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Activists release amateur video reportedly showing the shelling of Aleppo by Syrian government forces while Japan confirms a war correspondent, Maya Yamamoto, was killed by gunfire in Syria. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
Updated at 12:00 p.m. ET: Russia rebuffed President Barack Obama's threat of unilateral action against Syria Tuesday, as officials said 2,500 refugees fled across the border into Turkey in just 24 hours – one of the highest daily refugee flows of recent weeks.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking after meeting China's top diplomat, said Moscow and Beijing were committed to "the need to strictly adhere to the norms of international law ... and not to allow their violation".
Obama draws 'red line' for Syria on chemical and biological weapons
Obama on Monday threatened "enormous consequences" if his Syrian counterpart used chemical or biological arms or even moved them in a menacing way.
The president used some of his strongest language yet to warn Assad not to use chemical or biological weapons – after Syria acknowledged for the first time that it had such weapons and could use them if foreign countries attacked it.
At an impromptu White House news conference, President Obama comments on GOP Mo., Senate candidate Todd Akin's remarks about rape, Mitt Romney's refusal to release more than two years' worth of tax returns, and the unrest in Syria. Watch the entire news conference.
"We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is (if) we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized," he said. "That would change my calculus."
Syria 'ready to discuss' Assad's resignation, deputy PM says
"We cannot have a situation where chemical or biological weapons are falling into the hands of the wrong people," Obama said, perhaps referring to Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah group, an Iranian-backed ally of Assad, or to Islamist militants.
Turkey's foreign minister has warned it can accommodate no more than 100,000 refugees and that the United Nations may need to create a "safe zone" within Syria to shelter any beyond that number.
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After months of protests and violent crackdowns, a look back at the violence that has overtaken the country.
Thousands of refugees
A Turkish official told Reuters on Tuesday that about 2,500 people fleeing violence in Syria had entered Turkey in the preceding 24 hours, most of them entering the southeastern Turkish province of Hatay.
Turkish journalist Mahir Zeynalov reported on Twitter that four Syrian colonels and two captains crossed the border early Wednesday.
PhotoBlog: Clashes over Syrian conflict in Lebanon leave ten dead
Turkey is now sheltering close to 70,000 Syrian refugees and is struggling to accommodate the influx, which rose after a bomb attack near the border killed eight, spreading panic.
Four Syrian colonels, two captains are among 1,425 Syrians who crossed into Turkey this morning.— Mahir Zeynalov (@MahirZeynalov) August 22, 2012
In Lebanon, street battles between Sunnis and Alawites continued for a second night running, fueled by conflicting loyalties in the conflict across the border. The BBC reported that seven were killed and more than 70 wounded in the country's second-largest city, Tripoli.
Syrian President Bashar Assad, an Alawite, is battling largely Sunni opposition fighters. Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati, himself a Sunni, appealed to both sides to end the "absurd battle" in Tripoli.
In Syria itself, the army deployed tanks on a ring road surrounding Damascus on Wednesday and shelled southern neighborhoods where rebels operate, in the heaviest bombardment on the capital since the army reasserted control last month, residents said.
At least eight people were killed in the shelling, which was accompanied by an aerial bombardment, on the Kfar Souseh, Daraya, Qadam and Nahr Aisheh neighborhoods, they told Reuters.
Regional news channel Al-Jazeera reported that at least 24 people were killed across the country on Tuesday, among them women and children in Aleppo - the city over which the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) claims two-thirds control, and where a Japanese journalist was killed on Monday.
Activists: Japanese journalist killed in Aleppo
"We now control more than 60 per cent of the city of Aleppo, and each day we take control of new districts," said Abdel Jabbar al-Okaidi, a colonel with the FSA. He went on to list some 30 districts which he claimed were under FSA control, including about half of the embattled neighborhood of Salaheddin.
But a security source in Damascus rejected the claims, according to the AFP news agency, calling them "completely false".
Syrian President Bashar Assad makes a rare public appearance for the Muslim holiday of Eid on Sunday. NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin reports.
Likened to Iraq invasion
Syrian soldiers killed a journalist sympathetic to the rebels during a raid in Damascus on Wednesday. Mosaab al-Odaallah, who worked for the state-run Tishreen newspaper, was shot at point-blank range at his home by troops conducting house-to-house raids in the southern Nahr Eisha district of the capital, opposition activists said.
Massoud Akko, head of the public freedoms committee at the underground Syrian Journalists Association, said Odaallah's death brought to 54 the number of Syrian journalists, bloggers and writers killed by security forces during the uprising.
"Most have been killed with shots to the head. The regime appears to have adopted a systematic policy of killing journalists and social media activists," Akko told Reuters by telephone from Berlin.
Earlier, Syria's deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil said Obama's talk of action against Syria was media fodder.
Speaking after the news conference held by Russia's Lavrov, Jamil said the West was seeking an excuse to intervene, likening the focus on Syria's chemical weapons with the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S.-led forces and the focus on what proved to be groundless suspicions that Saddam Hussein was concealing weapons of mass destruction.
"Direct military intervention in Syria is impossible because whoever thinks about it ... is heading towards a confrontation wider than Syria's borders," he told a news conference in Damascus.
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times reported the concerns of Christians, who make up about 10 per cent of Syria's population. It said Christians fleeing the fighting have detected an increasingly radicalized Islamist strain among the rebels that makes them fear for their future.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Posted on February 12, 2013
Despite a motocross accident that left him partially paralyzed, mechanical engineering major Garrett Goodwin returned to the racing circuit, now racing an adaptive snowmobile.
In late January, Goodwin took third in the snocross event at the Winter X Games held in Aspen, Colorado. Goodwin races a Ski-Doo equipped with a special seat that he and his sponsors made.
Goodwin hopes to someday mass-produce the seat, which he said could fit on any Ski-Doo and allow recreational snowmobilers who are disabled to ride.
"You can't go online and search for an adaptive snowmobile seat and buy one," Goodwin said.
With help from American Metalcraft in Goodwin's hometown of Zion, Illinois, Goodwin designed a rigid seat that can be bolted to a sled. He and company designers telephoned and send many emails back and forth throughout the process. The chair pivots, allowing Goodwin — who is strapped in with a seat belt — to lean into turns.
"There was a lot of trial and error," he said. "The seat is like a race car with a shock under it that acts like my legs would."
Goodwin was racing a motorcycle in July 2011 when he hit a jump and the bike rotated forward. His motorcycle landed on top of him. He broke three vertebrae, suffered a concussion and a separated shoulder; Goodwin is paralyzed below his waist.
After four months of rehabilitation, he was already making plans to get back to the snocross circuit. "I knew I could do it. I just had to figure out how," he said.
Goodwin's father, Greg, and his uncle have raced snowmobiles for years. Greg, who owns Goodwin Performance, won the 1991 World Championships in Wisconsin. Racing sleds since he was 5, Goodwin said he took up motocross as a way to stay in shape and train between winters.
The X Games race was Goodwin's second adaptive snocross event. The first was in March 2012, one day after receiving his outfitted sled from American Metalcraft, and seven months removed from his motorcycle accident.
"We had one day to test it and make modifications," said Goodwin, who also works with local sponsors Stud Boy Traction from Ravenna and Grand Rapids Truck Center. "I told my family, 'If I go out and it feels good, I'm going to race.'" He took third place in that race.
X Games organizers invite participants to join the games. Goodwin said organizers comb the Internet, looking for exciting highlight videos. They also want participants who "have a racing spirit," he said.
Along with his racing spirit, Goodwin said he brings special knowhow and mechanical engineering skills to adaptive racing. "The whole adaptive industry is growing so rapidly, it helps having my perspective," he said.

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|VOY, Episode 2x12
Production number: 128
First aired: 27 November 1995
|27th of 168 produced in VOY
|27th of 168 released in VOY
|391st of 728 released in all
| Teleplay By
Lisa Klink
Story By
Michael Jan Friedman & Kevin J. Ryan
Directed By
Winrich Kolbe
|Unknown (2372)
In order to free her imprisoned crew members, Janeway accepts the help of a delusional resistance fighter.
A USS Voyager away team is sent to a market place on the Mokra homeworld to purchase tellerium. After Captain Kathryn Janeway examines a sample, Neelix is told to purchase it and not to negotiate over the price. They need it badly. After Neelix has left, Tuvok notices some Mokra soldiers entering the market place, they seem to be looking for the away team. Although Tuvok is able to hit one of them with his phaser, he and B'Elanna Torres are captured. When Janeway has fought off a Mokra soldier and is about to contact Voyager, she is grazed by phaser fire in her neck and falls down. When the Mokra soldier removes her combadge, he is violently pushed against a wall by a man.
Act OneEdit
In engineering, Harry Kim and First Officer Chakotay are discussing the situation they are in. They are badly in need of the tellerium as the antimatter reaction rate in the warp core is approaching 9%. When this happens the plasma injectors will lockup, leaving them unable to reinitialize the nacelles and thus leave Voyager without warp propulsion. To save power, and keep the reaction rate above 9%, the only option left is to power down their shields. At this point they are contacted by Neelix, who informs them the away team has been captured by the Mokra, but that he has the tellerium. Neelix is beamed directly to engineering where Kim uses the tellerium to stabilize the anti-matter reaction rate. Chakotay tries to contact the Captain but gets no answer. He discusses the capture of the away team with Neelix, wondering how the Mokra knew that Voyager personnel were on the planet. Neelix suspects a Mokra informer, although the ship's only contact was with the Alsaurian resistance movement. Their conversation is interrupted by Harry Kim, who has brought the warp engine online, restoring the ship's warp capability.
On the bridge, helmsman Tom Paris is ordered to bring Voyager out from the moon behind which they were hiding and to set a course to the Mokra homeworld. Meanwhile Neelix informs Chakotay that the Mokra are paranoid and hostile, and have little use for diplomacy. While approaching the planet Voyager is detected by the Mokra orbital sensor net and is hailed by Augris, third magistrate of the Mokra Order. When Augris hears that some members of Voyager are on his planet, he is not happy with it and sends a copy of the Mokra regulations to them, for future reference. When he learns that Chakotay believes they might be detained by the Mokra, Augris tells them that he will look in to it. Neelix does not believe that Augris will help them as he is nothing like the Mokra he has met before.
Although Commander Chakotay wants to try a diplomatic solution first, he does order a continuous surface scan of the planet, just in case.
Meanwhile, in a Mokra jail, B'Elanna notices a control circuit, which might be controlling the force field at the jail's entrance. Tuvok warns her not to tamper with it and just wait but Torres gets a shock from the force field. As Tuvok has no idea whether any member of the away team made it back to Voyager there is nothing left to do but wait.
Act TwoEdit
Captain Janeway awakens in the home of her rescuer, Caylem, an older Alsaurian man who believes she is his long-lost daughter, Ralkana. At first she denies it, telling him her real name and that she is a starship captain, but he doesn't appear convinced. He gives Janeway a necklace that originally belonged to his wife, but Janeway is more interested in finding her crew members and escaping.
Janeway asks Caylem for a communications device to contact Voyager, but the Alsaurians are prohibited by the Mokra from having them. While Caylem is showing Janeway the letters he wrote for his imprisoned wife, Mokra soldiers appear and demand entry. Caylem and Janeway escape the house before the Mokra break in.
The Mokra remove Tuvok from the cell with Torres to interrogate him. Torres puts up a fight, but Tuvok orders her to stand down.
Act ThreeEdit
Caylem wants to join Janeway in her attempt to free her crew from prison, believing he can save his wife at the same time. Janeway is very resistant to the idea, but they approach a member of the Alsaurian resistance with connections to an arms dealer. The resistance member suggests trading the necklace Caylem gave Janeway for a weapon. She is reluctant, but Caylem encourages her to make the trade.
After a long wait, the weapons dealer appears wearing Mokra military boots. Suspecting a trap, Janeway walks away.
In the Mokra prison, Tuvok is returned to the cell with Torres, having been obviously tortured. While Vulcans can block out pain to a certain extent, this ability is limited. Torres wants to fight back and try to escape, but Tuvok cautions that physical resistance is ineffective in this situation and they can best resist by refusing to give information.
Aboard Voyager, Chakotay's scans of and attempts to penetrate the sensor net around the Mokra prison are detected, and Augris gives the crew two minutes to leave before opening fire with the 85 ground-based phased ion cannons on the planet.
