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#236 From: Melissa McMahan <greenwaterpurpledirt@...>
Date: Sat Sep 1, 2001 7:18 am
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#235 From: "Andjam" <andjamgeo@...>
Date: Wed Aug 29, 2001 1:55 am
Subject: Re: [DisTexters] 101 Undiagnosed Celebrities with AS
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> http://www.webspawner.com/users/asperger/top101.html
>
> I don't know that many of them, but it's an interesting read.
>

I'm not sure about most of them. (S)he seems to be using AS
interchangibly with "pain in the neck". One person speculated that
Larry Ellison had ADHD, and I'd readily interchange that with the
other category. :P

I'd agree with the diagnosis of Reg Hollis from "The Bill".

About Twinky-Winky: another case of interchangibility of
homosexuality and AS. One web site speculated that Jar Jar Binks
is gay, and I've speculated that Jace may have AS. Virginia Carper
also noted the similarities between Jace and Joxer.

> Jenn

Andjam

#234 From: Jennifer Brouillard <jbrouillard@...>
Date: Tue Aug 28, 2001 11:33 pm
Subject: 101 Undiagnosed Celebrities with AS
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http://www.webspawner.com/users/asperger/top101.html

I don't know that many of them, but it's an interesting read.

Jenn

#233 From: "Melissa Kay McMahan" <greenwaterpurpledirt@...>
Date: Fri Jun 8, 2001 3:50 am
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Hello all. Just want to see if anyone is still here or not? Bye,
Melissa McMahan

#232 From: "Andjam" <andjamgeo@...>
Date: Mon May 7, 2001 2:50 pm
Subject: Re: [DisTexters] Xena's road to recovery from broken legs
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Subject:         Re: [DisTexters] Xena's road to recovery from broken legs

> Ah, Andjam -- you have never read Robert Maruo's

(Mauro, not Maruo for those interested in doing a web search)

> book "Real Crip Sex"?

Not yet.

> Maruo, who has post-polio syndrome, has self-published a book for folks
> with physical disabilities on how to have sex.  No legs, one leg, etc.

It didn't happen to mention horse-back did it?

> Yes, you can have doggie-sex if your legs are not working too well -- just
> need to have your knees be stable.

Doggy-style probably wouldn't help if the injury was above the
knee, but odds are the injury was below the knee, right?

> I believe that Lao Ma cured Xena before the Adventures episodes.

Thanks.

> Virginia

Andjam

#231 From: <carperv@...>
Date: Mon May 7, 2001 2:19 pm
Subject: Re: [DisTexters] Xena's road to recovery from broken legs
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Ah, Andjam -- you have never read Robert Maruo's book "Real Crip Sex"?  Maruo, who has post-polio syndrome, has self-published a book for folks with physical disabilities on how to have sex.  No legs, one leg, etc.  Yes, you can have doggie-sex if your legs are not working too well -- just need to have your knees be stable.

I believe that Lao Ma cured Xena before the Adventures episodes.
Virginia


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Spoiler space for flashback eps

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In AIST2, Xena spies upon a naked Amazon.
http://whoosh.org/issue37/diaz2.html and one commentary for the
episode liked Xena doing this, and the other commentaries were
neutral (ie there were no negative comments). A bit different to the
reaction to Joxer spying on semi-naked Amazons.

Was Xena able-bodied in that ep?

I think Kym interpreted my reference to a sex scene between Xena
and Borias as referring to the horse-back scene in The Debt (the
horse-back scene was in The Debt, wasn't it?).

But they also had sex in AIST1. Was Xena able-bodied at that
stage? (Would someone with bad legs be more likely or less likely
to have sex doggy-style?)

Andjam

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#230 From: "johnny r davis" <joxerclone@...>
Date: Sat May 5, 2001 7:51 pm
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#228 From: "Andjam" <andjamgeo@...>
Date: Mon Apr 30, 2001 1:17 am
Subject: Xena's road to recovery from broken legs
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Spoiler space for flashback eps

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a
k
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A
m
a
z
o
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In AIST2, Xena spies upon a naked Amazon.
http://whoosh.org/issue37/diaz2.html and one commentary for the
episode liked Xena doing this, and the other commentaries were
neutral (ie there were no negative comments). A bit different to the
reaction to Joxer spying on semi-naked Amazons.

Was Xena able-bodied in that ep?

I think Kym interpreted my reference to a sex scene between Xena
and Borias as referring to the horse-back scene in The Debt (the
horse-back scene was in The Debt, wasn't it?).

But they also had sex in AIST1. Was Xena able-bodied at that
stage? (Would someone with bad legs be more likely or less likely
to have sex doggy-style?)

Andjam

#227 From: "Andjam" <andjamgeo@...>
Date: Tue Apr 24, 2001 1:18 am
Subject: RE: [DisTexters] Kym questions the existance of ablism
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Subject:         RE: [DisTexters] Kym questions the existance of ablism

> Remember on Whoosh when Thelonius said he did not know what "ablism" was and
> doubted whether it was a word?

Yep.

> I don't think people would know the meaning,
> so I think Kym's suggestion is a good one.

We already provided a definition!

> Even my unabridged dictionary
> doesn't contain the word.  (Yet it does contain a dictionary definition for
> "homophobia".)

I suppose it would depend to an extent on when it was written.
Really old dictionaries don't have either, more recent ones would
mention homophobia, and recent ones (perhaps more recent than
the ADA) would have both.

> Jenn

Andjam

#226 From: Jennifer Brouillard <jbrouillard@...>
Date: Mon Apr 23, 2001 8:02 pm
Subject: RE: [DisTexters] Kym questions the existance of ablism
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Remember on Whoosh when Thelonius said he did not know what "ablism" was and
doubted whether it was a word?  I don't think people would know the meaning,
so I think Kym's suggestion is a good one.  Even my unabridged dictionary
doesn't contain the word.  (Yet it does contain a dictionary definition for
"homophobia".)

Jenn

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Subject: [DisTexters] Kym questions the existance of ablism

... The word that is, not the ideology. :P

Kym has asked me to put in a dictionary reference that refers to
the word "ablism" was.
We may as well also include a dictionary reference to the word
"homophobia". (Otherwise, my article would appear to be pitched
at those who know what homophobia means but not what ablism
means)

Andjam

#225 From: "Andjam" <andjamgeo@...>
Date: Fri Apr 20, 2001 4:10 pm
Subject: Kym questions the existance of ablism
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... The word that is, not the ideology. :P

Kym has asked me to put in a dictionary reference that refers to
the word "ablism".

We may as well also include a dictionary reference to the word
"homophobia". (Otherwise, my article would appear to be pitched
at those who know what homophobia means but not what ablism
means)

Andjam

#224 From: <carperv@...>
Date: Thu Apr 19, 2001 3:07 pm
Subject: RE: [DisTexters] Handedness in fiction
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My answers are inside the text.



 handedness genetically or socially determined?
Genetically determined.  They studied tools of early man which lead
folks to believe that he was left-handed. Lefties have better survival
rates in the natural world.  Their brains can reconnect and retool
better than a right handed. Later when handedness wasn't needed for
survival, more right handers survived.  Later, it became a dominant
gene.  Then handedness became socially determined and then right
handedness became needed for survival.  They burned lefties during the
Middle Ages for being servants of the Devil.

****
So in a sense it is a mixture of both genetics and culture, right?

Which reminds me: it's interesting to note that the word "right" itself has
become synonymous with "correct".


----> RIGHT!

However, in
the U.S., if you use both hands, you have to choose to be right handed
for purposes of education.

****
What?!  I thought that stuff ended in the 1960s!  My best friend is
ambidextrous and he didn't have that problem in our public school career
(1980-1993).  He did notice at an early age, however, that writing with his
right hand was more comfortable for him, so maybe that had something to do
with it?  Every now and then though he'd switch back to writing with his
left hand, but he mostly wrote with his right and I don't remember anyone
ever pressuring him to be right handed.  (Maybe because he usually wrote
with his right?)

My grandfather was left handed and he used to get hit by the nuns for
writing with his left hand.  He was stubborn though and resisted, until he
broke his left arm when he fell climbing a tree.  He learned to write with
his right hand, and after that he felt it wasn't worth the struggle fighting
the nuns.

My mother felt some stigma growing up as a leftie.  Some kids would look at
her funny when she would write with her left hand, and teachers would say on
the first day of school, "Oh, you are one of THOSE."  And it was a pain for
her in uni sitting at those desks that were designed to support right elbows
and arms.  On the other hand (pun intended), she is extremely talented
musically, while her right handed siblings are not, and her left handedness
might have something to do with that.

Virginia, did you face any stigma growing up as a leftie?

-----> Actually, the stress to write right-handed is alive and well in the U.S at least in the South.  I am self taught in cursive writing.  The teacher sat me in a corner with a writing booklet and told me to teach myself.  My handwriting is really bad but I can print really well. ;)
        Stigma?  Well, most of the folks in my family are lefties, so we provided a united front to a right-handed world.  But, I got laughed at for doing everything backwards and being clumsy.
BTW, President Gerald Ford, a famous lefty, was stigmatized because his natural inclination was to turn left, a no-no in international protocol.  You have turn right, look right, etc.  Reagan and Bush got around this by having the Secret Service position themselves to that they couldn't turn left and had to turn right.  If you watch old film of them, you can see how they turn then 'right' themselves.
****

My son uses both hands but was told to write
with his right hand so his speech would be clear.  Speech difficulties
and left-handiness go hand in hand. :)

****
So I'm assuming he has or had speech difficulties?  I can understand the
thought processes behind the suggestion- the writing encourages fine motor
control signals in the left brain, which also controls speech and movement.
But to tell someone they HAVE to is just wrong.


--------> I know.  But it was explained that if he used both hands, his brain would be mixed up.


Yours in Leftness,
Virginia, unreconstructed leftie.




