Ready for 2009!

rana · Post by **rana** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 5:37 pm

Hello all! I first found out about Burning Man in January 2007. I forget exactly how but I decided to Google it since I had heard its name dropped many times, and stayed up really late poring over burningman.com. I haven't stopped thinking about it since then! It hasn't been possible to attend just yet, but next year is a GO! This is my graduation present to myself, I'm graduating in December with a BFA in Fine Arts with minors in graphic design, advertising and psychology.

I also randomly started spinning poi so I am always working on that and trying to learn new moves! The 5-beat weave and behind-the-back weave are really tough ones to learn.

Anyway! I am on the burning_man livejournal comm as iridescentcold and I can't wait to see you all soon!!!

Post by **Elderberry** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 5:52 pm

Hi rana,

welcome to eplaya. Congratulations and what a nice graduation present to yourself.

JK

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 6:11 pm

Is your name pronounced Ray na, or Ra na?
sorry, it's a star trek thing with me......

rana · Post by **rana** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 6:13 pm

ygmir wrote:Is your name pronounced Ray na, or Ra na?
sorry, it's a star trek thing with me......

it's Ra na. Like Lana, but with an R.
happens all the time...

I was on Star Trek?

drutter · Post by **drutter** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 6:28 pm

Welcome, rana

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 7:44 pm

rana wrote:
ygmir wrote:Is your name pronounced Ray na, or Ra na?
sorry, it's a star trek thing with me......

it's Ra na. Like Lana, but with an R.
happens all the time...

I was on Star Trek?

well, no.....
RaYna was the androids name Kirk falls in love with, the only time he truly falls in love on the show, and, Spock has to erase the memory from his mind to save his sanity............

Ok, I'm a Star Trek geek.....I admit it........must be eclectic you know........

welcome, nonetheless......

rana · Post by **rana** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 7:46 pm

ygmir wrote:
rana wrote:
ygmir wrote:Is your name pronounced Ray na, or Ra na?
sorry, it's a star trek thing with me......

it's Ra na. Like Lana, but with an R.
happens all the time...

I was on Star Trek?
well, no.....
RaYna was the androids name Kirk falls in love with, the only time he truly falls in love on the show, and, Spock has to erase the memory from his mind to save his sanity............

Ok, I'm a Star Trek geek.....I admit it........must be eclectic you know........

welcome, nonetheless......

I think I do remember that one, with the time circle thing that takes Kirk to Nazi Germany? I had forgotten her name.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 9:17 pm

nope, that was Edith Keeler......."the guardian of forever" episode......

Rayna was in "requiem for Methuselah"......."Flint", her 'creator' makes her as his eternal, beautiful "mate", but, she falls for Kirk, and, becomes "human" in spirit, in the process. this "kills" her......Kirk is devastated, to the point of being almost catatonic......

Spock takes away Kirks ability to "love", to save him.
He's almost in love with Edith Keeler, but, as soon as he's back, it's obvious he's over her death.....

Also,
Miramani (can't remember the episode name), the indian gal.......
again, he's ok soon after he death and his return to the Enterprise....

Of course, throughout the show, he "loves" many women, alien and human........

"no, I am not obsessed with Star Trek".........stop giggling........grin.....

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:43 pm

I think you guys are mixing up some plots.

Is the Rana episode the one where McCoy says "I do wish he could forget her."?

Spock puts his hand on Kirk and says
"Forget."
end

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 11:00 pm

yes, that is the episode. "Requiem for Methuselah" Rayna, McCoy's "I just wish he could forget her" and, Spocks "Forget"......
comes back up in "The Wrath of Kahn".......

the Miramani episode is different, I think the name is "Paradise" something or other....

as well as "The Guardian of forever", Edith Keeler, in the U.S. pre WWII where she possibly allows the Germans to finish the heavy water experiments, and, Kirk has to stop McCoy from saving her from getting run over by a truck.......

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 11:30 pm

Return to Paradise maybe?

