Sorry for the delay in reporting.
Overall I think that this wednesday's episode of the RP group's mission went well. A bit bumpy since we had roughly half the players as last time, but we made it through. Kudos to Hep and Kal for joining in as Chief Engineer and Security Chief (respecively). Both of you jumped in and learned the ropes really quickly.
Hopefully the next session will have more people (please don't make me Captain again... Can't do science stuff as Captain...)

Please join us in congratulating the winners of our March Star Trek Fiction Writing Competition! Prizes will be sent out via in-game mail by DoogieGood so watch your inboxes, winners! :)

Taking the first place prize is JBrenden with his entry “Connor.” While the competition was tight, this story’s success in the areas of imagery, character development, and story flow propelled it to the top. Our judges also felt that this story was the most technically well crafted, making excellent use of grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Combine all of that with an emotional one-two punch and you have an amazing story!

Coming in at second place was Propecia, with his entry “Mind Games.” This story rated the highest for originality given its rather odd but successful bend of the Star Trek theme. This entry also rated well in character development and story flow; the ending, especially, created a deep and emotional touchstone.

The third place winner was MarkNine, with his entry “Mysterious Ways.” Revolving around a roleplaying character that has been in development for a number of years, this story rated well in all technical aspects as well as in the originality category.

Once again, congratulations to our winners! Thanks go to all of our competitors and judges for volunteering the time, energy, and enthusiasm necessary to make a contest such as this one successful. :)

So one of the reasons I was turned off from the game, was the inexplicable change to my fleet chat where I only saw maybe 30-50% of the conversations. Well Cryptic still has it listed as a bug, with no ETA to fix. I have tried reinstalling, resettings, blah, blah...

Recently seems someone may have sorted out a similar issue with their zone chat. I have done the same, but have regrettably removed everyone from friend and ignore list to completely restore chat/social settings to pristine condition. Just in case you receive a message about me removing you as a friend it is only to correct this silly fleet chat issue.

For reference I am copying the URL string from the forums I am using. Feel free to provide any feedback or advice.

http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=206593

So... ummm... yeah. Jack Katoth... heez jus diz guy, ya know?

Quote by MikeyNY

Provided they don't force me to try mating with a female I'm cool with our new Alien masters.

Quote by RytonB

Kahless, such an easy date, more like ;)

To be honest, I'll do almost anything if they'd give me something like those Skrill from Earth: Final Conflict! I guess they'd consider me easy as well!

Kahless, such an easy date, more like ;)

Provided they don't force me to try mating with a female I'm cool with our new Alien masters.

Kahless, such a traitor! :P

I, for one, welcome our new overlords and humbly submit myself into their service.

As I'm sure you are all aware this morning, we have woken up to a brand new world. Like something out of a Sci-Fi show, the White House this morning confirmed that they have been in communication with a civilisation "not of terrestrial origin" for a number of years!!!!

This news story is ongoing on most news channels around the world so keep watching, click on this link to see one of the first online news articles:

www.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/1-4-2011

Episode 231 - The Next Generation - "The Inner Light" - 06/01/1992



Parts 2-5:

Found from the above link in the related videos section

A space probe creates a telepathic tether and causes Picard to experience, in twenty-five minutes, a lifetime as a married man on a world that was destroyed a millennium ago.

Enjoy!

Oh, sweet, I had no idea that that was all integrated, thank you!

If the training session is taking place in Ventrilo, you don't need a microphone as long as you can hear what is being said. You can use the Ventrilo chatroom to ask questions and make comments.

Sure, put it in the Times.

Interestingly, that's not the direction STO players have thought of the Orion language. I would describe their take on Orion as Latin, with Arabic and Sanskrit substrates. You'll see what I mean when I get the rest of the list up.

Would you mind if we put this in the Times for next month?

Also, there is a book out there of Orion names -- someone gave me mine: Nispivan

I look forward to this and can't wait to see how it all comes out... I must say that this definately appeals to my inner geek....

I will give 100,000 credits to whoever can take this logo, put it into Photoshop, and make it look crisp, professional, and presentable.


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That will be awesome.

Okay, so it makes sense, except I don't find anything in the programme that says "add door" or anything about doors, except for the things-you-still-need-to-do box telling me I need to add a door.

I know there are some Foundry training sessions planned, but as I don't have a microphone, I don't see how I'll be able to participate in these.

Thanks