Act FourEdit
Janeway comes up with another idea to infiltrate the prison. She entices one of the sentries, who drops his guard and is promptly struck over the head by Caylem. Janeway takes the guard's phaser and Caylem his knife. Meanwhile back on Voyager Ensign Kim comes up with a means of tricking the sensor net by sending out dozens of radion beams from the ship's main deflector, one of these beams would carry transporter signal of the rescue team. Upon firing the first volley of radions however, the ship comes under fire from the ion cannons on the surface which knocked the main deflector offline. Chakotay orders Ensign Kim to scan the planet one more time before breaking orbit to get out of weapons range. Before leaving orbit Voyager's sensors detected a disruption in the shields, around the prison most likely due to sabotage, by Captain Janeway and the resistance members. Taking this turn of fortune as a good sign, Lieutenant Paris offers to lead the away-team, down to make a surgical strike to remove the Captain and the other crewmembers. Commander Chakotay agrees but informs him they might not be able to wait for long after the transport. After beaming Paris' rescue team to the surface, they come under heavy fire again, and are about to withdraw when Harry discovers a magnetic storm over the northern magnetic pole which scatters the sensors of the detection grid, and enables Voyager to hide a little longer. Back on the surface Paris, Janeway and the other resistance members free Tuvok and Torres but wind up being captured. Augris tells Janeway and the resistance members that Caylem had made other efforts to infiltrate the prison to rescue his wife... who had been dead for 12 years. They had been letting him go as a show of the futility of challenging the Mokra. Augris also tells Caylem that his daughter was killed, and tells him his foolishness has condemned another innocent woman. He orders the others taken back for questioning (and likely more torture) with the exception of Janeway whom he wants to interrogate himself. In a rage, Caylem leaps at Augris and they get into a struggle the others take this opportunity to attack the guards. With a intense firefight that ensues Caylem stabs Augris to death with his own knife and jumps in the way of a Disruptor aimed at Janeway. As he dies in her arms, she accepts the role of his daughter and tells him she and her mother forgive him, his last words to her were "My sweet girl". The resistance members say that his actions will not be forgotten. Back on Voyager Ensign Kim gives the somber looking Captain, a status report on the Warp drive and Main-deflector. After asking about her welfare, she thanks him and he leaves, she picks up the necklace that Caylem gave to her (apparently the resistance members gave it back to her before she left) and holds it tightly, with tears welling up in her eyes, recognizing how much he loved his family.
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Memorable QuotesEdit
"Shh, shh. Don't worry. Everything's all right now. My little girl is home."
- - Caylem, to Janeway
"Vulcans are capable of suppressing certain levels of physical pain. Beyond that, we must simply endure the experience."
- - Tuvok, to Torres after being tortured
"Ralkana. He said you'd been shot."
"He was lying to you, father. I'm all right."
"And your mother?"
"Fine. She was so happy to get your letters. She wants me to tell you something. She forgives you. We both do."
- - Janeway, assuming the role of his daughter to soothe the dying Caylem
Background Information Edit
Story and script Edit
- Michael Jan Friedman and Kevin Ryan, who came up with this episode's premise, are both contributors to Pocket Books' Star Trek series. Friedman is the creator of the Star Trek: Stargazer series and Ryan, as an editor, has contributed many stories and concepts, as well as editing the first edition Star Trek Encyclopedia.
- Friedman and Ryan had unsuccessfully pitched several ideas to Star Trek: The Next Generation before proposing the story concept that ultimately developed into this episode. Kevin Ryan recalled, "Mike and I both liked what we had seen on Star Trek: Voyager so far, and thought it was time to try again. We came up with a few ideas, and one of them was of one of the characters on the USS Voyager becoming the Dulcinea to an alien Don Quixote character. You had an apparently crazy old man who's on a quest, in which one of the characters (who eventually becomes Janeway) gets involved. It was a fun story, and there seemed to be a lot of opportunity for the kind of character interplay that they do so well on Star Trek." (Star Trek Monthly issue 11) Regarding the merits of this idea, Friedman remarked, "It never hurts to go with a high concept. When one says 'Don Quixote,' there's no need to elaborate on the conflict or the plot points. It's just a matter of imagining our Trek characters superimposed on that landscape." (Star Trek Magazine issue 143, p. 36)
- The nondescript alien of this initial story idea developed into being a Kazon. (Star Trek Magazine issue 143, p. 36) The Voyager crew member became B'Elanna Torres. Kevin Ryan commented, "Interestingly, we originally saw it as a B'Elanna story, and that's the way we pitched it." (Star Trek Monthly issue 11)
- In the pitching session wherein the writers suggested this idea, they did so to co-executive producer Jeri Taylor via telephone. Kevin Ryan noted, "We set up our pitch session on the phone – our first phone pitch, actually." (Star Trek Monthly issue 11) The writers simultaneously pitched an additional five other story ideas; this plot idea was the second of the six concepts. (Star Trek Magazine issue 143, p. 36)
- Although Jeri Taylor liked some of the other story ideas, she was most interested in the second pitch. (Star Trek Magazine issue 143, p. 36) Kevin Ryan noted, "Jeri graciously took our pitch. She responded to the story immediately, and liked the idea of the Don Quixote angle character, and that was it." (Star Trek Monthly issue 11) Jeri Taylor promised to contact the writing duo in a day or two but the pair's elation at this news was initially guarded, since they were unsure whether Taylor would keep her word. Much to Friedman's pleasant surprise, Taylor indeed contacted the writers in a couple of days, with news that she wanted to buy the story from them. (Star Trek Magazine issue 143, p. 36)
- However, Jeri Taylor also advised several changes to the story, including a significant character change. Kevin Ryan recalled, "She made some comments on the story [....] It was Jeri who actually suggested it become a Janeway story, and of course she was right, that's exactly what it needed to be." (Star Trek Monthly issue 11) Of the plot concept following this change, Michael Jan Friedman recalled it was "[still] an homage to that Man of La Mancha guy: 'Janeway plays Dulcinea to a Kazon Don Quixote' [....] We figured Janeway would be reluctant to go along with anything a Kazon had in mind, especially if he was a deluded Kazon intent on tilting at windmills." (Star Trek Magazine issue 143, p. 36)
- Coincidentally, Jeri Taylor received an extremely similar pitch from a female writer, the very next day after having accepted Friedman and Ryan's pitch. Taylor consequently had to turn the woman down. Friedman noted, "Had we pitched two days later, we were told, it would have been that other writer who got the assignment and not us." (Star Trek Magazine issue 143, p. 36)
- Friedman and Ryan then wrote their idea into a story that they titled "Maranek," imbuing the story with sentimentality. According to Friedman, the story's central character was "a grizzled old revolutionary striving to carry out a mission that had long since become irrelevant to everyone except him." Friedman added, "Like its inspiration, the story fairly dripped with pathos." (Star Trek Magazine issue 143, p. 36)
- Although Friedman and Ryan's active involvement in the story ended after this, Jeri Taylor kept them apprised of all story developments throughout the rest of the writing process. Friedman was very impressed and pleased by her inclusiveness. (Star Trek Magazine issue 143, p. 36)
- The story was passed to new staff writer Lisa Klink, for her to write the script. As such, this is the first of thirteen Voyager episodes for which Klink was credited as being involved in writing. "I kind of thought they would get me started a little more slowly," Klink said of the producers, "maybe doing some rewrites, maybe doing some story work, but 'Resistance' was the first thing they hit me with." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages)
