Presented to Picard by the Starfleet Culinary Corps. Taken from the mission, now redacted from most Starfleet records, where Picard takes an away team to the Univers Core, where he discovers what his Chef thought all along:
If this doesn't meet the definition of something a captain would be proud to hang on the wall, I don't know what does. It is going on my cryogenic food storage unit!
"Logic is a little tweeting bird chirping in a meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell BAD." - Spock
If this doesn't meet the definition of something a captain would be proud to hang on the wall, I don't know what does. It is going on my cryogenic food storage unit!
Awwww, that's so cute.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
butcher suspect, "What'd you hit me with?"
Temperance Brennan, "A building"
First of all, since it appears there's some new interest in the contest, and I wasn't able to check and reply to questions every day, I'd like to extend the deadline, will one more week be fine with everyone? With the results on the next weekend.
Nice Romulon, for a second I thought it was Weyoun.
Right, I do see some similarity
And I apologize for not replying earlier, I hoped everything was clear, but apparently not - everything that is not forbidden is allowed, screenshots included in the allowed part
Presented to Picard by the Starfleet Culinary Corps. Taken from the mission, now redacted from most Starfleet records, where Picard takes an away team to the Univers Core, where he discovers what his Chef thought all along:
If this doesn't meet the definition of something a captain would be proud to hang on the wall, I don't know what does. It is going on my cryogenic food storage unit!
This is really, really awesome. A story in both worlds, here and there, a child drawing a captain who is her father, who is going to hang it on a cryogenic food storage unit :cool: The very definition of what this contest is dedicated to.
First of all, since it appears there's some new interest in the contest, and I wasn't able to check and reply to questions every day, I'd like to extend the deadline, will one more week be fine with everyone? With the results on the next weekend.
That would be great, hopefully my pic of CatStar'stimeline wallpaper, will be finished in time to enter.
First of all, since it appears there's some new interest in the contest, and I wasn't able to check and reply to questions every day, I'd like to extend the deadline, will one more week be fine with everyone? With the results on the next weekend.
Thank you very much, I appreciate the thought.
Right, I do see some similarity
And I apologize for not replying earlier, I hoped everything was clear, but apparently not - everything that is not forbidden is allowed, screenshots included in the allowed part
I wonder why they redacted this, perhaps Section 31 wants all that bacon?:D
This is really, really awesome. A story in both worlds, here and there, a child drawing a captain who is her father, who is going to hang it on a cryogenic food storage unit :cool: The very definition of what this contest is dedicated to.
My only thought against the idea (other than letting more competition in! lol) is will whoever gets 1st be stuck w/ 100 of each winter item after the event, or is there a way to redeem them later (other than for the GPL consoles)? Or will you trade them in for boxes first?
As to my pics:
The reason the mission logs were redacted is that *redacted* the *redacted* and so *redacted* and *redacted**redacted**redacted**redacted*! Funny how things work out, huh?
Does this mean, if I win, I need to figure out the cash value of the prize and buy something for my daughter? I think so...
