Ive slightly edited the first event... instead of the festive ship contest (which would I think slow the day down) we can do what we do best.. and blow up some ships together!
The new event "Space Bauble Battle Zone" has taken its place.

#festivefleet

Unless I am not running last minute errands for Christmas Eve and Christmas day I should be able to make it

:( 

I'm gonna be in Wales with no computer to play sto 

Noooo I miss you all 

Fun Fun Fun! :)

Oh nice, another event! :D Can't what people come up with for the costumes :)

Around 6pm GMT/1pm EST/10am PST
SPACE BAUBLE BATTLE ZONE
After weve done all we can in winter wonderland, beam up to our ships and set course for the Space Bauble (Dyson Sphere)
where we will do what we love, and shoot ships in the Space combat zone of the Dyson sphere. If you havent been there before, dont worry. its easy as peas.. if we have the time.. after the Space Bauble zone.. we can go to the Badlands Space battle zone.


Around 7:30pm GMT/2:30pm EST/11:30pm PST
FESTIVE FASHION SHOW
Now its your Toons turn to shine, think festive, think holiday season realness, vibrant holiday colours, maybe turn into an elf, mrs claus, a reindeer ? completely up to you.


Around 8:30pm GMT/3:30pm EST/12:30pm PST
SANTA FIST FIGHT
Dressed as Santa Claus we enter a PvP battle, 2 teams, only using fists, Normally with out fist fights things never run smoothly, but hopefully this time it will, teams will enter the map, and just go for it, no scores, no one agaist one.. just team against team, knock as many people out as you can, its an all around bar fight!
- No Weapons
- No Kits
- No Traits


Around 9:30pm GMT/4:30pm EST/1:30PM PST
DISCORDS TRENDY QUIZ
We move from the game to Discords event channel for our last game, where I will host a Trendy New quiz.
you will be placed into teams, we will all stay in the same audio room, but each team will have there own text channel to communicate in.
its an Easy peasy quiz that is a lot of fun, no hard questions. more details will be given on the day.

I've been thinking that if Romulans have any psychic abilities, they ought to be similar to vulcan psychic abilities because of common ancestry. What I can think of is mind melds, control of autonomous bodily functions, using the katra, emotional projection (when Sarek has Bendi Syndrome, or Vorik during pon'farr) and that instance where Spock senses the death of a starship's crew.
Mind melds were perfected by the Syrannites, and since a mind meld done wrong can cause physical harm, the ability to control autonomous bodily functions might be a side-effect of learning proper mind melding. Since the Romulans rejected Surak's teachings, no Syrannite psychic techniques for them. They might well have dormant abilities, though, who knows? We've seen very little of them on screen.
As for emotional projection, both Sarek and Vorik were suffering from neurological imbalance, so that might only happen to neurologically imbalanced Romulans, too. So the count is down to Spock sensing the death of that crew -he "hears their death scream" which sounds like the "limited telepathy" Romulans get in the game. (The episode is "Immunity Syndrome", TOS).

Maybe the Romulans also simply don't have the same psychic potential as Vulcans because their neurological and endocrine makeup is different. This would explain why Dr Crusher couldn't treat that Romulan who had neurological damage. Genetic experiments, the augment virus as said above, and interbreeding with other species could definitely cause that! Or maybe the later Romulans already were a related, but different species back on Vulcan. Perhaps the later Vulcans were highly emotional and more on the in-your-face aggressive side, and the later Romulans were highly emotional and more on the hyperfearful, hyperaggressive-when-cornered side. They're best known for cloaking devices, disruptors (and Romulan Ale), after all ;) So their psychic abilities might give them a "danger sense" rather than full telepathy.

Perhaps to compensate for what they don't have naturally, Romulans developed technology that copies psychic abilities (mind probes, the brainwashing tech used on Geordi in "In the Mind's Eye" and a telepathic interface for the drone ship in ENT! ) Perhaps through studying Remans and remembering bits of ancient Vulcan lore? Abusing Remans and other species as experimental material rather than risk their own species sounds like something the Tal Shiar would do.

Just me playing with ideas, as far as I know there is no definite answer to this :)

It was great fun indeed. Thank you @Kailea 

Just wanted to say thanks to @Kailea for his little shindig on K-13 this afternoon. Mrs. Trick (@raetb32) and I had a great time, even if her fun didn't really start until halfway through, when I finally told her how to join the fleet chat.

