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A quantum filament disables the Enterprise, leaving Counselor Troi in command on the bridge, and various groups on different parts of the ship facing perils alone.
- "Captain's Log, Stardate 45156.1. Our mission to Mudor V has been completed, and since our next assignment will not begin for several days, we are taking a welcome respite from our duties."
In Ten Forward, Riker, Worf, Data, Chief O'Brien, and a very pregnant Keiko O'Brien are discussing names for the O'Brien's baby. Miles and Keiko are arguing good-naturedly, each believing the other had agreed to name it after their respective fathers (Michael and Hiro), if it is a boy. Straight-faced, Riker advocates "William" as the perfect name. O'Brien excuses himself, patting Keiko's belly and addressing it as "Michael", telling them he's due on the bridge for a transporter simulation.
In a cargo bay, Lieutenant Commander La Forge and Dr. Crusher are inventorying a collection of supply canisters. She is trying to convince him to audition for a part in her latest play, and he reluctantly sings a few lines of "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" from The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan. He protests that he is too bashful to sing in front of other people, but Crusher insists that he is perfect, and puts his name down for the role.
On the bridge, Counselor Troi introduces three children to Captain Picard as the winners of the school science fair, whose prize is a tour of the ship with the captain. Forcing down his usual awkwardness with children, Picard greets himself but refuses when asked by one of his charges if they can see the battle bridge or torpedo bay, instead offering to take them round less sensitive (and less interesting sounding) areas, such as hydroponics laboratory and astrophysics laboratory, forcing a smile onto his face as he conducts the children onto a turbolift to begin the tour, passing a newly-arrived O'Brien.
Aboard the lift, Picard tries to make conversation by asking each of the children about their respective projects. The third and oldest member of the group, Marissa Flores, is tongue-tied, and before conversation can go further, the ship is rocked by an impact, and the turbolift plummets, causing the children to scream in panic. The heavy quaking is felt throughout the ship, throwing people around and causing substantial damage before it passes.
Aboard the bridge, the crew picks themselves up and O'Brien reports an impact with a quantum filament, and warns that another one is headed for the ship. The conn officer, Lieutenant jg Monroe only has time to warn the ship to brace for another impact, before the ship rocks again and her helm console blows up in her face sending her to the ground.
Act OneEdit
On the bridge, O'Brien and Troi see that Lt. Monroe is dead and that most systems are down, including the ship's computer. Ensign Mandel reports to O'Brien that the turbolifts are inoperative – they are trapped on the bridge.
In the turbolift, Picard is trapped with the three crying children. He cannot raise anyone on his combadge, and the children assume everyone else on the ship has been killed. When Jay Gordon Graas says they are going to die too, Picard angrily tells them all to calm down – which only makes them cry harder.
On the bridge, O'Brien reports that primary life support, main engines, and computer controls have all been disabled by the impact, and the turbolifts and communications have likewise been cut off, effectively sealing off the bridge from the rest of the ship. He also sends a distress call on automatic repeat, but doesn't know if it is transmitting. Ensign Ro squeezes through a turbolift door, having climbed up from her car which was close to the bridge when an emergency bulkhead closed just below it; the bridge is now cut off from the rest of the ship. Ops officer Mandel says that he is registering sporadic life signs throughout the rest of the ship, but cannot be sure they are real while the sensors are still malfunctioning. Troi is then surprised to be told by O'Brien that, with Lt. Monroe's death, she is now the commanding officer due to the fact that she, as a lieutenant commander, holds the highest rank of anyone present. Troi is bewildered, and doesn't have a clue what to do, having to be prompted by O'Brien and Ro who suggest implementing standard emergency procedures.
Ten Forward has been turned into a make-shift sickbay for the wounded. Data returns from a survey of the corridors and reports that heavy damage has blocked off access both to sickbay and engineering. Riker says that they have to assume no one has been left alive on the bridge, and he and Data attempt to reach engineering via a service crawlway. Worf is left in charge of Ten Forward.
In the cargo bay, La Forge and Crusher are trying, unsuccessfully, to open the doors. When La Forge goes to a wall panel to remove a manual hand actuator, Crusher feels heat coming from the wall, and a panel explodes outwards, revealing a plasma fire in a damaged power conduit. Crusher warns that the fire is emitting intense radiation, which could have long-term effects if they don't put it out. La Forge says they have a more immediate problem: the cargo bay is filled with drums of quaratum, which becomes explosive when exposed to radiation.
Act TwoEdit
In the turbolift, Picard has no success with the lift controls. His ankle was broken in the initial fall, so his mobility is limited. To help the children overcome their fear, and pitch in to help him, he gives each of them a rank in his makeshift "crew", and pins one of his collar pips onto each of them accordingly: Marissa Flores, the eldest, is appointed first officer (receiving two pips instead of one), and henceforth addressed as "Number One"; Jay Gordon Graas, the second oldest, is appointed science officer; and Paterson Supra, the youngest, is appointed "executive officer in charge of radishes," in reference to his science fair project.
While crawling to engineering, Data and Riker are menaced by a coolant leak, and are forced to speed-crawl down the tunnel and seal a bulkhead behind them. They now have no choice but to go forward, but the way ahead is intimidating in itself, with electric arcs visible in the distance.
In the cargo bay, Crusher notices that the radiation levels in the quaratum containers further away from the plasma fire are lower, so she and La Forge push the containers into a corner to buy themselves more time.
On the bridge, Ro has managed to restore power to the engineering monitoring console by dumping raw power from the phaser array into it, over O'Brien's protests. She reports, with alarm, that the antimatter containment field has been damaged by the impact with the filament, and is slowly failing; when it does, the ship will explode from a warp core breach.
Act ThreeEdit
Riker and Data are halted in the crawlspace by a ½ million-amp arc of electricity in front of them. Data cannot shut off the current with the controls, and they cannot go back. Data has the idea of interrupting the flow of current with his own body to break the circuit. Alarmed, Riker says the current may destroy him; humanitarian concerns aside, he also needs Data's help to operate the computers in engineering. Data volunteers that his positronic brain has extra shielding, and could withstand the current even if the rest of his body could not. He proposes that after the current is shut down, Riker detaches Data's head and carry it with him. Data steps into the current, and succeeds in interrupting it ("A remarkable experience").
