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Ęlopii Azul

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Ęlopii Azul last won the day on December 7 2012

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    Why no listed age or gender?

    If I'm gentleman then why am I writing a female character. How can I justify beginning to be able to understand the feminine mystique. And if my character 'squeals in delight' or wonder's if her uniform makes her butt look big, is that some sort of pathetic stereotyping. (cause really, who does that?) If I'm a lady... and my next character is a guy, then is it the same thing in reverse.

    Age is even worse.

    If I am old 50 or 60 or 70 (do octogenarians even know how to use computers?) then what am I doing playing in an arena that includes teenagers... some fairly young. Isn't that a little creepy or what?

    If I'm what 13.. 14 years old then can it get creepy in reverse? (sigh)


    And is it less creepy to be a 60 year old man or woman.

    Especially if ones writing includes the quasi-amorous exploits of a very young character? Is that less weird, creepy, etc than a far younger writer scribing the exploits of some Deltan cougar?

    Frankly, I'd rather what ever gets written to be judged on it's merit alone without suspicions of the writer's motivations... what holes they might be filling, what trauma is being worked through, et al.

    With that said, I'll confess to being a grumpy old man.

    How old? Really. Can we just settled for grizzled, grey and walks with a cane?

    And just to mess with any stereotype you have comfortably nurtured I'm also a single gay fellow raising 3 special need kids. (groan) But then all kids are special needs, right?

    Nuff' said... my soap box is getting a little wobbly here.



    Get off my lawn! You and your little dog, too!
    Steve

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  1. Yup! Really can't stress how wonderful the training officers were! I heartily concur! I feel honor bound to caution the crew of the Vigilant however. By the end of training Fox had wedged himself in next to the warp core (I think he got stuck!) That sort behavior doesn't really seem indicative of a long career... and now he's at the HELM! What will he try to squeeze through next? Of course Jorey and I both got shot/disabled at opposite ends of the ship... ...so... maybe the Vigilant lucked out after all. btw Cross DIDN'T get shot or do anything to suggest a limited life expectancy so the Apollo is probably the real winner here
  2. Just for the record we're in the TOS timeline, correct? Vulcan IS still spinning all hot and stoic?
  3. While I agree uping tech to be consistant with RL advances is necessary, if you increase tech to much it can become a Deux Machina situation where evey problem can be resolve through the superior technology rather then the character's ingenuity and inventiveness. You have to disable some part of the ship every episode just to give the stories a chance. oH... and definitely have Romulus go *BOOM*. Shame to blow the poor thing up and then not take advantage of all the great stories that could potential spawn from it. In fact, having a Romulan refugee/expatriot/whathaveyou could be inspiring tales. Where do their loyalties truely lie? Is there even a Romulan Star Empire left to be loyal to? Oooh Oooh Oooh... maybe the fractured Star Empire is under going a civil war with various camps alighning more or less with remaining Instellar Supper Powers... the Klingon camp, the Federation freinds, the Cardassian allies, the Gorn or even Tholian! buddies. I definitely agree on multi-episode arc. Even my kids know to look at the clock. (Nope. We're twenty minutes in. She can't be the killer.) I think that's referred to as 'Space Opera'. Babylon 5 was good for that if I recall correctly, Why isn't that syndicated? Hmmph. Also a big fan of A.Richards list of 'Guest Appearences.'
  4. I would like to see a more Firefly/Serenditpity sort of ship. A merchant/civilain vessel rather than a quasimilitary one. A ship that wasn't necessarily the best of the best but rather one that included a lot more common folk sort of stuff. In turn I'd like the crew to be multigenerational as well as diverse in species. Though the range of species should include both the familiar as well as unfamilair to make for a seemless transition. Also... more NON-HUMANOID species!
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