Atragon9

Please join me in welcoming STSF Tiffany and STSF Saria to their new haunt, the Starfleet Academy on Thursday evenings at 10:00 ET (7:00 PT) in the Holodeck chat room. This Academy will take place at the same time as the advanced sim ship, USS Reaent, but the Reaent is in the Ready Room and the Academy is in the Holodeck. WELCOME SARIA AND TIFFANY, HOORAY FOR THE NEW ACADEMY!!! Atragon-9Forum Leader - Star Trek™ Simulation Forum USS Manticore CO (Mon) Starfleet Academy XO (Wed)

All you have to do for chat purposes is to register for a new account with StarTrek.com with the name you want to use. There is no way to delete an old account with them, so you just stop using it. I hope that helps.

Heh-heh-heh, naah, it's got that other part too...

The GMs always could, but I think Moose is the only one who records the Academy transcripts. No, we have been recording the Academies for months now. It is a great help when we are asked for reports of work by individuals.

=/\= MANTICORE BRIEFING #245, STARDATE 50302.17 =/\= The Manticore is now at Starbase 108, where we have met our new Counselor, Neveah Crito and Doctor Tabor Kraden is working to bring Dr. Faldorn out of his self-imposed coma. The remainder of the crew can take shoreleave until new orders come through. =/\= END MANTICORE BRIEFING #245, STARDATE 50302.17 =/\=

::voice-activated recording begins:: Mi Querido... How... what... Margaux Roget, my Tactical Officer, an amazing pilot, an able Security officer, the second in command of the department, a "cajun" mystery who has always been a bit distant and seemed to like it that way. Margaux, who has been getting progressively angry with me over the past few missions. Margaux who is ready to tear my head off and use it for a gravball. Margaux called me "mi querido." I don't understand... I've sequestered myself in my Ready Room since striking Ensign McFly - and I'm just in a daze. She used that term just before I met with him, just before he pushed ALL my buttons and would not Shut UP! I'm not saying he didn't deserve the blow, but that doesn't mean I should have delivered it, either. Did her idle comment make me crazy enough to hit him? Was it an idle comment? Why would she say that in the heat of anger? She couldn't possibly know that it is the same term used by... What in the universe...? I've been looking through her record since she came aboard, exemplary officer, pilot, security operative. I see a medical addendum from Jami about some sort of cranial implant. Also, Margaux's history is shrouded in it's own mystery. That is nothing new for this crew - I'm sure she was vetted by SF Intelligence before coming aboard as everyone did. But the timing... I just realized the timing. Her background files start about seven years before Manticore launched. That's so close... Proxima Centauri, the Aries, the Lincoln research facility... Megan. ::voice-activated recording begins again after a 10 minute pause, as per the time stamp:: That was all over eight years before launch. But she died there - they all died there. Did someone get out, after all? Did someone tell Margaux about me? Did Megan tell Margaux!!? How could that be, she would have contacted me! She would have HAD to!!! ::Starts staring around the Ready Room in a panic:: I'm going crazy, is that it!!?? ::Gets up and paces back and forth, then he stops and looks at the open cabinet behind his desk and pulls out a huge file folder of papers:: Melville - always I'm drawn to that personification of evil in my life! I wonder just how much of my career is because of him, in spite of him. He hated me and yet spurred me on. And it all started at Proxima Centauri, I realize that now. He was Megan's boss, he hated how we had gotten close, how we had fallen in love. He pursued me across the galaxy ever since. Right up to when he took his final revenge on me and killed himself at my hands. Was this all over Megan? Again, she haunts me. ::sits down with the file:: His files are meticulous, they are arranged with the precision of an obsessive - somehow I feel at home with them. I haven't really had the time to look into the entire collection. It's time. First, I have to look at Proxima, at Lincoln... at Megan. I must see what he had, what he knew... what he did! ::voice-activate recording begins, again, after a 90 minute pause:: Oh my God! She did make it out - they did it on purpose!! The plague was staged, they killed all those colonists, I didn't think Melville could be any more of a devil than I had thought. I was wrong. If I had known this, I would have surely killed him and mounted him on a pike for all to see! And Megan got out - he pulled her out. The message to the Aries - from here - was faked, it was all to get us back to see the devastation, the death, and it kept me from ever looking for her. But she wasn't there!!! The files show her with Melville after we destroyed the colony, destroyed the evidence. Then he lost track of her, too. She must have gotten away, she must have gotten to Margaux, or they met somehow and then... I... I don't understand, I DON'T UNDERSTAND!! Margaux, I have to talk with her again. She can explain it to me, she has to, I have to make her talk to me!! But how, what do I say to her. I... I think I have to wait until tomorrow, wait until I sleep on this and try to make some sense of it all. Maybe I should tell all of this to Sovak, get his "logical" perspective - but how much of this is logic!!? Why would Margaux be ready to kill me and still call me mi querido... "my beloved." We... I... ::stands up and walks out of the Ready Room, recording ends due to data activity timeout::

Hey there, It this true? This isn't supposed to be a job? ATRAGON!!!! ::whistles nervously and walks away from Fred:: Yes, our goal is to get more academies on nights where we do not have them now. Watch for upcoming announcements of new ones!!!