In the turbolift, Picard helps Jay remove the ceiling hatch and climb up. Based on Jay's description of what he sees, Picard understands that the safety clamps meant to anchor the lift in an emergency are sheared away, meaning the lift will eventually break away and fall. He tells Marissa to lead the crew through the hatch and escape the lift via the shaft ladder.
Picard says that, with his broken ankle, he would only slow them down and orders all of them to leave him behind. Exchanging a look with her crewmates, Marissa declares that they will not. Sighing, Picard accuses them of mutiny, but agrees to try. On his instructions, Marissa removes a large bundle of optical cabling from the control panel to lash them all together.
In the cargo bay, La Forge and Crusher finish moving the quaratum containers, but the radiation levels are still rising. Frustrated, La Forge says that the only way to put out the fire would be to deprive it of oxygen – and gets an idea. If they open the exterior cargo bay door, the escaping air will blow out the containers and deprive the plasma fire of oxygen; if he and Crusher can hold on to something, they can reseal the door and reventilate the bay once the fire is out.
In Ten Forward, Worf and Keiko are caring for the wounded, when Keiko goes into labor. Worf points out that it's not a good time, but Keiko insists that the baby is coming whether he likes it or not.
Act FourEdit
In a staff meeting in the observation lounge, Ro demands that they separate the saucer section from the rest of the ship. They cannot stop the antimatter containment field from degrading from the bridge, and it is better that they save those people in the saucer section than let the explosion claim the whole ship. O'Brien objects that someone may still be alive in the stardrive section of the ship, but Ro says they can't know that for sure. Asserting her authority, Troi vetoes Ro's suggestion and instead tells O'Brien to transfer power to the consoles in engineering, to highlight the problem in case someone in that section is watching.
In the turbolift shaft, Picard and the crew are climbing the ladder, trying to find a door they can open manually. After another door fails to respond, Paterson begins to despair, but Marissa "orders" him to steady himself. Before they can start to ascend again, the lift's clamps give way and it plunges, causing the walls of the shaft to tremble. They all cling to the ladder, and hear the crash of the lift far below. Grateful to at least be out of the lift, the crew keeps climbing. Picard suggests that they sing a song to boost their spirits, and eventually hits on "Frère Jacques" as one they all know.
In Ten Forward, Worf is assisting Keiko, with the help of his tricorder and an emergency birth procedure he remembers from his Academy training. He appears flustered when Keiko starts to "deviate" from the procedure, asking him to check whether or not the baby's head is facing down.
In the cargo bay, Crusher describes the sensations and dangers involved with vacuum exposure and explains they'll have about 25 seconds to restore the atmosphere before they collapse. The exterior door is opened, leaving only a force field keeping the air in the cargo bay. La Forge and Crusher hold on to a ladder and hold their breaths while La Forge hits the button to disengage the force field. The evacuating air blows all of the volatile barrels out into space, and the plasma fire eventually extinguishes from lack of oxygen. La Forge restores the force field and shuts the bay door, and Dr. Crusher is able to crawl to another panel and hit it before she collapses from the effects of the vacuum. She and La Forge breathe heavily in relief as air is resupplied to the cargo bay.
Act FiveEdit
On the bridge, O'Brien picks up a thermal inversion in the power coupling, whereas he and Ro frantically cross connects the coupling to the transfer coils. Ro aggressively tells Troi that this nearly caused the containment field to collapse. They may have stopped it this time but if it happens again they may not be able to prevent it; saying that it is time to leave. With more command confidence, Troi pulls rank on Ro saying she will decide when to separate and not before and sits down on the captain's chair.
In the stardrive section, Riker has rigged Data's head to the controls, allowing him to raise the bulkhead to engineering. Immediately noticing that the monitors have been powered up, despite the lack of power on the rest of the deck, he deduces that the bridge is trying to show them something. When he sees the containment field is failing, he has to quickly connect Data's head to a new link, enabling him to stabilize the field with only seconds to spare. Seeing the field return to normal from the bridge monitors, Ro and O'Brien realize that someone is alive down there and disaster has been averted. Ro apologizes to Troi for her error, but Troi says she might well have been right.
In a deserted corridor, a door finally opens, admitting Picard and his crew out of the turbolift shaft. Safe at last, Marissa hugs Picard gratefully, while he exchanges hearty handshakes with the two boys.
In Ten Forward, with Worf's help, Keiko delivers her baby, which is a girl. Worf comments that she looks like Chief O'Brien, much to Keiko's amusement.
- "Captain's Log, supplemental. We are en route to Starbase 67 to undergo repairs. Life aboard the Enterprise is slowly returning to normal."
Troi conducts the three children to the bridge again. Riker jibes that she must be drawn to Picard's empty chair, while Troi admits that she isn't cut out to be a captain – "first officer, maybe. I understand there aren't a lot of qualifications."
When Picard emerges from his ready room, Marissa and the crew present him with a homemade plaque, thanking him for leading them out of the turbolift. Picard accepts it heartily, and says he will rendezvous with them later to lead them on their promised tour, starting with the battle bridge. Returning to his ready room, he says over his shoulder, "you have the bridge, Number One," causing Marissa and Riker to chirp, "aye, sir!" in unison. Marissa lets out an embarrassed laugh, but Riker smiles and Picard throws her a wink.
Log entries Edit
Memorable quotes Edit
"What did you do for your science projects?"
"I planted radishes in this special dirt and they came up all weird!"
"I see. That's very… very commendable."
- - Jean-Luc Picard and Paterson
"I'm not sure who I feel sorry for, the captain or the kids."
- - Miles O'Brien, watching Picard and the children board the turbo lift
"Can I be an officer, too?"
"Well let me see, uh, your science project involved radishes, did it not?"
"Yes, sir."
"Then I shall appoint you my executive officer in charge of radishes."
