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Brannon Braga, in Star Trek: The Magazine, has been quoted as saying, "We're also going to be doing a millenium episode that takes place completely in the year 2000 on Earth, where we get to follow Janeway's distant, distant ancestor, great-great-great-great-great-grandmother. She will be played by Kate Mulgrew, and it will be a quintessential. Star Trek story told in contemporary times." (p. 66, Issue )
First of all, *threateningly...* that's December 2000, right Brannon?
And secondly, if this is "11:59", I'm really confused. I assume the Annorax story isn't true...
*is saddened, expects a few others will be also*
------------------ "Audaces fortuna juvat." "Fortune favours the bold."
[This message was edited by Elim Garak on April 10, 1999.]
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"11:59" is 1 minute before midnight, and if it were Dec. 31st, 2000, then "11:59" would be fiting, since it would be the last minute of the millenium
This sounds crazy talk to my ears. Oooh, millennium special: Voyager crew return to LA in 2000 to catch some wicked surf and then head off to see the Experience at Las Vegas.
------------------ "Is there anyone there with a gun?" - On the Hour
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Maybe it's the saga of the Janeway of our century, battling impossible odds in an attempt to assert her authority, ditch her loser husband and get to run to be New York's senator....
Hang on, crossed wire there methinks.
------------------ "Is there anyone there with a gun?" - On the Hour
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due to the computer revolution the begining of the number line has changed from one to zero. This makes nine the last numeral in the single digits placement. This is one of the reasons why people the world over are considering the end of the millienium to be 1999 instead of 2000. Consider the hexidecimal number system. There isn't a ten. (10 equates to 16) The last digit is F, A follows 9.
Likewise babies are only one year old after that year has expired. But babies exist from the time they are born (O year) until then so its not so strange to associate Zero as a beginning.
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This reminds me of my aunt who repeatedly congratulates me to my (n+1)th birthday, when I'm getting n years old. I tried to explain her each time that what she thinks is my first birthday is actually my 0th. The church must have thought similar and thus omitted the year 0, which is the root of all our millenium problems.
Never mind.
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