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...crew members of the Enterprise (the Enterprise-D, since we're in Next Generation here) are trapped in a time loop. They repeat the same sequence of events over and over again. At the end of each loop, the Enterprise is destroyed in a catastrophic collision with another ship, and they go back to the beginning. But with a subtle difference: each time they go through the loop, it leaves behind dark trace memories, so the next time around, the crew is haunted by a sense that something terrible is happening, but they can't quite put their finger...
That's right. So I went to get my license as an architect, which I still have, and then I went to a shipyard, and learned about ship construction. With these two disciplines, I was ready to do marine architecture. I'm still waiting for my first client. I don't think that's going to happen, though. We're land creatures. But if I had my choice, I would never come to land...
...choreographed by the Haitian military.'' The demonstrators, he adds, ''had strict orders not to shoot anyone, just to raise the level of fear.'' The hard-core supposed rioters totaled at most 200, and might even have been outnumbered by the 193 U.S. and 25 Canadian military personnel aboard the ship. But the troops were not on a combat mission; they were engineers and specialists who were supposed to repair roads, hospitals and schools and train a new Haitian police force. Some carried only sidearms, some no guns at all. Clinton decided he could not risk sending them ashore and ordered...
...insist that the Chinese are seeking to drive the U.S. military out of the Pacific, and make it Beijing's lake rather than what it has been for decades, an American pond. They point to episodes such as the March 8 incident involving the U.S.S. Impeccable, a Navy surveillance ship that was harassed while cruising 75 nautical miles off the coast of Hainan. Five Chinese vessels surrounded it and tried to snatch its towed array radar from the water. Gates, responding to the incident, said he "didn't think [the Chinese] are trying to push the 7th Fleet...
...insurance brokers say that ships are protecting themselves as best they can: many vessels are encased in barbed wire and crews often use high-powered water hoses to try to ward off oncoming pirates. Kidnap experts say the pirates are increasingly skilled at seizures; they say they were astonished last November when the Saudi supertanker Sirius Star was seized, since its side had been regarded as too high for pirates to scale. The pirates finally released the ship and its crew two months later, after a security company dropped $3 million in cash over the Indian Ocean. "Even with...