Name:     Ute Koberstein	Profession:
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It's been a while, but you may remember me: Ute Koberstein, daughter of Joachim Siegfried Koberstein, son of Erich Joachim Koberstein. (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~kobie/erichute/aqwg02.htm) I just wanted to send you the latest update for your site: I got married to Marc Paul Gerhardt on December 20, 2003. Hence my name has changed to Ute Gerhardt. Best regards from Dortmund, Germany, Ute Gerhardt User Profile: Ute Koberstein what is recommend? Country: Germany Number of Results: 592 CPU Time Per Result: 7 hr 44 min 58.5 sec Last Result Time: Sun Jan 11 19:27:59 2004 Date Registered: Tue Jan 22 21:59:10 2002 BACKGROUND 33-year-old computer nerd with hobbies such as reading, astronomy, occi, drawing, travelling, skiing, skating, swimming, home-baking. Fond of cats, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, poems, biographies, a whole bunch of people, good food and loads more. Take a look at www.koberstein.org to find out about the rest. :-) SETI THOUGHTS Why am I helping to find potential ETs? Good question. "Just in case", I suppose. How can we benefit from such a discovery? Well, I reckon there'll be lots to learn from other beings, wherever they may be. But will they benefit from _being_ discovered by us, I wonder? ;-) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 97 05:58:18 EDT From: koberstein.zb-te@krupp-ag.e-mail.com Subj: "Trekkies" documentary To: info@trekkies2.com Yes, I'll readily admit that I'm a Star Trek fan myself - especially TOS, which was made before I was even born, and VOYAGER - that I've just joined Ms. Mulgrew's fan club (not just because of VOYAGER, though) and that I'm really looking forward to attending the odd convention either here in Europe or in the US. Nevertheless I couldn't agree more with Ms. Necchi's point of view that the Trekkers you are portraying in "Trekkies" are indeed taking fandom to the extreme and do not appropriately represent the average Trekker. Personally, I like Star Trek because just for one or two hours a week it allows me to enter an adventurous world of social and scientific progress which I'd like to (but presumably never will) be part of during my lifetime. I once remarked that it makes me want to crawl into the TV and join the crew. But, fascinating as the series may be, Star Trek is and remains fictional, and if we really want to see such a world come into existence, we must focus on today and today's politics and people. Wearing a Star Trek uniform in the 20th century is probably a sign of respect for the ideals represented by the series, but most other people simply do not grasp the meaning of that uniform and therefore tend to dismiss its wearer as weird, no matter how intelligent or how committed a social worker he/she may be. Anyone who wears such a uniform in public has to be aware of the fact that there is a limit to the degree of tolerance you can expect from the rest of society. Under certain circumstances, this is regrettable, but it is also vital for the very existence and cohesion of a society. Furthermore, I should like to make it perfectly clear that I strongly object to imposing one's own fanaticism on an animal, i. e. a Star Trek uniform on a pet. Quite frankly, I consider that thoughtless, to say the least. How is this unfortunate cat supposed to properly lick or scratch itself, leave alone move and jump freely??? Being "free to say and be whatever we want, as long as we don't infringe on another's right to do so" - as Mr. Nygard put it in his reply to Ms. Necchi - surely includes all other forms of life as well. I obviously have not been able to watch "Trekkies" yet, but I sincerely do hope that the makers of the film won't suggest that such disregard for animals' needs is common among Starfleet officers or - heaven forbid - among us Trekkers! Ute Koberstein Germany Art (c) Ute Koberstein Review of We Love Harry Potter!  by Sharon Moore on amazon.com Most disappointing, September 11, 2000 Reviewer: Ute Gerhardt (Germany) - See all my reviews When someone gave me that book to read, I thought it would be fun to see what children think of Harry Potter, to see how his story fuels their imagination. Instead, all I found was incomprehensible gibberish (and proof that few of those children have really understood the Harry Potter stories), and boring and pointless comments like "I love Harry. I hate Snape." over and over again. Any guestbook on any Harry Potter website provides more insight into kids' thoughts than Mrs. Moore's book. Good thing I didn't spend any money on it - the waste of time was bad enough.