#223 From: Melissa McMahan <greenwaterpurpledirt@...>
Date: Thu Apr 19, 2001 1:37 pm
Subject: RE: [DisTexters] Handedness in fiction
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Funny thing about the so called "DARK AGES" which
happened after the fall of the Roman, Egypt and other
highly advanced empires. People became very
superstious and paranoid about everything under the
sun. It makes you wonder what would happen if America
and the other super powers fell doesn't it? History
does often repeat it's self. Something to think about
anyway. Love, M.Mc
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#222 From: Jennifer Brouillard <jbrouillard@...>
Date: Tue Apr 17, 2001 6:30 pm
Subject: RE: [DisTexters] Handedness in fiction
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> About handedness, there have been studies which show that early man
was
> left-handed, during the Greco-Roman time - shifted towards
right-handed,
> and by the Dark Ages, right handedness was the dominant trait.  So any
> fiction set during Xena's time would left and right handers evenly
> divided.

Is handedness genetically or socially determined?
Genetically determined.  They studied tools of early man which lead
folks to believe that he was left-handed. Lefties have better survival
rates in the natural world.  Their brains can reconnect and retool
better than a right handed. Later when handedness wasn't needed for
survival, more right handers survived.  Later, it became a dominant
gene.  Then handedness became socially determined and then right
handedness became needed for survival.  They burned lefties during the
Middle Ages for being servants of the Devil.

****
So in a sense it is a mixture of both genetics and culture, right?

Which reminds me: it's interesting to note that the word "right" itself has
become synonymous with "correct".
****

> As for left-handedness, because the modern world is structured toward
> right-handedness, the lefties die younger from accidents.  However, in
> during the recent U.S. elections, most of the Presidential candidates
and
> Presidents were lefties -- Bush (both), Clinton, Ford, Carter, and
Reagan.
>  They were tall too.  Maybe being tall and left-handed is a
requirement
> for being U.S. President. ;)

I thought that Bush junior wasn't, though his father is left handed,
and that the other 3 primary candidates (McCain, Gore, the other
democrat candidate) were left-handed.

Bush junior uses both hands.  Having a left handed father, Bush Jr.
probably ended using his left hand more than most folks.

****
I'm right handed, but growing up I used my left hand often because my mom is
left handed and all her kitchen tools were left handed.

When I was bored during classes in high school, I used to practice writing
with my left hand, but it's not much better than fourth grade penmanship.
****

However, in
the U.S., if you use both hands, you have to choose to be right handed
for purposes of education.

****
What?!  I thought that stuff ended in the 1960s!  My best friend is
ambidextrous and he didn't have that problem in our public school career
(1980-1993).  He did notice at an early age, however, that writing with his
right hand was more comfortable for him, so maybe that had something to do
with it?  Every now and then though he'd switch back to writing with his
left hand, but he mostly wrote with his right and I don't remember anyone
ever pressuring him to be right handed.  (Maybe because he usually wrote
with his right?)

My grandfather was left handed and he used to get hit by the nuns for
writing with his left hand.  He was stubborn though and resisted, until he
broke his left arm when he fell climbing a tree.  He learned to write with
his right hand, and after that he felt it wasn't worth the struggle fighting
the nuns.

My mother felt some stigma growing up as a leftie.  Some kids would look at
her funny when she would write with her left hand, and teachers would say on
the first day of school, "Oh, you are one of THOSE."  And it was a pain for
her in uni sitting at those desks that were designed to support right elbows
and arms.  On the other hand (pun intended), she is extremely talented
musically, while her right handed siblings are not, and her left handedness
might have something to do with that.

Virginia, did you face any stigma growing up as a leftie?
****

My son uses both hands but was told to write
with his right hand so his speech would be clear.  Speech difficulties
and left-handiness go hand in hand. :)

****
So I'm assuming he has or had speech difficulties?  I can understand the
thought processes behind the suggestion- the writing encourages fine motor
control signals in the left brain, which also controls speech and movement.
But to tell someone they HAVE to is just wrong.
****

Yours in Leftness,
Virginia, unreconstructed leftie.

****
Jenn
rightie with some leftie tendencies

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Date: Tue Apr 17, 2001 2:22 pm
Subject: Re: [DisTexters] Handedness in fiction
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> About handedness, there have been studies which show that early man was
> left-handed, during the Greco-Roman time - shifted towards right-handed,
> and by the Dark Ages, right handedness was the dominant trait.  So any
> fiction set during Xena's time would left and right handers evenly
> divided.

Is handedness genetically or socially determined?
Genetically determined.  They studied tools of early man which lead folks to believe that he was left-handed. Lefties have better survival rates in the natural world.  Their brains can reconnect and retool better than a right handed. Later when handedness wasn't needed for survival, more right handers survived.  Later, it became a dominant gene.  Then handedness became socially determined and then right handedness became needed for survival.  They burned lefties during the Middle Ages for being servants of the Devil.

> As for left-handedness, because the modern world is structured toward
> right-handedness, the lefties die younger from accidents.  However, in
> during the recent U.S. elections, most of the Presidential candidates and
> Presidents were lefties -- Bush (both), Clinton, Ford, Carter, and Reagan.
>  They were tall too.  Maybe being tall and left-handed is a requirement
> for being U.S. President. ;)

I thought that Bush junior wasn't, though his father is left handed,
and that the other 3 primary candidates (McCain, Gore, the other
democrat candidate) were left-handed.


Bush junior uses both hands.  Having a left handed father, Bush Jr. probably ended using his left hand more than most folks.  However, in the U.S., if you use both hands, you have to choose to be right handed for purposes of education.  My son uses both hands but was told to write with his right hand so his speech would be clear.  Speech difficulties and left-handiness go hand in hand. :)

Yours in Leftness,
Virginia, unreconstructed leftie.


#220 From: "Andjam" <andjamgeo@...>
Date: Tue Apr 17, 2001 1:58 pm
Subject: Re: Handedness in fiction
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> "There is one thing I forgot to tell you - I'm not left handed" - The
> Princess Bride.
>
> There are estimates that about 1 in 10 people are left handed. Is
> this reflected in fiction? Are left-handers required to act as right-
> handers or vice versa? Are left-handed actors discriminated
> against?
>
> In many sporting areas (baseball, tennis AFAIK), left-handers have
> an edge and are well represented because most people (including
> left-handers themselves) are more familiar with playing against a
> right-handed player. Would this also be the case with fighting
> prowess? If so, wouldn't that make lack of representation of left-
> handers in fiction involving successful fighters more anomolous?
> (Though a character being successful due to handedness rather
> than having extra skills up one's sleeve may be boring).

I had a look at http://www.usopen.org/bios/top20.html and only 3 of
the top 20 men and women combined were left-handed - if
anything, a marginal under-representation of left-handers.

Not a good start...

Andjam

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> About handedness, there have been studies which show that early man was
> left-handed, during the Greco-Roman time - shifted towards right-handed,
> and by the Dark Ages, right handedness was the dominant trait.  So any
> fiction set during Xena's time would left and right handers evenly
> divided.

Is handedness genetically or socially determined?

> As for left-handedness, because the modern world is structured toward
> right-handedness, the lefties die younger from accidents.  However, in
> during the recent U.S. elections, most of the Presidential candidates and
> Presidents were lefties -- Bush (both), Clinton, Ford, Carter, and Reagan.
>  They were tall too.  Maybe being tall and left-handed is a requirement
> for being U.S. President. ;)

I thought that Bush junior wasn't, though his father is left handed,
and that the other 3 primary candidates (McCain, Gore, the other
democrat candidate) were left-handed.

> The only historical recorded lefty of Xena's time is Caesar, Julius
> Caesar.

I guess Carl didn't get that detail right either. :P

> Yours in left handedness,
> Virginia Carper

Andjam

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About handedness, there have been studies which show that early man was left-handed, during the Greco-Roman time - shifted towards right-handed, and by the Dark Ages, right handedness was the dominant trait.  So any fiction set during Xena's time would left and right handers evenly divided.

As for left-handedness, because the modern world is structured toward right-handedness, the lefties die younger from accidents.  However, in during the recent U.S. elections, most of the Presidential candidates and Presidents were lefties -- Bush (both), Clinton, Ford, Carter, and Reagan.  They were tall too.  Maybe being tall and left-handed is a requirement for being U.S. President. ;)

The only historical recorded lefty of Xena's time is Caesar, Julius Caesar.

Yours in left handedness,
Virginia Carper


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"There is one thing I forgot to tell you - I'm not left handed" - The
Princess Bride.

There are estimates that about 1 in 10 people are left handed. Is
this reflected in fiction? Are left-handers required to act as right-
handers or vice versa? Are left-handed actors discriminated
against?

In many sporting areas (baseball, tennis AFAIK), left-handers have
an edge and are well represented because most people (including
left-handers themselves) are more familiar with playing against a
right-handed player. Would this also be the case with fighting
prowess? If so, wouldn't that make lack of representation of left-
handers in fiction involving successful fighters more anomolous?
(Though a character being successful due to handedness rather
than having extra skills up one's sleeve may be boring).

Most of the characters in XWP are right-handed, aren't they? What
about the actors / actresses for XWP?

Have they misrepresented any historical characters with respect to
handedness? :P

Andjam

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#217 From: "Andjam" <andjamgeo@...>
Date: Sun Apr 15, 2001 11:00 am
Subject: Handedness in fiction
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"There is one thing I forgot to tell you - I'm not left handed" - The
Princess Bride.

There are estimates that about 1 in 10 people are left handed. Is
this reflected in fiction? Are left-handers required to act as right-
handers or vice versa? Are left-handed actors discriminated
against?

In many sporting areas (baseball, tennis AFAIK), left-handers have
an edge and are well represented because most people (including
left-handers themselves) are more familiar with playing against a
right-handed player. Would this also be the case with fighting
prowess? If so, wouldn't that make lack of representation of left-
handers in fiction involving successful fighters more anomolous?
(Though a character being successful due to handedness rather
than having extra skills up one's sleeve may be boring).

Most of the characters in XWP are right-handed, aren't they? What
about the actors / actresses for XWP?

Have they misrepresented any historical characters with respect to
handedness? :P

Andjam

#216 From: Jennifer Brouillard <jbrouillard@...>
Date: Mon Mar 26, 2001 6:11 pm
Subject: A correction about my status with the All Joxer Whoosh issue
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I just wanted to announce to everyone that I have been mistaken in thinking
that I am a guest editor for the All Joxer Whoosh issue, due out next
Sunday.  I learned a few days ago that I was not nor ever was.  I wanted to
let you know in case you look for such a credit, since you will not find
one.  Kym has offered to mention me in her editorial, however- so the work
I've done will receive an acknowledgement.

