The uk.media.tv.sf.startrek HTML FAQ

Three Letter (or more) Acronyms
And some actual FAQs!!!

Anyway, some TLA's you may see on the group

TOSser - A fan of the The Original Series
ToNGuer - A fan of The Next Generation
DeSigNer - A fan of DS9
DoSser - A fan of DS9
VOYeur - A fan of Voyager
BiFfer - A fan of Babylon 5, but we don't talk about that :)
TMP - The Motion Picture
TWOK - The Wrath of Khan
TSFS - The Search for Spock
TVH - The Voyage Home
TFF - The Final Frontier
TUC - The Undiscovered Country

A few FAQs

Q. Why in episode [insert name here] could they beam [insert persons here] through the shields?
A1. The scriptwriters got it wrong.
A2. They knew the command codes, or the shields were old, or ...

Q. Why do Voyagers nacelles move?
A1. It's an environmental measure, designed to minimise the amount of damage done to space-time by the Warp engines, as discovered late in TNG.
A2. It looks good.

Q. Who is

ANNA ?
A1. The official welcomer to umtss, amongst other groups.
A2. Moogi. (alleged by a certain individual by the name of

Dom ...

Q. What is EROS?
A. It's a couple of voting systems, for episodes, and for one-off questions, like "Who is your favourite Captain?". See their own FAQs for more details.

Q. What is The Shakaar Society?
A. It's a group of friends interested in Trek, see their

homepages for details.

Q. When will episode X be on TV/released on Vid/...?
A. See these pages, for

Voyager and for

Deep Space Nine.

Last Changed: Tuesday 27th August 1996

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