(Big smile)
- - Paterson and Jean-Luc Picard
(Engineering console powers up) "How did you do that?"
"I've diverted power from the phaser array, and I dumped it into the engineering control system"
"You what?"
"Engineering station's online, Counselor."
"But that's a completely improper procedure! You can't just dump that much raw energy into a bridge terminal without…"
"We're not gonna get out of this by playing it safe!"
- - O'Brien and Ro
"If it falls to fifteen percent, the field will collapse and we'll have a containment breach."
"Which means?"
"Which means the ship will explode."
- - O'Brien, Troi, and Ro
"The bridge will be sending a rescue party as soon as possible, so I want you all to stop crying!"
- - Picard, to the children
"Let me get this straight; you want me to take off your head?"
"Yes, sir."
- - Riker and Data
"We will separate the ship when I decide that it's time, and not before. Is that clear, Ensign?"
"Yes. Perfectly."
- - Deanna Troi and Ro Laren
"A remarkable experience, Commander."
- - Data, to Riker after being electrocuted
"This wall is HOT!"
- - Beverly Crusher, to Geordi La Forge
"No, I mean contractions… I'm going into labor!"
"You cannot! This is not a good time, Keiko!"
- - Keiko O'Brien and Worf
"By not separating the ship now, you could be responsible for all our deaths."
"Thank you, Ensign. Proceed."
- - Ro and Troi, arguing about whether or not to separate from the drive section before the containment field collapses
"Your contractions are now only thirty seconds apart. Dilation has increased to seven centimeters since the onset of labor. That did not take long."
"That's easy for you to say!"
- - Worf and Keiko
"Congratulations, you are fully dilated to ten centimeters. You may now give birth."
"That's what I've been doing!"
- - Worf and Keiko
"The computer simulation was not like this. That delivery was very orderly."
"Well, I'm sorry!"
- - Worf and Keiko, during the birth of Molly O'Brien
"Push, Keiko. Push. Push! Push!"
"I am pushing!"
- - Worf and Keiko, during the birth of Molly
"I will smack the child to induce breathing."
- - Worf, after Molly's birth
"You must hurry, Commander. The containment field has dropped to sixteen percent."
"I'm trying. You need a bigger head."
- - Data, while Riker tries to route commands for the Enterprise's containment field to his head
"Marissa, is there a song you sing at school?"
"Umm, "The Laughing Vulcan and His Dog?""
"…I'm afraid I don't know that one."
- - Picard and Marissa
"You have the bridge, Number One."
"(in unison) Aye, sir."
- - Picard, William T. Riker, and Marissa
Background information Edit
Production history Edit
- Final draft script: 12 August 1991
- Filmed: 16 August 1991 – 27 August 1991
- Second unit filming of insert footage: 28 August 1991
- Additional second unit inserts filming of more insert footage: 3 October 1991
- Premiere airdate: 21 October 1991
- First UK airdate: 18 January 1995
Story and script Edit
- Jeri Taylor commented that this episode "was pitched by a couple of outside writers and it's something we had never done before. I believe in variety. I think that it freshens a series. If you see the same story week after week it becomes deadly dull…I'm very much for breaking formula, changing something and doing a different kind of story. It was let's do something different – stop them dead in space and give them lots of problems. I thought some fans thumbed their nose at it, but in a mix of varied stories it was a good infusion of life." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)
- Teleplay writer Ronald D. Moore recalled, "I thought let's just have fun with it. We put our people in interesting and fun situations. It was nice to put Troi in the captain's chair and Picard in the elevator shaft. It was very episodic, and I remember the best moment was when we were breaking the story. Michael left the room and we were looking at different elements – Data and Riker in the powertube, in particular – and somebody said, 'What if Riker takes Data's head off?' Michael came back in and we said, 'You're going to hate this, but what if we took his head off?', and he laughed and rolled his eyes and said, 'Do it. No one will let us do it, but go ahead, it'll be fun.' I wrote it and Rick [Berman] never said a word. It's amazing that we got away with it." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)
- The idea of having Ro and O'Brien working together was due to the fact they were both planned to transfer to Deep Space Nine and the producers wanted to see how well the two characters worked together. While O'Brien did indeed move over to the new series, the character of Kira Nerys was created in place of Ro when actress Michelle Forbes declined the offer.
- Moore noted that the episode was The Next Generation's homage to disaster movies. To this end, Moore half-jokingly proposed casting Shelley Winters in the episode, but the idea was rejected. (Memorable Missions, TNG Season 5 DVD special features)
- When asked, Moore denied that "The Laughing Vulcan and His Dog" was a reference to Sybok. He explained, "I just liked the image the title of the song conjured up." (AOL chat, 1998)
- An early draft of the episode had the Enterprise colliding with an asteroid, but the writers, sensitive to scientific concerns that an asteroid would not cause the damage described in the script, "invented" the quantum filament. (Star Trek Encyclopedia (? ed., p. ?))
Production Edit
- "Disaster" was filmed between Friday 16 August 1991 and Tuesday 27 August 1991 on Paramount Stage 8, 9, and 16. Additional second unit inserts were filmed on Wednesday 28 August 1991 on Paramount Stage 9 and on Thursday 3 October 1991 on Paramount Stage 9 and 16.
- On Monday 19 August 1991, the Make-a-Wish Foundation visited the set of this episode at 11:00 am.
- This was the last episode aired before Gene Roddenberry's death on 24 October 1991.
- At the end of the episode, the children present Picard a commemorative plaque with their full names on it. The characters' last names are essentially the same as those of the actors who played them.
- For the scene in which La Forge and Crusher evacuate the air from the cargo bay, Greg Jein constructed miniature barrels. Dan Curry recalled that these were then attached with pins to a vertical miniature floor. The pins were then removed, with the barrels falling against a blue screen. By shooting at a high frame rate, the desired effect was achieved. (Memorable Missions, TNG Season 5 DVD special features)
- Curry revealed that the plasma fire effect was created by filming a clear glass tray with hot water and granules of dry ice. This was then lit from the back and tinted green. (Memorable Missions, TNG Season 5 DVD special features)
Continuity Edit
- This episode is the first appearance of Molly O'Brien.
