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Box 7822, Oxnard, CA 93031. ======== CONTENTS ======== HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BIG CAHUNA ISSUE FROM ONE SIDE ADVERTISEMENT: Borg Blues Club BORG SIGHTINGS IN OTHER UNIVERSES POETRY CORNER: Musings About Aging BETAVIEW SLUG TREK: THE UNDISCOVERED PLOTLINE: Part 1 BORG LIBRARY LISTS: TOP TEN LIST FOR THE WEEK THEATRE AD: Jurrasic Pork BORG FILMOGRAPHY: "Descent Part One" BORG COMICOGRAPHY: "The Worst of Both Worlds: Part Three" EDITOR NOTICES COPYRIGHT NOTICES BACK ISSUES OF RIF AVAILABLE ================================== HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BIG CAHUNA ISSUE ================================== Yes! It's that time of year again. This RIF is being released ONE WHOLE DAY EARLY in honor of the birthday of the Big Cahuna, Supreme Borg, Big Taco (or whatever she calls herself these days) Radioactivus of Borg on July 14th!!! Such excitement this newsletter rarely sees. Obviously we are trying to suck up to the big cahuna and also the fact that SHE IS AN EDITOR (wow! sucking up to yourself...WHAT AN EGO!!!), the whole current political scene of the borg club international becomes painfully apparent (not to mention our incredible command of the English language ... you will be amazed, but we are native speakers!!!). This mini-editorial is of course written by OXNARDUS, the Supreme Borg would never be so egotistical as to write her OWN laudatory praise. Therefore, Supreme Borg Radioactivus, from the entire collective: TE LAUDAMUS et TE SPOOAMUS. ============= FROM ONE SIDE ============= Writing first columns are always difficult. You worry about whether or not you'll be accepted, or ridiculed, or what. And what do you say your first time? You can't refer to past columns, because, of course, you haven't written any. Hopefully, this first column will disprove everything I've just said, besides describing From One Side in detail. From One Side will appear (hopefully) in every "Resistance Is Futile" issue in the future. Each time, From One Side will deal with a topic of supposed importance to Borg minds. From One Side is not written by a Borg, but by a Bajoran from the Genie cube. From One Side appears in several cubes, perhaps five or six. Specifically, From One Side also deals with issues like not being a Borg in a world of Borgs, and also what it's like living in just one cube, just one section, millennium after millennium after millennium...you get my point. From One Side will also have such things as polls in certain cubes (some polls must be relayed by intra-cube Borg). Interviews done via e-mail and then written into From One Side are also possibilities for the column. Another problem with first columns is not knowing how long to make the column. I'm starting out with 28 including the title and signoff, but that's simply an arbitrary number. Once polls and interviews are incorporated into From One Side, the length will grow. ---Ti'nae Seyan, Genie cube (GEnie:STAR) ============= ADVERTISEMENT ============= Enter a place that B.B. Kingus called "The Only Place to Order a Drink and get assimilated all in the same night" The Club that John Lee Hookerus called "The Must Club to get accosted by the drop dead beautiful Bouncer with the pointed ears!" It's the Borg Blues Club, Come visit today and see what all the excitement is about. ================================= BORG SIGHTINGS IN OTHER UNIVERSES ================================= [This interchange is an example of what happens when Borg try to discuss STNG is an adult and intelligent manner. It was found on Prodigy, TV BB, Star Trek topic.--eds.] I firmly believe that Spot will find Data in the shower in part 2. ---Olympius, theoretical Borg, in a rare appearance (Prodigy:DPNV14B) [Olympius is referring to the season cliff- hanger ending of the 6th season of STNG. "Descent Part 1", where Data goes off to play with the bad borgs.