- Lisa Klink was handed the earliest version of the story a month after joining the series' writing staff, tasked with crafting it into her first teleplay. (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #6) She noted, "I'd been here just a few weeks when they got me started on 'Resistance'." (Star Trek Monthly issue 21) Klink further recalled, "They had bought this story from freelancers, and it had kind of been shelved temporarily." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages) She found the premise to be very problematic. "It wasn't an easy story or an easy script to do." (Star Trek Monthly issue 21) "First, because it's about the old guy," she explained. "How do you make it about Janeway? The second problem was [that] the story's episodic. They go here; they go there. We needed an overall arc to the story, and Janeway needed to be driving it." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages) Klink also recalled, "It was basically a Don Quixote kind of story, which is inherently episodic and about somebody else! So, it becomes how do you make this about us? It's not going to be one of our people crazy; it's Janeway hooking up with this crazy guy, so how do you make it about her? And why wouldn't she just ditch him? You had to make him crazy, but still somewhat helpful, but not so helpful that she's not driving the story!" The challenge of organizing the plot into her first teleplay showed Klink that the series' producers were investing considerable faith in her. "It turned out to be very gratifying," she noted, "because they showed a lot of confidence in me right away." (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #6)
- An early working title for the script was "Merreck". [1]
- Some changes that Michael Jan Friedman was aware of, from his perspective of now being officially uninvolved in the episode's writing process, were the change of the Kazon character to being an alien-of-the-week, the alteration in episode title to "Resistance", and the addition of the melon scene, which was Lisa Klink's idea. (Star Trek Magazine issue 143, p. 37) Kevin Ryan felt that the story remained much the same as he and Friedman had pitched it, however. "The basic relationship between Janeway and the old man, which was really the core of our story, remained the same throughout," Ryan said. "Everybody who worked on it seemed to agree that it was the important element. There were a few changes in the window dressing elements but the main relationship points stayed the same, which was gratifying." Remarking on the speed at which the script was turned out, Ryan commented, "The next thing we know, [...] they have a wonderful script, so it was really a dream experience." (Star Trek Monthly issue 11)
- The producers demonstrated even more confidence in Lisa Klink than they already had done, when the fledgling writer was allowed to polish the script herself. Although the prospect of undertaking the rewrite process was frustrating for Klink, she also wanted to succeed at the task. "It's like, 'OK, you did well – now do better!" Klink remarked. "My style of writing tends to be understated, subtle and underplayed. The comments and the notes I tend to get are, 'Make it more,' or, 'Bring that out more.' And it's like, 'Can't you just tell me to fix a line or something?' So, it was like stretching myself an extra bit. But I was really pleased that they felt that I could do it, and I wanted to prove them right and take on the challenge, and find out for myself if I could do it." (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #6)
- Lisa Klink was not entirely alone in scripting the episode, however. Concerning the decision to have Janeway masquerade as a prostitute, Klink recalled, "There was a lot of discussion about that. Somebody – I forget who, but it wasn't me – came up with the idea of her distracting the guard by pretending to be a hooker. We went round and round on that for a while. Is that going to diminish the Captain in some way? Is that the typical bimbo thing to do?" Jeri Taylor firmly believed that this plot element was acceptable, considering Janeway's predicament at the time. Taylor remembered, "When we [first] talked about that, every eye in the room turned to me and said, 'Are you alright with that?' If I were down there, trying to save my people, I would do anything and if that seemed like a good idea I would do it in a minute. Would my dignity and my sense of feminism prevent me from helping my people? Absolutely not." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, pp. 91 & 92)
- This episode's final draft script was submitted on 20 September 1995. [2]
- Lisa Klink later learned that Jeri Taylor had intentionally tested her with the challenge of scripting the episode. Klink stated, "Jeri told me later, 'I pretty much threw you into the deep end to see if you could swim, and you can!'" (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #6) Klink similarly related, "As Jeri Taylor likes to say, they threw me in the deep end and hoped I could swim!" Laughing, Klink added, "I'm still here. So I guess I could swim well enough." (Star Trek Monthly issue 21)
- Despite having found the script hard to write, Klink was eventually relieved at having done so. "I still think that script would have been difficult," she opined, "even if it had been my 100th, you know. But again, it really was the best way to learn." (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #6) She also explained, "Getting that one under my belt really gave me a lot of confidence [....] I guess it was probably for the best that I started with a very tough show, because if it had been easy, I probably would have gotten very spoiled and then, when things got hard for me, I wouldn't have been as prepared for dealing with them. So, I'm actually glad things worked out the way they did." (Star Trek Monthly issue 21)
- Of Klink's work on the story, Michael Jan Friedman commented, "She managed to take what we were saying and make it a whole lot more eloquent." Friedman also regarded the melon scene that Klink added as being "maybe the best [scene] in the whole episode". (Star Trek Magazine issue 143, p. 37)
Cast and characters Edit
- Lisa Klink liked how this episode made Janeway have to deal with an unfamiliar situation. "Getting Janeway into a completely different milieu, where she's not on the bridge, she's not being captain, was all wonderful for the character," Klink said. "One of the best things you can do for a character is get them out of their normal situation." (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #6) In particular, Klink was ultimately pleased that she and the then-members of Voyager's writing staff had gone ahead with accepting the notion of Janeway masquerading as a prostitute. "The fact is, it worked," she remarked. "Given what their situation was and what they had available to them, it was a clever thing to do. I think it really doesn't hurt to show the Captain doing something different, to show she is an attractive woman, and to let her hair down. Although I was not always in love with the idea of doing it, I think, in retrospect, it was not such a bad thing." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, pp. 91-92)
- When Friedman and Ryan turned their plot concept into a story, the name of the central Kazon character was Maranek, in common with the episode title. (Star Trek Magazine issue 143, p. 37) Lisa Klink, who had a particular dislike of having to invent alien names, later struggled to come up with a moniker for the character. Her original suggestion was the name Merinax. Other suggested names included Merrick, Jarek, and Solman. The producers thought that Merinax "sounded too hokey, too artificial," and that Merrick was "too Earth-like, too human." Concerning the name Jerrick, they commented, "No, no, no that's too much like Sarek and Garak!" The name Solman won no support either. "And then I finally came up with Caylem, which they had to use because it was shooting the next day!" Klink recalled, laughing. "I'm sure it would have gone through another 10 more if I'd had more time!" (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #6)
- Michael Jan Friedman and Kevin Ryan originally envisioned Brian Dennehy in the role of Maranek. (Star Trek Magazine issue 143, p. 36) However, Oscar-winning actor Joel Grey was ultimately cast in the role of Caylem after having repeatedly turned down invitations to appear in Star Trek: Voyager, never having seen an episode of the series before. Finally, he was sent the script for this episode and changed his mind about appearing on the series. "I would put it off for so long," Grey recalled, "but I couldn't anymore after I got that script. As soon as I signed on, I watched the show for the first time. I remember that being a funny experience. I just turned on the TV and there it was. I didn't even have to look for it. There it was for me to peruse. The shows I saw were pretty well done, as dramatic or as fun as they were intended to be. So, I thought 'Resistance' would be an adventure." (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #6) Friedman said of the casting choice, "The casting of the all-important guest star had gone completely contrary to what we [himself and Ryan] had in mind." (Star Trek Magazine issue 143, p. 37)
