Col. C.E. Harper

There isn't a standard form for our biographies. Some people write novels (check out N'Dak's sometime), while others just stick to the bare essentials. There's no need to write a bio while you're still in the Academy, so you might want to wait until you graduate and are posted to a ship, then look at their bios for ideas.

EDIT: LOL, A9 and I cross-posted. :)

The colonel's back from her trip. Chatlog flood!

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The colonel's back from her trip. Chatlog flood!

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The colonel's back from her trip. Chatlog flood!

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The colonel's back from her trip. Chatlog flood!

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Wow, which fansites were you reading? The Potter communities I hang out on were ablaze with "yep, we called it!" about 5 hours after the book was released, when people started finishing. (I didn't start reading them until 8 hours after, since my friends and I went to a party and didn't get to crack open the books until almost 3 am. Anticipation... woo!) Very few surprises in the book, I felt. Except for the very first death - that was a sad surprise.

Happy birthday, Dac!!

Clearing the paddwork off her desk was an immensely satisfying feeling. Nevermind that she wasn't actually at a desk at the moment, but rather working from a tablet-display in the tiny 'lounge' area of the NNC. Nevermind, even, that by morning the pile would be back, reconstituted from its own component parts in some parody of the replicator system. (How many times have you filled out that form? How many times have you eaten that cheeseburger?) Tonight, at least, she would go to bed finished with her work. Such a novel concept, really, and one they didn't warn you about -- that clocking out at the end of a shift became a fantasy when you got to command; the work and the worry followed you home. Not that the shiny-eyed, fresh-faced, eager young things she remembered teaching would have listened if they'd been told...

So maybe someone did warn me, she reflected with wry good humor. Ah, well. It wouldn't be the first lesson I missed. It definitely wasn't going to get her down today. She had one last set of messages to send before she was done for the day.

To: Dr. Desdemona Levy, Chief Medical Officer

CC: Lt. Odile Condacin, Chief Science Officer

Subj: Disposition of Soltan Remains

 

Please advise regarding safest disposition of the five Soltan bodies currently in our possession. Is there any indication as to the virulity of the disease following the death of its host?

 

Assuming that the medical and science departments will wish to preserve samples and/or complete remains for further study, what precautions are required to ensure crew safety? Will stasis be sufficient or should further quarantine protocols be instituted? I would also like to receive a full report on possible failure scenarios, with an eye toward developing emergency response procedures. Please also submit a listing of samples to be kept, accompanied by a summary of likely benefits from them, for final approval.

 

It is my understanding that Crewman Burne's remains, while human in appearance, still carry the virus responsible for the Change, and should thus be classed with the other four Soltans. At this juncture I would like to note that I do feel obligated to provide a proper funeral for him. I realize that as the only one exposed to the prototype cure, his remains may be the best subject of study. However, if sufficient results can be obtained with limited samples, I would prefer to release his remains in accordance with Starfleet and his own customs.

To: Lt. Cmdr. M'rrrett JoN's, Chief Security Officer

Subj: Crewman Carter Burne, Soltan escape

 

Commander JoN's, as Burne was in your department, I hoped you would know whom he was friendly with that might be willing to speak at a memorial service. Arrangements for one cannot be finalized until medical releases his body, but one way or another there will be a proper send-off. I would appreciate your thoughts on the matter.

 

On a different note, I don't believe I've seen a report on the questioning of the medical crewman who assisted in the Soltan's escape attempt. Was any information of use obtained? What is your opinion of the security risk Crewman Amreis poses at present?

To: Major Hanna-Beth Rieve, Lt. Kairi Kassem

Subj: Interrupted Conversation

 

I'm sorry our conversation earlier today was cut off. I would like to continue it at some future date, particularly in regards to your speculations on the local political situation.

 

Also, Lt. Kassem, is there any more information to be dredged from the planetary database?

To: "Kansas" JoN's

Subj: Gossip Mill

 

P.S. Bad cat.

I think will was trying to give you this link: http://www.stsf.net/howto.php

::smirks:: The Al-Ucard could easily be called "when a Halloween plot gets out of hand."

Hey, any time we get to see Corizon leashed and muzzled is bound to be a hit.

Hortas anyone?