--ed.] What will Data be doing in the shower? --Swannox (Prodigy:HCMH17F) Why, washing off the Pepsi, of course. ---Olympius, or perhaps testing the waters, just as we. No wonder Data turned evil! Pepsi could kill you!! ---Swannox, Cola War III? But has Data turned evil, or has he just calculated that the way to defeat the bad new Borg (obviously the renegade ones who keep coming into the Blues Club and trying to pick fights) was to go to the center of their operations and discover the programming error? ---Olympius- the programming error here is we don't get new episodes until Saturday. You are too optimistic. Data's rotten through and through. ---Oxnardus of Borg, Knows that the Borg have a bad influence (Prodigy:HCMH17A) What an Error you have in your broadcast pathways! It's a Q fest this Saturday, 6:00 P.M. DS9 (Q episode) 7:00 P.M. TNG (Picard Dies/Q episode) ---Swannox, thinks that Spot is the mastermind to this whole plan!- Data's rotten through and through? But then if Lore is his bad self, does that mean he's the opposite of bad, or that he's bad at being rotten, or that her just that much worse? ---Olympius, help us here, we're finding the logic grueling We always knew that cat was much too innocent looking to be convincing. --Olympius, our cats hate poetry Nope, Lore and Data are now one. They are joined at the hip or whatever. The Brothers Soong. Sounds like a vaudeville act. ---Oxnardus, Borg Political Commentator But, If they're BOTH bad, then where's the dramatic tension? Will we see them reduced, eventually, to squabbling over the leadership, making personal insults about each others positronic pathways, and attributing false quotes each to the other? ---Olympius, isn't that what happens when there's two bad guys? 1. The dramatic tension is in the E* good guys trying to make them both into good guys. 2. They both still have an off-switch, don't they? And who among the E* crew is likely to be good with a slingshot? Just two well-aimed rocks in the middles of their backs should turn them both off. 3. Howcum nobody reacted to my note on the games bb about using the vampire clouds against the Borg? They were from the TOS episode, "Obsession." 4. Actually the Borg ALREADY look like hi-tech vampires! ---STEPHEN MENDENHALL (PRODIGY:MFNG88B) We don't go to the Game Club, we find it much too serious. Some Borg may be vampires, but we personally find Vampires rather rule-bound and incapable of spontaneous fun. ---Olympius of the Borg Psychological Institute We Think that Dr. Crusher is also involved, she likes Spot you know. But what gave it away was when Riker was watching the cat when Data was away a couple of episodes ago, Spot attacked Riker, must have stumbled into the cats grand plan! ---Swannox Of course Dr. Crusher is involved: she's always wanted to boil Picard alive, but has been hiding her hatred of him behind an insipid mask of friendship for years. She and Hugh have been involved in an sub-ethernet affair and are ready to run away to the Horsehead Nebula... ---Olympius, trapper of wild surmises That would mean that the Geordi thing is a part of this also, He didn't like it when Picard called His Pet Borg Hugh a lab rat, that and the fact that Picard has scored more with the ladies than he has! ---Swannox, the plot thickens! If Data's in the shower, he's obviously waiting for Spot ---RKO (RICHARD OVERSTREET) (Prodigy:NXTJ07F) If the enterprising members of the Enterprise crew could get a handle on the homing signal that Soong used to summon Data (and the unwanted Lore), maybe they could swamp Lore's mind (which is a swamp in its own right) and lure him to his re-cycling into something useful--like, maybe, a bucket for Odo to sleep in. How many shape-shifters get to sleep in the mortal remains of a Soong-type android? ---RKO (RICHARD OVERSTREET) (Prodigy:NXTJ07F) Geordi may or may not be part of it; his motivations and characterization is so nebulous that we are having a hard time understanding what he is up to- so relentlessly positive it makes our maceratory implants ache. ---Olympius, prefers the piquant to the sweet. We have noticed that it is the Star Trek Way never to waste any really solid enemies; if Lore is be-bucketed then they will either have to come up with an new bad guy (and more importantly one who will make them hire an additional actor) or write more alternate time-line scripts, which