- Joel Grey thoroughly enjoyed working on the episode. He recalled of the experience, "I had a great time doing it. The people are so serious about their work, and so meticulous, but they also have a sense of fun. Everyone's care for the product was phenomenal – from Rick Berman to the actors to everyone else who puts the show together. I was also treated very well, so it was a very good experience." (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #6)
- The episode also reunited Joel Grey with Janeway actress Kate Mulgrew, as they had previously worked together on the 1985 film Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. Grey commented, "I loved working with Kate. We just had a great time. I had worked with her on Remo Williams, but most of my scenes in that movie were with Fred Ward. Kate and I hadn't really kept in touch over the years, but I was delighted when I read that she had gotten the role of Janeway [....] Rick Kolbe, Kate's boy friend, is a great guy and I think he did a nice job directing the show. We all got on very, very well." (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #6)
- For his part, long-time Star Trek director Rick Kolbe found himself amazed by Mulgrew and Grey. "That was the parade piece for Kate and Joel Grey as far as I am concerned," the director raved. "They clicked immediately and had a wonderful relationship on screen and off [...] I was in awe. They were two talents having a wonderful time and it showed. It was probably the best acted piece I've been associated with on Star Trek." (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #15)
- Both Michael Jan Friedman and Kevin Ryan were also very satisfied with Grey's performance in the episode. Friedman remarked, "As it turned out, Joel was brilliant. His performance was one of the best I've ever seen, on or off a Star Trek show, and I'm honored to have been in any way associated with it." (Star Trek Magazine issue 143, p. 37) Ryan similarly enthused, "I thought Joel Gray gave a wonderful performance, and to have the clout of an episode with an actor like that as a guest star was very satisfying." (Star Trek Monthly issue 11)
- While working on this episode, actress Roxann Dawson not only enjoyed performing with Tim Russ, but also began to see relationship potentialities between their respective characters of B'Elanna Torres and Tuvok. The actress related, "I liked working with Tim Russ. That was the first show where I saw any potential for exploring the relationship between Tuvok and B'Elanna. I realized he could help her explore some of the imbalances in the way she views her Klingon and human sides." (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #12)
- Robert Picardo (The Doctor) and Jennifer Lien (Kes) do not appear in this episode.
- Lisa Klink and Jeri Taylor struggled to ensure that production of the episode would not go over its budget. Referring to Taylor, Klink recalled, "We broke it together, and it was really difficult. It was a very expensive show since it all took place on a planet. And there was a journey, which implies moving from place to place to place, which means building set after set after set! And so trying to figure out how to do a show based on a planet that has people moving around from place to place, and to build just two sets – I mean, that was really a problem." (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #6) Klink also stated, "Budget was [...] a problem, because we generally build two new sets, and this whole thing takes place on an alien planet. They have to start out on this journey from someplace and end up someplace, and that's our two sets. Do they go anyplace in between? We have to build that too, then. It was an arduous [story] break. It went on a couple days. We ended up building three sets – a town square, the prison, and [Caylem's] cabin. We tried really hard to set in the cave set, which is a standing set, but just couldn't do it. It was a horrendously expensive episode." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages)
- Working with Kate Mulgrew and Joel Grey, Rick Kolbe found the episode to be very easy to shoot. He noted, "As I director, I just sat there and said, 'You want to do it again? All right, fine. Let me know when you want to cut and print.'" (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #15)
- During production, Jeri Taylor invited Michael Jan Friedman and Kevin Ryan to visit the Paramount Pictures lot, but they declined. (Star Trek Magazine issue 143, p. 36)
- The device with which Janeway scans the tellerium is a reuse of the micro-resonator from "Learning Curve".
- Two doors in the marketplace, seen in the beginning of this episode, were reused from Professor Tolen Ren's home in VOY: "Ex Post Facto".
- The Mokra are armed with a form of stock pistol that Janeway uses to threaten Pe'Nar Makull, Ny Terla, and an associate of Makull's in the climax of VOY: "Time and Again". (Delta Quadrant, p. 87)
- When Harry Kim finds the sensor blind spot in which Voyager can hide from the Mokra orbital security net, the course he recommends to Chakotay is 219 mark 47.
Reception and aftermathEdit
- The official UPN trailer for this episode was highly sensationalistic, focusing on the plot point about Janeway playing a prostitute. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 91) Executive producer Michael Piller said of the promotion, "I fundamentally object to what [UPN] did on that episode. We are doing what I would like to think is the prototypical family show [...] Well, if I was watching the promotion for that show I would have seen a promotion that [depicted] cruel, unusual punishment, torture, pictures of people screaming, blood, and all sorts of terrible, horrible things, and then this shot of Janeway looking sexy: will Janeway give her body to save her crew? Well, as a parent, I'm not going to have my kids around the TV screen for that particular episode. Which is a shame because it was a warm, loving episode [...] There was a great deal of objection brought to [UPN's] attention." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 78)
- This episode achieved a Nielsen rating of 5.9 million homes, and a 9% share. [3]
- Star Trek Monthly gave this episode 2 out of 5 stars, defined as "Impulse Power only." (Star Trek Monthly issue 14, p. 50)
- Cinefantastique gave the installment 2 out of 4 stars. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 91)
- The reference book Delta Quadrant (p. 89) scored the episode 9 out of 10.
- Following production, Kate Mulgrew and Joel Grey had a discussion in which Mulgrew enlightened Grey of the possibility that he might be brought back to the series. "Kate and I had a conversation after we finished 'Resistance' that really made me laugh," Grey recalled. "I thought that because I died at the show's end, that that was it for me there. I thought, 'I'm dead, gone, dead. Right?' Wrong! Kate said, 'Nope. This is Star Trek, Joel, and we can bring back anyone we want to bring back.'" Although Grey considered that – if he was invited for a return appearance that had a script as good as the one for this episode – he would be thrilled to return, the character of Caylem ultimately never reappears in the series. (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #6)
Video and DVD releasesEdit
- UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.4, 22 April 1996
- As part of the VOY Season 2 DVD collection
Links and referencesEdit
Also starringEdit
- Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay
- Roxann Biggs-Dawson as Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres
- Robert Duncan McNeill as Lieutenant Tom Paris
- Ethan Phillips as Neelix
- Tim Russ as Lieutenant Tuvok
- Garrett Wang as Ensign Harry Kim
Guest starsEdit
- Alan Scarfe as Augris
- Tom Todoroff as Darod
- Glenn Morshower as a Mokra guard
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Special guest starEdit
Uncredited co-stars Edit
- Tracee Cocco as a Mokra homeworld alien
- Irving E. Lewis as a Mokra guard
- Dennis Madalone as a Mokra guard
- Louis Ortiz as a Mokra guard
- Shepard Ross as a Mokra guard
- Scott Strozier as a Mokra guard
- Unknown performers as two Mokra homeworld aliens
Alpha Quadrant; Alsaurian; Alsaurian resistance; Federation; magistrate; magnetic storm; metaphasic shield; Mokra; Mokra homeworld; Mokra Order; orbital sensor net; phased ion cannon; plasma injector; radion beam; Ralkana; talsa root soup; tellerium; Vulcans; Vulcan nerve pinch
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Violent crime across the United States was down 1 percent in 2014, according to data recently released by the FBI and analyzed by Law Street Media. However, violent crime dropped in only four of the nation's top 10 most violent cities, according to Law Street.