"Logic is a little tweeting bird chirping in a meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell BAD." - Spock
As a young child he was small, labeled a useless runt. Rejected by his family, a tribe of warriors and hunters. His brother and sister where larger then he, even though they where all around the same age. But no weakness was to be allowed to continue to breed or make use of the supplies that their tribe needed to keep themselves fed and strong, this weak gene needed to be purged from the bloodline, he was cast out of the village by way of death. Tossed from refuge cliff, only to be beamed aboard a slavers ship and live under cruel bondage of these aliens strange to him, with technologies that made them appear to be gods. How he suffered, the days of beatings and torment, the tears that rolled down his face, mocked at every whimper, lashed at every cry. Until several years later, he was sold to a Ferengi who planned to use him for labor, though he was small, his time under bondage had made him strong and he was a hard worker. Sometimes anti-gravity devices didn't work and someone had to do the heavy lifting. A quick wit and a fast learner, he observed how to negotiate by watching his owners in action. Even to be able to detect what a person was thinking through means of facial expressions, posture and how a creatures approach was handled. But even this changed the day Vega colony was attacked, his owners killed and assimilated. In terror he hid and ran for his life, to afraid to look at the creatures that invaded, not knowing what to do. He watched as others arrived to assist, but fell as well. Then something clicked in his mind, as he watched the young and old, cry the same tears he had for so many years..."NO, no more! The suffering must stop NOW!!!" He cried as he took up a dropped phaser rifle and began to fight tooth and claw, with a built up rage that had been building up in him for most of his life, for 2 days he fended these never ending machines. Exhausted and badly injured he finally was the only one left standing. He crawled, his rifle still strapped to his back...hours went by then he finally gave out. He awoke to the sight of humans tending to him, after a sudden startle of these strange creatures he suddenly felt relaxed and they treated him for his wounds, fed him and showed compassion, a gift he had never been given before. One of them took off their jacket and covered him in it to keep him warm. He felt comforted and allowed himself to lower his guard around his new friends. His rest was short lived as the firefight that broke out, had awoke him in a panic, as the Borg suddenly beamed into their checkpoint and overran their position. He embraced the rifle that had saved him before, fear gripped him, but when he peered around the cover he took, he seen those nice people who had care for him and helped him, begin to die. He fell back into that rage once more and began to fight them. When the battle was his once again, he looked around only to see all of his new friends where gone. He fell to his knees and began to cry bitterly that he couldn't save them. The strange metal object chirped on his jacket, he grabbed it in curiosity. A voice came from it, "Bravo team report, whats your status?" It said. "Whats a status?" he asked. They beamed him up thinking he was the lone survivor of that team, the ship they came from already destroyed, they assigned him to theirs for the time being. He didn't know what was going on or who they where, thinking he was suffering from shell shock, not knowing it was just ignorant innocence and he was just now being introduced to a new and more advanced life style from what he had just came from. They dismissed him from active duty to recover. After the incident, the rank on his jacket was still Commander, so due to a error in the data base from the chaos of the Vega colony incident, he was reinstated or so they thought as a Commander ranked officer in Star Fleet, never once going to the academy or even seeing it. Soon he was sought out by a Specialist in Star Fleet, Flash Dashing, Captain of the Star Defender and Wing Commander for the MACO Task Force. After reading the report about how this little Caitian opened up a new staging points for his team to land in, enabling them gain a foot hold enough to repel the Borg invasion, he pulled strings to get him on board his ship. The crew worked with him, thinking he was just in shock and from the experience, not know he wasn't actually a trained officer, they helped reintroduce him to the technology and quickly got him up to speed in a few short years.. During this time, Thomas also engaged in the B-tran wars, as a massive effort was put into place to remove the Borg from a newly assimilated sector. Since it was a Specialists division, they wore what they wanted, Thomas became acquainted with his chosen outfit, a formal uniform from earths history, they used for his promotion when he became Flash's Chief Engineer and he wore it proudly every day there after, he also earned a number of commendations and medals for his heroic efforts during the war. Then a commission came up, as Jean-Luc Picard was to be promoted and given the assignment of Ambassador to Vulcan. A command of his own intrigued Thomas, sad to see him go, Flash still endorsed and recommended him for the position, his recommendation assured that Thomas was able to be promoted to Captain and command the USS Enterprise E, he took all he had learned and set out for new challenges. Now leaving the MACO division, he placed his Navy uniform into a glass frame, as well as the customized cutlass he learned to use in his ready room. Thomas spent several years, exploring, sorting out Diplomatic and first contact missions, and even countless engagements in combat. The whole time, still using that same rifle...constantly upgrading and fine tuning it to suit the new challenges, until his design of the Battle rifle was accepted by the MACO division as the official design. He served aboard the Enterprise until the day of his promotion to Admiral, the very rank he holds today dawning his Trademark uniform...and so the story continues up until this point...
^ A flashback snip from Part 9, of my Temporal Ambassador series, where his life flashed before his eyes. This is my entry, Cat is my favorite toon because hes an action hero, and a compassionate gentleman..uh, cat!
