Jordan aka FltAdmlWolf

Sunday, December 6th.

It's that time of year again! When we come together to celebrate the contributions and accomplishments of our members. This is a core tradition that was started in 1996, just two years after our group was founded, and has continued every year since then. The awards process begins with the nomination period, which is open starting today until Sunday, December 8th at midnight Pacific time. Click here to go directly to the Award Nomination Panel, where there’s more information about how to nominate another member for an award. Over the weeks to come, the nomination that you submit will be split into groups and reviewed. General category awards are reviewed and approved by your captain, while Special and Duty Post award winners are selected from the pool of nominations by a committee of staff members. Staff category award nominations are reviewed by the Executive Council. General award winners will be announced to each ship, by the ship’s captain, in late December. Usually, our group OOC ceremony which lists all Special, Duty Post, Staff, and Length of Service awards, is posted to the fleet around the beginning of the year. (In this case, probably the first week of 2016.) This is your opportunity to recognize your fellow players and the staff that help make this group an amazing community. Awards are only given if a nomination is received and selected, so don’t hesitate to start nominating those you think deserve an award! When a ship has few award recipients it is a direct result of few nominations from that specific crew. Keep these things in mind as you begin submitting fellow officers for nominations: * Duty Post, Special, and Staff awards are given to only one officer per year in the entire fleet. * Only one person per crew can receive each of the General awards in each ceremony. * You can find a list of past recipients on the wiki. Remember that some awards were created just last year, so there may be no previous recipients for those awards. In closing, remember that you Commanding Officer also does a lot of hard work behind the scenes to keep the fleet and the community running. Our staff are not paid for their work, and it is their endless hours of devotion that keep things going smoothing. Keep this in mind as you are submitting your nominations and consider nominating your Commanding Officer for an award as well! If you have any questions, feel free to talk to your Commanding Officer or First Officer, or post in the thread on our forums. Click here to start your award nominations!

DATES: The class began on November 9, 2015 and ended November 15, 2015. LIST: sb118-academy4 COMMANDING OFFICER: Lt. Commander Joan Hart FIRST OFFICER: Lt. Commander Ceciri Hakashri GRADUATES: * Lev Al-Kalev * Nira * Mitchell Shapiro So glad to have you with us! My door is always open if you ever need anything.

DATES: The class began on November 2, 2015 and ended November 8, 2015. LIST: sb118-academy3 COMMANDING OFFICER: Lt. Commander Joan Hart FIRST OFFICER: Lt. Commander Drayke Flemming GRADUATES: * Dag Sindri * Tonya Lang So glad to have you with us! My door is always open if you ever need anything.

Polling closes at 11:59pm Eastern on Sunday, December 6. This is a run-off poll, where our general membership (that's you!) chooses which sim, from Set 4 of 2015 (Rounds 21-26), should proceed to the final round of the contest for a chance to be selected as the Top Sim of 2015! These sims below were chosen by a panel of judges (one from each ship) from the sims submitted in Rounds 21-26 of the contest. TO START, please read these sims: ​Round 21: Charlotte deBarres, "Bird Droppings"​Round 22: Didrik Stennes, "Contrition Vol. 1"​Round 23: Ceilidh Riverview, "The power of memory"​Round 24: Alora DeVeau & Saveron, "Where Vulcan Flowers Grow"​Round 25: Hannibal Parker, "Recognition, Resignation"​Round 26: Wyn Foster, "What Friends are For"NEXT, using the poll above, vote for the sim you like the most. It should be the sim that's the best written, with strong characterization, and evocative or descriptive scene-setting. DON'T vote for a sim just because you serve on the same crew as the person who wrote it. Any crew that "stuffs the ballot" (by having everyone on the crew vote for the same sim to ensure that it wins this poll) will be eliminated from the contest and shamed by the rest of the community as terrible, terrible cheaters. That would be awful. Good luck to the nominees!

DATES: The class began on October 26, 2015 and ended November 3, 2015. LIST: sb118-academy2 COMMANDING OFFICER: Lt. Commander Kalos Fiorr FIRST OFFICER: Lt. Commander Alex Blair GRADUATES: * Jimin Qri * Saavei Welcome to the fleet -- we're so glad you're here with us! My door is always open if you ever need anything

What do you think? http://www.vox.com/2015/3/4/8143465/star-trek-true-detective?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=voxdotcom&utm_content=monday

Yeah, I have no faith at all in this. Look at shows like Minority Report on TV and you can see just how little they adhere to the original template and instead are used as new window dressing on tired formulas.

Just a reminder that Round 1 of 2016 starts tomorrow. Please use the Round 1 tag on your submitted sims, per the calendar above.

We have our winner! Congratulations to Set 3 winner Maxwell Traenor & Noros (PNPC) for "Max"!

DATES: The class began on October 19, 2015 and ended October 26, 2015. LIST: sb118-academy1 COMMANDING OFFICER: Lt. Commander Karolina Cranford FIRST OFFICER: Lt. Commander Ceciri Hakashri GRADUATES: * Chris Estorian * James Kalani * Akoni Soriano Welcome to the fleet -- we're so glad you're here with us! My door is always open if you ever need anything