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Stockton saw a crime decrease in 2013 that left it out of the top 10, but returned in 2014 thanks to a 10-percent increase in its violent crime rate. The biggest increases were seen in reported aggravated assaults, which climbed from 2,411 in 2013 to 2,707 in 2014 for an increase of 12 percent, and in murders, with 49 in 2014, a more than 50-percent increase from the previous year.
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Violent Crime Rate: 1,334/100,000 peopleMurder Rate: 16/100,000 peoplePopulation: 388,655Officer to Population Ratio: Not AvailableRank Last Year: #5
Cleveland saw its violent crime rate drop by about 10 percent from 2013 to 2014. While the number of reported robberies and aggravated assaults both decreased, by about 14 percent and 8 percent respectively, the city did see eight more murders in 2014 than it had in 2013.
7. Baltimore
Violent Crime Rate: 1,339/100,000 peopleMurder Rate: 34/100,000 peoplePopulation: 623,513Officer to Population Ratio: 1:224Rank Last Year: #6
Maryland's largest city saw a slight decrease of about 4 percent in its violent crime rate from 2013 to 2014, moving down one spot in this year's rankings. The biggest change came in reported aggravated assaults, which declined by about 5.5 percent. Although Baltimore saw eight straight years of falling crime rates through 2014, Law Street did caution that is likely to change once the final 2015 numbers are tallied due to riots following the controversial death of Freddie Gray while in police custody and unusually high murder counts in several months.
6. Milwaukee
Violent Crime Rate: 1,476/100,000 peopleMurder Rate: 15/100,000 peoplePopulation: 600,374Officer to Population Ratio: 1:318Rank Last Year: #7
Milwaukee experienced an increase in violent crime of about 8 percent in 2014, moving up one spot in Law Street's rankings. While reported rape statistics stayed relatively flat and the number of murders decreased by about 13 percent, robberies and aggravated assaults saw increases of 7 percent and 10 percent respectively.
5. Birmingham, Alabama
Violent Crime Rate: 1,588/100,000 peopleMurder Rate: 25/100,000 peoplePopulation: 212,115Officer to Population Ratio: 1:245Rank Last Year: #8
Alabama's biggest city saw its violent crime rate climb by 18 percent in 2014, enough to move up three spots in this year's rankings. In fact, Law Street notes that Birmingham had the highest growth in violent crime among all the cities on the list, largely due to a 27-percent increase in aggravated assaults and higher levels of robberies and rapes. Despite that, the city did see murders decrease by more than 10 for a total of 52 in 2014.
4. St. Louis
Violent Crime Rate: 1,679/100,000 peopleMurder Rate: 50/100,000 peoplePopulation: 318,574Officer to Population Ratio: 1:230Rank Last Year: #4
St. Louis retains its No. 4 ranking despite seeing a 5-percent increase in its violent crime rate in 2014, according to Law Street. Only the number of rapes fell last year, while the number of crimes in each of the other categories climbed. The most notable increase came in murders, with 159 taking place in 2014 as compared to 120 in 2013.
3. Oakland, California
Violent Crime Rate: 1,685/100,000 peopleMurder Rate: 20/100,000 peoplePopulation: 409,994Officer to Population Ratio: 1:573Rank Last Year: #2
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2. Memphis
Violent Crime Rate: 1,741/100,000 peopleMurder Rate: 21/100,000 peoplePopulation: 654,922Officer to Population Ratio: 1:293Rank Last Year: #3
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Violent Crime Rate: 1,989/100,000 peopleMurder Rate: 44/100,000 peoplePopulation: 684,694Officer to Population Ratio: 1:295Rank Last Year: #1
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#84531 - 04/14/03 11:44 PM Re: of fogs and storms
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>Do our representatives of the Southern Hemisphere find this use of proceeding at all uncommon? What do others think of it?
I am sure that the usage would be very uncommon, were it used in a country where the first language is English, but it wasn't, so it probably isn't.
#84532 - 04/15/03 06:55 AM Re: of fogs and storms
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Okay-ay...I assume, sjm, that you mean first as in original? It took some doing, but I believe I have determined that the location of the earthquake in the link is Australia.
#84533 - 04/15/03 07:37 AM Re: of fogs and storms
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a country where the first language is English
the location of the earthquake in the link is Australia
As Jackie slides inexorably down the slippery slope into the unfathomable depths of the Chasm of Sar.
#84534 - 04/15/03 08:17 AM Re: of fogs and storms
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In response to Bingley's question, the use of proceeding didn't strike me as unusual when I read it, but probably I wouldn't have used the word in that way myself. Probably would have used "...in the hours following...", but for me it's fine as written.
#84535 - 04/15/03 08:26 AM an ipsi-equatorial response
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Loc: Worcester, MA
...this use of proceeding...
I would have expected "ensuing" or "subsequent" instead.
Besides, even if it's meant to be the converse of preceding=coming before, the word is "precede," not "preceed". Is there another word "procede"? That would be the more precise analogue. If it exists.
#84536 - 04/15/03 09:02 AM Re: an ipsi-equatorial response
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proceed, proceeds
Perhaps proceeding has fallen out of disusue to a large degree because we have become used to the noun form (proceeds: The amount of money derived from a commercial or fundraising venture; the yield)and the shorter verb form (proceeds: moves farther along).
Yet preceding seems to be in wider use than precedes.
