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    Yup, 'tis. Thanks.

    Anyone else take the quiz?

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    I didn't take the quiz--unless all the questions are "Who's the captain of the ship?" I'll get a zilch.

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    Hmm. I have a hard time believing that.

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    A mere 15. I am lame.

    Or maybe that means I had more of a life than I thought I'd had...

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    Don't worry, general. Your Kirkitude remains 110%.

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    Quote Originally posted by Elendil's Heir View post
    Don't worry, general. Your Kirkitude remains 110%.
    Speaking of Kirkitude, hopefully Graham is within sight of Rangin so I can work in a couple chest bumps and fist-pumping choruses of "Security! Security! Fuck Yeah!" with his red-shirted colleagues for his benefit...

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    Heh - I got 16...on my second run through. Fairly certain I got less on the first time.

    Quote Originally posted by general_urko View post
    Quote Originally posted by Elendil's Heir View post
    Don't worry, general. Your Kirkitude remains 110%.
    Speaking of Kirkitude, hopefully Graham is within sight of Rangin so I can work in a couple chest bumps and fist-pumping choruses of "Security! Security! Fuck Yeah!" with his red-shirted colleagues for his benefit...
    Aww, is widdle dumpling feeling jealous because Nia is talking to a real man.
    In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.

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    Yipe, cynical Rangin is beginning to creep me out a bit! :0

    (Actually, Nia never called him by his first name since he didn't invite her to. That's why she mentioned at the end there that she hoped he'd consider reciprocating the informality.)

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    Quote Originally posted by choie View post
    Yipe, cynical Rangin is beginning to creep me out a bit! :0

    (Actually, Nia never called him by his first name since he didn't invite her to. That's why she mentioned at the end there that she hoped he'd consider reciprocating the informality.)
    True, but she just switched back to calling him Ensign as if they were on duty instead if calling him Rangin...followed by walking out the door with Graham.
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    Quote Originally posted by CatInASuit View post

    On the subject of apes, as he steps out of the turbolift and onto the deck, there is an amused smile at the thought of Ens. Graham with teeny, tiny wings struggling to get off the ground going Ugh, why me no fly.... He nods to Lt. Antonov on the way past and settles into Science 2, starting up the main scans and reports before turning and enquiring if there is anything extra he should be aware of.
    OMG I nearly snarfed my coffee, absolutely hilarious

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    Hmm I can't say I'm very impressed with this new PC, apparently a proto-Ferengi bent on selling useless stuff to his colleagues on the ship. I guess I'll have to see how he develops.

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    LOL. Tell me about it! Spam reported.

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    There's always one who just has to be different. I mean Ferengi aren't even in Star Trek until TNG.
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    Rats. I missed the excitement.

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    Quote Originally posted by CatInASuit View post
    There's always one who just has to be different. I mean Ferengi aren't even in Star Trek until TNG.
    True dat. Although...: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/A...tion_(episode)
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    LOL, okay, if Collins gets permission to leave the Bridge a second time while already on watch (as I recall, Singh gave her permission for Collins to leave the Bridge in the last mission too, to see if Graham was awake, and then when Graham wasn't, Collins just hung around reading instead of returning to duty), I'm totally gonna call foul! Is this kind of laissez-faire attitude toward assignments--especially on the Bridge--really allowed in Starfleet?

    Admittedly there seems to be nothing for those of us on the Bridge to do, at least temporarily. Meta-wise, I assume something will be occurring, of course. But in-game, they don't know that. Maybe I should have Nia start a round of "Row, Row, Row your boat" or tell a few jokes to liven the place up.

    Makes me realize it must be boring as hell when traveling from place to place on an interstellar ship, given the vast distances it travels. Do all these officers play FreeCell, Words with Friends or Angry Birds to keep their brains active across the light-years?

    Now I kinda wish there were an episode of Trek where we literally just saw them sitting and staring at their monitors or listening to nothing but empty space.

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    Now that you mention it . . .

    mentally runs through the TNG episodes where nothing dangerous was happening, just character enhancing things on board

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    Heheheh. Good things come to those who wait.