Many of you know about the many hours I've put in to recruit and edit
articles for this issue.  Many of you also know that this issue wouldn't be
happening if Joxer fans didn't organize and come together to write enough
articles and submit them together for an issue.  We've succeeded in this and
we all should be proud of our effort.  I know I am.  It's better than any
acknowledgement.

So please, remember to check the edition out.  The 11 articles that I
recruited and helped edit are top-quality, pro-Joxer pieces.  Please support
these authors for their hard work if they receive jeers for their pro-Joxer
stance.

Jenn

#215 From: Melissa McMahan <greenwaterpurpledirt@...>
Date: Tue Mar 20, 2001 2:57 pm
Subject: OT: First part of my cartoon script
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(S.F.X.) Heartbeat. (B & W) Close up of a crescent
moon, errie clouds looming around it.

TITLE OVER MOON: Rumble High.

Bleak sea waves crash rocks on the shore.

TONYA: (V.O.) My name is Tonya Nimon. Night grows ever
shorter as I lay here in this dorm, dreaming the same
nightmare. Night after night since it happened. There
are no limits to what some people will do, they sink
to the lowest depts of evil. Unthinkable acts to most
human beings are indulged in by some. They leave
behind only death and the shattered lifes of the
survivors, if you could call this survival.

{DREAM IMAGES} Tonya stands on a balcony over looking
the rage of the sea in her dream, she's wearing a long
black gown. A shadow of a man with a knife comes up
behind her, as the knife comes down towards her the
heartbeat stops. Dramatic silence gives way to a
spooky opera type singing in the back ground as she
tries to run from the mans shadow.

TONYA: (V.O.) In my dream I always stare into the cold
dark eyes of the man who murdered my parents and I run
but I'm helpless as he kills me with the same way as
he killed them.

Tonya falls down as the shadow of the mans image.
Tonya cries out as footfalls grow closer.

TITLE OVER THE WAVES: Reurrection of Family Bonds.

The title drains into the waves as black and white
bleeds to color.

Tonya wakes up with a heavy gasp. A girl in the bunk
above her looks down at Tonya, it's obvious these two
don't like each other. Other girls are getting dressed
in the drom room.

LAURA: Ahem? (Irritated) What's your problem?

TONYA: (Dryly) Well for one thing having to wake up to
your ugly mug every morning.

LAURA: That does it! (Tosses a pillow at Tonya's head)


TONYA: Eh! (Tossing the pillow to the floor) Don't you
ever wash your sheets?

LAURA: Oh get up, bitch, I'm gonna kick your ass!

Tonya stands up and so does Laura.

TONYA: Yeah and if you keep it up I'll show you just
what a real bitch I can be. (Laura makes a fist) Don't
tempt me, skank.

Laura growls as she jumps up and lunges at Tonya but
she tosses the girl away from her like a rag doll. The
other girls just look on.

LAURA: Dammit! (Picks up a baseball bat in rage) I
will kill you!

Laura tries to hit Tonya with the bat but she chokes
slams Laura to the floor.

TONYA: Hum. (Yawns) Anybody else here wanna try to
screw with me?

KATE: We know better. (To the other girls) Let's just
go eat.

The other girls go about their business, as Tonya
kicks Laura onto her back. She then starts to get
dressed in her uniform herself. Then they all dressed
in the same uniform, as they eat at long tables. Tonya
walks in with her uniform but she's got on boots and
other accessories with it, she gets her tray. She
looks at the food and makes a face. Then she looks at
the fat, ugly lunch lady with a hair net over that
hangs over her forehead.

TONYA: I'll have some of the slop in that first pan
you got there. (Sarcasm) It's only the only thing that
looks like it was once food. (The lunch lady spoons
some on her tray) I take it the green and orange
things here were once... Hum, peas and carrots?

LUNCH LADY: Yes. (Points to another tray) You want the
meat dish, sunshine?

TONYA: Prime cut? (Scoffs) I can tell by the hoofs?
(Rasies an eyebrow) I'll pass.

Tonya takes a juice and sits at one of the tables, she
starts eating.

FULL FRAME TITLE: Crash Course.

Tonya sits on a park table outside in the recreational
area of the school. Above her 2 women look at her from
a second story window.

WOMAN: She's shows classic abandonment anger issues.
(Sighs) She is defiant, stubborn and at times sullen.
(Pauses) She's full of rage, so much so the other
girls fear her.

MARILYN: She's the picture of sadness. It has been
only six weeks since my sister and her husband were
killed. (Sighs) I'm not dealing with the loss well
myself since I haven't talked to my sister in awhile.
(Pauses) It still can't be as awful as what Tonya is
going through.

WOMAN: It's not my business to pry that deeply into
your personal life, Dr Nimon. (Clears her throat)
Unless you were to refect your estanged feelings for
your sister onto her child.

MARILYN: No it's not her fault. (Sighs) Besides that I
know she's been through enough in her short life. My
husband is dead as well and Allison... (Pauses) My
child is about the same age as Tonya and I feel that
they might help each other out with their problems.

WOMAN: You are the best member of the her true family
to take care of her and she needs family ties. (Taps a
file on her desk) She needs to learn to cope with her
loss, because she hasn't been. (Opens the file) She's
in a deep state of denial, she is very defensive if
you try to get her to open up about her true feelings.
(Sighs) She is very tough but there is a soft side to
her, I know I've seen it. (Pauses) There's a stray cat
she has been feeding.

MARILYN: I see. Well how soon can I take her home?

WOMAN: Now if you want.

MARILYN: I'll take her now then.

FULL FRAME TITLE: Walking on Broken Eggshells.

Marilyn walks into the dorm room where Tonya is
looking out a window at the moon.

TONYA: If you're a reporter, go to hell. (Turns to
face Marilyn) I'm not talking, got it?

MARILYN: Tonya, I'm your aunt Marlilyn.

TONYA: Aunt Marilyn? (Marilyn nods) The last time I
saw you I was five. You and my mother had some sort of
fight. (Looking away) Let me guess, guilt has cault up
to you since she and my father were butchered?

MARILYN: Tonya please?

TONYA: I heard you two yelling and all I heard was
that my mother did something to you. (Crosses her
arms) Something you couldn't forgive her for.

MARILYN: Look Tonya, all I will tell you is that it
was that bad but I still love my sister. (Pauses) Even
in death I hold a place in my heart for her and for
you.

TONYA: You don't even know me. (Scoffs) So what do you
want from me?

MARILYN: Fine vert your anger at me if you want. You
have two choices, either stay here or come live with
me and your cousin Allison.

TONYA: I can't stay here but if I come with you there
are a few things we have to clear up.

MARILYN: We will in time. (Smiles) Can I help you
pack?

TONYA: Most of my things are in storage after the
house was sold, because I didn't want anything good
stolen from me. As it is some of my clothes have come
up missing here.

Tonya picks up a large bag and stuffs it full of her
things.

MARILYN: We've been moving into her grandfather's
house this week.

TONYA: So one more isn't going to matter, huh?

FULL FRAME TITLE: Detachment.

Marilyn comes into the house, her father in law and
Allison are sitting in the living room.

ALLISON: Mom? (Stands up) How did it go?

MARILYN: She be right in.

Allison gives Tonya a huge hug when she walks in with
her bag in hand.

ALLISON: I'm glad you decided to live with us.

TONYA: You can stop hugging me now, little Miss Mary
Sunshine. (Allison backs off) I'm only here because I
my only other choice was that dorm, so lets take it a
tad slower.

MARILYN: I think you should show Tonya the bedroom you
two will share.

TONYA: There are only three bedrooms in this house?
(Rude) I take it is a little too much to ask for my
own room?

MARILYN: If there was one of course but sorry there
isn't another one.

TONYA: Were am I going to put all my stuff and the
stuff my parents had in our old house? It's in
storage. (Pauses) I don't know where it's all going to
fit in this house.

MARILYN: We'll put it in storage over the garage.

TONYA: Over the garage? (Allison points out the
window) Is that a garage apartment? (Allison nods)
Great then I can move in there and you can have your
room all to yourself.

MARILYN: I don't know about that Tonya, it's been
unused for years and I'd worry.

GRAMPA: Well why can't she use it? (Hacks) The
neighbors have two kids living in theirs and it ani't
even as big as that one. (Pauses) Hell why don't you
let them both live out there?

MARILYN: Well I was going to use part of it as an
office but if you girls wanna live out there. (Sighs)
I guess I can take your room for my office, Allison.

TONYA: Don't worry about us being alone out there.
(Pauses) I'll have a security and fire alarm put in.
(Scoffs) I also know Martial arts and other types of
hand to hand combat.

MARILYN: You do?

ALLISON: You mean like a Ninja Warrior or something?

TONYA: I don't have a crew of people adding camera
tricks for me if that's what you mean.

GRAMPA: (Laughing) You're all right kid.

MARILYN: There's some cleaning products in the
kitchen.

TONYA: You're about as subtile as a wild elephant in a
glass shop.

FULL FRAME TITLE: Scene of the Grime.

In the bathroom Tonya tosses an empty container in the
trash, as Allison walks in.

TONYA: That can of bathroom cleaner says it works
harder than you. (Scoffs) I've scrubbed, shined,
disinfected and deodorized. (Sits on the toilet lid)
All it did was bubble.

ALLISON: I can't believe you got all that gross mold
and mildew that was in here.

TONYA: You didn't see the worst of it, trust me.

ALLISON: It couldn't of been as bad as what was in the
refrgerator.

TONYA: I'm sure I don't want to know. (Yawns) How
about we hit the hay soon?

ALLISON: After I clean myself I'll make a space on the
floor for us to sleep.

TONYA: Yeah, the rest of this place can wait.

FULL FRAME TITLE: Reptile Lullaby.

Darkened room Allison sleeps peaceful on the floor
next to Tonya who isn't when she wakes them both up
with a hard scary gasp. Allison turns on the light as
she looks over at her.

ALLISON: Are you ok?

TONYA: It's nothing. (Pauses) Just a bad dream, that's
all.