My only thought against the idea (other than letting more competition in! lol) is will whoever gets 1st be stuck w/ 100 of each winter item after the event, or is there a way to redeem them later (other than for the GPL consoles)? Or will you trade them in for boxes first?
Added the deadline and commodities info to the first post and highlighted it to catch attention, also here in case it's overlooked: the devs confirmed recently the Winter Store is to remain once unlocked. If anyone hasn't done so yet, it's fairly simple, got to go to the Winter Wonderland, the one commodity needed yo unlock it is giiven there, the instructions as well (actually the Store is on the reputation tab, Events part, Q to get transported is in the First City/ESD/Romulan Command). Some of the winter items are bound (though mostly weapons), and unlocking it is easy and stays there, who knows, maybe you might like some of the options. However, if anyone prefers me to turn the commodities into the boxes, I can do that, of course.
The reason the mission logs were redacted is that *redacted* the *redacted* and so *redacted* and *redacted**redacted**redacted**redacted*! Funny how things work out, huh?
Yeah, after hanging around certain people you learn to understand such things, or might end up in situations like when Section 31 tried to bother a certain Cardassian who once took part in the movement against the Dominion and now lives quietly and owns a nice garden and a tailor's shop (I wonder if the ESD one is some branch of that one, but I suspect that's *redacted*) for some information. Well, he did provide some, and thus the agents who tried to act on that ended up in *redacted**redacted**redacted*. He commented... something about amateurs, maybe those agents couldn't tell a needle from a button or something... Poor Frankie said that *redacted**redacted**redacted*.
And then there was a story when some people from Tal Shiar thought they could trick Q to use him for some purpose, possibly related to New Romulus, they did manage to find him and even relay their part of the supposed bait, but then *redacted**redacted**redacted**redacted**redacted*. Have you seen where Q is now? And have you seen those Tal Shiar agents? That's how "well" that worked.
CatStar is a unique and original character in the star trek universe, I hope to make him canon some day. =^.^=
...or at least to a paperback title, ...they need a Caitian hero for at least one movie!
You don't know how tempted I am at the moment to create a one shot comic with Catstar (not so humble Caitian) vs P'ntac Xobrettil Elophctarcs (An arrogant yet scientific Ferasan). And how they have grudge matches of titanic proportions. This includes cat vs cat combat, ship to ship combat, a race of scientific discovery, muscle flexing contests... and a cooking competition (with felinoids of both species acting as judges). And at the end they get a beatdown by said females who are tired of their battles against each other and instead start chasing a hapless Saurian (who thinks he's the most unluckiest individual in the Universe as a result).
...
Okay... drawing that at the moment will give me a headache. X_X
*sings* "I like Gammera! He's so neat!!! He is full of turtle meat!!!"
"Hah! You are doomed! You're only armed with that pathetic excuse for a musical instrument!!!" *the Savage Beast moments before Lonnehart the Bard used music to soothe him... then beat him to death with his Fat Lute*
You don't know how tempted I am at the moment to create a one shot comic with Catstar (not so humble Caitian) vs P'ntac Xobrettil Elophctarcs (An arrogant yet scientific Ferasan). And how they have grudge matches of titanic proportions. This includes cat vs cat combat, ship to ship combat, a race of scientific discovery, muscle flexing contests... and a cooking competition (with felinoids of both species acting as judges). And at the end they get a beatdown by said females who are tired of their battles against each other and instead start chasing a hapless Saurian (who thinks he's the most unluckiest individual in the Universe as a result).
...
Okay... drawing that at the moment will give me a headache. X_X
bergins and catstarsto - couldn't really decide, both get the first place, a master key and 100 of each winter commodity.
marcusdkane gets the second place. Did you fix your computer problems or will you tell me who to send this one to?
voporak, azniadeet, and bergins (for the bacon entry, since there were two) - I decided to give the third places to all three of these entries, a winter costume for each.
