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Our own universe! :eek: http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/EpisodeSounds/4ACV15/12.mp3
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I'm glad to have brought him to life so well, and that you liked it! He really was the one crucial thing missing from the bits and pieces of her origin story I'd had floating around in my mind: a single smart, likeable and down-to-earth protagonist who'd unravel the mystery and decide what to do should do with it. I'd…
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I wish I had longer to write this morning, but thank you for reading it and for the feedback, and I'm glad you liked his character! I'll see if I can change those things really quick: I like the mother and ship idea (I worried about what to call the ship and eventually just went "bridge" to dodge it), and I'm glad you…
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Why is it the best ideas only pop into your head after midnight? :D The story's all set! I tried to be vague on Marcus's personality: he can be friendly and informal, can also have a temper under the right circumstances, is an expert on the Borg who's a little haunted by the Hansens' fate, and is a dedicated Starfleet…
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* * * "Admiral Kane," Azera chirped in a voice somewhere between cheerful enthusiasm and wide-eyed panic, darting around her ready room to lightly pick up each one of the dozen tribbles hopping around the room and drop them onto the sofa before settling into her chair... and then jumping to her feet again to lift an…
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* * * "On stardate 90550.35," Admiral Kane began as he paced back and forth across the head of the conference room, "the USS Roanoke received a distress call from Starbase 114 stating that a Borg cube appeared to be on a direct course for the Celes System. At 1100 hours the Roanoke intercepted the Borg ship and hailed it.…
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* * * "I don't know what that girl's parents were thinking," the shipyard mechanic grumbled as he led Admiral Kane through the twilight maze of shuttlecrafts and personal transports that filled the lower decks of the Tranquility Base shipyards, "or whoever sent her off. That escape pod of hers is a death trap! I wouldn't…
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Azera Xi: In Memoriam It wasn't exactly standard procedure for the head of Starfleet Intelligence to handle a starship's personnel matters, much less an ensign's medical issues, but mysterious incidents surrounding the Borg had a way of ending up on Admiral Kane's desk. That suited him fine: he preferred a more hands-on…
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Sorry I vanished for a bit! I started writing a story with Marcus as the main character that fleshes out the plot elements in her background, and I kept writing... and kept writing... and wrote through a caffeine-fueled night of Toonami... and also wrote through most of last night, so I'm kind of loopy at the moment. :o…
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Exactly. You have to make some concessions to the game being an MMO, like your character getting their own command in jaw-droppingly record time (though still not as much as 2009 Kirk did! :P) or buying supplies from Starfleet with currency. Just take the story as being told through a gameplay filter: when the mission is…
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That is an amazingly detailed background! :eek: I haven't finished reading it all yet, but it's very well-written so far. And I may take you up on that offer! There are all kinds of story elements that are hard to write about from Azera's perspective, and having Marcus Kane, a Borg specialist who's been studying them since…
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Thanks for reading it! :) I'll keep adding more as I play and write, and there's a story in mind for what happens with her character as her missions continue and how it'll all eventually unfold. Exactly. ;) I'm going to be very careful in handling that part of her story, and her bio's about as specific as it'll ever get…
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Personal Log: "Ghosts of Donatu" Stardate 90729.12 We've just returned from a mission in the Neutral Zone at the behest of Franklin Drake and, though I have my doubts about working with any self-professed member of Section 31, so far his assignments have seemed legitimate enough. What we found, though, was chaos, a battle…
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Personal Log: "When it Rains..." Stardate 90718.56 Another day, another confrontation with Klingon "Ambassador" B'vat. I question the use of that word to describe him, but then again, this is a culture that managed to go all the way from prehistory to a spacefaring empire without ever inventing a word for peace. Maybe it's…
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Personal Log: "Aboard the Salamanca" Stardate 90713.37 It's been almost a week since my promotion to Lieutenant Commander and our reassignment to the USS Salamanca. Starfleet's still researching the unusual chroniton signature found on the Roanoke after our mission in the Azure Nebula, and they haven't dared to guess when,…
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(A rule of thumb for the bridge crew is that I accepted everyone the game gave me with no changes to their names and wrote the stories around their races, professions and when the game introduced them. One interesting result is that there's just one lone human aboard the USS Roanoke... :) ) Corspa Female Andorian, Tactical…
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Are you sure it isn't time for a colorful metaphor? :D The shows are restricted by broadcast standards, but I think it feels about right for Starfleet officers. These are very erudite characters with an education that'd make present-day Oxford look like kindergarten, living in an idealistic society with no concept of…
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Geotemporal hubris, it'll get you every time. :P
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First Tunguska, now this - what did poor Russia ever do to those meteors!?
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I think Abrams got hired by the two franchises. He's not going out and catching them like Pokemon. :P
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City of Heroes, the game that introduced me to MMO's, shut down (and on a tangent, way to make us CoH fans feel welcome, Jack! :rolleyes:) and I began my search for another MMO. What I loved about CoH was the character builder and ability to write your own backstory, and, though I'd heard a lot about Star Trek Online and…
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I just finished writing the last boff bio this week along with Azera's first captain's log detailing her thoughts and feelings about each one, and it's been a great way of exploring each of their characters and her own character's reflection in how she feels about her crew. She's an extremely young captain, barely out of…
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Understatement of the (24th) century!
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I would so buy this just on principle... and the "shut up Wesley" emote. :D Edit: I just realized where the "holographic duty officer" comes from. That pic is a work of mad genius! xD
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Watching the opening to that trailer with Hanson's briefing is really making me want to edit a full, no-narrator version like you'd see for a movie. Anyway, it looks promising! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvp7JjcapLM
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TOS - It's really hard to say, since the only fault any character had was that they just weren't given enough to do. Uhura, Chekhov and Sulu all fit into that category, but I still like them whenever they do get a chance to get involved in the story. Ooh, right... if we stretch the category all the way out to the TOS movie…
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"Well, the rest of the ship left us behind because it's too dangerous, but now we're bored. Hey, I know, we'll answer some red alerts while we're waiting for them to get back!"
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Same, same here. On the other hand, Tasha Yar in the show made me feel that way too, so feeling that way all over again in the game while talking to her was an oddly nostalgic experience. Kudos to Denise Crosby for bringing back the same Tasha who started the series off by trying to boss around Q! :D
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In that spirit... ;) It was banned after the entire graduating class of 2153 got drunk on Romulan Ale and disastrously tried to perform a Kolvoord Starburst with over 500 ships. That whole thing about a Xindi weapon blowing up Florida was a cover story. No, but the angry, warlike Tribble Empire that broke away from the…