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Edward Spears

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    ZOOOOM!  He was a ship!  And that was fun!  Flying around, dreaming of chasing dogs and enjoying the work of Hexa and Peta was like being in a good dream, except it was real.

    Can we all take a moment to appreciate how wholesome and incredibly uplifting this line was? Not sure about the rest of you, but it brought a huge, youthful smile to my face! :D 

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    Foley: Careful, gentlemen! Pedestrian collisions are the 127th most common cause for visits to Sickbay aboard a Galaxy-class vessel! Just behind plasma torch burns and ahead of gagh overconsumption! Also I'm holding a micro-abrader! If you had collided with me you have been abraded! Admittedly, that's not terribly likely since I outweigh you by almost a hundred kilograms and I'm quite stable! Still, one must use care, no matter how exciting corridors are! Although I agree this IS an excellent corridor.

    Safety first everyone! 😂

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  3. The Nova class gets my vote, hands down. A little biased, as I used to sim on one in a different Trek game but there's something intimate about a small survey ship. I feel like you can get a really compelling story going since the crew compliment is so small. I mean, you could put a name and face to every member of the crew quite easily! And that adds to the peril of something happening to any of them! 

    Defiant is choice number two because that thing hits way above its size, and the nose art potential (as mentioned earlier) is just fantastic. Also, it had the best concept patch ever. 

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    Saveron: Have you ever flown an Argo shuttle, Lieutenant? ::He asked Nalni.:: I would be interested to know how they differ from other shuttles. ::This with a glance at Seja.::

    ::As for the buggies, he knew how they handled, and he’d seen how they could be handled, thanks to Ed’s demonstration.::

    To Valhalla! 

    Shiny and Chrome.jpg

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  5. I’m going to go a little toward the unexpected here with a choice of “diplomat”, and let me explain why. 

    Choices like “security” and “marines” elicit that knee jerk reaction when thinking of risk. The risk to their personal safety is great in most circumstances. But they are also trained to anticipate and mitigate the risk to themselves and their teams no matter how grave. It’s what they do. 

    Diplomats can incur a whole other level of risk. There is still personal risk, which is harder to mitigate through their typical skill set. They are also considered valuable targets for kidnapping as they can be leveraged. But diplomats also incur risk on a galactic scale. A poorly chosen word. A careless gesture. The wrong offering. Wars can start over these, and can cost countless ships and lives in their course. 

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  6. Doctor Spears recently learned why even medical officers must undertake the famous test. He was faced by a practical no win scenario on his own operating table and it resulted in him losing a patient. The kind of personal characteristics that are assessed in a training setting by tests like the Maru can give an excellent window into the character of any officer. 

    That said the idea of the test being more disguised in the current era makes sense, and also fits how my back story is written. I imagined medical officers would be tested with something catastrophic where none of their skills or resources would help them save the people they needed to. In Ed’s case it had been a simulated colony that was suffering from an unidentified disease. It would have been manageable, but part of the scenario had included the ship arriving a week later than planned due to warp drive malfunctions. End result: a terminal colony where only a handful could be saved, and a lot of shaken medical cadets. 

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  7. I agree that a very specialized vessel might close some doors for story telling, but I think a good group of writers would be able to keep a lot of variety in what happens during those missions, or on the way to a mission. Plus it lets everyone get devious in designing disasters on a planetary or even system-wide scale. 

    I wouldn’t force a crew of only science and engineering personnel. You still need all the fundamental staff positions to run the ship, so helm and ops are definitely in. And the ship would still have a security department. They might even specialize in crowd control since a panicked population could pose hazardous even if they don’t mean to.

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  8. I’ve always been interested in the idea that Starfleet Medical and the Starfleet Corps of Engineers might team up to create a disaster relief team that can respond to emergencies across the Federation’s colonies and outposts. The Canadian Military has something just like that called the DART (Disaster Assistance Response Team) that we can deploy on very short notice to disaster sites around the world.

    A team like that would need a fast ship with ample medical and manufacturing facilities, and likely fully swappable mission modules in order to respond to a myriad of natural and artificial disasters. 

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  9. Thanks very much! Though I decided to go for a different character concept in the end, I am still as happy as ever to have found this gem of a community. My fellow cadets, now officers in the fleet, were wonderful to work with, and our training staff made all the difference. A big thanks to all of you for making a memorable intro to this group!

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