Please contact me in-game, some haven't even contacted me about the encouragement prizes yet - if you didn't get my mail, my handle is the same as on the forum, @effaeldm
Congratulations to everyone and thanks for participation and for the awesome entries! I'm probably going to start a new contest soon, that one likely easier, with captioned images
And here is a painting, if I may call it so, of some curious plant I haven't seen on New Romulus earlier - for D'Tan
CatStarSTO and Azniadeet, you haven't confirmed your in-game mail there - please write to me if you haven't received my letters (same handle as here), and you haven't said what form would you like the prizes in - CatStarSTO - if you'd like commodities as is or as costume boxes, and also which scarf; Azniadeet - which costume and scarf.
CatStarSTO and Azniadeet, you haven't confirmed your in-game mail there - please write to me if you haven't received my letters (same handle as here), and you haven't said what form would you like the prizes in - CatStarSTO - if you'd like commodities as is or as costume boxes, and also which scarf; Azniadeet - which costume and scarf.
mines @cat_star but im not always able to login with this pc atm, and when i do i lag too much, to often to do more then say hai to people, and setup some doff missions =T.T=
ill let u choose and surprise me, I won a contest and im mainly pleased with that =^.^=
I use CatStarSTO on here, because thats how im known across the net, even the browser games im reduced to playing atm, thats what i call myself there
I tried to login again last night, but it crashed before I could really do anything. Im going to try again tonight, hopefully i can at least end up with a party popper, even if i have to buy it form the exchange later on. Not sure the game will run well enough for much else. If i can access my mail this time, ill respond here again. wish me luck...
Good luck. Did you try to delete (saving a copy somewhere beforehad, of course) your STO settings file? Helped me with crashes once. The game re-calculates the stats if it sees it's not there C:\Program Files\Cryptic Studios\Star Trek Online\Live\Localdata -> gameprefs.pref - or something similar if you installed elsewhere. Also, you probably tried it, but force verify in the Launcher settings is occasionally helpful. That is, if it crashes anyway when servers are up.
Nah, its just im using am old pc atm. It can barely handle sto, and even lags while playing a browser game.
I did get in and they where received, thx ^^
I hope that new ship set will still be around for a while, that would be great for 009Lives and his ship, i fear i will miss the free ships this time around. They do look like great designs especially the romulan one. Someone leaked them earlier, i guess they where right after all :P
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Presented to Picard by the Starfleet Culinary Corps. Taken from the mission, now redacted from most Starfleet records, where Picard takes an away team to the Univers Core, where he discovers what his Chef thought all along:
The Universe really DOES revolve around BACON!
I'm @bergins
If this doesn't meet the definition of something a captain would be proud to hang on the wall, I don't know what does. It is going on my cryogenic food storage unit!
Awwww, that's so cute.
butcher suspect, "What'd you hit me with?"
Temperance Brennan, "A building"
And I apologize for not replying earlier, I hoped everything was clear, but apparently not - everything that is not forbidden is allowed, screenshots included in the allowed part
Contest thread: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1006281
That would be great, hopefully my pic of CatStar'stimeline wallpaper, will be finished in time to enter.