I think Kirk dealt with nazis in the dual earth episode.

Be sure to thank Lucy for Star Trek.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 6:48 am

yes, I think you[re right, Return to Paradise.

Kirk was transported into a Nazi type planet at one point, where a predecessor Gill, had used the model to save their society.

By the way, I'm only referring to the original Star Trek, I've not been able, really, to get into any of the spinoffs.......

I'm trying to remember a 'dual earth' episode.........

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:19 am

That's the one I was thinking of, though the gangster episode comes to mind too.
Earth episodes were a cost saving approach for sets.

I always felt that the Teri Garr episode was planned for some future stories.
I wonder if any books expanded on that?
Tomorrow Is Yesterday by D.C. Fontana.

Did you see the cartoons?
They were based on the books and had some very advanced plots even though they were made for children.
The holodeck and other things came from those books.

I met Roddenberry and talked for some time with him.
I always wished I could have spent more time with him.
To be a visionary and write for television is a very tough thing to do.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 1:05 pm

gyre wrote:That's the one I was thinking of, though the gangster episode comes to mind too.
Earth episodes were a cost saving approach for sets.

I always felt that the Teri Garr episode was planned for some future stories.
I wonder if any books expanded on that?
Tomorrow Is Yesterday by D.C. Fontana.

Did you see the cartoons?
They were based on the books and had some very advanced plots even though they were made for children.
The holodeck and other things came from those books.

I met Roddenberry and talked for some time with him.
I always wished I could have spent more time with him.
To be a visionary and write for television is a very tough thing to do.

yup, but, no Nazi's in "A piece of the action", the gangster one......

The Terri Gar one, I can't remember the name, but "Mr. Sevin" was the main guy.
I agree with you about that.

I don't remember the cartoons.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:03 pm

It's my understanding that there was going to be some sort of spin off from that Teri Garr episode.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:48 pm

I think you're both right, Fishy and Gyre......

I may have to break down and google that, unless someone else does.......

"for the world is hollow, and, I've touched the sky"..............
What planet is that reference to?

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:12 pm

Isn't that hte one where McCoy falls in love with that priestess who runs things and the powerful people live in a city underground, but the whole thing is artificially built by their ancestors, and they don't realize it?

And then there's the bloody garden of eden motif.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 7:16 am

Fishy,
you are my hero......

yes, the planet was Unada......and, is as you say.......the old man who tells them is killed by the machines that run the planet for telling......

you mean the garden of Eden where the hippy group go, I think, Dr. Severin is the leader? and, the apple is poison?........

fciron · Post by **fciron** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 7:24 am

Way to go folks.

Now that we've outed ourselves as old star trek geeks Rana has disappeared. Perhaps this conversation should be in the "What really goes on at Burning Man" thread?

rana · Post by **rana** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 7:40 am

hah I'm still here! I do enjoy the occasional classic Star Trek [could never get into the newer ones] although I'm not as well versed as you all seem to be =)

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 7:52 am

fciron wrote:Way to go folks.

Now that we've outed ourselves as old star trek geeks Rana has disappeared. Perhaps this conversation should be in the "What really goes on at Burning Man" thread?

we may have to beam you into deep space, widest possible dispersion.........

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 7:53 am

rana wrote:hah I'm still here! I do enjoy the occasional classic Star Trek [could never get into the newer ones] although I'm not as well versed as you all seem to be =)

Rana:
you are a good sport, truly. Seems, at times, at least speaking for myself, I can get carried away with trivia...........

Toolmaker · Post by **Toolmaker** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:07 am

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:51 am

Toolmaker wrote:

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:54 am

ygmir wrote:you mean the garden of Eden where the hippy group go, I think, Dr. Severin is the leader? and, the apple is poison?........

One of many. My sister and I used to have jokes about it. Another one is the one with the natives who feed a dragon statue thing and eventually the enterprise kills the statue. Another is the one with the spores that make Spock fall in love.

It sort of goes on and on.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:25 am

you're just feeding my admiration of you..........