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    Ha, Jones is apparently telepathic, reading Collins's thoughts about the fingerprints. Collins's reaction was amusing, anyrose.

    (It is surprising that Collins thought they didn't scan for fingerprints--she was in charge of the Wilson murder case where there was plenty of that DNA/scanning stuff going on. I guess the miscarriage knocked those memories from her brain, surprisingly enough.)

    Can you elaborate on the sabotage stuff for those of us who weren't part of the first mission -- which is all of us but anyrose, now that I think of it? More and more I think we need a Wiki for this game...

    Meanwhile, Rangin appears to have gone comatose at the thought of being under Graham's command on the Bridge. Poor guy!

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    In all honesty, Collins isn't the only one with sketchy memories - but I seem to recall that something had been done to a conference room in which the Yorktown officers were supposed to dine with their guests. It was six years ago in real time. And I don't have the patience to reread the entire mission. If I'm wrong, please let me know, and we can chalk it up to Collins having a flashback to one of her Elsewhere induced hallucinations.

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    Quote Originally posted by anyrose View post
    In all honesty, Collins isn't the only one with sketchy memories - but I seem to recall that something had been done to a conference room in which the Yorktown officers were supposed to dine with their guests. It was six years ago in real time. And I don't have the patience to reread the entire mission. If I'm wrong, please let me know, and we can chalk it up to Collins having a flashback to one of her Elsewhere induced hallucinations.
    Oh I hope you don't think I was correcting you re: the sabotage thing, because I have no idea what the real story is. I only read that first mission back when I joined, so yeah, the details are inevitably going to be hazy.

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    Quote Originally posted by choie View post
    ...More and more I think we need a Wiki for this game....
    You're right. I've been thinking that myself, but just haven't had time to create one. I take some notes as we go but probably not as many as I should. I created an encyclopedia for the USS Monitor VGR-era RPG that WES, general_urko and I were in some years ago, and it got to be quite big by the end of that game.

    Yorktown personnel may ask more senior/experienced crewmates, or check ship's records, if they want to learn more about what happened on earlier missions.

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    Apologies all for the slowdown in posting - work is really quite busy at the moment.
    In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.

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    No worries, and welcome back.

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    Quote Originally posted by general_urko View post
    Nonetheless he can't help but notice when Kylah shudders as Rangin turns his eyes her way. His jaw tightens and his fists clench (fortunately, on his lap rather than on the table) reflexively just for a moment, but he forces himself to not stop and stare.
    LOL, well played, general! I was absolutely not expecting that reaction, but it works perfectly. Heh. Graham really sees everything and makes it fit into the narrative already written in his head. Very human & realistic. (And also funny.)

    Also that was a good question about the strange makeup of the group. It's like a bunch of nerdy civilians parachuting down into war-torn Syria without so much as an escort with a BB-gun.

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    Yeah, but they're Starfleet. Just because it's a Civil Advisory Group doesn't mean that they've not been trained. They could have resigned their commissions to take the post.

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    Why do I have this image of a small group all carrying clipboards and tut-tutting at everything?
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    Looks like my last post got ninja'd by CIAS - however, Graham speaking and completely ignoring the fact that Rangin just spoke kind of works if you ask me!

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    It also works that they have the same fidget

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    Ick that'll teach me to write a post and then get distracted so I don't have a chance to edit it. Besides the bad wording in a few places, there's the rather significant goof that Kylah says she was stunned on Anubis. But of course she wasn't--she was clubbed into unconsciousness. I think the main money-changer dude was holding a disruptor but I'm pretty sure he didn't use it.

    Oh well. Kylah's mind is going loopy anyway. But now we know why at least 95% of my posts have "Edited by..." notes at the bottom! My first drafts always suck.

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    Join the club! I think it might have been Degas who said, "Great art is never finished - it is abandoned."

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    Going out of town - probably won't post again until Sun. night.

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    Have a good weekend

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    Hope you're having a fantastic weekend, EH! Well, the same for everyone else, too.

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    Yes, thanks - relaxed by a rural creek, read, swam, ate well, and visited with a good friend from high school and his family.

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    Boy, our new spammer reveals that the Doctor really has come down in the world. This never would've happened in the original Doctor Who.

