Jordan aka FltAdmlWolf

Get into your awards outfit! Here are the directions: Be sure to check into your ship's red carpet fashion report, once you're done! Red Carpet Fashion Report: Andaris Athena Constitution Embassy Gorkon Ops Veritas Za

We now begin our most joyous tradition: Recognizing our fellow members for all the hard work they've put in over the course of the year, now only in writing their characters – although we have two sets of awards especially for recognizing achievements on that front (General Awards and Duty Post Awards) – but also for helping us build an intentional, heart-filled, international community. If this is your first ceremony: Welcome! We hope you'll join us for many more following. If you're an old pro at this: Thanks for sticking with us all these years. Your commitment, dedication, and creativity makes this game worth playing, and makes this community the amazing place it is. Our group was founded in 1994, but we've been holding awards ceremonies since 1996. For many years, it was an In Character presentation of just about a dozen awards, and we'd have the entire cast of characters travel to one place to watch as we presented awards. Over the years, as we added more Out Of Character items, we transitioned entirely to an OOC ceremony, to ensure that the reason someone was being awarded was not obfuscated by trying to make their award sound like something In Character. And last year, we moved our ceremony from December to June, to coincide with our yearly anniversary, making this month a celebration of our history and our members. Over the next few days we'll present to the fleet the winners in five categories of awards: General: Honoring the members who’ve won this year’s General, or ship-based awards Staff: Honoring the work of our fleet’s staff members Duty Post: Honoring the best simmer from each duty post Special: Honoring specific aspects of simming or OOC work Length of Service: Honoring members who have been with us for a year, all the way up to 10 years and more We'll post each of these in a thread here on the forums with an announcement on our Community News, so be sure to come back each day for these presentations! Now I'd like to introduce you to our reigning Awards Facilitator, who for the second year in a row has put together an amazing ceremony: Rear Admiral Renos! The job of the Awards Facilitator is one that involves an incredible amount of work, from helping to pull together an Awards Committee (which reviews all the Duty Post, and Special nominees and selects the winners), to compiling all of the nominations and making sure they get to the right people, and then helping to manage all of the materials and assets required to make this ceremony a success! It's hard to imagine just how much copying, pasting, and collating is involved until you've got the mantle on your shoulders Once again, Renos (OOC: James) has been utterly tireless, managing all the things required to get this show off the ground. I can't think him enough for all of his hard work! Now I hope you've all donned your fanciest outfits! It's time to get started!

Great recommendation! I'll admit I haven't seen all the TOS episodes, but I loved most of the TOS movies. So someone with a vague conception of what TOS was about can probably get a handle on the movies pretty quickly. To that end, I think they stand alone – might actually be better to watch them before you watch TOS, like Skyfire said, to warm someone up to the crew

I think, in the US, you can watch the premier on the CBS broadcast network and then after that it's all on the CBS pay service. But yeah, we're all in that situation

You can watch on the CBS on-demand app.

http://www.startrek.com/article/star-trek-discovery-sets-premiere-date

DATES: The class began on June 5, 2017 and ended June 11, 2017. LIST: sb118-academy2 COMMANDING OFFICER: Lt. Commander Oddas Aria FIRST OFFICER: Lt. Commander Tarla Dean GRADUATE: Hunter Caminos Daruneis We're so glad you're here. My door is always open if you ever need anything!

Glad to have you with us – my door is always open if you ever need anything!

Read a review that really raved about it. Can't wait to try it!

Some amazing new contributors on the News Team. I love reading the feature articles by @Sorel Kaidun and @aphelion. @Sal Taybrim also had an amazing Witty Wordsmith article that was so great. You folks are all great. Thank you for your contributions!

You can, but only people who are active at the time the CO or committee reviews the nominations will be eligible to receive an award.

DATES: The class began on May 22, 2017 and ended May 28, 2017. LIST: sb118-academy3 COMMANDING OFFICER: Lt. Commander Rune Jolara FIRST OFFICER: Lt. Commander Lyldra GRADUATE: Lukas Vukovic We're so glad you're here. My door is always open if you ever need anything!