Silicon is actually the element most commonly theorized to be a basis for life. (Carbon-based life isn't a theory. :) ) That's because it's in the carbon family, so it has a lot of the same properties. Lately there's been a lot of 'debunking' of that, based on the pickiness of life as we know it. 'Course, "life as we know it" is a pretty small part of even our own home.

She wanted to reject Siyar's claims, but now she could not help but wonder if the woman had been right all along...

Siyar> "Of course I'm right. I'm always right. You traitoress!"

Now, just to be fair, let's consider a few things about this article. First of all.. this seems to me to be political. It obviously tries to say that Gore's house is evil and bad, and that Bush's house is good. As with most things like this, they pick which details to include about both sides. Now, I may be playing devils advocate.. there may not be anything important left out. But we don't know that there isn't, especially with the emphasis on big numbers in the first house and the emphasis on harmonious terminology in the second. It doesn't say how many people live in the houses... it doesn't say if these people own other houses.. it doesn't mention any possible expenditures for maintaining the "surrounding rural landscape." Again, I'm not saying that the comparison is wrong... I'm just saying, don't jump down Gore's throat based on a biased description.

Snopes has a piece on it. (Gotta love Snopes!) http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp The numbers are a bit exaggerated, though the basis is there. The Gore family does take steps to reduce the impact of their energy usage. And I'd love to see the stats on the other residences of the Bush family.

Should Gore walk the walk better? Yeah, probably. But he's doing more to reduce damage to the environment than most of the rich in America. In any event, the impact of one family's usage pales in comparison to the impact of corporate usage... and Bush's record on instituting eco-friendly regulations on corporations is horrendous.

It is true that extremes have been taken to develop cures, even after the Nuremburg code thingy, but If you examine the evidence, it seems Phlox doesnt really care about the scientific results. For example, he was screaming at the Tholian," Would you please die??". Afterwards, he didnt even care to check the results. As well, he didn't really talk about finding a way to stimulate nerves without long-term damage. He did mention constantly switching areas of stimulation to cause maximum pain without gaining an immunity from gwetting used to the injury.

But that's precisely the kind of medical puzzle a scientist operating without the medical ethics we use would be interested in -- maximum stimulation with minimum damage. And, personally, I read his impatience with the Tholian as frustration that his predictions had been proved false.

T'Pol- True, she did stand far away, but I'm suprised that Tucker took advantage of her in the Mirror 'verse.

 

Phlox- He wasn't really into dissection as much as torture. As you know, he co-invented "the Booth" with Reed. He also killed off the alien thing by cooling down the systems. COnsidering he was doctor and took a Hippocratic oath of sorts(since he was Denobulan, not human, but joined the medical exchange), Is it possible that the great scientists of the world became (as you said) pirates? They could have just never had an oath.

The line between torture and science is thinner than we'd like to pretend it is. If you don't care about the fate of your research subjects, but only about the medical data you collect, then what you call an experiment, they would call torture. Phlox seemed to me to be far more interested in the physiological response of the subject than in causing pain for pain's sake. Regarding the Booth, it seemed to me he approached it as an exercise in stimulation -- how much can the nervous system be stimulated without long-term damage? How can techniques be adapted across species?-- And as for the Tholian, that was clearly a desire to learn its limits; he was much more interested in discovering the precise effects of extreme cold and the point of death than he was in causing the Tholian pain.

It isn't surprising to find the scientific interest carried to extremes in the mirror. In the real world, we've really only started codifying the ethics of human experimentation in the last 60 years -- largely as a result of atrocities committed in the name of medical knowledge. The Nuremberg Code was adopted after the trials of Nazi scientists, and reaffirmed in '64 with the Declaration of Helsinki. But the Nuremberg Code didn't stop experiments with malaria, mustard gas, and syphillis from being carried out on uniformed and unconsenting people right here in the US.

"The product of a diseased mind."

 

As a proud fan of TNG, I am glad they never descended into the "mirror" concept. The mirror episodes on DS9 were creepy and just didn't work. I'm trying not to think of the Intendant for instance, or Garak on Worf's leash. :) Odo's mirror character was most disturbing.

