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I should have guessed that the temperature was dropping when I started getting sick again, but it still took me until Monday to start wearing a jumper.

Australian weather is so deceptive; it always looks nice and sunny outside, but 10 minutes after you've left the house, the wind suddenly hits and your shorts and t-shirt suddenly seem woeful protection against the elements.

One of the benefits of wearing the jumper was that I didn't freeze to death in possibly the coldest place on Earth after the Arctic Circle - my Monday morning Latin classroom. Since the rooms in the actual Classics department resemble broom-cupboards rather than classrooms and aren't useful for teaching more than about 2 people at a time (okay, that's a slight exaggeration - 10 people), we are usually allocated rooms graciously offered in other buildings. Like the Engineering building. Or the Mineral Sciences building. Or that freezing room at the bottom of the Architecture building.

With all these supposedly intelligent people floating around, no one seems to be able to work out how to turn the air conditioning off. I mean, even the Romans had hypocausts.

Trek BBS Today

Below are some of the topics currently being discussed at the Trek BBS:

- Whatever happened to the Gorn?

- Speculate on the limitations of 22nd century technology.

- Which Voyager episode would you expand into a movie?

More topics can be found at the Trek BBS!

Trek Two Years Ago

• DS9 TV Guide Covers
  Just like those released by TV Guide to celebrate the Voyager finale, two years ago they also released a series of covers as a tribute to Deep Space Nine. The actual articles in the magazine contained details of the series finale, including the last filmed scene, which took place in Vic Fontaine's lounge.

• John de Lancie Chat Transcript
  John de Lancie (Q) participated in a live chat at the Star Trek Continuum, as the official site was then known. In the chat, de Lancie revealed that the password to the Q Continuum was "Swordfish," and that people have followed him into the women's restroom to take photos of him.

• Hello World!
  One of the more amusing manifestations of an 'Inside Source' made itself known to Christian two years ago today. The 'source' claimed that Series V would be set 200 years from now and star Leonardo DiCaprio as the Captain. Of course, those who didn't twig then that it was just some guy or girl having fun with their Hotmail account, should know by now that Scott Bakula will be playing the Captain in the next series.

Happy Birthday!

Happy 60th Birthday to Paul Winfield, who played Captain Terrell in 'Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan' and Darmok in TNG's 'Darmok.'

Today's Television Listings

• The Sci-Fi Channel will be showing the Original Series 'Journey to Babel' at 5:00p.m.

• In Canada, Space! will be showing the Original Series 'Catspaw' at 10:00 a.m and 4:00 p.m EST. Deep Space Nine's 'Invasive Procedures' will be shown at 5:00 p.m and Voyager's 'Warlord' at 10:00 p.m.

• In the United Kingdom, Sky One will be showing the Next Generation's 'The Measure of a Man' at 17:00 GMT. Thanks go out to the Great Link for this!

• In Germany, Sat.1 will be showing the Next Generation's 'Die Geheimnisvolle Kraft' at 16:00 CET.

• In the Netherlands, Yorin will be showing Deep Space Nine's 'Treachery, Faith And The Great River' at 17:15 ECT. Net5 will be showing Voyager's 'Unity' at 18:35. Thanks go out to StarTrek.nl for this!

Tomorrow's Television Listings

• At 9:00pm (8:00pm Central), UPN will be showing Voyager's two-hour series finale, 'Endgame.' Here is how Paramount describes the episode:

  It took the U.S.S. Voyager decades to journey home from the Delta Quadrant, decades which took their toll upon the ship's crew and Captain. Now an Admiral in Starfleet, Kathryn Janeway cannot reconcile the price of the long passage, and embarks on an ambitious and forbidden plan to change the past, forcing a final confrontation with Voyager 's deadliest enemy.

• The Sci-Fi Channel will be showing The Original Series's 'A Taste Of Armageddon' at 11:00am, 'Wolf In The Fold' at 12:00, 'The Immunity Syndrome' at 1:00, 'Whom Gods Destroy' at 2:00, 'The Cloud Minders' at 3:00 and 'Friday's Child' at 5:00.

• In Canada, Space! will be showing The Original Series's 'I, Mudd' at 10:00am Eastern Time, TNG's 'The Enemy' at 12:00, a repeat of 'I, Mudd' at 4:00, DS9's 'Cardassians' at 5:00 and Voyager's 'The Q And The Grey' at 10:00.

• In the United Kingdom, Sky One will be showing TNG's 'The Dauphin' at 17:00 GMT, with a repeat at 00:00. BBC2 will be showing DS9's 'Prodigal Daughter' at 18:45. Thanks go out to the Great Link for this!

• In the Netherlands, Yorin will be showing DS9's 'Once More Unto The Breach' at 17:15 CET, and Net5 will be showing Voyager's 'Darkling' at 18:35. Thanks go out to StarTrek.nl for this!

• In Australia, Channel 9 will be showing Voyager's 'Bliss' at 12:00 midnight. Thanks go out to the Australian Babylon 5 & Star Trek air schedule

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