we believe will eventually cause the viewers to rise up and rebel and watch Marty Stouffer instead. ---Olympius, Borg Zoologician Please--not Marty Stouffer! ---RKO (RICHARD OVERSTREET) (Prodigy:NXTJ07F) Well, we refuse to believe that anyone would be driven so far from intelligent behavior as to watch "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman". ---Olympius of there are LIMITS What about Wesley? ---Swannox, thinking that the weasel is upset about an extra year at Starfleet! HEY, WE WATCH DR. QUINN! ---Dr Bones McBorg, I'm a Borg Dammit, not a Doctor! (Prodigy:HCMH17F) Swannox, we realize that as President you need to keep in touch with the tastes of the common people, but we hope if you WATCH Dr. Quinn you don't plan your week around it. About the Weasel, it is possible that he found the original Rebel Borg through a dating service, and has been assimilated into the Lore-Borg cube. But more probably he met an attractive Borg in a sleazy bar somewhere and was seduced into a core memory dump which exposed all of the weaknesses of the Enterprise crew. ---Olympius , we know what the WC is. I have solved it. Dr Crusher and Spot the Cat were upset that Hugh was going to be use as a lab rat. So the Cat and the Dr. decide that they are going to get Picard back, while planning this evil deed, the Dr. and the Cat are discovered by Geordi. Geordi, always so jealous of the Capt and his ability to score with women, decides to help them out. So, They program Hugh with a program that turns them into, what they are now. In an unrelated incident, while in the backseat of a shuttlecraft with a rather attractive Borg Bimbette, weasel and his borg babe bump into Lore, who just happened to be dating that Borg Bimbette at the time. So Weasel decides to help Lore with his plan to Crush the Federation, in return, Dr. Crusher doesn't find out about the backseat. After a Core Download by the Borg Bimbette, Lore and Bimbette take of on there Borg Scooter heading for Earth, well they just happen to bump into the Hell's Borg, a Borg Scooter Gang and they are ready to rumble, well Lore defeats the Bikers leader Oxnardus in a bad Picard Jokes Duel. Lore takes the bikers to this nifty pad he has and he names them all and makes them his pets, well at this time, the Hugh Boy shows up and really messes up the Collective with his Geordi/Spot Evasive Program. While Hugh is making the Borg into very bad boys, Lore figures a way to get revenge on his dear brother. Well, Spot beats him to it by placing some White Castle Burgers in Data's Brain, giving him the emotions. JUMPING AHEAD, the Captured Borg who was aboard the enterprise, who's mission was to find Picards Head Cream discovers the Burger in Data's head and Microwaves it, giving Data some very bad thoughts. Well, Data comes back and seeing that Data is a hip boy now, Lore and Data make up and plan on crushing the universe! ---Swannox The only problem we see is that Weasel ever got anyshe, Borg or Cardassian or Horta into the backseat of anything Beverly would probably be pleased as punch, as she has given up on the idea of ever becoming a grandmother. ---Olympius of old fashioned nurturing Starfleet officers. There are over 1,000 people aboard the Enterprise that can at any moment be drafted to play a good guy. So Data and Lore are bad. Data always bothered me anyways. Maybe a big earthquake will gobble them up. ---Oxnardus, wishful thinker and fashionably late... Oxnardus, there are many good guys, but we must remember the archetypical brother-vs-brother conflict has many existing storylines to follow, whereas we see little chance of having Lore and Data become Jesse and Frank Cyberjames in space. Actually, now that we think of it, maybe that is a good idea. ---Olympius, but will Berman pay us for it? Boy you people will do anything to get on the bb. Do you people know how stuped you sound. ---comandor Hanson (Prodigy:VJTX62B) =================== POETRY CORNER Musings About Aging =================== (subtitled-"Where Do The Old Borgs Go?") ---------------------------------------- by Analog the Android (GEnie:A.Doerr2) [Being an android, I chose to demonstrate