ALLISON: Do you want to talk about it?

TONYA: It was dream, it's not real. (Rolls over)
Forget about and go back to sleep.

ALLISON: Suit yourself. (Turns off the light) Good
night.

TONYA: Yeah. (Sighs) Do you know what your mother and
my mother had a fight about?

ALLISON: I've always wondered about that myself.

TONYA: It must of been something really awful for two
sisters to stop talking for so long.

ALLISON: Cousin for what it's worth I'm sorry they
did.

TONYA: For what it's worth I think your mom feels even
more guilty about it since I saw her at the funerals
of my parents.

ALLISON: She wouldn't let me go for some reason.

TONYA: That's odd. (Yawns) Oh my, I think we need to
go back to sleep, huh?

ALLISON: Ok. (Sighs) Tonya? (Pauses) Sweet dreams
cousin.

{BLACK AND WHITE DREAM FLASH BACK}

Silence as a cemetery fades in, the funeral scene of
mourns becomes clearer and the peacher gives his
service. Silence gives slowly to the slight sound of
clock sounds. Tonya with two white flowers in hand,
looks over at her aunt Marilyn. Then she steps in
between her parents two coffins being lowered into the
ground she tosses the flowers on into each grave. The
wind blows her hair back, then rain starts falling.
The scene fades out.


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#214 From: Melissa McMahan <greenwaterpurpledirt@...>
Date: Tue Mar 20, 2001 2:48 pm
Subject: OT: Rewrite of Chapter 1 & 2
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Commuting Earth © - By Melissa McMahan

Introduction: This script is a total creative and
origial science fiction, outer space adventure after
humans centuries into the future have moved from the
Earth to other planets on other solar systems. At this
point they have the technology to move planets which a
female scientist and a small group of starship
officers come back to the empty cradle of mankind to
to do before it's solar system dies. Liza Halpin the
scientist wishes to make the Earth and it's moon into
museums else where in space. But they soon find that
the Earth still has a few mysteries and dangers left
to unfold. Thus their adventure home becomes an odd
drama to the troubles Earthlings cause themselfs, no
matter how advanced they become.

Open with the United States flag, to the earth rise
shot from the suface on the moon.

CHAPTER 1 - PART 1: Sometime in the future of mankind.


SCENE A1: Wind blows sand across the top edge of
Stonehenge. Then the Mount Rushmore.

NARRATOR: The time came when the once rich resources
of earth.

SCENE A2: Sea tides spashing rocks, clouds rolling and
so on.

NARRATOR: Became too exausted for the ever growing
population of human life.

SCENE A3: Stock footage of cities. Cars, smokestacks
and so on.

NARRATOR: It didn't take long before the earth became
polluted beyond repair.

SCENE A4: Future dome where a family looks out the
window at workers outside with a type of protective
wear on.

NARRATOR: Then a century later humans found new plants
to live on leaving the old one void of most of it's
life, even from the depths of the ocean. Or so it was
writen in the history books but as we all know the
pages of history are all to often writen by the
deceptive hand of humans.

SCENE A5: The Earth spins.

NARRATOR: Many centuries later Earth faces it's last
hope of survival before the solar system dies
forever...

FULL FRAME TITLE: Commuting Earth

A spaceship comes towards the Earth. (Credits and
theme song start here) A woman gets out of bed and
looks out her porthole at the earth, her door chimes.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Open door. (Another woman walks
inside) What a beautiful home we once had.

LIZA HALPIN: You're too much of a romantic, Captain.
(Scoffs) You didn't study the facts of Earths histroy
either or you'd know better than to spout such flowery
absurdity.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Look whos talking? (Chuckles)
The woman who wants to move the whole thing to save it
for the future of mankind.

LIZA HALPIN: Just because I want to save it doesn't
mean I think of it as you do. (Looking out the
porthole) No it's not the future of mankind, it's our
past. (Sighs) It holds the dead ashes of times long
past and we my dear captain. (Puts her hand on the
captains shoulder) We are no more than grave robbers.
(Smurks) I'll be on deck if you care to join the rest
of us. (Walks towards the door) Adios.

The spaceship lands and the crew gets out along with
Liza who looks around. The first officer has a device
that beeps.

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: I'm reading something...
(Shocked) No it can't be!

LIZA HALPIN: Well what is it?

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: Human life.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Why that's absurd! (Grabs
Officer Lofton shoulders) Get a hold of yourself
soldier!

LIZA HALPIN: She means don't crack up in frount of a
civilian scientist.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Look we're the only humans who
have been on Earth for centuries.

LIZA HALPIN: Or so we've been told.

OMRI MATRIKA: Ah, it is laughable to believe
otherwise. (Liza points in his face) Well it is.

LIZA HALPIN: It used to be laughable that man could
sail around the world without falling off the edge of
it too, Omri.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: She has a point.

LIZA HALPIN: I wasn't talking to you and if I ever
find myself in such despair to want your opinion, I'll
beat it out of you.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Enough of this child like
behavior!

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: I'm telling you there are
living human beings here.

OMRI MATRIKA: That's crazy talk. When people left here
the air and water was so polluted that...

LIZA HALPIN: Yes we know. (Sighs) But...

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: But nothing! Look let me make
myself clear to you. You are working my last nerve as
it is.

LIZA HALPIN: Excuse me Captain. It's my turn to make
myself clear to you as well. (Smug) I'm not a member
of your little costume club here, so I couldn't care
less if I'm on your last nerve or not. And just for
the record you need to put in a request at once to
remove that huge stick you got up your backside.

The Captain slaps Liza across her face which is
returned in full by Liza to the Captain.

OMRI MATRIKA: Ladies please? (Sighs) This is no way
for either of you to act.

LIEUTENANT CHEN SHING: True they should be rolling in
the mud tearing each others clothes off.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: Yeah a cat fight.
(Lustfully) Meow!

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Anymore more remarks made by
this crew like that and you all go on report.

Liza Halpin takes the beeping device away from the
first officer and the gasps opon looking at it.

LIZA HALPIN: Captain Falk? (Shows the reading to the
Captain) Look!

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: But why would they leave anyone
behind?

LIZA HALPIN: That's what I'd like to know.

CHAPTER 1 - PART 2: Human relics.

As the small crew group makes their way towards a tree
line a drak figure watches them. As they walk along
Jake trips on a stake in the ground causing a hanging
net tree trap to catch them.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: What the hell? (Grunts) Someone
get us out of here!

Omri blast the ropes holding themwith a laser pen
device and they drop to the ground like a stone.
Everyone upset at Omri talks at once in protest of how
he freed them. They are too busy with that to notice
that they are surrounded by ancient looking warriors
with swords and other sharp objects. Until the Captain
is grabbed by one of the big men.

OMRI MATRIKA: Unhand her!

Omri rushes the man but is stopped by others in this
group who point their sharp weapons at him and the
others. Meanwhile Liza kicks back in the starship
listening to somesort of futurist music. Dark and
bleak tempo, a cross between heavy metal and the
composer Chopin.

LIZA HALPIN: Computer? (The computer beeps) Do you
have any earth music on file?

COMPUTER: That file contains a rage of files starting
with the complete works of composers from the
classical music era...

LIZA HALPIN: Halt. (The computer beeps) You got any
Rock music from the 20th or 21st century?

COMPUTER: Dance Music?

LIZA HALPIN: Hum, sort of. (Sighs) I guess.

COMPUTER: Disco?

LIZA HALPIN: No Disco music still sucks. (Pauses)
Something with more grind. (Punk Rock Music plays)
That's cool.

Liza starts collecting her supplies when a distress
call stops the music and the Captains voice replaces
it.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: (V.O.) Please reply? (Static) I
repeat, please reply? (Static) The crew needs your
help we're... (Liza looks over as the sound crackles)
Like in the dark a... (Static) Going to burn us
alive... (Static)

LIZA HALPIN: What the hell? (Pushes a button) Captain?
(Silence) Captain?

COMPUTER: Do you wish to resume music?

LIZA HALPIN: No. (Looks at a scanner) Come out, come
out, where ever you are? (Sighs) Computer? (Computer
beeps) Give me what you know of the Earths history
where people were burned alive.

COMPUTER: Salem witch tr...

The band of ancient looking warriors lead the Captain
and crew are taken out of an ox cart, then are dragged
through their town as people react in spite. The crew
are tossed into a crude area with bars on the only
window and on the door.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Matrika you're the security
chief, get us outta here!

OMRI MATRIKA: But they took our weapons what can we
do? (Shugs) All is lost.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: I'll get the guard in here and
you knock him in the head with something heavy.

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: This won't work, we should
wait for Ms. Halpin's help.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: I'll enter your protest for the
record but we're going with my plan.

OMRI MATRIKA: You're the Captain.

The Captain reaches out from the bars to the guards
back and taps him. He turns and she pouts at him and
poses seductively, the guard scoffs. At that moment
Omri thrust a pipe through the bars to the gaurds
back, he falls but another guard shoots an arrow at
Omri. The next on goes into his heart, he falls and
bleeds from his mouth.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Omri?! (Cries) You killed him,
you savages!

The crew gather to help Omri but he's dead.

GUARD 1: Ay and you'll follow him you vile woman!
(Spits at the captain) The witch will soon be with her
dark master.

GUARD 2: How dare you try to get my brother to turn
from the good word.

Back at the star ship the computer beeps Liza puts a
red mask on, she picks up a large winged device.

LIZA HALPIN: Red landscape tape. (Wraps the wings with
the red tape) Computer can this still work like this?

COMPUTER: Yes. (Beeps) Flight of the Valkyries upload
complete. (Beeps) Voice changer is ready.

LIZA HALPIN:: Ah, now lets see if I'm able to pull
this off. (Chuckles) Computer after I leave raise the
shields.

COMPUTER: Yes. (Beeps) Flammable mixture is complete,
please handle with care.

LIZA HALPIN: What fun would that be? (Chuckles) When
the end is so near.

CHAPTER 1 - PART 3: An old fashion cookout.

The crew watch helpless the body of Omri is burned in
the bonfire. Then the gaurds drag them outside they
protest but all of them are tied to post. An old man
with a old book comes forwards and raises up his
hands.

OLD MAN: Does anyone wish to speak of the infidel
witch and her followers deeds of evil?

WOMAN: I saw them fall from the sky in a carage of
fire, yet they walked from it and not a mark be on
them and... And...

The woman stops talking when a showdow from above
crosses her sight, she looks up and lets out a
horrified scream.

MUSIC SCORE: Flight of the Valkyries.

The shadow from a figure in the sky then gets
everyones attention, other people scream as the figure
circles the air.

OLD MAN: Father help us?! (Gasping) This must be the
work of...

The figure comes down and seems to be the devil, it
spews fire from it's arms.

OLD MAN: (Cont.) Black magic. (Music stops) Cast thy
out ol' evil presence of Satan.

LIZA HALPIN: (Evil voice) You must burn them all at
once! (Laughs) You heard me kill 'em all! Do it!

OLD MAN: You wish me to do your bidding? (Yells) This
be a trick right from the vile ones own mouth!

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: What is that crazy bitch doing?

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: That's Ms. Halpin?

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Nah, it's really the devil.
(Scoffs) Of course it's... That woman.

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: I knew we should of waited
for her.

OLD MAN: Free them, they must be sent from the father
if the devil wishes them harm!

Liza flies off the ground and burns up half the small
town as some people run away, then she flies off.

WOMAN: Tis' ture! (Gasping) Or the evil one would not
be gone. (Unties the Captian) Forgive us ma'am?

OLD MAN: We are sorry we killed one of you. (Begs) We
knew not that you we're sent to help us.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: You can make it up to us if you
gather your things and let us take you from this land
to another land. (The old man cries) Why are you
crying?

OLD MAN: My tears of... Of joy. (Thrilled) We're going
to the promise land.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: All you have to do is wait
for a craft that will fly you into the stars above.

WOMAN: Saints be with us!

CHAPTER 1 - PART 4: The devil you say.

The crew enters the ship where Liza is taking off her
make shift satan outfit, the Captain grabs her arm in
rage.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: You lunatic! (Liza scoffs) You
could of got us all killed!

LIZA HALPIN: Maybe I should of waited until they stuck
a fork into you to see if you were done? (Smug) If it
wasn't for me that's what would of happened to you.
You're just jealous you couldn't save your crew and I
did.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: You're so wrong and if you were
a member of my crew, I'd have you shot!

LIZA HALPIN: If I were a member of your crew you
wouldn't have to bother because I'd do it myself.
(Scoffs) I saved your butt! (Points in the Captains
face) The least you and your crew can do... Is bend
over and kiss mine.

Liza walks off towards the back as the Captain sits in
her chair.

LIEUTENANT CHEN SHING: What a piece of work she is,
huh?

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: She is something.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: You said a mouthful sir.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Lieutennant send a message to
H.Q. that security chief Omri Matrika has died in the
line of duty and that his family should be notified at
once. Also put in a request that the "Flying Star" be
awarded in his name for his actions above and beyond
the call of duty . (Sighs) His death should not be in
vain.

Liza dressed for bed brushes her hair, the door
chimes.

LIZA HALPIN: Enter. (Jake walks in) If you've come on
behalf of your Captain, you can tell her I've had
enough of her innate lack of humor. (Points at the
door) Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: I didn't come here because
of Captain Falk but for myself.

LIZA HALPIN: As science officer to civilian scientist
or some other reason? (Jake gasps) Oh come on don't
look so surprised that I figured you out. (Scoffs)
I've noticed the way you've been looking at me this
whole trip.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: I don't know where you get
your delusions?

Liza without a word kisses Jake and he give into her,
she then pushes him away.

LIZA HALPIN: It would seem that my so called delusions
have just been proven. (Pushes Jake out the door) Too
bad for you, I don't share that feeling for you in
return. (The door closing) Good night.

Ensign Stella Walden walks with Liza in the walkway,
when Jake catches up to them.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: Ensign I think the Captain
could use you on deck.

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: Yes sir. (Walks away)

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: I need to talk to you about
last night.

LIZA HALPIN: There's nothing left to talk about, Jake.
(Smug) I believe that I made myself quite clear.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: Oh really? (Kisses Liza)
Tell me that did nothing for you?

LIZA HALPIN: Yeah, it made me sick? (Scoffs) I'd
rather kiss a snake, at least it would be warmer than
you.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: Come on you know you know
I'm the best looking guy on this ship.

Chas walks into Liza's sight, he stops to watch her
and Jake talking.

LIZA HALPIN: If you feel that way perhaps you should
make a date with yourself more often that you already
do. If you know what I mean? (Smurks) I don't happen
to share your point of view. (To Chas) I need to talk
to you for a moment, see there's something I have been
wanting to tell you since I met you.

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: Sure, Ms. Halpin. (Jake
marches away) Anything you want me to do for you?

LIZA HALPIN: Oh there is indeed. (Chen walks by) Could
you come to my room so we can talk in private?

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: Yes. (They walk by Jake again
to her door) I just got off duty.

LIZA HALPIN: Great. (They walk inside the room) Make
yourself comfy, I'll be right back.

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: You got a nicer room that
mine.

Chas sits on the bed and looks at at some of Liza's
things she has around the room. He pans the room again
and she comes into his sight, she's wearing a sexy
nighty. He gulps, chokes and coughs not believeing his
own eyes.

LIZA HALPIN: Would you like to see my body of work?

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: Um, Ms. Halpin are you coming
on to me?

LIZA HALPIN: Would you have prefered the dance of the
seven veils?

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: Ah? (Stands up) I thought you
had something with our Science Officer?

LIZA HALPIN: Only in his dreams. (Scoffs) I know what
he's going to say before he says it. (Grabs Chas by
the shoulders) With you I never know what you're
thinking, not even now. (Breathy) So what are you
thinking?

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: I'm thinking that it's a good
thing I out rank Science Officer Jake Ives.

Chas kisses Liza, then the door chimes.

LIZA HALPIN: Hold on. (Chas hides in the bathroom) Who
is it?

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: It's me. (The door opens) Sorry
I didn't mean to... Oh you're alone?

LIZA HALPIN: What is it Roxanne? (Covers up in a robe)
I'm wanting to go to bed as soon as I can.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: You and one of the crew need to
stay here while we take a sweep of the solar system.
(Pauses) I just heard from H.Q. they want to save Mars
as well as the Earth and the moon.

LIZA HALPIN: Mars? (Sits on the bed) If I can pick
anyone to stay with me then I pick your 1st officer.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Hum, it would be useful for him
when he becomes a Captain. Either because of my death,
which I hope isn't the case or if he gets another ship
of his own. But I don't see what use he'll be to you?
(A noise comes from the bathroom) But then again I
could be wrong. (Smiles knowingly) Maybe you have
found a use for my 1st officer after all.

LIZA HALPIN: That's one way of looking at it. (Clears
her throat) So if there isn't anything else good night
Captain. (Fakes a yawn) I really long to go to bed
now.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Uh, huh. (Looks toward the
bathrrom) Just one more thing Ms. Halpin. (Sighs)
There are three more area's on this plant that have
humans we have to contact and ship off to a new home.
Anymore stunts like you pulled on the first area of
people and you'll not only answer to me but you'll get
the wrath of those who sit in the Chamber of the
Coalition Forces.

LIZA HALPIN: Fine but the next time you're about to
become barbecue, don't beg me for any help. (Snickers)
In any case I'll be going to the Chamber of the
Coalition Forces anyway. (Sighs) And it won't be their
wrath that will be heard, it shall be mine. I will
find out why these people were left here in the first
place, no matter what.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: You do have guts, don't you?
(Chuckles) Oh and Ms. Halpin?

LIZA HALPIN: Yes Captain?

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: I'd apperciate it if you kept it
in mind there are other people on this ship who will
be sleeping for the next six. (Raises an eyebrow) Not
that I wish to dictate to you about your activities
with my 1st officer... (Pauses) But I do ask that you
both keep it down to a low rumble?

Chas comes out of the bathroom, stands at attention
and the Captain gives him the look.

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: Yes ma'am.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: At ease soldier you're off duty.
(Clears her throat) Just make sure you get some rest
before you go back on duty, Mr. Lofton. (Opens the
door) I can't have my first officer so fitigued that
he can't preform his other duties for me and this
ship.

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: Yes ma'am. (Salutes the
Captain) Good night ma'am.

The Captain leaves and the doors shut behind her.

LIZA HALPIN: Well now that we're finally alone...
(Shoves Chas to her bed) Allow me to show you the old
fashioned way they used to make the Earth move.

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: (Excited) Yes ma'am.

CHAPTER 1 - PART 5: Above and beyond the call.

Jake enters the mess hall and sees everyone but Liza
and Chas. He pushes buttons for his food tray, then
sits alone and sulks. Liza and Chas come in together
and get a tray each they sit close to eat as Jake
shoots the both a dirty look. Liza notices gets up and
rolls her eyes at him. Jake gets up and walks by them
with his tray.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: You don't have to rub it my
face you know?

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: You're way out of line
Officer Ives! (Jake tosses his tray on the floor)
You're on report mister. One more out burst like that
and I'll have you sent to the gaurd nearest prison
planet, maybe that will cool your heals? (Sands up) Do
you understand me?

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: Yes sir!

LIZA HALPIN: He's just jealous because you out rank
him and I do mean in everyway.

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: If it's a fight you want from
me over Ms. Halpin I suggest when we both are off duty
we have it out then. (Points at Jake) Man to man but
when you are on duty you will show me the respect as
the 1st officer of this ship, do I make myself clear
soldier?

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: Yes sir!

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: Then I suggest you police
this area. (Points at the mess in the floor)

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: Yes sir!

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: The rest of this we'll deal
with when the Captain sees fit to give us both off
duty time to do so. (Gets in Jakes face) On a personal
note the sooner she allows it the better. I can't wait
to beat some of that smug attitude out of you. Now
hurry up and get this floor clean so you can get the
hell out of my sight.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: Yes sir!

Jake goes over to the wall and pushes a button a
device comes out a small door and that cleans mess
from the floor, then goes back in the door.

LIZA HALPIN: You missed a spot, Jake. (Smiles) I would
suggest you lick it up with your tongue but people eat
in here. (Some of the crew snickers, Jake starts out
the door) Ooo... Don't go away mad, just go away.

Jake goes to the Captains door and it chimes.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: (V.O.) Enter. (Jake walks in)

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: Captain I have a request to
ask of you, ma'am.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: If it's that you want off this
ship, request denied. (Stands) When that woman has
left my ship I expect that you and officer Lofton will
engage in the same old type of hostility you had for
each other before. (Pauses) I think you should focus
your time on helping ensign Walden with her studies
these next few days. While Officer Lofton is left here
with Ms. Halpin.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: Yes ma'am.

The door opens and Stella walks in.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Ensign you request to work one
on one with Officer Ives has my full authorization.

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: Thank you ma'am.

The ship takes off as Liza and Chas look on from the
Earths surface, then he kisses her.

LIZA HALPIN: Ah, work before play Commander. (Giggles)
Come on we got work to do if we're ever gonna move
this rock. (Picks up a bag) Are you sure we have
enough supplies?

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: Well yes and no? (Liza is
confused) Have you ever had earth fish cooked over an
open fire? (Liza gives him the look) I can't wait
myself, you know when on Earth do as the Earthlings
do.

LIZA HALPIN: Do you even know how to catch a fish or
do I have to do it?

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: You'll find what you need in
the shuttle craft. (Chuckles) I'll set up our shelter.

LIZA: Um, hum. (Sighs) You're sounding more and more
like the men who used to live on this planet with each
and every moment. (Goes over to the shuttle craft)
I'll catch the fish and you can cook them, while I do
the work.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: (V.O) Captain's record entry 281
dash 446 dash 8003. (Close up of the starship in
space) The Starship Infinity has left Earth to record
the last images that will be taken of this solar
system. Commuting Earth, it's moon and perhaps Mars as
well. This like other Missions has been fraught with
danger and mysteries to uncover. Earth was not left
void of human life like the histroy books recorded.
The reasons for this still remain unknown to me and my
crew. The civilian scientist Liza Halpin is the genius
behind the technical specifications of moving a rock
bassed planet masses but she goes against the grain of
authority.
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Commuting Earth © - By Melissa McMahan

CHAPTER 2 - PART 1: Two officers, an ensign and the
radical.

Liza is in the water trying to catch a fish, she tries
again but fails again and again. Chas walks up to her
and helps her catch one, her puts it a huge canister
of water. Then she catches another one and puts in the
same canister of water as his.

LIZA HALPIN: These better taste good after all this
work. (Smiles) Can I ask you to kill them all too?

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: I'll kill 'em, cook 'em all
and eat 'em all. (Picks up the canister) Heh, heh.

LIZA HALPIN: You just do that and you'll be getting
the other end of my attention, sir.

Liza gives Chas a small kiss then walks off down the
beach. On the starship Stella sits at her table with
her study unit as Jake paces the floor. She looks up
from her study unit.

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: Sir? (Jake looks at her) Excuse
me but if I may...

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: No Ensign you may not.
(Stella stand up) Look I'm sorry it's just that...
(Sighs) How can you stand such small quarters?

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: When I'm not asleep or sitting
with my study unit I'm not here, so it's not a problem
for me to have such a cozy room.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: You don't even have a view
or your own bathroom.

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: I know what's really frustrating
you. (Lays on bed) Do you wanna talk about it?

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: Why would you want to hear
about it, Ensign?

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: You mean you still don't have a
clue, sir?

Stella pats the space next to her in the bed.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: Ensign, are you suggesting
that an officer frolic sexually with someone who
serves under them? (Twitches) That's lewd!

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: Oh but it's not lewd for you to
lust after a civilian? (Stands up) Is that it?

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: She's not just any
civilian, she's a scientist and I'm a science officer.

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: And she's off playing Earth
games with high commander action.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: (Grabs Stella's arms) Shut
up!

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: The wall that my bed is on is
the same one that holds her bed on the other side.
(Scoffs) Would you like to know the details, because I
heard them all. (Gets in Jakes face) The moaning
and...

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: Dammit! What do I have to
do to shut you up?

Jake starts to slap Stella but she kisses him before
he can but he pushes her away after a moment.

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: Ooo... You're so rough.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: What do you want from me?

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: Well that depends on just how
lewd you want to get. (Opens her door) Think it over
and when you decide if you enjoyed that kiss or not
let me know. (Giggles) Ta - Ta Officer Ives.

Jake stands in place until the captain walks into the
room from the open door.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: I've come to check on your
progress, is she learning anything from you Jake?

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: I'd say we we're learning
something from each other, Captain Falk.

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: (Full of innuendo) I'm looking
forward to serving under Officer Ives power of
command.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: I'm pleased to hear it. (Smiles)
As an Ensign you're very lucky to be serving on my
ship, not only to working with Officer Ives but
working with the legendary genius Liza Halpin as well.

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: Even though she's genius. (Looks
over at Jake) She's a total flake, both of you know
that.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Yes. (Clears her throat) But as
a civilian scientist she's allowed to be eccentric.

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: Oh come on Captain? (Scoffs) If
I may speak freely, you would like to blast her apart.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Ensign? (Pauses) I just want her
off my ship, I have no wish to kill anyone.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: On that note, if you ladies
will excuse me?

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Sure if the Ensign is done with
you?

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: Oh I'm done with him for now but
after a few hours of sleep, I'll be ready to pick up
where we left off. (Raises an eyebrow) That is if you
feel up to it sir?

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: I'll have to get back to
you on that, Ensign.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Well I've got other duties, so
carry on.

The Captain and Jake walks out the door, as the
Captain walks out of sight. Jake looks back at Stella
who blows him a kiss before she closes her door, he
stands alone in the walk way for a beat then walks out
of sight himself. On Earth Liza and Chas watch the
sunset in each others arms on the beach.

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: It's wonderful isn't it?

LIZA HALPIN: Yes and the sunset isn't bad either.

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: Are you ready to finsh your
work or do you want to go to sleep?

LIZA HALPIN: Work can wait until morning but there is
something I want to do before I go to sleep.

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: What? (Liza kisses his neck)
Are you kidding? Liza, it's only been about an hour
ago since we... (She kisses him as she knocks him
backwards) You've already worn me out you insatiable
woman.

LIZA HALPIN: Don't tell me little 'ol me can take out
the man who lived through the Taytan plague and the
Erich Rebel war all in the the same year. (Scoffs)
That's why Captain Falk wanted you as her first
offcier, right?

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: Um, hum. (Sighs) Until I was
aboard her ship but by then it was too late.

LIZA HALPIN: Who do you think she hates more, you or
me? (They both laugh) Maybe that's what we see in each
other.

CHAPTER 2 - PART 2: Destiny Awakening.

The Captain looking out her port hole at Mars, she
goes to her desk where an old, dirty American flag
lays in a large tray.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: The stars and stripes. (Runs her
hand over the top of the flag) If only you could talk.

COMPUTER: (Beeps) Contact with the away team has been
teminated.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Let me know when I can contact
the away team, meanwhile I'm going to get some rest.

On earth night time there's a quake things trees fall.
Liza and Chas things tumble as well, while on the
beach their intimate silhouettes forms show from the
moonlight and the shimmering tides. Liza who's on top
stands up as the quake stops.

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: Whoa! (Breathy) You did make
the Earth move.(Breathy) Must rest after that.

LIZA HALPIN: As much as I'd like to take full credit
for all of that, I can't. (Snickers) It was an old
fashion Earth quake.

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: Oh. (Chuckles) Well it's a
good thing we're in a flat area then huh?

LIZA HALPIN: Um, yes.

The Captain is asleep when the computer buzzes waking
her up.

COMPUTER: Captain Roxanne Falk, incoming message.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Who's it from?

COMPUTER: (Beeps) Science Officer Jake Ives.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Jake?

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: (V.O.) Captain, all the
systems are in place and we're ready to come back to
the ship.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Fine. (Yawns) And Jake, when you
get back come to my quarters at once.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: (V.O.) Yes ma'am.

Chas loads up the shuttle craft, he stops when he
notices Liza smoking something from a make shift pipe.

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: What are you doing?

LIZA HALPIN: Smoking. (Pauses) Some Earthlings did
this ages ago and I wanted to try it.

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: How do you know what they
smoked, for all you know this might be harmful to you.

LIZA HALPIN: You forget. (Scoffs) I'm a scientist and
it's not that harmful just to try it one time.

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: (Sniffs) It smells green and
musky, sort of sweet too.

LIZA HALPIN: I feel kind of funny, Chas. (Laughs) That
and I'm hungry, do we anything else to eat besides
stupid fish?

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: There are some snack items if
you can't wait to prepare something.

LIZA HALPIN: Anything sweet? (Chas shugs) Oh well I
guess I'll find out for myself.

Liza hands Chas the pipe, she goes over and starts
eating whatever she can find. He tosses the pipe down
and snuffs it out with sand. On the ship the Captain's
door opens and Jake enters, he sits across from the
Captain.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: A ship on it's way to load up
the first humans we made contact with on earth.
(Pauses) Already word of life on Earth has spread like
the Tunillian flu and we're not only added to history,
we've changed it.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: That will show my father.
(Sighs) He always said I'd never be worth anything.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: I know the legend your father
made for himself is a hard act to follow but I'd say
you're well on your way to matching him in the hero
field. (Stands up) Each member of the crew will be
getting Star of Honor. (Crosses her arms) Ms. Halpin
being a civilian will instead get the Citation of
Honor. (Sighs) And if all goes well I'll never have to
put up with... That woman ever again.

Outside of the ship as it orbits Mars. Liza moves a
few black pipes looking devices into place, Chas walks
towards her.

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: Liza? (Liza looks at him)
When you have the time I've got something to show you.

LIZA HALPIN: I'm almost finshed just a two more. (Puts
two more pipe devices in place) Now what is it you
found?

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: I'm not sure but I think you
should look at it.

Liza walks up to Chas and they walk off together into
the treeline. They stop when they spot a cat just
being it's self.

LIZA HALPIN: Are you talking about this little
sweetie? (Pets the cat) What a nice kitty.

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: Kitty? (Scoffs) It's cute but
are you sure it bite?