Thank you HD, you said it right! Folks, we are not a PbEM group (Play by E-Mail) and so let's not turn these boards into a rolling story and let's definitely ease back from the descriptions of physical violence - thanks!

Naaaah, that's too easy!! Yes, you can check the Schedule page for verification, but the Sunday Academy has moved from 12:00 ET to 11:00 ET. Thanks!

Well, there was that time on Easter Island/Planet with the giant Head statues and the ferocious bunnies and ::shudders:: no, I can't think of that now!

Don't forget the most splendidly built, drop dead gorgeous, working undercover, janitor -- always near by ::D: Dac I was about to say, "yeah, that's me," but then she said something about Gorgeous and Splendidly-Built and I realized she *MUST* be talking about Moose. ::sighs and shuffles away::

::raises an eyebrow and makes a note in the red book of knowledge:: ::stands beside Fred looking into the book, shaking her head:: :: stands back wondering what Fred and Dac are looking at :: ::noting Garnoopy's curiousity in his PADD:: G A R N ...

Warp 18, how cool!!!

We welcome all people interested in GMing. However, just for clarification, you need to have the following minimum's for GM consideration: - Simming with us for a year - 6 months of that (or more) at Lt. Commander - 18 years of age Thanks!!

Thank you, Boost/Images, you beat me to the punch. Yes, we would like to get more Academies, when we have the GM support to do so. The first idea is to get some on new nights (Thu-Sat don't have any), but if we have GMs with available time on Sun-Wed, we won't turn them away. Thanks

For those who still experience the blinking text when in the STARTREK.COM chat rooms, Paramount says to download the latest version of Micorsoft's Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and the blinking problem will go away. You can find this at http://java.sun.com/getjava/ As far as the room phantoms, PeopleLink has been informed and they will look into it once again. Thanks! Atragon-9Forum Leader - Star Trek™ Simulation Forum USS Manticore CO (Mon) Starfleet Academy XO (Wed)

Now now, Huff, I do know how to use them (see my new Posting Title). You don't want me to start changing Yours, now do you??

Well, ya see - I have the same access that he has so it wouldn't stick (at least not for long) and then I'd change his and it would just turn into a snowball fight, eh? Oh, and we'd make sure to change all of your titles as well!! Heh-heh

=/\= MANTICORE BRIEFING #244, STARDATE 50302.10 =/\= The Manticore has left the orbit of Citadel 18, having been relieved by a ship called the Babylon, one that no one (short of the Command Staff and S.I.) has ever heard of. Engineering continues its work on the Griffin, Wyvern and Shuttle Bay 2. The ship is approaching Starbase 108, where we are to meet our new Counselor, Neveah Crito. =/\= END MANTICORE BRIEFING #244, STARDATE 50302.10 =/\=

Please note the change to the Sunday Academy. It will now take place an hour earlier, at 11:00 ET, 8:00 PT. Please join me in welcoming the new staff for this Academy, STSF Dacotah and Captain Moose!! Thank you to LoAmi and Garnoopy for reminding me to post this announcement here. Atragon-9Forum Leader - Star Trek™ Simulation Forum USS Manticore CO (Mon) Starfleet Academy XO (Wed)

Now look, can we get my description to at least be consistent!!!? I don't recall short or senile. I remember being old, fat, bald, pale-skinned, cheesy and having bad breath! So I think... uhmm, jeesh, so nice of me to clarify it, eh? ::sigh:: I guess we can throw in senile now, eh? ::wanders away, muttering:: Now where did I leave my glasses....

This reminds me. I never did get my paycheck I was promised for working with this Starfleet. What do I get payed anyways? ;) Garn, you can get half of what I get. That means that you owe me... ::does some quick calculations and turns the PADD for Garnoopy to see:: my, my, and you brought it up, too!

Yes, Webmaster, thank you for the prompt action. We want the Boards to be a fun place and one where people can discuss Star Trek and other issues of interest. I'm all for spirited debate (even about my physical appearance, oy!) but there is a point where friendly commentary can turn into something uglier. That's not where we want to be. Thanks! Atragon-9Forum Leader - Star Trek™ Simulation Forum USS Manticore CO (Mon) Starfleet Academy XO (Wed)

DATA I'm Data!!?? Hmmmm

Okay, not wanting to throw cold Romulan Ale on the idea, but... why does anyone really care what the rank is of another person posting a message on the Boards? Will this lead to an elitism where people will start to filter for posts of Lt. Commanders and above?? I think that everybody should post what they want, however they want and we don't follow a specialized rank insignia or rating (which has to be maintained and controlled by Admin staff to be sure folks really ARE the ranks they claim). Let's keep it with signature blocks and/or avatars for those who want them and that's the extent of it. I'd much rather put our energies to growing the Forum than to making sure we have everyone's correct number of bars and pips in their posts automatically. :shrugs:: just my 2 Kopecks