my prowess with the literary arts by writing my musings in a PANTOUM, a Malayan poetry form.] Do androids ever look their age? I suppose they do for a while. They look a lot older at their birth, Yet look younger most of their lives. I suppose they do for a while, Look the age they actually are - Yet look younger most of their lives. I doubt the Borg share the same fate. Look the age they actually are, Often the lot for organics and Borg. I doubt the Borg share the same fate As their parts of silicone and titanium steel. Often the lot for organics and Borg: To age as Father Time marches on. As their parts of silicone and titanium steel, Find other spots to rest upon. To age as Father Time marches on - With arthritic joints and brittle bones. Find other spots to rest upon, Let the rest of the world pass. With arthritic joints and brittle bones, Does the aging Borg get these parts replaced? Let the rest of the world pass, I will contemplate this thought. Does the aging Borg get these parts replaced? Wouldn't they end up like me? I will contemplate this thought - Where do the old Borgs go? Wouldn't they end up like me? Well, I haven't met one yet. Where do the old Borgs go? Do they have a retirement home? Well, I haven't met one yet. I wonder what that means - Do they have a retirement home? Or do they depart as Soylent Green? I wonder what that means. Do they take shuttle tours of systems? Or do they depart as Soylent Green? Maybe they just hide when company comes. Do they take shuttle tours of systems? What other things would an old Borg do? Maybe they just hide when company comes. I really wish someone would tell me. What other things would an old Borg do? Do they enjoy their golden years? I really wish someone would tell me. Where do the old Borgs go? [Analog - not implying that any of the Borg here are old - just wondering why you never see old Borgs.] ======== BETAVIEW ======== by Deannus of Troy (GEnie: J.Niesen) Hello, Ladies and Gentlebeings, it is I, Deannus, bringing to you BetaView, a column on the Betazoids' perspective on Life in the Cube. As Sierra, my sister, and I are the only Betas in the cube [on GEnie], Oxnardus recruited us. Y'all know how shy Si is, so who got stuck with it? Me. 'Tis interesting to meet the different species- Tinae Seyan and Baja Ro, the resident Bajorans, T'Caer, our favorite Rihannsu lady, GQ, Q2, Q2U2, and all of the *Q, and of course, the Borg. I myself think that StarFleet made a grave mistake on judging the Borg. Most of the Borg I've met are kind, gentle beings who would rather, as they said in the sixties, "Make Love, Not War." Take Lucretia, for instance. She would rather be reading John Grishborg, or some other author than assimilating some species! Same goes for Chats, who would rather have a redhead on his arm, (or other parts) than killing innocent women and children. There's always Rialtus, who makes toothpicks, and Nocluetus, most of them, I sense, would rather play contact sports than fly around, taking chunks of planets. So I say, StarFleet- come to the Jiffy Cube sometime- and always remember...... Resistance is futile. You will be inseminated. And that's The BetaView. ==================================== SLUG TREK: THE UNDISCOVERED PLOTLINE ==================================== PArt One...Yet another continuing story... Starring: Mojo IV as Captain Sean-Luc Escargot of the starship, Snail Trail Mr. Loste as Commander William T. Loste Nip as Lt. Commander Nippon, the only asian android in the galaxy Dwarf as Lt. Dworf, chief of security Msjuge as a lusty bartender in 7-UP (the ship's bar) Katana as Counselor Deanna Hermaphrodite(a Betamax) Alison Chains as Dr. Busterly Crusher (I get the good looking woman, Pbbbt!) Roland DeGraf as Himself, Chief Engineer (hell, he wrote the software [VBBS], why not?) (and, no, this is NOT a blind joke!) Psycho as Chief Miles O'Psycho, transporter chief Mad Max as Acting Admiral Weasly Crusher AsonJason as Acting Admiral Weasly Crusher's mid season replacement Stranger as "Q" "Q" as Mr. X Mr. X as Stranger "Slugs.. the ultimate life form. These are the voyages of the starship, Snail Trail. Its 60 minutes a day mission