- In trying to understand O'Brien's description of a quantum filament, Troi (unsuccessfully) compares it to a cosmic string, which the Enterprise encountered in "The Loss".
- This is the final time during the series that the Enterprise's saucer separation capability is mentioned. It was not referenced again until Star Trek Generations.
- There is a humorous reference to this episode in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Accession". Worf becomes alarmed at hearing that Keiko is pregnant again, and hastily plans a vacation to Earth for when she is due, so he does not have to assist with the birth again. (Worf does appear in "The Begotten" but does avoid helping with the birth.)
- In DS9: "The Begotten", Miles O'Brien also references having missed Molly's birth in this episode.
- Deanna Troi references this episode in "Thine Own Self", when explaining her interest in becoming a bridge officer.
- The Jefferies tube junction set appears for the first time in this episode. The set is still one level here and not attached to the main engineering set.
- When Data volunteers to use his body to interrupt the electric current in the Jefferies tube, Riker says, "…android or not, I wouldn't ask anyone to take that kind of risk." This episode precedes "Thine Own Self", in which Riker tells Troi his "first duty is to the ship," and sometimes that requires ordering officers to perform fatal tasks in deadly situations.
- La Forge and Doctor Crusher almost become the victims of a design flaw in the USS Enterprise-D's cargo bay. The console that raises the exterior cargo bay door and lowers the atmospheric-containment force field apparently does not contain controls to reventilate the bay once the force field is restored and the exterior door is closed. Those controls are located on a separate wall-mounted panel next to the interior cargo bay doors.
- The end credits list Jana Marie Hupp's character as "Ensign Monroe", despite dialogue and rank pips both identifying the character as a lieutenant.
Reception Edit
- Michael Piller remarked, "I think "Disaster" was a fun show, it achieved everything that we set out to do. Ron wrote a nice script, I loved the stuff with Data's head disembodied. It had a real pace and rhythm. It didn't reach the upper echelon of episodes for me because it didn't really have a mystery or science fiction base to it." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)
- Moore remarked, "What I liked about it was the opportunity to put Troi in command and to do all the little stories in a disaster movie. Brannon was a big fan of The Towering Inferno and those films and he and I had a great deal of fun structuring the piece and putting it together and taking Data's head – I mean 'You want me to take off your head?' is one of the great lines on the series and literally carrying Data's head through the corridors of the Enterprise is just a scream." (Memorable Missions, TNG Season 5 DVD special features)
- However, Piller regretted the direction that Ro Laren took in the episode. "We gave her the role of the disbeliever who had nowhere to go but lose in the end because she didn't believe Troi. I think, as I wrote in a memo, it would have been much better if she'd been around a year with some victories before we threw her right into that situation to look rather foolish. And I didn't like the moment where she had to come back and say, which was almost the same arc as that character in the opening who apologized to Data, 'Gee, you were right, Counselor and I was wrong, and I respect you.' To me, after Troi made the right decision in a crisis, Ro's character, and I'm not sure if anybody would agree with me on this, would have said, 'You still could have killed us and I still think I was right and you're just lucky it came out this way.' That's the way I would have ended it with her. The bridge sequence was my least favorite part of the show because it seemed very predictable to me." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)
- A mission report for this episode by John Sayers was published in The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine issue 18, pp. 28-31.
Video and DVD releases Edit
- Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 53, 5 October 1992
- UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 5.2, catalog number VHR 4761, 22 July 2002
- As part of the TNG Season 5 DVD collection
Links and references Edit
Starring Edit
Also starring Edit
- LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
- Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
- Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
- Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
- Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data
Guest stars Edit
- Rosalind Chao as Keiko O'Brien
- Colm Meaney as Miles O'Brien
- Michelle Forbes as Ro Laren
- Erika Flores as Marissa Flores
- John Christian Graas as Jay Gordon Graas
- Max Supera as Paterson Supra
Co-stars Edit
Uncredited co-stars Edit
- K.C. Amos as operations division officer
- Bowman as civilian
- Tracee Cocco as Jae
- John Copage as science division officer
- Michael Echols as civilian
- Michele Gerren as science division officer
- Grace Harrell as operations division officer
- Gary Hunter as science division officer
- Johanson as command division officer
- Kim as operations division officer
- Landi as operations division officer
- Mark Lentry as civilian
- Denise Lynne Roberts as Patti
- Tadeski twins as Molly O'Brien
- Talbot as Ten Forward waitress
- Curt Truman as command division officer
- Christina Wegler Miles as command division ensign
- Unknown performers as
Stunt double Edit
Stand-ins and photo doubles Edit
- David Keith Anderson – stand-in for LeVar Burton and Cameron Arnett
- Sunshine Black – photo double for Erika Flores
- Wendy Davies – stand-in for Jana Marie Hupp
- Johnny Hayden – stand-in for John Christian Graas
- Kristen – stand-in for Michelle Forbes
- Ron Large – photo double for Patrick Stewart
- Larry – stand-in for Max Supera
- Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis
- Maggie – stand-in for Erika Flores
- Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner and Colm Meaney
- Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden and Michelle Forbes
- Randy Pflug – stand-in for Colm Meaney
- Greg Poole – stand-in for Michael Dorn
- Richard Sarstedt – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes
- Sissy Sessions – stand-in for Rosalind Chao
- Dennis Tracy – stand-in for Patrick Stewart
- Guy Vardaman – stand-in for Brent Spiner
- James Washington – stand-in for Michael Dorn
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External linksEdit
- "Disaster" at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- "Disaster" at Wikipedia
- "Disaster" at StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website
- "Disaster" at MissionLogPodcast.com, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast
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|Eric Anholt
|Alan Coopersmith
|Stuart Kreitman
|Bart Massey
|Tiago Vignatti
|Carl Worth
|* 1) In the last year, the membership gained a lot more insight in the activities of the board. What is your opinion on this new-gained transparency? Do you see options for improvement? *
|I'm glad to finally have the transparency we'd agreed we all wanted. In particular, the open IRC meetings have been going well.
