Dumbass

Hey, don't knock Mountain Dew. It has more caffeine than espresso, coffee, and even Jolt Cola. It tastes like crap... well, I'm GUESSING it tastes like crap because I don't really know what crap tastes like... but I wouldn't have made it through college without it.

Ah, you've seen the Hood and Qob! ;) (Welcome! :o Firing off crap? We have a crap cannon?

Actually, I've been asked to NOT do my tricks.

And accountants everywhere are thankful for that :o

When the heck is commdergerb444 going to graduate? He's been a cadet so long an Academy building is named after him!

LOL - I actually know someone named Maggie Screws!

Yeah, that was pretty dumb. Then again I never had much respect for journalists. I mean, they had the Columbia going 18 times the speed of light!

Or you could just set up your new chat name with a "dummy" Hotmail account. Doesn't cost anything and startrek.com doesn't check.

They actually went through a couple Chief Engineers before settling on LaForge, but how he went from an Ensign to a Lt. Commander in one season is beyond me.

Well no wonder! All of Starfleet runs LCARS and no one wants to work with the only engineer who uses Linux. ;)

You originally said 125 kph. That's just barely breaking the speed limit, and not even close to escape velocity. And you have seen my pic ;)

It's working pretty well for 7 of 9, B'elanna, Hoshi, and T'Pol :;):

LOL - I can't wait until the episode where the crew is incapicitated and Porthos has to take command!

Right, forgot about the Klingons giving the Romulans warp power. But still, how can you have a Star Empire without it?

The GMs always could, but I think Moose is the only one who records the Academy transcripts.

I think it could have been a much more interesting series if they set it maybe 50 years later. The Federation could be in the process of forming but still resolving internal disputes, Sarak could be a young man just starting his political career, the Enterprise wouldn't be the only ship in the "fleet", and it would still be early enough in the timeline to keep all the key elements. As it is now, the show just sucks. The writers could be using the Temporal Cold War to correct some "mistakes" like the Eugenics War not happening after all, or how the Humans and Romulans fought a war without having seen each other even though both societies we now know were warp capable, but they're not doing that.

After our captors on the planet beamed all of us to the same observation room we decided to make an escape attempt. The crew staged a fight as a diversion - something I'm sure they enjoyed immensely. Ramjep and I opened the ceiling and crawled through a passage, following the sound to what must have been a central control center. I observed 3 scientists observing the crew in their room. They appeared unaware of our presence so Ramjep and I decided to get the drop on them. I kicked out an air duct and we dropped in on them. I nerve pinched one of the scientists, and Ramjep engaged another, but the third was able to get to the alarm system before we could stop him. I employed a Vulcan martial arts technique and subdued the remaining scientist so that I could initiate a mind-meld. The being I melded with was a low-level scientist, and new to this location so I could not learn much. I did learn enough to release the rest of our crew mates with Ramjep's assistance, which we did. We then searched for any remaining shipmates and a way back to the QoB. The rest of the crew beamed back, leaving Ramjep, myself, and Narn in the complex with their security forces closing in. Several shipmate's corpses were beamed back before we were. I assume this was due to either a transporter malfunction or an inexperienced person at the controls. Klingons consider the dead to be empty shells, nothing more, and it would be dishonorable to beam them back before their rescuers. We have an honorable crew so I don't think this was their intention. Ramjep and I were engaged in locating any other crewmen while avoiding the security forces when we were beamed back. We were ordered to change into uniform, resume our duty stations, and prepare our reports, although for some reason Narn was allowed to remain in his gown. I keep a spare uniform in Main Engineering so that's where I went. This was not a wise idea as the Klingon and Federation enlisted ranks in Engineering gave wolf-whistles and cat-calls at the sight of seeing their boss walk into his office in a nightgown and no underwear. After changing into uniform I ran a status report of all engineering systems and discovered we were cloaked, which most likely meant we were at red alert. I am generally most efficient on the MeH where I can interact directly with the command crew so that's where I headed. Upon transferring my controls to my MeH station I noticed a familiar looking doctor with the last name Garnoopy, yet another shipmate who had been cleaning a tube for the past couple years. I attended the Academy with a Garnoopy, first name Admiral, who mentioned he had a twin. I also served on another ship with a Klingon adopted into the Garnoopy family. This must be the twin. I wonder how big the Garnoopy family is.

Uh, I think you meant to say that Warp 5 translates to 125 times lightspeed. You didn't make me CENG because of my looks, you know.

Poolboys and janitors. They always get the hotties. Why did I go to college again?

Don't worry, Travis. Of all the pranks and insults I threw your way... well, I only meant about half of them. ::D: (That cannibalism one was the best though - that still cracks me up!) :laugh: Take care of yourself you nutball!

Actually, Garn, to be honest... I can only remember one sim where I died - and it was after I graduated.

LOL - I remember those days in the Academy. Lots of runabout and shuttle missions! Then again there was one shuttle mission in particular where we started out with 1 GM and 3 Cadets on a shuttle. There were some latecomers and by the end of the mission we had 13 simmers cramed into one small shuttlepod - and we didn't even have a ghost problem then! :laugh:

I'm still trying to figure out the Area = pi*r-squared thing. Pies aren't square, they're round!

I only have one word on the subject of genetics: KHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I began the shift by logging into the OPS station, but not in the usual way. Since I had not been at my station for some time I knew that my terminal had been reconfigured many times over in my absence. Rumor had it that Garnoopy had been particularly active on my station. Fortunately I had remembered to do a data backup before I left the ship and it was a relatively simple matter to reset the operating parameters. I'm afraid Garnoopy will never get the satisfaction of hearing my station say "I hate Vulcans." The CO, XO, CSEC, and CSCI were meeting in the Ready Room's ready room going over what we know about the Romulan base and the storms, which effectively left me in charge of the bridge. It was decided that an additional away team would be sent, lead by the XO, back to the planet, only this time they would take a medical officer and a real engineer with them. They also took a full Runabout instead of a standard shuttlecraft. Shuttles are amazing things, but not really built to withstand the pressures the Tyderium had been exposed to. I was spared from this away mission for the purpose of monitoring the team from the bridge. We set up an open com link and transporter lock. At this point the CO left his ready room, but only for the purpose of heading down to sick bay to discuss Kroells' medical condition... among other things... leaving me in pseudo-command again. He gave me strict orders to not asterisk the ship up, but considering the extent of the damage caused by the probe the ship can't get much worse. The away team had not been able to find the gelatinous being discovered by Mr. Kroells, even though the room it had been in had been locked prior to the first away team departing. Commander Shemp informed me of the situation and hypothesized that the being had somehow traveled with the first away team on the Tyderium, and had me send someone to search the shuttle again. I reminded him that the entire first away team - shuttle included - had all cleared the expert decontamination team, but then I was reminded of the First Rule of Command: There's always room for Jello. I had to admit I was curious as to the state of the Tyderium myself, so I decided to send an engineer to investigate. I contacted Starboi, who had just reported for duty and was continuing repairs to Cargo Bay 1. He presented me with a detailed report of the bay's repair status. Useful information, but not really what I needed at the time. I asked him to grab a tricorder, report to Shuttle Bay 1, and scan the shuttle for anything unusual. The duty shift ended before I could receive Starboi's report. For the next shift I plan to... ::orderly hands Van Roy a PADD:: "Oh, uh, thank you crewman." ::reads aloud in a low voice:: "By order of Starfleet Comm... TRANSFERED?!?" :cry: