Word: planet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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I.O.C. membership has long been a sweet deal. Its 115 members don't get paid and now must refuse gifts valued in excess of $150. But they are among the most courted humans on the planet, allowed to accept first-class plane tickets, accommodations in five-star hotels and lavish dinners from bidding cities. Salt Lake City may have taken things a step further...
...installment of the Next Generation story, is still a decent and entertaining film. Returning to a classically moralistic Star Trek storyline, the movie follows the crew of the Starship Enterprise as they stumble upon a sinister plot to uproot an peaceful agricultural race, the Ba'ku and steal their planet. Just as in the days of Captain Kirk, Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) must disobey a direct order from a Starfleet admiral in order to do what he feels is right...
...against the grotesque Son'a, a race so ravaged by the effects of age that they must undergo frequent face-lift procedures in order to prevent their skin from sagging off their faces. The Son'a have developed technology to harvest the metaphasic radiation which permeates the Ba'ku planet; this radiation acts as a fountain of youth, giving eternal life to the Ba'ku. Unfortunately, the Son'a's plan to harvest the radiation for their own use will instantaneously destroy the planet...
During their time on this unusual planet, the metaphasic radiation affects the Enterprise crew: Picard, full of youthful energy, begins to fall in love with the Ba'ku leader Anij. Worf (Michael Dorn) returns to puberty with enormous "gorches" (pimples), while Deanna (Marina Sirtis) and Riker (Jonathan Frakes) romp and giggle as their sex-drives increase. And Geordi (LeVar Burton), blind since birth, discovers that he can see without his electronic eyes...
...LINDBERGH His 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic made him, at 25, the most famous person on the planet. A. Scott Berg records what happened to the aviator before, during and after his transcendent triumph. The later life proves especially poignant, not only because of his child's murder. Lindbergh came to dislike commercial aviation and was accused of pro-Nazi sympathies. A hero who flew so high became a troubled human back on the ground...