|Well, it's more work for me, but I think it's been worth it so that members can see what's happening (or in many cases, how little is happening).
|What happened in the recent past when people started to demand logs and open meetings from X.Org was great and should be always supported. The board reacted relatively quickly which was nice also. As a open organization, the Foundation has to work to improve more this, specially regarding the financial aspects which is being subject of discussions lately.
|* 2) In the past, X.org financials have been dealt with in a less than optimal way, but in the last year a lot of effort has been put into creating solid financial records for the last 5 years, so that incorporation can happen. This work is still underway. What is your opinion about this, where do you see room for improvement? *
|More transparency is good. Everything to do with financials is pain, thuogh, and that's not an reflection of the board as much as the banking system we have.
|The work is needed, and good progress is being made.
|As I elaborated before a bit, this is a must. I believe the current directors made already the necessary effort to dig the past records. At the same time, and obviously, mistaken happened there due not finding all of those, so there is room for improvement. Therefore, all we can do now is to focus on the current and next financial logs and for that not only the directors but also members can help guaranteeing everything is going well.
|* 3) As stated in the X.org Foundation bylaws, only a maximum of 2 of the 8 board seats can be taken by employees of the same company. In the past there was a situation where there were more than two of the same company on the board, after some board member changed affiliation. What is your opinion about this, how would you prefer to resolve such a situation? *
|Just the same as before when it happened: We take the top-ranked candidate for the seat. Alan suggested that we up the number from 2 to 3, so as not to eliminate candidates that care enough to contribute to the board just because they're employed by one of the larger X.Org contributors. I'm neutral on this -- it seems like a good thing to do for the X.Org board, since it doesn't involve itself in technical direction at all, but it means that I would have less excuse for not running at some point.
|There's only one way we can resolve such a situation - getting the three members in question together to discuss it, with the simple directive that "Three members enter, two members leave." The bylaws don't allow us to just ignore it.
|Although is entirely board's fault, all members must help when the bylaw is not being followed correctly and some aspects are interpreted wrongly.
|* 3b) As a follow-up, do you still think this restriction is relevant, and would you change/remove it in any way?? *
|We've been fortunate to never have any serious problems caused here, and the board members have historically done a good job of representing the best interests of the community over their employers, but clauses like this are designed to prevent the worst case, not deal with the normal case. I think it's still useful to have some limit, to avoid the appearance of becoming a non-independent organization (see for instance the recent blogs and stories around the proposed OpenJDK governance). It does unfortunately limit the board membership, which as others have noted, is always a challenge to get enough qualified candidates each election. I do think we should continue the discussion from the last board meeting of re-examining it - possibly raising the limit to 3, which still prevents any one company from stacking the board with enough members to have a majority vote.
|* 4) What is your opinion about the past and the current X.org board elections. Do you have any suggestions for improvement? *
|The elections system is fine.
|They're a pain to organize, which is why the schedule is often missed.
|Lately the elections have chose candidates with a known background in X.Org community. This is enough to say that the election process works.
|* 5) This years X.org conference was held in Toulouse, France. Did you have the chance to visit this, or any previous conferences? For 2011 one proposal was already made to hold the conference in Chicago. Opinions/Suggestions/Proposals? *
|Couldn't do the last one due to a conflicting event. XDS/XDC have been useful conferences for setting technical direction and improving communication.
|Yes, I've been fortunate enough to have my employer send me to all but one of the X.Org conferences. (I missed Cambridge, UK due to schedule clashes.) What city the conference is held in is the least important part of a conference proposal. The far more crucial and much harder part is getting the people to organize it and run it.
|Conferences have to be hold in countries where is affordable to fly, the bureaucracy with foreigns visiting is okay and where we have a good host setting up the organization. Fortunately I never experienced anyone failing in this last point, but I saw already people not going for conferences because of lack of visa. Although USA is not a visa friendly country, I honestly believe that Michael Larabel can influence this, expediting invitation letters for instance in an eventual Chicago's conference. Oh, of course that all attendees want also to have fun, which is very important!
|* 6) A big chunk of spending goes to travel sponsorship. When he learned about the practices of the more recent years, the current treasurer voiced that, when the X.org foundation was formed, travel was usually not sponsored for those gainfully employed to work on X.org related topics. What is your opinion on this? *
|It's more important to get our contributors together to talk than to point fingers at their current employers for being cheap.
|The economy was better when the X.Org Foundation was formed - as it worsened, we adjusted to deal with it for the benefit of the community. The majority of travel funding still goes to those for whom X is not their full time jobs, especially to students like our GSoC mentorees.
|Anyone doing any work related with and surrounding X should be eligible. For a conference for instance, we define a given budget based on the donations we get and current available money, and then set priorities to see who deserves it given the involvement of such the person.
|* 7) Now, a topic quite close to the heart of the author of this questionnaire: FOSDEM. 4-5000 free software users and developers over a weekend in winter, join up in the center of Europe. X.org used to have a hugely popular Developers Room there. But the interest from the X.org community has dwindled now. Why do you think this is so? Should this be different? Do you have any suggestions? *
|I was made unwelcome by the organizer of the FOSDEM dev room, and would probably not bother with it again. FOSDEM is an excellent conference, though, which I would attend again.
|I believe FOSDEM greatly suffers from being too close in time to linuxconf.au, and that X.Org developers have generally been attending the conference more directly relevant to them, not the one with much wider scope of all open source, and with more limited travel budgets, have an easier time getting funding for LCA than FOSDEM.
|The interest for X was never that big. Just a few geeks are interested in hacking on drivers or spending hours debugging a complex code of a compositor manager interacting with a X server and its non-trivial window stack. The past experience shown that is not easy to attract developers for X development and very likely a newbie will rather go learn a SDK high level before. X conferences have been very small, with deep and long technical discussions in which several times hardly more than 3 persons in the room can talk about. Although these discussions are good and productive, they also tend to be boring for someone not involved in the subject. One alternative to improve this is to bring the annual conference of X.Org co-located with big events such as FOSDEM.