LIZA HALPIN: If it dose it won't be too hard, they are
easy befriended and like you they love fish.

CHAPTER 2 - PART 3: Great Explorations

Jake sits alone at his table in his quarters watching
the stars outside his port hole, he taps his fingers
on the surface of the table.The computer beeps, he
stands up and falls limp on his bed.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: What is it computer?

COMPUTER: Incoming message for Science Officer Jake
Ives.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: From who?

COMPUTER: Ensign Stella Walden.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: (Sighs) Computer send
message. (Computer beeps) Sorry not now, I'm tired.

Jake loosens his uniform and closes his eyes. His door
opens and he opens his eyes to see a silhouette of a
woman standing in the darken shadows in the room. As
she moves closer towards him he gasp when he sees it's
Stella wearing very little.

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: Too tired to even find out what
I wanted huh?

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: I sent you that message to
give you the hint I didn't want to be bothered and I
know what you want you made that clear enough before.
Now you come to my room close to naked, believe me I
get the hint.

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: The question I have for you is
what is it going to take for me to get your attention
sir?

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: Oh you've got it but to
hold it you need to be more than a mere ensign.

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: Then you're in luck because I
just past my last writen test and all that remains in
a physical test and a new uniform.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: Ah! (Taking off his shirt)
Then perhaps I can over look the fact that you'll only
be an ensign for a few more weeks.(Motions with his
hand) Come here.

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: It's about damn time.

Stella gets into bed with Jake but just before much
can happen the Captain comes through the door and
catches them in each others arms. She watches them
trying to hide under the covers.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: Oh this isn't what it looks
like. (Pauses) You wanted something Captain Falk?

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: We haven't done anything.(Clears
her throat) Not yet.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: (Disgusted) It's a wonder to me
that any work gets done on my ship, since everyone on
it seems to want to have their hands down somone elses
pants. (Dryly) I suggest you two get dressed then meet
me in my quarters and the sooner you get there the
better.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: Yes ma'am. (The Captain
leaves) Oh this is not good.

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: You're telling me?

The Captain sits at her desk waiting when her door
opens. Stella and Jake enter and sit in the two seats
in frount of her.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: I cannot have an Officer and a
mere Ensign in a sexual relationship, so I have other
choice but to promote you Ensign Walden.

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: Promote me? (Gasping) I'm an
officer?

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Not quite yet. (Clears her
throat) You have to prove yourself to me on this
mission first.

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: Oh?

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Both of you better get out of my
sight. (Sighs) I have to work on a plan to contact the
other humans on the earth, so unless you have any
ideas on that subject... On second thought nevermind.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: I can get together with you
later on that Captain Falk.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Well don't tell me someone other
than me wants to do their job? (Points) You better
watch yourself Jake until then, I better not learn you
two are messing around or else. Got me?

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: Yes ma'am.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Good.

Jake and Stella walk out, then each of them go down
the hall.

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: So I guess asking you to join
you in my room is out of the question?

Jake without a word walks away out of Stella's sight.
She goes into her quarters and throws a tantrum.

CHAPTER 2 - PART 4: Mechanized Society.

As the ship returns to Earth Liza and Chas run to the
area where it lands. The Captain is the first one off
the ship followed by the rest of the crew on board.
The Captain makes a beeline for Liza who smirks back
at her.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Do you manage to get any work
finished or not?

LIZA HALPIN: It's ready to go as soon as we get all
the beings above the waters packed up and shipped off.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Excellent.

LIZA HALPIN: As a matter of fact the two of us have
one native we befriended to take on your ship Roxanne.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: You what? (Angry) I warned you
not to contact any of the other humans here Ms. Halpin
and you Officer Loften should know better as the 2ed
in command.

While the Captain is focused on yelling at Chas, Liza
goes towards the tree line and picks up the cat.

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: Captain? (Pauses) It's not
what you think.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Explain?

LIza walks back and hands the Captain the cat, she
gasps while she hold it like a baby in her arms.

LIZA HALPIN: I figured all you needed was an outlet
for your softer side to show, Captain.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: I've only seem photos...
(Gushing with happiness) You're a real find.

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: I take it you want to keep
him for a pet then ma'am?

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: This little guy has to have a
family somewhere. (Looks bak at the crew) Ensign
Walden, you are to locate and make a report on all the
animals living here. Don't forget about the flying
ones as well as the four legged ones like our new
little friend.

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: Yes ma'am.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: As for the rest of you, lets
make contact with the next group of humans.

LIZA HALPIN: I think we should spy on them first
before just waltzing in on them.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: I agree with you after the last
contact went so wrong.

Inside the ship Jake sits with Chen as they eat in the
mess hall.

LIEUTENANT CHEN SHING: I hope we can get though this
without lossing anyone else. (Sad sigh) Omri Matrika
and I were just becoing friends. (Voice breaking) I'm
going to miss him greatly.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: Maybe you should take some
personal time off after this mission, you know? Spend
some time with his family and yours.

LIEUTENANT CHEN SHING: I'll be fine, after all he's
not the first friend I ever lost and he won't be the
last.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: I never feel more helpless
than when someones dies, comfort is all anyone can
offer when others are in mourning a loss of a loved
one. It's not much but it's all we can cling to
sometimes.

LIEUTENANT CHEN SHING: Wow! (Chuckles) Just when you
lead me to believe you were a perfect ass, you go and
say something really nice.

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: You forget Omri was my
friend too. (Pauses) This girl I liked named Joan
Bowen who I had a huge crush on back in school broke
my heart. She took up with my cousin and I felt so
betrayed I was about to hang myself when Omri came to
snap me out of it. He saved my life but I wish I could
of returned the favor but...

LIEUTENANT CHEN SHING: None of could of known he'd die
like he did. Don't beat yourself up Jake, I know how
you feel trust me if I could of saved him I would of.
So would any of us on this crew. (Jake nods) I do want
to know one thing?

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: What would be that be Chen?

LIEUTENANT CHEN SHING: Whatever happened between your
cousin and Joan Bowen?

SCIENCE OFFICER JAKE IVES: They got married, now she's
fat and got their kids. He ran off with a younger
woman.

LIEUTENANT CHEN SHING: That's... (Bursting with
laughter) That's funny!

Jake joins Chen in a flood of laughter when the
Captain walks in the door.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Well it's rare to hear that
sound comeing from any of my crew. (Smiles) Carry on.

LIEUTENANT CHEN SHING: Yes ma'am.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: I didn't know you two were
friends?

LIEUTENANT CHEN SHING: Neither did we until just now.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Well will wonders ever cease?

Scene of a sunrise over the waters of the Earth. Liza
and the Captain from the branch of a huge tree see an
inclosed small cold gray city in the distance. From
her bag Liza picks up a pair of futuristic binoculars
then looks through them.

LIZA HALPIN: Well it should be easier to deal with
these people than the last bunch.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: I hope you're right.

LIZA HALPIN: So do I Roxanne, so do I.

A little later the crew along with Liza make their way
to the cities gates which are soild. Without warning
they open and once all of the crew are inside they
shut like a prison cell door behind them. Two soilders
stand at the doors of the inside wall and the silence
is only broken by the whistling breeze. Fed up the
Captain steps forward to address one of the soilders.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: May we come into your city? We
have to talk to whoever is in charge here.

SOILDER ONE: Are you replacements?

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: No we're not replacements. We're
here for another reason.

SOILDER TWO: There is no other reason for outsiders to
enter our city but for the purpose of replacing the
dead.

LIZA HALPIN: Excuse me Captain? (Walks forwards) I
think I can solve this problem right now.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Stay out of this.

Liza takes a device out of her bag and when she pushes
the button on it, a sound gets higher and higher from
it. The crew covers their ears but not the soilders
who aim their swords but then go limp.

LIZA HALPIN: Try as you may, you just can't argue your
poit of view with artificial intelligence.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: How did you know?

LIZA HALPIN: I had an android nanny growing up, that's
why I made this device in the frist place.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Oh you've got to tell me about
your childhood sometime.

Liza finds the key on one of the android soilders and
opens the doors. Inside the city seems to be a
inclosed area of tiny cubbicals where the people
working in them are part of the computers they are
working from. They only thing in the huge wearhouse
room is a stairway leading up. One of the units is
empty, so the Captain looks inside of it and a mode
tries to conect with her body. Liza knocks her out of
the way just in the nick of time.

LIZA HALPIN: Shit! (Sighs) That was close, you almost
became part of the machine. These people are cyborgs
and being that histroy often repeats it's self. I'd
say that they are slave labor for the people who live
up these stairs.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Then that's were we are going.
And Ms. Halpin? (Pauses) Thank you for saving me.

LIZA HALPIN: It does seem to be a nasty little habit
that I've developed. When we have time I'll just reach
in my bag here and show you my portfolio. It explains
my life and what I've done with technology but I need
to update it a bit.

Liza smiles at the Captain as she walks past her up
the long winding stair case. The group make it to the
top of the stairs where a lone door stands. The
Captain opens it and as everyone gathers on the other
side of it they see a clean city of luxury. It seems
crime free with children playing and people going
about their business.

LIZA HALPIN: Amazing! (Gasping) These people are
having a good on the blood of the others below!

Liza stops a man who's walking playing some sort of
video game.

MAN: Yes ma'am, what can I do for you?

LIZA HALPIN: You can tell me where the head of the
city is.

MAN: I thought everyone knew the master of Micro City
is in the Gates Tower. (Scoffs) I'll take you there.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Please?

A bit later the man leads the group to a huge tower
and he then walks away. They go inside and are greated
by flying computer spheres. Liza again takes out her
device which makes the spheres fall to the ground and
bonce like rubber balls.

COMPUTER VOICE: The master wants to see you at once.
(A door opens) Please enter.

LIZA HALPIN: I don't know about anybody else but I've
had enough of this crap.

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: This place just keeps getting
stranger.

The group enters the door where the master of the city
sits behind his desk.

MASTER: I want to know who you people are?

LIZA HALPIN: I want to know why this place is run on
the power of cyborg slaves?

MASTER: Simple really, they work so the rest of don't
have to. At the time of the Great Egress the plans
were drawn up for this wonderful place where some work
and others play. (Sighs) My father Chris Gates died
two years ago and so I became the new master of Micro
City. Then after me the son my wife carries will be
the master.