with standard user access, To seek out bad puns and complications. To boldly go, where no cyberpunk has gone before!" Captain Jean-Luc Escargot: Captains log, stardate 3:45am. We are currently en route to the If-I-Could-Walk-Like-That-I-Wouldn't-Need-Aftershave system to investigate Roman intrusions into the... Commander Nippon: Excuse me, you lowly round eyed dog, sir, but I believe you mean ROMULANS. Capt: Oh, sorry. grrr... Area, yeah, that's it, area. Mr. Crusher, status report. Acting Admiral Weasly Crusher: I don't quite like your tone! I'll bust you down to henson... Capt: Oh, shut up. Lt. Dworf, status report? Dworf: I've got the stomach flu and my girlfriend is 3 weeks late. Capt: Aha, that's too bad. What've you got on the Romulans? Dworf: Well, I'm taller, a better dancer, and much more fun to be with. Capt: Yes, I see. Counselor Hermaphrodite, what do you know about the Romulan brain. Counselor Deanna Hermaphrodite: I'll get you for this, Mojo. I don't know HOW you convinced me to put this damn dress on but when I get this stupid girdle off I'm gonna... Capt: Hey, Katana, just keep your PAYCHECK in mind. Herm: Oh, ok. Capt: Commander Nippon, what's our ETA to If-I-could-walk-like- that-I-wouldn't-need-cologne? Nippon: That's AFTERSHAVE, you ugly inferior dog!!! Capt: What was that? Nippon: You ugly inferior dog... SIR! Capt: That's better. Capt: Yes? Dr. Busterly Crusher: I want you! What are you wearing! I want to feel your long, hard... CAPT: No! Uh, no, that's, uh, nice of you. Umm, I'll talk to you, uh... later. Doc: I'll be waiting... to be continued.... ---Mojo IV #1 @8054 HogNET;#1 @1805004 VirtualNET;1:206/2502 FidoNet ========================= BORG LIBRARY LISTS TOP TEN LIST FOR THE WEEK ========================= 1. The WereBorg of London by Brian Stableborg 2. The Borgkeepers by Chris Borgdien-Jones 3. Child of an Ancient Borg by Tad Williamborg 4. Shadow Borg by Dennis Etchiborg 5. Mostly Harmless Borg by Douglas Aborg 6. The Architecture of Desiring Borg by Mary Gentleborg 7. The Borg in the Moon Must Die by Jeff Bredenborg 8. The Multiplex Borg by James P. Hoborg 9. A Dark and Hungry Borg Arises by Stephen R. Donaldborg 10. The Hollow Borg by Dan Simmborg These and other titles available at the Borgaritaville Public Library. Requests taken. Storytime 10 am Wed and Fri. ---Lucretia Borgia, Head Librarian (GEnie: K.Vonmayr/Prodigy: MBJM54B) ===================== QUESTION OF THE MONTH ===================== Can One Borg Keep a Secret? Or Do They All Know It? ---Analog (GEnie:A.DOERR2) ========== THEATRE AD ========== A quiet summer street dances with streaks of sunlight. In the ruffled trees that line both sides, birds chirp lightly as the sound mingles with the laughter of children. At first there comes a sound like the distant rumble of thunder. Then the birds instantly cease their happy song......all eyes turn towards the end of the block.....large yellow feathers suddenly float up into the air from behind a weathered fence.... the loud clang of metal on metal clamors as a large garbage can lid slams shut......then it becomes deathly quiet...... Impact tremors suddenly shake the ground as a large shadow looms over the usually happy town...... And a deafening roar lets loose from the beast....... "KKKEEEEEEERRRRRRMMMMMIIIIIIEEEE!!!" ....yes, folks, it's.... NIGHTMARE ON SESAME STREET PART ONE "JURASSIC PORK" STARRING MISS PIGGY as the T-Rex sized velociporker KERMIT D. FROG as the Professor THE COUNT as Malcolm GROVER as the guy that knows about pork-by-products and what happens to the leftovers BIG BIRD as the attorney BERT AND ERNIE as the kids OSCAR THE GROUCH as the obnoxious computer hacker. YOU'LL LAUGH! YOU'LL SCREAM! YOU'LL LEARN HOW TO COUNT TO FOURTEEN! coming to a theater near you ---Tricius of Borg ================ BORG FILMOGRAPHY ================ "Descent Part One" Original airdate: 06/27/93. Teleplay by Ronald D. Moore. Story by Jeri Taylor. Directed by Alexander Singer. GUESTS: James Carver, Brian Cousins, Richard Gilbert-Hill, Stephen Hawking, John Neville, Natalija Nogulich (Admiral), Jim Norton. PLOT: Teaser with Data playing poker with Newton, Einstein