StarBase 118 Staff

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

The Best of Both Worlds – the two-part storyline comprising the third season finale and the fourth season premiere of the beloved series Star Trek: The Next Generation – will, for the first time ever, be seamlessly tied together as one continuous and uninterrupted story digitally restored with new CGI effects… on the big screen![.....] View the full article

As part of our Writing Improvement Project, Starbase 118 would like to extend a warm welcome and sincere thanks To Melinda Snodgrass, Author of the science-fantasy story The Edge of Reason. The Edge of Reason tells the story of Albuquerque Police officer Richard Oort, as he finds himself caught up in a battle which pits two worlds against one another. One[.....] View the full article

As January began, the USS Apollo and her crew arrived at Quatal Minor. The planet was riddled with ion storms and various atmospheric conditions that made transport and communications impossible. A scout team was sent down to the surface in a shuttle and reached successfully landed it with minor incident. Upon their arrival they launched[.....] View the full article

For this week’s guest author, Starbase 118 would like to welcome author David R. George III! Mr. George will be interacting with out writers on Saturday, February 23rd via video chat (12pm PST / 3pm EST / 8pm GMT / Sunday AM for Australia). Be sure to stop in and learn a thing or two[.....] View the full article

With interphasic rifts making navigation around Poseidon increasingly hazardous with their erratic shifting, the crew of the USS Avandar get to work trying to find a way to avoid a potential catastrophe. Help came from an unexpected angle, with contact being made with the other side of the rifts – and the Rubari, the explorers[.....] View the full article

We’re very proud to announce that our very own captain of the USS Vigilant, Diego Herrera, has received the Simming Encyclopedia’s Simming Prize. This prestigious honor is given out to up to five recipient writers/characters, simming groups, or simming alliances once a year. Last year, our community as a whole received it, while this year[.....] View the full article

PotW is back again this week with another thrilling poll, one that I hope sparks a more philosophical debate. One of the many interesting and often morally troubling topics in Trek and many other science fiction stories is what makes a sentient life forms, well, sentient. Even the Q were classed as sentient (despite how[.....] View the full article

The first month of the new year has come and gone, the Publicity Team is really looking forward to everything that Writing Improvement Month will bring to us as a Fleet, as well as to the RPG realm in general. Captain Kalianna Nicholotti, with others on the command staff and helpers in the fleet, have[.....] View the full article

Please welcome our newest class of Academy graduates to the UFOP: StarBase 118 fleet: Chythar Daniel Skyfire, Saveron and Jeremy Allen Vincent! View the full article