Here is the original verb form of proceed from Merrian-Webster's, from which the noun form proceeds evolved circa 1645. Notice in the etymology there is originally one "e", why and when was the second "e" added to proceed, when precede was left alone?:
Main Entry: pro·ceed
Pronunciation: prO-'sEd, pr&-
Function: intransitive verb
Etymology: Middle English proceden, from Middle French proceder, from Latin procedere, from pro- forward + cedere to go; more at PRO-
Date: 14th century
1 : to come forth from a source : ISSUE
2 a : to continue after a pause or interruption b : to go on in an orderly regulated way
3 a : to begin and carry on an action, process , or movement b : to be in the process of being accomplished
4 : to move along a course : ADVANCE
synonym see SPRING
#84537 - 04/15/03 06:45 PM Re: Slanted rain
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Loc: British Columbia, Canada
Slanted rain is what I've always pictured when someone says "driving rain". Rain that is driven
#84538 - 04/15/03 06:55 PM Re: Slanted rain
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I see what is meant._________________________
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#84539 - 04/15/03 10:43 PM Re: of fogs and storms
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Loc: Jakarta
According to the writer's biography he comes from Lower Hutt, NZ.
#84540 - 04/15/03 10:47 PM Re: of fogs and storms
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>According to the writer's biography he comes from Lower Hutt, NZ.
Well then, 'nuff said. We have one member not long removed from that part of the world - I'll let him defend the usage or not.
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The only potential negative on this is that it is another change which appears to favour the attacking side, and we need to be careful about the balance.
Agree, it will be interesting to see! Effectively you can have one risk free all or nothing play (if thats not a complete contradiction in terms!) Should see some exciting off the cuff rugby which could be very entertaining!
Rule changes for 2013 confirmed
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What I am very disappointed about is that they have not changed the charge down rule. If a kicking player has the ball charged down and then he/she or one of his team mates regains posession from the resultant ricochet the tackle count should not be re-set. I have always found this rule unfair as it does not encourage players to charge a kick. In fact I think it encourages players to target the player rather than the ball which I believe is far more dangerous as a kicking player is often not braced for collison (as is usually the case with ball in hand) because they are focusing on the ball.
Posted 25 January 2013 - 04:23 PM
Posted 25 January 2013 - 06:32 PM
(Oh no they're not! See the amendment to this press release later in this thread - Webby)
Just to be clear, oh yes they have. The rule changes are the same in both, it is just the preamble that differs. They removed the reference to them be trialled during the pre-season friendlies, which is wise as that just causes confusion. These changes to rules and interpretations were always intended to be implemented and are separate to the experimental rules (on charge-downs etc.) that were trialled for possible implementation in future seasons As a result of removing that reference they also changed from past to present tense.
That was boring, but avoids anyone needing to read both posts or trying in vain to work out what rule change is being flip-flopped. Always best just to be clear.
On the dead in-goal rule issue, as has been stated this is just reversing last year's controversial change. This was the old rule:
Where the ball which has bounced or has been passed in the field of play or the in goal area comes into contact with a player in touch, touch in goal or over the dead ball line, the ball is deemed to have been made dead or taken into touch by that player. Where the ball is played at from a kick that has not bounced in the field of play by a player who has at least one foot on the touch-line or in touch then the ball is deemed to have been made dead or taken into touch by the kicking team.
A player is deemed to be in touch if any part of his body touches the touchline or anything outside of the playing field. Similarly, a player is deemed to be touch in-goal or dead in-goal if any part of his body touches the touch in-goal or dead-ball line or anything outside the field of play in those areas. If a player who is in touch, touch in-goal or dead in-goal touches a moving ball then the team who kicked the ball or knocked on are responsible for the ball going out of play. However, if the ball is stationary in the field of play and is then touched by a player who is in touch, touch in-goal or dead in-goal then that player is responsible for the ball going dead.
Last season if a ball was kicked into touch or beyond the dead-ball line then a defending player would had to let it hit the ground to be made dead before they could collect it to restart play, else the attacking side would have been given a scrum. Effectively the ball was always in play until it touched the ground or a another player, and in either case whoever last touched the ball was deemed responsible for making it dead.
The original rule is being reinstated where if a player is in touch and recovers the ball (or attempts to) they are essentially regarded as an extension of the ground and whomever touched the ball last before them is the one deemed responsible for making it dead.
Posted 25 January 2013 - 07:07 PM
I don't like the advantage rule at all!
Nor do I.
If I interpret this correctly (please tell me if I have it wrong) so long as the non-offending team retain possession of the knocked-on ball then play will continue. Previously it was interpreted that the team must actually gain some advantage by making yardage past the point of the offence; this now appears to have disappeared. If that is the case then expect a stream of "accidental" knock-ons which place the defending team under further pressure.
Is this correct?
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Posted 25 January 2013 - 07:09 PM
I thought they were bringing a new rule in for the deliberate kicking of the ball dead? a restart from where kicked.
Yes, it's disappointing that it isn't also being introduced as I thought that could be a really positive development.
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I can appreciate the effort but its missing/not efficiently organized alot of the meat and potatoes of game threads. Not necessarily the chill out/stress relief, but moreso the match ups. We focus on Wizards vs Knicks, the matchups in the past, how the players have been playing recently, injuries, and just so many things which this video format isn't going to effectively capture, at least not with alot more work and refinement.
Scrolling through the video to look at important pieces, going back and forth, is like sorting through a cake to get to the good pieces. Or you can just get a cake that is designed in a way where everything brings a unique flavor, that people enjoy as a whole.
Once again thanks for your effort and innovation but I don't see how a video can be on par with, or close to, game threads.
As such I look forward to an actual game thread.


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Brookies in Shenandoah Nat Park Nov 9-11
Since moving to Richmond, I haven't done nearly as much fishing as I ought to. I dearly miss the Smokies and the surrounding wilderness. I haven't made any flyfishing friends here as of yet, and with the rigors of starting a new job I desperately needed a break, so I decided to do a solo 3 day trip on one of the few long backpacking loops in the Shenandoah National Park. Most of the snow from Sandy was gone, and despite the recent cold there was a warming trend so I was hoping for good results, though November has never been kind to me fishing-wise.
Friday morning I left early, and had Skyline drive to myself, not even a ranger at the entrance station. However the wildlife was out in force. I stopped counting deer at 30.
I saw several turkey, and then guess who was waiting for me at the parking lot?
Here is a view from the overlook. I'm always amazed at how far a person can walk. I traversed the entire ridgeline, and the far side of the talus covered peaks on the far right, and then another third of all that again not in the photo. Thats only 9 miles, but looks like a lot more.
The hike itself was beautiful, with great views of the Shenandoah valley and Masanutten in the background.
After getting to the valley floor and setting up camp, I started hunting for brookies. I had read that the lower part of this particular drainage gets scoured out a lot, so there isn't good cover for fish or insects, and fihsing is marginal. With the ice cold water, barely warming temps, and poor habitat, I had the expected results. Two fingerling brookies.