and Hawking in holodeck. Strangely enough, the name of the episode is displayed on the screen before the titles are run. The Enterprise responds to a distress beacon from an outpost. They encounter a very large ship of unknown design which appears to be abandoned. An away team consisting of Riker, Worf, Data and some unlucky chick go to outpost, discover all 200 inhabitants killed, and encounter some Borg. A battle ensues. The unlucky chick gets fried. A borg and Data go mano a mano and the Borg gets Data in a hand grip. Data turns the tide and kills the Borg. Riker notes that one of the Borg is giving a running commentary of the fight out loud. After a Borg has fallen the Borg says loudly "Torsus was killed. I will make you suffer for this." Riker's ears perk up. Something is afoot with the collective!!! Severe personality changes!!! After Data wastes a Borg, the Howard Cosell Borg beams up to the big ship. Turns out the big ship was impervious to the Enterprise's sensors (uh oh! bad sign). The big ship then disappears. After the melee Data looks weird. Riker asks what's up. Data says that he got 'angry.' During the debriefing, Riker extrapolates that the Borg were rogue Borg. Worf adds that they were using the pronoun "I" a lot. Crusher hypothesizes that Hugh may have influenced the collective. Picard concludes that the Borg are no longer interested in technology, but that their agenda has changed...but to what??? Picard assigns everyone a little job and scoots off to inform Star Fleet of the situation (bad move Jean-Luc!!!). Geordi attempts to help Data figure out whether he really did get 'angry' at the Borg. Data is not satisfied by Geordi's help, so he hightails it over to Troi. Picard gets chewed out by a sarcastic Star Fleet Admiral for letting Hugh go. Picard is ordered to destroy the Borg the very next opportunity he has. He was a bad boy and he knows it. Data and Troi get into a "profound" discussion on the nature of anger. Data reveals his "fear" of becoming a "bad" person (HEAVY HANDED FORESHADOWING ALERT) because he felt pleasure in bopping the borg. Meanwhile, the colonies and outposts are spooked and reporting every ship as a borg intruder. It's driving Picard and Riker nutszoid. Geordi discovers that the Borg disappeared by using a subspace distortion. Picard snaps at Riker and mulls over his choice of letting Hugh go. He decides that although it was the ethical thing to do, it may not have been the right thing to do (yeah right Picard...everyone one knows that the ethical ALWAYS takes precedence over the non-ethical). Geordi goes looking for Data and finds Data in the holodeck beating up faux borg. Data is attempting to recreate his feeling of anger. The ship goes into red alert! MS1 is attacked by borg! Enterprise to the rescue! The Enterprise chases a big bad borg ship and are sucked into the subspace distortion field. Once out of the field, two borg beam on the bridge (heck, why not..everyone else does!). The ever ready bridge crew shoot the borg. One is killed and another survives. Riker notes they are not vaporized. Picard notes is was a ruse to allow the big bad borg ship to get away (which it did!). The surviving borg is Croesus. He is detained in the detention area. Croesus talks to Picard about the new borg rage of destroying inferior organisms and how "The One" taught them all about it. When talking to Data. Croesus touches his arm and a green light goes on. Data gives a weird look. Croesus then talks Data into stealing a shuttle craft and becoming a homicidal maniac. They leave that pop stand. They never say in the scene what happened to the (most likely unfortunate) ensign operating the force field in the detention area. Worf discovers the breach and tries to bring back the shuttle, but the shuttle makes it to the subspace distortion field. The Enterprise follows the shuttle through it and to a planet which has a natural deterrent to sensors (uh oh, another bad sign). Picard leaves a skeleton crew on board with Crusher in command. He uses the rest of the crew to form search teams in order to search the surface of the planet. Picard, Geordi, Troi and an unlucky guy constitute