|* 8) The topics of an X.org trademark and a new X.org logo have been talked about since the formation of the current X.org foundation. Are these really important topics for the X.org board? What is your opinion, do you have any suggestions? *
|No, they are not important topics for the board in my opinion.
|Not really.
|To promote X.Org trademark is for sure very desired by the board. This topic is considered "important" but not "really important", I would say, so that is the reason why the current directors are not paying much attention at this moment. But then again, this is something that with just a little kick from the board, the members and the community could do the rest of the work. A more proactive director could do this.
|* 9) Coordinating Google Summer of Code is another initiative supported by the X.org board. There have also been follow-up initiatives started by the board. What is your opinion about these initiatives and their results? Any suggestions? *
|They have successfully brought new people into the community. Huge success.
|They're working well.
|I guess it is not fair to myself talk about this because I was one that got leveraged by Summer of Code within X community :) So obviously it is important to ramp up newcomers and the Foundation's Vacation of Code, although without not being that popular still, was a brilliant initiative from the board. We should advertise it better though.
|* 10) X.org hosting infrastructure has had its hiccups over the past few years. The loss of all users home directories on freedesktop.org and the breach of trust through defamation of a driver repository by former board members come to mind. What is your opinion about the current situation, how would you want to improve it? *
|Things are running fine for a volunteer organization.
|I've expressed my opinion clearly on the mailing list many times.
|The situation is not good. There are room for improvements throughout the whole infrastructure: management of machines, creation and handling of repositories, administration of accounts and all other activities. For the repositories, one problem I noticed is that freedesktopers are not seeing us with good eyes, sometimes even abandoning and going instead for gitorious, linaro.org, google, github and many others. These services mostly have the same interests in open-source and I am sure we could centralize the efforts in one single place, thus reducing the overall maintenance costs.
|* 11) The membership of the X.org foundation is not completely representative with respect to its contributing audience, and it is hard to motivate people to become a member of the X.org foundation. Some people suggest linking commit access with membership. What is your opinion, and do you have any further suggestions? *
|Having been the person approving members since the first elections process I went through as a board member, I feel that representation in the members list is in fine shape. I like the current system because it allows non-developers involvement in the foundation.
|I think linking commit access to membership is useful only in that it ties it to the legal agreement in the membership application. I see no benefit to increasing the membership solely for the point of increasing the membership. We get no real benefits from just having a larger number of members on the books.
|We are doing good already. We are trying to create a culture of development process where the "commit access" is irrelevant. There is one or a few numbers of people only responsible to the final commit; this final commit is based on the reviews that got from the mailing list by any other hacker. It's truly open and focusing in stability. So, in short, everyone should be able to create repositories at freedesktop, but patches are pushed to repositories upon review only. Membership is a bit different.
|* 12) Are there any topics that were overlooked in this questionnaire? Is there something else that you would like to talk about now and/or work on during your term on the board? *
|Pretty much covered good points. Thank you for elaborating.
|* 13) What do you think about this questionnaire? Should this initiative be repeated, and do you have any suggestions for such future repeats? *
|Way too long.
|My suggestion is that it should get opened and announced before the elections to all members discuss a bit the best questions. Also, to limit the number of questions would be better.
|* 14) How do you feel about the size of the Xorg board? Should it be changed? *
|8 is fine.
|Seems to work.
|I don't have the experience inside the board to tell this, but it seems to be working okay from outside.
|* 15) Some have argued that the current election process is flawed. Do you agree? What do you think is flawed and how can it be improved in the future? *
|Seems to work.
|It is not flawed.
|* 16) The Xorg Foundation has been working on getting 501(c)3 non-profit status for a while now. Would you be interested in getting involved with this work? *
|It is almost done from my understanding.
|All board members already are involved at some level.
|I am pretty sure there are other directors or even members with more expertize in this kind of paper work, specially the ones living in USA. If needed, I could help of course.
|* 17) It has been brought up in several board meetings that we should donate some money to the SFLC (Software Freedom Law Center) for their help various legal matters. Do you agree with this? *
|We voted on this, it was near consensus including me.
|I voted yes.
|I honestly don't see much difficulties lately happening where lawyers should be involved. But of course, both X.Org and SFLC are sister organizations and they should help each other anyway. It all depends of the current cash of Foundation.
|* 18) Non-profit corporations have certain requirements with respect to where their funding comes from depending on the type of non-profit they are. Should the Xorg Foundation actively solicit donations from the community to fund it's activities (developer conferences, travel expenses, infrastructure expenses, etc.)? *
|Unless there are legal requirements otherwise, we have had no issues with getting sufficient funding from corporate sponsors and I don't see a reason to change that.
|I don't see a need right now. The Foundation still has more money than things to fund with it.
|Other open-source organizations are doing this repeatedly. We should invest some time on it also.
|* 19) If you agree with the soliciting funding from the community, would you be interested in taking on a role to help reach that end? If so, what ideas do you have for soliciting these donations? If you don't agree, where should the Xorg foundation look to get it's funding? *
|The X.Org Foundation seems to be sufficiently funded by corporate donations at this time.
|Yes, definitely I'm willing to help. Last year, when I was trying to raise up funds from my company, I asked the Board for a formal letter that I could emit asking for budget contribution. There was none. We could start from this idea for instance.
|* 20) With new platforms such as android and programs like wayland, some would say X is becoming less relevant. Do you agree with that statement? Where do you see X going in the future? *
|X is certainly becoming less relevant in terms of linux window system marketshare. I do see X remaining relevant as a linux desktop windowing system for a long time, because it will take a long time for any competitor to catch up to the relevant features X supports.
|I see Wayland, like Xgl and similar programs in the past, as being an interesting experiment in future desktop design, and one from which we should be able to learn some things. It's too soon to tell whether it joins Xgl in the experiments that don't work out (but from which we gained valuable insights into what to do instead), or whether it turns into "X12". The X.Org Foundation is not here to promote X11 and the exact current model & implementation at the expense of all other solutions, but to research, develop, and support the window system, and that must include evolving it as necessary. This is why I asked to include Wayland in the projects eligible for the X.Org mentoring in the Google Summer of Code this year.
|X evolved a lot through the years already with its protocol extensions. Everyone is amazed to see a protocol completing one fourth of century of birthday, where initially was designed for a much simpler environment with different hardware requirements. At the same time, we haven't been deprecating unused parts of the protocol and this led us to a very big open source implementation that we have nowadays. The productization of it is not practical and the development happens quite slowly. So we have to move on and I guess that is the big technical challenge the board will have to face next. Although the Foundation states explicitly the support for X, it also supports all siblings technologies such as DRI, Mesa, Linux kernel, now Wayland and a dozen of others. So it is important to emphasize that the community remains the same, i.e., of hackers shaping the core of graphics towards a free and open-source desktop experience.