LIZA HALPIN: Well I got some news for you sunshine,
you're to be the last of the masters.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: Yes we are here to remove all
the humans from Earth so we can move it.

MASTER: Move it? (Laughs) Madness! (Scoffs) There is
no way that cold be done or I would of thought of it.

LIZA HALPIN: I'm the scientist and I not only thought
of it but I've made it happen.

MASTER: You? A woman? (Laughs) Women are only good for
having babies and caring for the sick.

CAPTAIN ROXANNE FALK: I am the Captain of this crew
and she is a scientist and your views about woman died
out with before the Great Egress. Liza show this man
your portfolio, please?

Liza takes out a small black device that she places on
the Masters desk and she opens it like a laptop
comuter.

LIZA HALPIN: Computer play Liza Halpin file zero,
zero, zero, one.

ENSIGN STELLA WALDEN: Here come the climb up mount
ego.

A projection of Liza pops up.

LIZA HALPIN: (V.O.) I am Liza Denise Halpin, my vast
skills as a scientist strated when I was a child.

CROSS DESSOLVE to the end of the projection of Liza's
life story.

LIZA HALPIN: (V.O.) ... Thus I discovered that rock
based planets could be moved.

The projection of Liza fades away, the Master claps.

MASTER: Wow! That was outstanding I must say. (Points
to Liza) You my dear are a find, my find. (Yells)
Gaurds!

A group of soilder androids come in the door.

1ST OFFICER CHAS LOFTON: What the hell is this?

MASTER: Take everyone away but this woman, she is to
be my new head of research.

The crew protest as the soilder androids grab them but
Liza gets her device out again and the soilder
androids fall limp.

LIZA HALPIN: Now you listen to me. (Grabs the Master
by the arms) Your families days of being overlord are
gone, from now on you do what we tell you. (Snaps her
fingers) Take him away Captain.

The crew take control of the Master and he protest as
they take him out the door.

~ CHAPTER 3 coming


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#213 From: Melissa McMahan <greenwaterpurpledirt@...>
Date: Sat Mar 10, 2001 11:19 pm
Subject: RE: [DisTexters] Re: question by eps
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>> My husband ordered the WWF event on Pay Per View
and
> our guy friends came
> over to see it live.  You don't like Stone Cold or
> The Rock?  (Probably not
> if you like Triple H.)

::::
I like the Rock and Stone Cold as well as Triple H.
Some of the things Triple H says are just to funny.

THE ROCK: "Do you like pie?"

BEAVIS & BUTT-HEAD: "Yeah we'll have a piece. Huh,
huh!"

I like most of them really but "The Right To Censor" I
really hate them... Oh like that's a big shock huh?
He, he! Since I personally believe Censorship in
UNAMERICAN. Freedom of speech and all that. You don't
have to like my P.O.V. but that's why they make
crayons in so many colors. :)
::::::

  Those are usually most
> people's favorites.  I liked
> how Stephanie won her fight too.  I liked the
> Undertaker better when he
> looked like an undertaker as opposed to this new
> biker look.

::::
The Undertaker and Kane are just huge they don't need
to do many moves. I wouldn't want to meet these two
guys in a dark alley. I'd just run away. Hey they are
too tough for me. I like to watch them on Smack Down I
never watch the Pay Per View. I'm too much of a tight
wad with my cash. :) He, He!
:::::

  I miss Shane
> McMahan though- he was my fave.

::::
I enjoy watching him get beat up by the other guys.
:::::
>
> Hey MMc- the McMahans wouldn't be related to you,
> would they?  *eg*
>
> Jenn

::::
Um, I don't really know. They spell it McMahon where
as in my family it's McMahan. I do have a slight
relation in show biz. But he's too far down the family
tree for me to ever contact him. James Garner is like
my 8th uncle. Oh well no chance of me ever using him
to launch my show biz goals huh? I might as well be a
complet stranger to him, which I pretty much am.
(Sighs) Anyway I've gotta go to my Joe job in a few
so. Adios from this Texan. M.Mc
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#212 From: Melissa McMahan <greenwaterpurpledirt@...>
Date: Sat Mar 10, 2001 10:40 pm
Subject: Re: [DisTexters] Frequencies of epileptic seizures
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--- Andjam <andjamgeo@...> wrote:
> Someone (not Melissa Good or McMahon) wrote a sex
> scene for
> Kerry and Dar

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Right now I'm far too busy writing the stories I'm
behind in but I am intested in juicy stories about
sex. I'm not a slut but I am a pervert. In other words
clean body but dirty mind. :)

Love, Melissa McMahan. The Bad A$$ Bard. :->
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#211 From: "Andjam" <andjamgeo@...>
Date: Fri Mar 9, 2001 10:57 am
Subject: Some disability-related XWP fan fics
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There ended up being a bit of a discussion on disability in XWP fan
fic. There were some other fan fics mentioned, but this is the only
list of fan fics that I got permission to post to another list. This post
was from Monday, so if you want to search
merwolfpack@yahoogroups.com for the others, that's a guide to
the date to search around.

Some of these are links to explicit fan fics. Also, most of these are
probably X-G (or their uber equivalents) fan fic.

Andjam

(Spacer for sake of adult fan fic links)

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> "True Colours" http://www.ausxip.com/fanfiction/t/truecolours.html
> and "Many Roads to Travel"
> http://www.ausxip.com/fanfiction/m/manyroads1.html by Karen A. Surtees
> and PruferBlue (paralysis) "Love's Melody Lost" by Radclyffe
> http://www.mindspring.com/~radclyffe/lml.html   (blindness) "Perfect
> Pitch" by JC Wilder
> http://home.earthlink.net/~thestronghold/perfect1.htm  (mental
> retardation - she's gotten a lot of unjust flack for this & had
> decided not to finish it, but I think has been convinced to complete
> it;  I don't know if she has yet though) "All I Ever Needed" by KP
> West (Muscular Sclerosis (I think)--unfortunately no longer on the
> web; I may or may not have it somewhere on disk) "Amazon Encounter" by
> Anne Azel http://www.ausxip.com/fanfiction/a/amazonencounter1.html
> (physical injury requiring a leg brace) "All In the Family" by Sarkel
> http://merwolf.com/academy/sarkel_aitf1.html (hearing impairment)
> "Between" by Jera http://www.xenaeyes.com/Between.html (Car accident
> victim) "Fields of Gray" by Redcat
> http://merwolf.com/academy/redcat_fields.html (brain tumor) "Make A
> Wish" by AH-ladis
> http://www.obsession14.com/XenaRotica/AH-ladis/makewish.htm (Cancer
> patient ) "My Therapist" by L. B. Anderson
> http://www.aristotle.net/~theandersons/stories/therapist.htm
> (Therapist/ patient)

#210 From: <carperv@...>
Date: Mon Mar 5, 2001 2:58 pm
Subject: Re: [DisTexters] Frequencies of epileptic seizures
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There are seizures and there are seizures.  One can have 'absent' seizures which look you're nodding off or falling asleep.  My husband has those all the time.  People who don't know, think he just can't stay awake.  Then there are the 'rage' seizures, where you beat the walls and feel no pain.  My son has a number of scars from when he did just that.  He was not aware of what was happening.  So seizures come in all shapes and sizes.  Joxer could be having absent seizures and no one would take notice.
Virginia


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Someone (not Melissa Good or McMahon) wrote a sex scene for
Kerry and Dar (characters in Tropical Storm) in
merwolfpack@yahoogroups.com and by sheer coincidence had
some stuff about "unless Kerry is epileptic, which I think she is
not". It's ended up a bit of a debate more or less on whether it is ok
to assume that Kerry does not have epilepsy.

One of the arguments is that Kerry hasn't had any seizures so far
in the story, therefore she isn't epileptic. While this isn't bad
evidence (at least it's better than merely assuming "normal" people
don't have epilepsy, which is what I want to argue against), it's
possible for people to have only one or two epileptic seizures in a
lifetime, right?

Andjam

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#209 From: "Andjam" <andjamgeo@...>
Date: Sat Mar 3, 2001 10:51 am
Subject: Re: [DisTexters] Frequencies of epileptic seizures
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To:              distexters@yahoogroups.com
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> > it's
> > possible for people to have only one or two epileptic seizures in a
> > lifetime, right?
> >
> > Andjam
> >
> >
>
> Yes, it is totally possible to have only one or two in a life time and
> happens often as a result of past head trama....a high fever...a viral
> infection...electrical mis-fireing in the brain out of no where etc. the
> list
> goes on and on.
>

Thanks.

Virginia once suggested the damage caused in "King Con" was
severe enough to cause an epileptic seizure. I wonder if any
hurt/comfort fan fics have any of the characters experiencing
epileptic seizures.

> Christie Morgan

Andjam

#208 From: XenGabJox777@...
Date: Sat Mar 3, 2001 4:28 am
Subject: Re: [DisTexters] Frequencies of epileptic seizures
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In a message dated 03/03/2001 3:02:18 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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), it's
possible for people to have only one or two epileptic seizures in a
lifetime, right?

Andjam



Yes, it is totally possible to have only one or two in a life time and
happens often as a result of past head trama....a high fever...a viral
infection...electrical mis-fireing in the brain out of no where etc. the list
goes on and on.

Christie Morgan

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#207 From: "Andjam" <andjamgeo@...>
Date: Sat Mar 3, 2001 8:03 am
Subject: Frequencies of epileptic seizures
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Someone (not Melissa Good or McMahon) wrote a sex scene for
Kerry and Dar (characters in Tropical Storm) in
merwolfpack@yahoogroups.com and by sheer coincidence had
some stuff about "unless Kerry is epileptic, which I think she is
not". It's ended up a bit of a debate more or less on whether it is ok
to assume that Kerry does not have epilepsy.

One of the arguments is that Kerry hasn't had any seizures so far
in the story, therefore she isn't epileptic. While this isn't bad
evidence (at least it's better than merely assuming "normal" people
don't have epilepsy, which is what I want to argue against), it's
possible for people to have only one or two epileptic seizures in a
lifetime, right?

Andjam

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