I still don't know how Santa Kailea managed to carry all those gifts. That guy must have the biggest sack in the fleet.

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Had to go to my EMSSG emergency measure Secret Santa gift. But it's sent.

I googled EMSSG because I didnt recognize the acronym. In the image search I found a rather lovely set of towels, which would make an excellent gift. Also this thread showed up which was a bit weird at first glance. XD

Vary green towels... The acronym is my own creation lol emergency measure Secret Santa gift 

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Had to go to my EMSSG emergency measure Secret Santa gift. But it's sent.

I googled EMSSG because I didnt recognize the acronym. In the image search I found a rather lovely set of towels, which would make an excellent gift. Also this thread showed up which was a bit weird at first glance. XD

So, I have a lot of down-time at work and I have been spending it watching fan-made Star Trek episodes at work.

So far I've watched Star Trek Continues and Star Trek New Voyages/Phase 2 -- both of which I thought were, overall, really well done.

I was wondering what you all thought about these projects and if there's any other series that you might recommend!

I think, and obviously this isn't canonical, but the Romulans likely do have some dormant psychic capabilities. Remember that in the era of Enterprise, the Vulcans thought psychic abilities were a rare mutation and were heavily discriminating against those who showed those capabilities. Later, we discovered that the Vulcan government was being influenced by Romulans at the highest levels, so it doesn't seem unreasonable to me to assume that those prejudices exist in Romulan society even today. So Romulans who are more psychic are still probably going to keep those abilities to themselves, and the less aggressively psychic ones probably don't even know they have those dormant abilities.

That's just my personal theory, and I think that it also explains the limited telepathy racial trait in STO.

My #secretsanta gift shipped today and should arrive to its recipient before Christmas. I hope they like it. :)

Had to go to my EMSSG emergency measure Secret Santa gift. But it's sent.

I shipped out my #SecretSanta gift to my giftee today!  Should arrive just in time for Christmas!

!!! that 8bit art is amazing , @Balduranne thats a awesome bonus gift as I know how much work goes into it. it looks stunning

ooooo Fith! id love that. all the way to Australia Trick. I saw the warp cores a while ago and wanted one!

y'all so lucky!

My wonderful awesome Secret Santa gift has arrived!

Thank you @trick

A HUGE thank you to Anna (@Balduranne) for the AMAZING Secret Santa gift!  My toon and ship in your pixel art is amazing - I'll be using it as my forum signature from now on!  The Steam gift card is an added bonus and will definitely go straight to another "Dead by Daylight" expansion, because I'm totally not addicted to the game or anything!  Much love, thank you so much for the amazing gifts :D

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What do you guys think? How did Romulans lose their psychic abilities? And are Romulans and Vulcans separate species? 

I dunno about speciation since the usual biological definition means "cannot interbreed to produce fertile offspring." We don't know about the Human-Vulcan hybrid Spock since he didn't marry or have any known children. However, this definition would indicate that Humans and Klingons aren't a separate species (as we now define the term) because K'Ehleyr, the half-Human half-Klingon mother of Alexander Rozhenko, was clearly fertile. The same goes for B'ellana Torres and her daughter Miral Paris; neither could have been anyone's mother if not. Vulcans and Romulans descended from a common ancestor so they would presumably be closer physiologically than any Human-Klingon pairing. So...let's just back away from that whole topic and wave it away with space magic time travel whatever blah. :P As for the loss of telepathy, let's try to retcon it.

*Ahem*

During the early alliance with the Klingons, the Romulan Star Empire got its hands on not only Klingon ships, but it had the Tal Shiar extract Klingon research as well. This included data on the Augment virus, which the Tal Shiar immediately began testing. Due to the differences in physiology, the virus created cranial ridges in Romulans where it destroyed them in Klingons, and the virus' genetic damage caused only minor behavioral differences but did erase the limited telepathy that Romulans had possessed. Unfortunately, the Tal Shiar's quarantine protocols were inadequate and the virus swept through the population, being much more aggressively contagious than it had been for the Klingons. This pandemic caused the Romulans in 2311 to retreat into isolation behind the Neutral Zone until encountering Captain Picard and the USS Enterprise-D on Stardate 41986.0, when their now-permanent appearance change became known to the outside for the first time.

Or not. But hey, it's as plausible as any of the other retconning that happens in Trek...