The DS9 mirror didn't hold true to the original concept of the mirror, which involved changing the nature of the characters so that their baser qualities came to the surface, their flaws were made into virtues, and vice-versa. Only Kira's character was properly "mirrored" that way; small wonder the Intendant is the most popular character from the DS9 mirror episodes. Otherwise, we saw mainly the characters we knew in a different setting. They were a little rougher, because the setting required it of them, but they remained the essential 'good guys,' just opressed, and the bad guys remained the villains. (This is, incidentally, one of the reasons Agincourt threw out the DS9 mirror canon - aside from the difficulties of operating in a universe where Starfleet doesn't exist.)

As for TNG and the mirror - the book "Dark Mirror" by Diane Duane is a terrific look at a TNG mirror universe. The recent mirror universe books "Glass Empires" and "Obsidian Alliance" were also good reading, but they follow the DS9 canon and once again the good guys remain truly good.

Oh, so thats why the heads of the 3d dudes looked square. i dont get all that technical lingo, and i dont want to waste someone's time by asking for a lesson on how to do the thing with the bandwith, so im just gonna draw my own on paint, although its gonna look sloppy, really sloppy.

 

EDIT: On second thought, the things aren't turning out too well. If nobody's busy, could that person tell me what website and how to do the bandwith hosting thingy?

I'm not sure how to explain it any more simply... you save the picture, then upload it to a photo-share/image-hosting space. Have you got an account on Photobucket or Flickr or something like that?

Alright. Say, how do you get those cool picture signature....thingies. Like some of the users I've seen post, their members picture thing is like a 3d star trek character. How do you make that? And for the signature, how do you get those marks, like the dots that the people have on their uniform. Like you(Harper) have that black costume with the communicator star thingy on it for yours.

The 3D avatars are Sims avatars that people did custom Trek skins for. We had a few members on the boards who were taking requests a while back, but as far as I know none of them are still doing avatars.

The rank bars so many of us use in our signatures can be found all over the 'net. Mine's from Kuro RPG, as are several of the others I see around. What you do is find a site that has rank images and allows people to use them, pick the one you like, save it to your computer and upload it to your own image hosting space. (Because people were nice enough to share the pretty pictures with all of us, we're nice to their bandwidth in return.) Then you put the image into your signature through your control panel.

And they pick the ship for you or do you get to choose? Plus I have a question. Once you start an academy session, do you only go to that one during the week? Like if you go on Monday, do you always have to go on Monday, or can you go on every session in the week?

The application you get sent has space to list your top 3 choices for department, and top 3 choices for ship, as well as asking which is more important to you -- getting the department you want, or the ship.

You can attend any Academy you want, and many people do attend several during the week, but it's best to become a regular at one so that the GM team gets to know you and your simming abilities. It's easier to evaluate whether someone is ready for promotion if you've seen them several times.

Perhaps the two of you should step outside or get a room or something.

You are neither helpful nor amusing. Stop trying to derail actual conversation with jokes in poor taste.

Okedokey. So..... when are you gonna open the Agincourt room?

When I get there.

Oh, that was the Equinox. It was a two-part episode that ended with the Equinox being destroyed and what was left of her crew joining Voyager. STSF doesn't have anyone in the Delta Quadrant... permanently. Ships have occassionally been tossed out there for a plot or two, but the only ship that's based in another quadrant is the Excalibur, which operates in the Gamma Quadrant.

Not sure what you mean by "from Voyager itself" -- there's nothing in the Delta Quadrant, but except for Challenger, Hood, and Agincourt, all our ships are in that time period, more or less. (Some don't specific an exact time-frame)

Ok, the run-down of those I mentioned earlier is:

ENT- Challenger

TOS - Hood

Future - Agincourt

Romulan - Talon

part-Klingon - Qob/Lakota

Station - Aegis

and "tugboat" is a joke about the Manticore's cover story -- the ship runs a lot of covert/classified missions.

Also, I didn't mention Excalibur, Arcadia, Reaent, or Republic only because they're kinda hard to find a one-word description for. :)

If we get enough players for Agincourt tonight, we'll be picking up where we left off last week: An Away Team is about to beam down to a planet which was once the homeworld of the Gareem, a race in the Perseus Arm. The planet had been attacked and conquered by the Soltans, who infect their victims with a virus which alters them on a genetic level into Soltans. Agincourt was trying to learn more about the Soltans by examining the scene of their most recent attack, but when we arrived at the Gareem Homeworld, we found no life-signs anywhere on the planet, and no Soltan vessels in orbit.