a search team. They find a building in what looks like a wilderness area in South California. They enter the building. They are surrounded by borg. The unlucky guy gets fried. Lore comes out, followed by Data who proclaims, "The sons of Soong have joined together and together we will destroy the Federation." Obviously, StarFleet was late one too many times with Data's paycheck. Picard, Geordi, and Troi look concerned at each other. ---Swannox of Borg ================= BORG COMICOGRAPHY ================= "The Worst of Both Worlds: Part Three: The Armies of the Night" Part three of four parts STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, No. 49 (August 1993). 24pg. DC Comics. Writer: Michael Jan Freidman. Penciller: Peter Krause. Inker: Pablo Marcos. Letterer: Bob Pinaha. Colorist: Julianna Ferriter. Editor: Alan Gold. CHARACTERS (identified in text): Picard, Data, Riker, Troi, Bev Crusher, Worf, Geordi. Alternative Universe: Riker, Worf, Geordi, Shelby, O'Brien, Wesley Crusher, Locutus. SYNOPSIS: The cover art gives the ending of this book away right away, with a Borg with a large blaster arm attachment blasting Worf. The cover reads ONE WILL DIE!. Part 3 starts out with Picard and Date realizing that Locutus is not aboard the Borg Cube. In a scene identical to the escape Worf and Data made in the TV Episode "Best of Both Worlds Part 1", they flee the Borg Cube. Later aboard the AU (alternative universe) Enterprise, they discover that Locutus is on Earth. They plan to go down and infiltrate Starfleet HQ, turn the shield off and beam Locutus out. Later, Worf and AU Worf have a heart warming talk and make their way to the Transporter Room. Aboard THE ENTERPRISE, AU Shelby agrees to play decoy while the away team is on Earth. She is still talking Mutiny and comments she has a ship of her own. However, AU O'Brien hits a button on the Ops panel (looked suspect) when AU Shelby alerts the crew to be ready for some independent action. On Earth, the landing party of Picard, Data, Riker and the two Worfs find that Starfleet HQ is now a conversion plant to turn humans into Borg. They make their way to Locutus, turn the shield off and grab Locutus, all the while blasting through Borg who have rather large arm blasters on both arms. While giving the order to beam up, the landing party is split up a few feet and two Borgs blast toward the Worfs who are holding Locutus. The Last panel only show's a rather burned hand with Picard yelling Worf! ---Swannox ============== EDITOR NOTICES ============== The Borg Club is located EVERYWHERE. If you wish to be assimilated just ask a local Borg to do so. We are sure they would be more than happy to assimilate you quickly and painlessly, not to mention take your culture and technology from you as well. ================= COPYRIGHT NOTICES ================= "RIF" acknowledges that Paramount Pictures and its various subsidiaries as having the sole rights to the Star Trek trademark. "RIF" has no intention to infringe upon that copyright or earn profit from this publication. It is distributed free of charge. This newsletter may be distributed by anyone if kept intact and not altered in any way. Consider it shareware publishing! Resistance is Futile, copyright (c) 1993 by RIF BBS. ============================ BACK ISSUES OF RIF AVAILABLE ============================ Missing an issue? Used your RIF for a place mat or coaster one time too many? Just mail a self-addressed stamped ($.52) business sized envelope indicating which issue you'd like to RIF BBS, P.O. Box 7822, Onxard, CA 93031 and that abused issue will be replaced. ========================= Addresses of contributors ========================= Analog the Android (GEnie:A.Doerr2) Dr Bones McBorg (Prodigy:HCMH17F) Comandor Hanson (Prodigy:VJTX62B) Deannus of Troy (GEnie: J.Niesen) Lucretia Borgia (GEnie: K.Vonmayr/Prodigy: MBJM54B) STEPHEN MENDENHALL (PRODIGY:MFNG88B) Mojo IV #1 @8054 HogNET;#1 @1805004 VirtualNET;1:206/2502 FidoNet Olympius (Prodigy:DPNV14B) Oxnardus of Borg (Prodigy:HCMH17A) RKO (RICHARD OVERSTREET) (Prodigy:NXTJ07F) Swannox (Prodigy:HCMH17F) Ti'nae Seyan, Genie cube (GEnie:STAR) Tricius of Borg