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It's pretty much a buffet of many of the lunch specials they have always offered, so you can choose as you go. The food is very good, IMO.
The addition of pad thai is nice, as that is almost never on the lunch special menu. The lunch specials are still there. That's nice if you normally have them and bring home a doggie bag, which you obviously can't do from a buffet.
But HoCo now has fast, decent Thai food for people who do not have much time for lunch. And being two blocks from a Rte. 100 on-ramp will make it convenient for many.
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An awesome old red payphone was serendipitously discovered abandoned on Grand Avenue in Oakland. Our local hero picked it up and brought it to the space.
An awesome old red payphone was serendipitously discovered abandoned on Grand Avenue in Oakland. Our local hero picked it up and brought it to the space.
We got it open to discover the following:
We got it open to discover the following:
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The payphone's number is 415-800-6786
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An awesome old red payphone was serendipitously discovered abandoned on Grand Avenue in Oakland. Our local hero picked it up and brought it to the space.
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We got it open to discover the following:
- The date of manufacture seems to be a very scribbly Aug. 1988.
- It is completely missing the coin counting and collecting mechanism.
- The keypad and hang-up switch look intact. The metal buttons on the outside actually just press against a standard little plastic keypad on the inside.
- The headset is not connected to anything, but terminates in four red, black, green and yellow wires that can be hooked up to a standard RJ11 (normal phone jack) connector.
- Out of the keypad/hang-up switch part there is a DB15 connector, equally hooked up to nothing. The assumption is that both this and the headset were connected to the coin counting mechanism which was the brains of the operation.
- We'll likely need to gut another phone for some missing parts, but how much surgery is needed will depend on what that DB15 connector can do for us. For that, we need someone to find a schematic for the pins, or someone who is a master reverse-engineer. If that's you, get to work!
Well, Seth is a master reverse-engineer, and Steen is an old school phreaker, so one long night spent on this later:
- We decoded the standard schema for DTMF that seems to apply at least to both the gutted landline phone and the payphone internals, and determined the pinouts for both the relevant bits. It turns out, a button on the keypad doesn't simply close a circuit to make a pin hot, it activates two pins, which then correspond to inputs on the DTMF encoder chip. In other words, Dual-Tone doesn't just mean the tones that are output, it also applies to the signals inside the phone circutry. Neat! So now we can connect the output pins from the payphone keypad to the DTMF inputs on the landline guts. Seth is (I think) planning on bringing in a db15 breakout box in order to manifest this. Please no one break it further before we get a chance to do so.
- We figured out the order of wires for the headset to operate, corresponding to the (somewhat arbitrary) aligator clip => rj11 cable we made for the purpose. We got this to connect to the guts of a functioning landline phone, and got a dialtone from the VoIP box, as well as a functioning mic. This mapping is complicated to format on the wiki, it's written on the inside of the old headset in sharpie. That counts as documentation.
I actually took more pictures but I strangely had a "Memory Card Error" (GRR!) and these were the two I recovered.
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Herbidacious wrote:ltc what toms are you growing this year?
scullion wrote:the spirals are the stake. .
Herbidacious wrote:Good lord, ltc. And I bet that's not one of each either!
A bit cross with Suttons that they have despatched my toms when I had arranged for them to hold off until I get back from my holiday. If they don't arrive tomorrow, they are unlikely to survive until I get back. I can ask my cat sitters to open the boxes, but not much more than that.
tbh I don't want to have to deal with them tomorrow either. I have been working 11 hour days for the last week, and although I am not prepared to do that tomorrow, I may have to work a bit late. I then need to pack, tidy, phone my mother etc. Relaxation would be nice too.
Deep breaths... rant over A bit stressed this evening. Lost network connection to work and not sure if I can get it back.
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Herbidacious wrote:ok so it's a possibility.
Herbidacious wrote:I think I may have over done the tomato plant ordering. Just realized I have 12 on order from January plus another 11... I take comfort from you ltc wondering whether to order another quadgrow though. I have four of them. They are a bit cumbersome.
Herbidacious wrote:The watering aspect daunts me, especially when on holiday. What do you do then? I don't think I can really ask my cat sitters to water 10 tomato plants. I am not sure how many plants I shall have now. I am afraid to count. But not as many as you ltc
I guess I could try and give some away.
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If you're wondering whether or not you should track your heart rate, it's worth noting that the cardio king himself doesn't wear a monitor when he works out. The accuracy of heart-rate monitors can actually be sketchy, Kahn says, as sweat and movement can affect the readings. As far as monitors attached to cardio machines go, they can be a bit awkward to use and still get a good workout—seriously, who actually holds onto the treadmill heart rate monitors when they're running?
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With one clutch swing, DeRienzo delivered the Eagles to a destination they have grown quite accustomed to reaching this time of year -- the FCIAC Tournament finals.
DeRienzo's single to right field with the bases loaded and one out in the eighth inning gave fifth-seeded Trumbull a hard-fought 5-4 comeback win over eighth-seeded Greenwich at Harbor Yard. The Eagles (16-6) earned their third consecutive trip to the conference championship game at Harbor Yard, where they will face either St. Joseph or Fairfield Warde on Saturday at noon.