It started getting dark at 4:30, and by 5pm it was pitch black. By 6 I was done with dinner, my fire was burned out, and I was freezing cold. I decided to head to bed early, but since the sky was clear, and I had a surprisingly good view of the sky since the trees were bare, I watched the stars, unaware that the Taurids meteor shower was occurring and saw several shooting stars before dozing off. By 2am I was awake freezing to death I thought. Luckily the sun was up by 6am, and so I go an early start on the day. I was packed, moving, and had the next camp setup by 9am. I started fishing again and for the next 2 hours caught over 30 fingerling brookies. Better than yesterday... I guess. Not quite satisfying, then at noon my luck changed. A 7incher raced from teh bottom of a 3ft deep pool to smash the dry. After examing the pool, I realized every fish of any size was stacked in this pool, and probably every deep pool like it.
So now I knew what to look for. Every pool with depth I fished I got some sort of action.
This one pool was just above my campsite. When I first fished it, The fish hit the dry, but didnt take all the way. I fished on upstream, and came back and fished it again. This time I hooked into it, but this time it writhed and roiled all over the top....and shook itself off. ARRRG!
I went back to camp, pumped water, gathered wood, and came back again. Cast to the same spot, far side of the current, above the deep part and the over the darker bottom. I got a hit on the dry, and this time brought her in. It was an 8 1/2 inch female, who dropped 4 or 5 yellow pearls in my hand. I released her quickly, and just for kicks, cast into the pool again. The dry quickly slipped under, a take on the dropper. I set the hook and the water went nuts! There were two good sized fish in here and this is the other one I lost earlier. again he is death rolling on the water's surface, my 3 wt had a nice bend in it. I get him to hand, and snap a picture of one of the longest brookies I've caught yet, a full 9 3/4 inches.
I figured I'd release him as well to keep the couple together. All the brookies were very skinny, I guess due to recently spawning.
When I was making the last casts, I noticed a big rusty brown bat chasing my fly through the air. Luckily I didn't catch him. After releasing the male, I noticed the bats would swoop down low to the water and skim flies off the water's surface. I watched the bats skim flies from the water until it was nearly dark.
Back at camp, I got a fire started and prepared dinner. I brought along a backpacking grill I made from bicycle spokes and two aluminum tubes. Super light weight, and takes up no room at all.
Works like a charm.
I slept much better that night, the temps were much higher. Stayed up late reading Emerson, and watching the meteors. Even caught a glimpse of a fireball.
The nect morning I figured my trip was awesome enough already, and decided to head home early and spend the rest of Sunday with the boys.
So if anyone is ever up VA way and wants to do some fishing let me know! Whether its brookies in Shenandoah, smallies on the James, or I hope to pick up some saltwater fishing next year being so close to VA beach and Chesapeake Bay.
One last pic, this one is for Nathan, as many poor trout as he as eaten, this is the spirit of all those flame seared trout that will haunt him one day.
J.B. Thank You!!!
Very excellent post. Truly felt like I was there.
Thank You,
Great trip Jay,
I've got some property and a cabin in Bath Co. (SW VA) that has quite a bit of fishing around it (Jackson, bullpasture, cowpasture, upper james, etc.).
Not sure were you live up there, but, when I go, I'll holler.
I always enjoy your reports.
Hope you're having fun in VA.
Great post, The S.N.P. is great this time of the year If you get up to the northern end there are quit a few good streams.Harry Murray has a good book about fishing the drive.
Very nice report! I live right near the state line in Southern VA so I feel ya on the trout fishing opportunities. I usually try to go up a couple times a year to the GW Nat'l Forest or the Jefferson. Other than that I head toward NC or TN. I do quite a bit of pond hopping around here for LMB and Bream though, and then we have the Striper runs in Spring. Again, I enjoyed your report.
<(((>< In tribute to Ben, Duck Hunter extraordinaire, and man's best friend.
I would be interesting in talking with you about the Shenandoah area fly fishing trips. Would it be ok to talk with you off-line. My contact information is william dot mclemore01 @ gmail.com.
Thinking about visiting your area and would be interesting in talking with you about ideas for a week long trip.
Thannks Mac.
Thanks for a great post
Somehow I missed it until now. Glad you still have some good options where you landed.
Nice little grill. Nathan was telling me about it on our overnighter on Forney. How much does it weigh? Someone mentioned I should get a grilliput, but at over a pound seemed crazy heavy for backcountry use. I asked Santa for this: http://www.rutalocura.com/Ti_Grills.html
And let me know if you get some free time in the Spring to hit the Smokies. I've got to make the trans-Smokies off-trail trip happen soon, and I only know of a handfull of fools, I mean brave souls who did that kind of stuff.
Be good, and keep the posts coming
Mac, email sent.
Let me know when and where, I'd love to do another off-trail trip.
That grill was only 2.50 oz, and cost me <$8. Not bad!
great post thanks for taking me back to the SNP for a little while
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Since the NCAA tournament began in earnest on Thursday, Shane Osterholt has hardly missed a minute of it.
He has been watching on television from the leather couch in his Delaware family room, with a bag of frozen peas close at hand.
Osterholt, 37, is recovering from the vasectomy he underwent on Thursday morning — a deliberately scheduled appointment to allow him to spend the recommended 48-hour recovery time absorbed in March Madness.
The peas — commonly used because they conform to the body better than ice — helped limit swelling.
"I had the idea that, if I pretty much can do nothing for two days, the best time would be when I could watch basketball all day," said Osterholt, a father of two who works for a pest-control company.
"Life doesn't get much better than that."
The idea didn't originate with Osterholt: Urologists notice a significant increase in vasectomies during the first two weeks of the tournament.
"Typically, I probably do about four a week," said Dr. Eric Ward of Central Ohio Urology Group.
"It will be as many as eight in a week during March Madness."
Dr. Greg Lowe of the Wexner Medical Center at Ohio State University starts to see men booking mid-March appointments for vasectomies as early as January.
"This time of year, guys come in (for vasectomies) almost — I hesitate to say it — but almost excited," Lowe said. "They seem to be looking forward for an excuse to be off work and sit around and watch games."
Some doctors capitalize on the marketing opportunity.
For the past two years, Dr. Herb Riemenschneider of Riverside Urology has run a 30-second radio commercial touting the chance to have a doctor's note to stay home and watch basketball.
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"My wife (Jaime) had been bugging me to get a vasectomy for a couple of years," said Whaley, 41. "But does that sound appealing to anybody? She brought it up last year, and that ad was fresh in my head, so I called and set it up."
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Patients are advised to avoid strenuous physical activity for two days.
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He scheduled his a week earlier instead and watched the Big Ten tournament during his recovery.
"I was kind of milking it a little bit with my wife (Sara)," said Beldon, 36. "I had her grab me a beer from the fridge every now and then. That's definitely not normal procedure."