As to my pics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAzpcg0IBYc <-- Theme/poster for his life
As a young child he was small, labeled a useless runt. Rejected by his family, a tribe of warriors and hunters. His brother and sister where larger then he, even though they where all around the same age. But no weakness was to be allowed to continue to breed or make use of the supplies that their tribe needed to keep themselves fed and strong, this weak gene needed to be purged from the bloodline, he was cast out of the village by way of death. Tossed from refuge cliff, only to be beamed aboard a slavers ship and live under cruel bondage of these aliens strange to him, with technologies that made them appear to be gods. How he suffered, the days of beatings and torment, the tears that rolled down his face, mocked at every whimper, lashed at every cry. Until several years later, he was sold to a Ferengi who planned to use him for labor, though he was small, his time under bondage had made him strong and he was a hard worker. Sometimes anti-gravity devices didn't work and someone had to do the heavy lifting. A quick wit and a fast learner, he observed how to negotiate by watching his owners in action. Even to be able to detect what a person was thinking through means of facial expressions, posture and how a creatures approach was handled. But even this changed the day Vega colony was attacked, his owners killed and assimilated. In terror he hid and ran for his life, to afraid to look at the creatures that invaded, not knowing what to do. He watched as others arrived to assist, but fell as well. Then something clicked in his mind, as he watched the young and old, cry the same tears he had for so many years..."NO, no more! The suffering must stop NOW!!!" He cried as he took up a dropped phaser rifle and began to fight tooth and claw, with a built up rage that had been building up in him for most of his life, for 2 days he fended these never ending machines. Exhausted and badly injured he finally was the only one left standing. He crawled, his rifle still strapped to his back...hours went by then he finally gave out. He awoke to the sight of humans tending to him, after a sudden startle of these strange creatures he suddenly felt relaxed and they treated him for his wounds, fed him and showed compassion, a gift he had never been given before. One of them took off their jacket and covered him in it to keep him warm. He felt comforted and allowed himself to lower his guard around his new friends. His rest was short lived as the firefight that broke out, had awoke him in a panic, as the Borg suddenly beamed into their checkpoint and overran their position. He embraced the rifle that had saved him before, fear gripped him, but when he peered around the cover he took, he seen those nice people who had care for him and helped him, begin to die. He fell back into that rage once more and began to fight them. When the battle was his once again, he looked around only to see all of his new friends where gone. He fell to his knees and began to cry bitterly that he couldn't save them. The strange metal object chirped on his jacket, he grabbed it in curiosity. A voice came from it, "Bravo team report, whats your status?" It said. "Whats a status?" he asked. They beamed him up thinking he was the lone survivor of that team, the ship they came from already destroyed, they assigned him to theirs for the time being. He didn't know what was going on or who they where, thinking he was suffering from shell shock, not knowing it was just ignorant innocence and he was just now being introduced to a new and more advanced life style from what he had just came from. They dismissed him from active duty to recover. After the incident, the rank on his jacket was still Commander, so due to a error in the data base from the chaos of the Vega colony incident, he was reinstated or so they thought as a Commander ranked officer in Star Fleet, never once going to the academy or even seeing it. Soon he was sought out by a Specialist in Star Fleet, Flash Dashing, Captain of the Star Defender and Wing Commander for the MACO Task Force. After reading the report about how this little Caitian opened up a new staging points for his team to land in, enabling them gain a foot hold enough to repel the Borg invasion, he pulled strings to get him on board his ship. The crew worked with him, thinking he was just in shock and from the experience, not know he wasn't actually a trained officer, they helped reintroduce him to the technology and quickly got him up to speed in a few short years.. During this time, Thomas also engaged in the B-tran wars, as a massive effort was put into place to remove the Borg from a newly assimilated sector. Since it was a Specialists division, they wore what they wanted, Thomas became acquainted with his chosen outfit, a formal uniform from earths history, they used for his promotion when he became Flash's Chief Engineer and he wore it proudly every day there after, he also earned a number of commendations and medals for his heroic efforts during the war. Then a commission came up, as Jean-Luc Picard was to be promoted and given the assignment of Ambassador to Vulcan. A command of his own intrigued Thomas, sad to see him go, Flash still endorsed and recommended him for the position, his recommendation assured that Thomas was able to be promoted to Captain and command the USS Enterprise E, he took all he had learned and set out for new challenges. Now leaving the MACO division, he placed his Navy uniform into a glass frame, as well as the customized cutlass he learned to use in his ready room. Thomas spent several years, exploring, sorting out Diplomatic and first contact missions, and even countless engagements in combat. The whole time, still using that same rifle...constantly upgrading and fine tuning it to suit the new challenges, until his design of the Battle rifle was accepted by the MACO division as the official design. He served aboard the Enterprise until the day of his promotion to Admiral, the very rank he holds today dawning his Trademark uniform...and so the story continues up until this point...
