[Graduating Class of 238912.15]

Thanks everyone. Big thankyou to my two training officers; utterly professional, friendly and helpful!

Yup! Really can't stress how wonderful the training officers were!

I heartily concur!

I feel honor bound to caution the crew of the Vigilant however. By the end of training Fox had wedged himself in next to the warp core (I think he got stuck!) That sort behavior doesn't really seem indicative of a long career... and now he's at the HELM! What will he try to squeeze through next?

Of course Jorey and I both got shot/disabled at opposite ends of the ship... ...so... maybe the Vigilant lucked out after all.

btw Cross DIDN'T get shot or do anything to suggest a limited life expectancy so the Apollo is probably the real winner here

[Star Trek: Into Darkness]

Just for the record we're in the TOS timeline, correct? Vulcan IS still spinning all hot and stoic?

[How Would You Write/Cast a New Trek Series?]

While I agree uping tech to be consistant with RL advances is necessary, if you increase tech to much it can become a Deux Machina situation where evey problem can be resolve through the superior technology rather then the character's ingenuity and inventiveness.

You have to disable some part of the ship every episode just to give the stories a chance.

oH... and definitely have Romulus go *BOOM*. Shame to blow the poor thing up and then not take advantage of all the great stories that could potential spawn from it.

In fact, having a Romulan refugee/expatriot/whathaveyou could be inspiring tales. Where do their loyalties truely lie? Is there even a Romulan Star Empire left to be loyal to?

Oooh Oooh Oooh... maybe the fractured Star Empire is under going a civil war with various camps alighning more or less with remaining Instellar Supper Powers... the Klingon camp, the Federation freinds, the Cardassian allies, the Gorn or even Tholian! buddies.

I definitely agree on multi-episode arc. Even my kids know to look at the clock. (Nope. We're twenty minutes in. She can't be the killer.)

I think that's referred to as 'Space Opera'. Babylon 5 was good for that if I recall correctly, Why isn't that syndicated? Hmmph.

Also a big fan of A.Richards list of 'Guest Appearences.'

[How Would You Write/Cast a New Trek Series?]

I would like to see a more Firefly/Serenditpity sort of ship. A merchant/civilain vessel rather than a quasimilitary one. A ship that wasn't necessarily the best of the best but rather one that included a lot more common folk sort of stuff.

In turn I'd like the crew to be multigenerational as well as diverse in species. Though the range of species should include both the familiar as well as unfamilair to make for a seemless transition.

Also... more NON-HUMANOID species!