Picard had offered himself up to save a non-human life-form, whose greatest wish, ironically, was to become an emotive human.
But the life-form has a hidden weakness, and only two junior-college science teachers (David Duchovny and Orlando Jones) can stop it.
It starts as a fifties war-of-the-worlds pastiche: an alien life-form arrives in a meteor and quickly mutates, threatening to destroy Arizona as we know it.
Within their bodies they harbor highly productive algae -- a form of marine plant life -- that can "fix" carbon, use the energy of the sun to conduct photosynthesis and produce sugars.
What the desultory townhall-style debate last night in Nashville between presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama lacked in passion and focus on the most important issue of our time - the threat posed by Shariah (Islamic law) to our freedoms, way of life and form of government - was much in evidence in another debate held near Baltimore.
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My dream is to give Mom the gift of life -- in the form of a bone marrow donor.
MOLST, or Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment, is a form that allows people to make their medical wishes known to health profressionals.
Chronic inflammation, however, can be a problem (as in arthritis) and acute inflammation in the form of toxic shock is life-threatening.
There are strong arguments against this sort of assisted suicide, whether it takes the form of the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment or of more active measures such as the administration of lethal injections.
Reimbursement for end-of-life counseling has recently returned, in the form of a Medicare regulation to take effect January 1, 2011.
Variable annuities are a form of life insurance that includes a lump-sum death benefit and tax-deferred investments, often mutual funds, which are supposed to provide income during a client's lifetime.
At the moment it is tiny and may not look like much, but in future it could form the basis for a real-life Transformer robot, autonomously reconfiguring itself to perform different tasks.
Today, Science Magazine, one of the top scientific journals and the original publisher of the GFAJ-1 work, is publishing two new papers that completely demolish the argument that GFAJ-1 is a completely new form of life.
In recent years these in turn have lost out in popularity to an upsurge of privately financed religious and life-style channels, many promoting Salafism, the puritan form of Islam that is dominant in Saudi Arabia but which has long been disliked by most other Muslims as extreme.
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Such compensation would, at the moment, take the form of trade, investment and other economic life-support desperately sought by Ho Chi Minh's successors.
It is not yet known if it is male or female, but names being suggested included Snowy, Frosty and Alf - related to the TV character which stands for Alien Life Form.
Then, at a friend's house in the South of France, Tenzin popped into his life again, this time in the form of one of his maze-patterned rugs.
"The near-total destruction of the Iraqi marshlands under the regime of Saddam Hussein was a major ecological and human disaster, robbing the Marsh Arabs of a centuries-old culture and way of life as well as food in the form of fish and that most crucial of natural resources, drinking water, " according to Klaus Toepfer, the agency's executive director, whose comments are included in the report.
But what if you could tag a real-life building with a photo of yourself or some other content, as a form of virtual graffiti?
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At the Sunken Overlook, the 10th Avenue traffic below doubles as the entertainment: wooden benches form a mini-amphitheatre where viewers experience a voyeuristic slice of hectic street life through a four-sectioned window.
In summary: lower price, better form factor, longer battery life, faster (de facto) networking, less dilly-dallying by workers.
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In a rather bleak view of family life in the run-up to Christmas, many older people will depend on television as their main form of company.
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The contrast between the anonymous ordinariness of life in the Bronx and the ghettos and squatter camps that form European impressions of their Romani fellow-citizens could hardly be sharper.
Throughout its life Amtrak has made the argument, repeatedly, that rail is the most cost-effective and environmentally sound form of travel.
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That new-found domestic responsibility has helped Henson add stability to his life off the pitch as he builds his form on it.
So, I thought, wouldn't it be interesting if I actually put this into book form and showed the diversity of ways that I used hip-hop in my everyday life.
Outside of the tourist centers and gated resorts, where eight-hour stopover travelers wander ports of call looking for authenticity, life can take on a much different form.
Stark's arrogance and narcissism come back to haunt him in the form of spurned entrepreneur Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce) and a larger-than-life terror-monger by the name of "The Mandarin" (Ben Kingsley).
But how likely are the Frenchman's longer-term dreams of Euro-defence to be realised, either in the form of new treaty language, or in real military life?
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Orange roughys are found on, or around, mineral-rich seamounts that often form coral and act as feeding and spawning hubs for a variety of marine life.
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