Jordan aka FltAdmlWolf

The list of winners for Set 3 has been updated. (See above.) The list of judges for Set 3 has been updated. (See above.) The Round 3 Run-Off has begun! Vote closes Sunday, September 22. We are now on the first round of Set 4: Round 19, which closes Sunday, August 25.

Polling closes at 11:59pm on Sunday, September 22. This is a run-off poll, where our general membership will choose from the top sims of Rounds 13-18 to find the best sim that will proceed to the final round of the contest. Please read the sims below, which were chosen by a panel of judges (one from each ship) to find the best sims from each round of Set 3: Diego Herrera, "Super Brother"David Whale & Oliver Weston, "Namesake"Tyr Waltas, "Lost Time"Javan Tark (Liam Frost), "Curtains Up"Greir Reinard & PNPC Chen, "Come Hell And High Water"Roshanara Rahman & Dre'lith Chaun, "Falling Away"If any crew is found "stuffing the ballot" -- having everyone on the crew vote for the same sim to ensure it proceeds to the final round -- that crew will be eliminated from the contest for the remainder of the year. Good luck to the nominees!

DATES: The class began on August 5, 2013 and ended on August 13, 2013. LIST: sb118-academy3 COMMANDING OFFICER: Commander Liam Frost FIRST OFFICER: Lieutenant Aribelle Tagren GRADUATES: * Vash Solinari * Croton Skylar * Tya Dirsye Welcome to the fleet! My door is always open if you need anything

DATES: The class began on July 28, 2013 and ended on August 6, 2013. LIST: sb118-academy2 COMMANDING OFFICER: Lieutenant Sinda Essen FIRST OFFICER: Lieutenant Chen GRADUATES: * Alora DeVeau * Gell Kimov Welcome to the fleet!

Welcome to the community - my door is always open if you need anything!

Glad to have you with us. My door is always open if you need anything.

DATES: The class began on July 1, 2013 and ended on July 9, 2013. LIST: sb118-academy3 COMMANDING OFFICER: Capt. William Rogers FIRST OFFICER: Cmdr. Liam Frost GRADUATES: Catrova TorvAr'jinWelcome to the fleet!

DATES: The class began on June 24, 2013 and ended on July 3, 2013. LIST: sb118-academy2 COMMANDING OFFICER: Cmdr. Alucard Vess FIRST OFFICER: LtCmdr. Nugra GRADUATES: Evan DelanoJacob Alexander (returning member)Welcome to the Fleet!

Congratulations, Capt. Herrera!

DATES: The class began on June 17, 2013 and ended on June 24, 2013. LIST: sb118-academy1 COMMANDING OFFICER: LtCmdr. Isaac Bale / LtCmdr. Eilis Eete FIRST OFFICER: LtCmdr. Willow Francis GRADUATES: * Alexander Williams * Gor ud Gutta * Jack Stavins * Enabren Welcome to the Fleet!

Glad to have you with us -- my door is always open if you ever need anything at all.

BIG SPOILERS! Finally saw the movie last night! Overall, I thought it was entertaining. Lots of stuff to nitpick on the technical side -- the transporter, for instance -- but I at least appreciate that they set that device up in the previous movie, as opposed to making it up for this one. So I at least felt like there was some continuity in the universe there. I was most disappointed that they wrapped up the story and brought Kirk back to life. If you're going to go all in on retelling the TOS movies, do it right. Give us the dramatic tension of wondering whether Kirk returns for the next movie. They still could have used the same device to return him to life, but wrapping it up in a bow like that was kind meh. I think the biggest problem with the Khan/Harrisman thing is that you're damned if you do, damned if you don't make him Khan. If he's Khan, you set up this whole trick for the audience because you knew there'd be questions about whether he's Khan, but then it's kind of a letdown because it wasn't a chess-game at all like Khan was. If you don't make him Khan, then you scrap the character's motivations for all this and you have to basically rewrite the whole thing. That said, I'm still not entirely clear why Khan would start all this by killing the captains at the CO meeting at SFHQ -- what exactly did that accomplish? Is the idea in Hollywood that audiences just can't handle dramatic tension anymore? Wrath of Khan worked because there was a great build-up, and then you had the long slow nebula chase, etc. I guess we'll never get tired of movie plots on warp speed, but I think we also miss out on a great element of good storytelling. Finally, I think the most difficult part of this whole Abrams series is that he's trying to serve too many masters. He's trying to make a good movie but also talk to the fans. There's just too much to accomplish in a two hour long film. Too much to try and explain in all that time. I felt like, when looking at TOS, the biggest loss in the new movies is simply the lack of real unity and strength in the crew. Spock and Kirk's friendship seems forced -- we spent the first 30m of the movie with Kirk hating him, but we're supposed to believe they have this deep friendship? And McCoy seems like a bit player more than Kirk's closest friend and confidante. Overall, Kirk seems less like a leader and more like the guy running around trying to find his head all the time. Everyone still seems like they're just getting to know each other, rather than a crew that -- by Wrath of Khan -- had known each other for, what, 10 or 15 years at that point? That said, there was plenty to like about this. I thought it was entertaining and enjoyable, and despite the total lack of grace in the Enterprise's engine room, I kinda liked that the engine is this crazy looking thing with a ton of tubes and wires, as opposed to a long cylinder with "the warp" in it, if you know what I mean. On it's own, it's a A- action movie. When you try and reconcile the Star Trek stuff, it's a B-.

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You'd think they had the same webmaster as we do!

George Takei and Nathan Fillion make it worthwhile on their own!