward storms, so that's what happened to these guys," she said. "They should have been going south."
Reuters contributed to this report.
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text: David Letterman says he banned Harmony Korine from the "Late Show" in New York because he once caught the filmmaker pawing through Meryl Streep's purse. Letterman told the story Monday when prompted by "Late Show" guest James Franco, the star of Korine's latest film, "Spring Breakers." Franco said he heard Korine was banned from the show after he pushed Streep backstage. "He said he was a little out of it," Franco said of the "Kids" writer and "Gummo" writer-director. "Harmony is a very sane guy now -- a great artist and great person to work with. But I think he had a period where he was going a little off the rails, so maybe he was on something that night," Franco said. "I went upstairs to greet Meryl Streep and welcome her to the show, and I knock on the door ... and she was not in there," Letterman said of the last time Korine visited the "Late Show" studio in the late 1990s. "And I looked around, and she was not in there, and I found Harmony going through her purse. True story. And so I said: 'That's it. Put her things back in her bag and then get out.'" "So, you kicked him off?" Franco asked Letterman, to which the talk-show host nodded emphatically as the studio audience applauded. Apparently convinced by Franco's assertion that Korine is now a changed man, Letterman said he would be "more than happy" to have him back as a guest.