Jake Levison, the No. 2 batter, reached on an infield error, Colin Keyes was intentionally walked and Avery Santos got to first on an outfield error, putting Greenwich relief pitcher Mike Genaro in a bases loaded one out jam in the bottom of the eighth. DeRienzo followed by lining a single to right field, scoring Levison with the winning run.
"It was a really nerve-wracking experience, not much was going through my head," DeRienzo said. "It was a blur I have no idea what pitch it was, I just swung and tried to hit it hard and do what I've been doing in practice. It feels great to make it to the finals again."
Levison went 2 for 3 with three RBI and Santos struck out eight in seven innings before giving way to reliever and winner Nikko Arganese in the eighth inning for Trumbull.
"Every time we come to this place it's a tight one," said Trumbull coach Phil Pacelli, whose squad beat the Cardinals in the FCIAC finals in 2012. "Both pitchers were on top of their game and it came down to timely hitting, which both teams received. They got a couple of two-out hits in the seventh inning and we had some in the eighth."
The Cardinals (14-8) received a strong performance on the mound from J.T. Hintzen. The senior right-hander registered six strikeouts and yielded just five hits in seven innings.
"J.T. has been good all year and he gave a similar type of effort today," GHS coach Phil Tarantino said. "This was a game between two similar teams. We went into extra innings, where anything can happen. Things just didn't go our way."
With the scored tied at 2-2, the Cardinals took their first lead in the sixth inning. Senior catcher Jonathan Dreher led off with a single up the middle and Jack Giuliani and Zack Monick followed with bunt singles. Leadoff hitter/right fielder Kyle Dunster's run-scoring single to left field put the Cards on top, 3-2. Trumbull rallied for two runs in the bottom of the sixth, behind an RBI double to left by Levison, who scored on a ground ball by Colin Keyes.
Dreher's run-scoring single in the top of the seventh helped the Cardinals force extra innings.
"Our motto all year has been play seven innings and leave it all out on the field," said Tarantino, whose Cardinals have lost seven one-run games. "We played an excellent game and did all we could. I'm proud of our team for battling hard to get here."
Levison's sacrifice fly gave the Eagles a 1-0 first-inning lead, but GHS tied it on Hintzen's RBI single off Santos in the third. Trumbull's center fielder also delivered in the third, driving in a run with a single, making it 2-1. Meanwhile, both pitchers effectively mixed their pitches throughout.
"I was determined to pitch as long as I could for the team, I always am," Santos said. "I was a little shaky at first, but I think I came through for our team today and we hit the ball well enough to win. We all believe in each other."
Said Pacelli: "A lot of guys from last year's team didn't play much, so I'm really happy for this team. This is their time."
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Records: Greenwich 14-8; Trumbull 16-6
Batteries: G -- J.T. Hintzen (7 IP), Mike Genaro (1 IP, LP) and Jonathan Dreher. T -- Avery Santos (7 IP), Nikko Arganese (1 IP, WP) and Carlos Garrido. Doubles: T -- Moore, Levison.


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Orange Lemonade
Total TimePrep: 15 min. + chilling Cook: 5 min. + cooling
Makes12 servings (3 quarts)
- 1-3/4 cups sugar
- 2-1/2 cups water
- 2 tablespoons grated lemon zest
- 2 tablespoons grated orange zest
- 1-1/2 cups lemon juice (about 10 lemons)
- 1-1/2 cups orange juice (about 5 oranges)
- 6 cups cold water
- In a large saucepan, combine sugar and 2-1/2 cups water; cook and stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved. Cool slightly.
- Stir in citrus zest and juices. Let stand, covered, 1 hour. Strain syrup; refrigerate, covered, until cold.
- To serve, fill glasses or pitcher with equal amounts of fruit syrup and water. Add ice and serve.
Editor's NoteEMR
Nutrition Facts1 cup: 136 calories, 0 fat (0 saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 1mg sodium, 35g carbohydrate (33g sugars, 0 fiber), 0 protein.
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May 31, 2016
My kids love lemonade so we are always willing to try different variations. This one was a real hit, it's a great balance of tangy and sweet.
Aug 30, 2012
Thanks "Travlnman02" for your wonderful input to help people with diabetis. Very helpful and taste good.
May 29, 2012
I cooked the grated peels with the sugar and water.Served it with vodka and come club soda.It was a REAL hit.
May 28, 2012
Made a batch this weekend and it was very good. Tangy and sweet. I pulled out my mother's old juice-o-matic and had a great time squeezing out all the yummy juice from the lemons and oranges. Will make another batch to keep in the fridge to make a glass at time.
May 26, 2012
I have been making lemonade like this for years. My mother made it for years before me.
May 24, 2012
i love lemonade alot as i live in india and its vry hot love to try more recipes
May 22, 2012
I did not do the cooking thing. I just put the ingredients in a pitcher and stirred until the sgar was dissolved. Did not put the lemon and orange peel in it either. VERY GOOD my way.
May 22, 2012
too much sugar...found a perfect lemonade that uses no sugar...juice 3 granny smith apples and 1/4 of a lemon.. peel and all into the juicer. Absolutley perfect and no sugar needed.
May 22, 2012
While this recipe makes an excellent drink for those without Diabetes it should not be consumed by those who are diabetic or even pre-diabetic. For those whodiabetic make this one as I do for my wife who is diabetic. Get the packets or pouches made by Crystal Light and make the drink per packet instructions. Ad a NO Sugar Added Orange Juice without pulp and then just sweeten to taste with any of the diabetic friendly sweetners. We prefer Spenda, Truvia or Stevia. You can also purchase both the Lemonade mix and an orange mix by Crystal Light that have no sugar content and mix them together and then add just water and get a delicious drink. No need to add any sweetner to this combination. Makes for variety.
May 22, 2012
KarenMessenger -- the recipe is for a syrup. You mix the syrup with water to make the lemonade as it says at the end of the direction, you mix equal parts syrup (from the recipe) and water to make the lemonade. It sounds delightful, I may have to try it! :D


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Prepare Your Home for Sleepover Kid
If you have children, there is no other way. At some point you must host a stay in a child. Does it frighten you?
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