StarBase 118 Staff

Starbase 118, and the sims we write, are more than just actions for characters within the Star Trek realm; they are stories woven with words that give others on our ships, and throughout the Fleet, insight into a story. By participating in the act of simming, we are, at the very core, storytellers. Our words[.....] View the full article

This week, we have some great news from the “Stepping up to the plate” department. Three teams are seeing new facilitators, as follows: Featured Bio Contest: This team, which picks a featured wiki bio every month, as both a way of highlighting the best bios and helping others model the best design, was originated by[.....] View the full article

Of all the technologies seen in Star Trek, none can be said to be as amazing, as overlooked and just as unrealistic as the universal translator (no matter how far we look into the future) than the weather modification network. The purpose of which is to control natural weather patterns across an entire planet in[.....] View the full article

Another wonderful spiced tea! I made a tea for some human friends one winter during Christmas season. It was very well received by them, at the time I had run out of tea and spices from Vulcan because my friends are bigger “tea addicts” than I am. I needed to put together something on the[.....] View the full article

As January ended, the Mercury’s away teams returned from the abandoned DSX with the mystery mostly solved, but with some unanswered questions — for example, the nature of Corporal Sian Douglas’s unconsciousness after an encounter with one of DSX’s cybernetic “spiders.” However, before inquiries could begin, Captain Kells — reportedly at the behest of Starfleet[.....] View the full article

The staff of StarBase 118 would like to take a moment and recognize the officers promoted in the month of February. Please take a moment to congratulate them when you see them in the corridors of your vessel! USS Apollo Edward Johnson to Lieutenant JG Debra Cross to Lieutenant JG Sundassa Faranster to Lieutenant JG[.....] View the full article

The attacks on the ship lead to a number of key injuries. Doctor MacLaren and Commander Breeman were hurt, but able to continue. Commander Walker’s injury, however, revealed an additional twist. A sentient shadow-like creature had been “sharing space” in the officer’s head. Realizing the security concerns, he was confined to sickbay as the rest[.....] View the full article

Each year, we look back at our progress over the past 12 months to consider what went wrong, and what went right, and how we can grow in the remainder of the calendar. This year, FltCapt. Jaxx and Capt. Herrera assembled our State of the Federation Address, which has been posted here on the website.[.....] View the full article

This data represents the average sims per vessel across the fleet for each month. Some ships will sim quite a bit higher or lower, but this represents the average. February is almost always a slower month for sims than January. Whether we will see a higher average count next month is a toss-up — since[.....] View the full article

Please welcome our newest class of Academy graduates to the UFOP: StarBase 118 fleet: Ayd’n Draxx, Gabriel O’Conner, Connikatrenti, Rahsanna Devron, and Dade Triston! View the full article

Don’t forget to stop by the chatroom today — Sunday, March 10th — for our monthly community chat! These chats occur on the second Sunday of every month and are open to any member of the Starbase 118 group. Come by and see, in real time, what other folks in the fleet have been up[.....] View the full article

It’s that time of week, so let’s get cracking with another weekly poll. Remember, if you want to see something specific in future weeks, please let me know in the poll suggestion thread. Now, it is kind of ironic that I’m asking you to spend more time in front of your computers, reading and thinking[.....] View the full article

As part of Starbase 118′s Writing Improvement Month, we ran a special Writing Challenge in which we asked participants to take the title of a Voyager episode, “Someone to Watch Over Me,” as their theme. The contest winner, for the first time in the history of 118′s Writing Challenges, would receive a prize — fitting, as this[.....] View the full article

The Discovery is ordered to investigate an abandoned weapons facility on Vador III and to secure a mysterious weapon sought after by Starfleet. The planet had been home to Cardassian high-security underground biological and genetic research facilities until fifteen years ago when it was abandoned at the onset of the Dominion War. Apart from advanced[.....] View the full article

Our Top Sims Contest has changed to make it easier for our general membership to participate on a regular basis. While everyone is still welcome to submit sims, we now have a panel of judges (one member from each ship) that votes each round to decide which sims proceed to one of four run-off rounds,[.....] View the full article

Did you enjoy Writing Improvement Month 2013? What did you learn? What would you like to see next year? Stop by our forum thread and share your thoughts and ideas for next year so that we can make it even better than the awesome events we had this year! We’re still working on a[.....] View the full article

Having laid over at Deep Space 6 for repair and resupply, the USS Vigilant has now taken the first steps on her journey into the Zeta Gelis region. Answering a distress call from Zalkonian Space Station Ea-435, the Vigilant crew have found evidence of an as yet unexplained atrocity: every member of the station’s crew[.....] View the full article

And before you say it, no, this week’s poll is not about time travel — although we did get some interesting response to that question, so keep the comments coming in. While not relating to time travel, this week’s poll does focus on time again but from a different perspective. So often during our sims,[.....] View the full article

Please welcome our newest class of Academy graduates to the UFOP: StarBase 118 fleet: Seth Koan, Vincent Pierce, and Ekaterina Quinn! View the full article

Our very own StarBase 118 Ops, commanded by Captain Kali Nicholotti, has won a “Squiddie” award (officially known as the “OngoingWorlds Medal for Superior Online Roleplaying”) for excellence in role playing. The award description is as follows: Through its creative mix of combining the familiar with the cutting edge, StarBase 118 Operations has created a[.....] View the full article

The away teams on DSX faced escalating troubles in addition to their search for the missing SCE crewmen when Eta Corvi sent out a coronal mass ejection. Although the Mercury and her support craft would be protected by their shields, DSX — with nothing but minimal power — would face radiation that would prove deadly[.....] View the full article

The crew of the USS Drake finds itself at the sharp end of its current mission. The ship has been attacked by a huge space dwelling leviathan and simultaneously infested by an army of poisonous bugs. As the crew race to repair the damage to the ship and battle the bugs, the medical team races[.....] View the full article

I was once told that life is made up of moments not days and weeks. It’s in those moments that we remember the people and events that shape our lives. So it is a foregone conclusion that once a moment passes, you’ll never be able to get it back, for better or worse, or even[.....] View the full article

Please welcome our newest class of Academy graduates to the UFOP: StarBase 118 fleet: William Corexus Brax! View the full article

As a part of our ongoing Writing Improvement Month project, the staff of Starbase 118 are proud to welcome award-winning author Peter Watts. Mr. Watts is the author of the Hugo Award-nominated novel Blindside, which explores the question: what should be done when we hear talk from aliens who don’t know we’re listening to them? Two months ago, without[.....] View the full article