The nomination period for our 2017 Awards Ceremony is now open! You can start your nominations here: https://www.starbase118.net/members/personnel/forms/award-nomination-panel/ Have questions about how the nominations or ceremony work? Feel free to ask below!

Well, the production values look pretty incredible, I'll give them that. I couldn't glean anything coherent about the story, though.

DATES: The class began on May 1, 2017 and ended May 7, 2017. LIST: sb118-academy1 COMMANDING OFFICER: Lt. Commander Oddas Aria FIRST OFFICER: Captain Lyldra GRADUATES: Colin McKay Jarred Thoran We're so glad you're here. My door is always open if you ever need anything!

Thanks a million everyone! We couldn't have the Community News without your help

It's a neat thought exercise to take the current model of scouting and put it in the future and imagine analogues to what we see today. For example, scouting associations today manage and run a bunch of camps across the world. Are there "scouting planets" or "scouting outposts" throughout the Federation? Whole worlds where scout troops venture out into the wild? The idea of there being a seemingly endless supply of habitable worlds make it feel like it wouldn't be too hard to find an unclaimed planet for any civil society organization that wanted one Do the scouts have their own ships? Has their focus changed from wilderness survival to space survival? Do you get merit badges in warp theory?

DATES: The class began on April 17, 2017 and ended April 15, 2017. LIST: sb118-academy4 COMMANDING OFFICER: Lt. Commander Rune Jolara FIRST OFFICER: Lieutenant Tenzin Zhou GRADUATE: Colleen Bancroft We're so glad you're here. My door is always open if you ever need anything!

DATES: The class began on April 10, 2017 and ended April 15, 2017. LIST: sb118-academy3 COMMANDING OFFICER: Lt. Commander Rustyy Hael FIRST OFFICER: Lt. Commander Nicu Icavoc GRADUATE: Rudolf Calvin We're so glad you're here. My door is always open if you ever need anything!

It is surprising to me that, of all the ships we've seen, we didn't see Voyager land more. Considering that the poor crew never gets shore-leave, and that they're so starved for resources, it seems like any uninhabited planet with an M-Class environment would be an opportunity for Janeway to kick everyone off the ship for a few hours to collect berries and anything else they can get their hands on, with a healthy dose of fresh air. Just on the story-telling side, seems like there would have been lots more opportunities – in that case – for all kinds of crazy situations. The ground threatens to swallow up Voyager when it causes local earthquakes from setting down! Unexpected locals see Voyager and cause a prime directive crisis! Passing aliens blockade Voyager from lifting-off again! The entire crew gets sick from local pathogen!

DATES: The class began on March 13, 2017 and ended March 19, 2017. LIST: sb118-academy4 COMMANDING OFFICER: Lt. Commander Ayiana Sevo FIRST OFFICER: Lt. Commander Shar'Wyn Foster GRADUATES: Damian Wynter Mimi Locri'i We're so glad you're here. My door is always open if you ever need anything!

DATES: The class began on March 7, 2017 and ended March 6, 2017. LIST: sb118-academy2 COMMANDING OFFICER: Captain Akinor Onali Zaekia FIRST OFFICER: Lt. Commander Rune Jolara GRADUATES: Logaan Rostov Laehlani Antorii We're so glad you're here. My door is always open if you ever need anything!

Here's the list of winners, for anyone that wants to help! https://forums.starbase118.net/index.php?/topic/13980-2016-awards-ceremony-– duty-post-awards/ https://forums.starbase118.net/index.php?/topic/13985-2016-awards-ceremony-–-special-awards/ https://forums.starbase118.net/index.php?/topic/13992-2016-awards-ceremony-–-length-of-service-awards/ https://forums.starbase118.net/index.php?/topic/13998-2016-awards-ceremony-–-staff-awards/ https://forums.starbase118.net/index.php?/topic/14005-2016-awards-ceremony-– general-awards/

yeah, the wiki needs to be updated with all winners. We should work on that ASAP.

Thanks to everyone who helped this month!