^ A flashback snip from Part 9, of my Temporal Ambassador series, where his life flashed before his eyes. This is my entry, Cat is my favorite toon because hes an action hero, and a compassionate gentleman..uh, cat!
And then there was a story when some people from Tal Shiar thought they could trick Q to use him for some purpose, possibly related to New Romulus, they did manage to find him and even relay their part of the supposed bait, but then *redacted**redacted**redacted**redacted**redacted*. Have you seen where Q is now? And have you seen those Tal Shiar agents? That's how "well" that worked. I doubt it's much of a precision question, if you overdo it, unlikely that she'll mind
Impressive work, it's rather rare that someone works so much on a game character's biography :cool:
I've also traced this to the DA page, a lot of art there
Contest thread: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1006281
Very impressive.
CatStar is a unique and original character in the star trek universe, I hope to make him canon some day. =^.^=
...or at least to a paperback title, ...they need a Caitian hero for at least one movie!
You don't know how tempted I am at the moment to create a one shot comic with Catstar (not so humble Caitian) vs P'ntac Xobrettil Elophctarcs (An arrogant yet scientific Ferasan). And how they have grudge matches of titanic proportions. This includes cat vs cat combat, ship to ship combat, a race of scientific discovery, muscle flexing contests... and a cooking competition (with felinoids of both species acting as judges). And at the end they get a beatdown by said females who are tired of their battles against each other and instead start chasing a hapless Saurian (who thinks he's the most unluckiest individual in the Universe as a result).
...
Okay... drawing that at the moment will give me a headache. X_X
"Hah! You are doomed! You're only armed with that pathetic excuse for a musical instrument!!!" *the Savage Beast moments before Lonnehart the Bard used music to soothe him... then beat him to death with his Fat Lute*
Well, if you ever get published, if it's a TOS or TNG novel, let me know the name of the book, so I know what to look for.
butcher suspect, "What'd you hit me with?"
Temperance Brennan, "A building"
You will make a story... you will publish it... and this revolution will give the Caitians more spotlight attention :P.
Yes, we have spawned a new generation!!
I think the Cat your looking for is 009 Lives
bergins and catstarsto - couldn't really decide, both get the first place, a master key and 100 of each winter commodity.
marcusdkane gets the second place. Did you fix your computer problems or will you tell me who to send this one to?
voporak, azniadeet, and bergins (for the bacon entry, since there were two) - I decided to give the third places to all three of these entries, a winter costume for each.
Please contact me in-game, some haven't even contacted me about the encouragement prizes yet - if you didn't get my mail, my handle is the same as on the forum, @effaeldm
Congratulations to everyone and thanks for participation and for the awesome entries!
And here is a painting, if I may call it so, of some curious plant I haven't seen on New Romulus earlier - for D'Tan
Contest thread: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1006281
thanks, and congratz to the other winners too
...Honestly, I was surprised I even made 3rd, since I just whipped up my image in about two hours. Or one, I don't remember.
Now, if the servers would come back up...
CatStarSTO and Azniadeet, you haven't confirmed your in-game mail there - please write to me if you haven't received my letters (same handle as here), and you haven't said what form would you like the prizes in - CatStarSTO - if you'd like commodities as is or as costume boxes, and also which scarf; Azniadeet - which costume and scarf.
Contest thread: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1006281
mines @cat_star but im not always able to login with this pc atm, and when i do i lag too much, to often to do more then say hai to people, and setup some doff missions =T.T=
ill let u choose and surprise me, I won a contest and im mainly pleased with that =^.^=
I use CatStarSTO on here, because thats how im known across the net, even the browser games im reduced to playing atm, thats what i call myself there
Azniadeet, still haven't heard from you.
Contest thread: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1006281
EDIT: Blast! Servers are down... =T.T=
Contest thread: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1006281
I did get in and they where received, thx ^^
I hope that new ship set will still be around for a while, that would be great for 009Lives and his ship, i fear i will miss the free ships this time around. They do look like great designs especially the romulan one. Someone leaked them earlier, i guess they where right after all :P