Ensign Ambrosia Hayley

As do I. The best way to learn is through what other people have done!

Congratulations!

Congrats!

I always enjoy The Kobayashi Alternative game for DOS. It might not have the best Engine and it might be as buggy as hell, but it got the characters perfectly. Although Klingon Academy is still my favourite! I still keep my install of windows 95 to play it (mostly because it has all of my saves). Ahh the wonders of virtualisation.

Hello, I've just started playing again on a new character (I think the last time I played was back when it first came out!) Anyway my characters name is Sonak and he is the Captain of the USS Pinafore (and a right good captain too). I look forward to seeing some of you in game!

I always thought it was more of a test of seeing how a captain deals with the final moments of both himself and his crew. If he had some kind of mental breakdown, for example, it is obvious that he should not be put in charge of anything. Of course, if you can test other skills at the same time....

Kobayashi Maru involved the Klingons, just an FYI. http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru_scenario I'd fly in fast, rescue them if I can, then fly out just as fast. Let the Ambassadors figure it out. It originally contained Klingons, but was updated to include Romulans (at least according to memory alpha). Still I assume it just contains the enemy of the month, presumably by now it would contain Dominion!

I think firstly I'd have to consider the scenario in my terms the problems as I see them are:- 1. Entering the neutral zone violates the treaty. 2. If you do decide to rescue the ship you will be effectively guaranteed to be destroyed. I'm going to assume that they are using the Romulans as the fictional enemies here. Now, if I remember correctly the the Khitomer Accords have a exception for entry into the neutral zone for missions of mercy. As this is undoubtedly one of these, I would instruct my Comms officer to broadcast a message to this extent on all frequencies including one as a coded subspace message to Starfleet. I would then move into the system, presumably now the Romulans would un-cloak and lock weapons. I would then order both a message to be sent to them (both through a hail and a wide-band subspace transmission, with a transcript once again sent to Starfleet) informing them of the violation of the Khitomer Accords and my mission. I assume that this would be ignored. My next orders would be to have all nonessential personnel and civilians head for the escape capsules and attempt to avoid any weapons fire until that operation is complete. I would also ensure that a copy of our records of the encounter and a bridge recording were sent with them. When I get message that the operation is complete my tactic would then change to one of firing all escape capsules and providing weapons fire to draw attention away from them. This would result in the destruction of both myself and my ship however: a) It is documented that their actions were in violation. (i.e. The federation cannot be accused of starting a war) It is reasonable to assume a good majority of my crew survive. c) It left me with reasonable chance of success, if the computer where not "cheating" it is plausible, depending on the ship I am commanding, that I could win the conflict, rescue the Kobayashi Maru (or at least gain information on why it was in distress that may be valuable) and return my crew.

Congratulations! Welcome to the fleet!

Have fun on the Discovery! I can say from experience you are going to be in for a lot of fun...

Congratulations and welcome!

Man I wish I could get to Canada! There needs to be a Star Trek exo in Wales

Thanks! I really missed this place First thing I wanted to do after school had settled down was rejoin!

Awwww! I'm in London on the 25th, but I can't go before then! Why couldn't it be a week later

Congratulations and welcome!

Thank you! I really enjoyed the training and would like to thank everyone involved for making to so fun!

I can quite imagine, I can still remember being shocked at how hard the station monitored that one interracial kiss scene! Of course, I read about this in 2010, so maybe its more a good thing than a bad thing that this shocked me, but I can imagine that the issue of religion would have been treated even more... Where I'm from religion plays very little in our lives, so I always seem to forget that these limitations still exist...

Thinking about it, it only really applies to the original series anyway which was mostly devoid of religion (makes sense it was the 50s). Most mentions or religion are TNG or later.

I think a big reason for that is due to the time in which this was written. It was a pretty big task to try to incorporate the idea of true religious freedom without alienating the viewers and fans in these times who still held to traditions that we see fading today. The idea of women on the bridge, multi-national crews, and a society where all were equal was a big enough chunk to bite off without attempting to take on religion. So, I see the writers simply throwing out religious implications related to humans and making their statement of equality by saying alien religious beliefs should be respected and followed. Didn't Gene Roddenberry also state that he wanted Religion to be kept out of Star Trek, to prevent any kind of controversy in that area and also because, as a Atheist, he believed that by that time Religion would have become non-important?