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    Quote Originally posted by Elendil's Heir View post
    "Thank you, Ensign," Thulle says quietly to Kylah. He smiles. "It's always good to have another pair of eyes look over one's work."

    Graham sees nothing amiss at the Tactical station.
    If Graham would just look around to the Communications area, he'd see that some strange person is impersonating Kylah's superior.

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    Quote Originally posted by choie View post
    Quote Originally posted by Elendil's Heir View post
    "Thank you, Ensign," Thulle says quietly to Kylah. He smiles. "It's always good to have another pair of eyes look over one's work."

    Graham sees nothing amiss at the Tactical station.
    If Graham would just look around to the Communications area, he'd see that some strange person is impersonating Kylah's superior.
    D'oh! Thulle was another Andorian in our USS Monitor RPG. I'll fix it.

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    Quote Originally posted by vupham8397 View post
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    Äể bạn Ä‘á»c hiểu rõ hÆ¡n vá» thương vụ mua bán nÃ*y, Zing.vn đã có cuá»™c bÃ*n luáº*n vá»›i chuyên gia thương hiệu Võ Văn Quang.

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    Khi Alibaba vao Viet Nam bang viec mua lai Lazada hinh anh 1
    Chuyên gia thương hiệu Võ Văn Quang .
    - Cần phải hiểu được sá»± khác nhau cÆ¡ bản giữa Alibaba vÃ* Lazada thì má»›i có thể hiểu được lý do dẫn tá»›i thương vụ nÃ*y. Äối tượng mÃ* Lazada hướng đến lÃ* ngưá»i tiêu dùng, bán sỉ còn Alibaba hướng tá»›i khách hÃ*ng công nghiệp, bán lẻ.

    Do muốn mở mang thêm đối tượng khách hÃ*ng tiêu dùng vÃ* chợ thương nghiệp Ä‘iện tá»* hÃ*ng tiêu dùng nên há» mua lại. Nói cách khác, Alibaba mua lại Lazada để có thêm thị trưá»ng hÃ*ng tiêu dùng ở khu vá»±c châu Ã, đặc biệt Äông Nam à – nÆ¡i Lazada đã khẳng định được vị trÃ* cá»§a nó.

    - giao kèo mua bán đồng nghÄ©a vá»›i việc Alibaba trở thÃ*nh cổ đông chi phối Lazada sau giao thiệp. Theo đánh giá cá»§a ông, hoạt động cá»§a Lazada bao gồm cả Lazada Việt Nam trong thá»i gian tá»›i sẽ ra sao?

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    Kylah sets up and runs a real-time decryption program, and at once hears a male voice. "Yorktown, is that you? Thank God. Do you read me? Come in, Yorktown."

    The transmission is coming from the large city directly below.
    Nice touch, adding the encrypted message so we could watch the decoder in action! Adds to the mise en scène.

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    Kirk, shmirk: Shatner and his ripped uniforms showing off some of his chest can take a backseat to Stewart and his bare... almost everything. Check out the bod on our dear knight, from a 1977 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (as King Oberon):



    Yowsa!

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    Quote Originally posted by choie View post
    Kirk, shmirk: Shatner and his ripped uniforms showing off some of his chest can take a backseat to Stewart and his bare... almost everything. Check out the bod on our dear knight, from a 1977 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (as King Oberon):



    Yowsa!
    Yummy with a spoon!
    :drool:

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    I played Oberon in a high school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and confess I didn't look quite that good (I still remember my first line, though: "Ill-met by moonlight, proud Titania...!").

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    Ooops...I got ninja'd by EH and have been out since, just noticed, so my post #239 makes no sense in light of #238...

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    I was frankly astonished that Graham's reaction to the idea of Rangin leading the mission was so understated. I was expecting him to need some sedative.

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    Quote Originally posted by choie View post
    I was frankly astonished that Graham's reaction to the idea of Rangin leading the mission was so understated. I was expecting him to need some sedative.
    Argh his initial reaction was pre-empted by Kylah & Collins...

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    Nice work by CIAS in post 240 kicking action back to Graham...I'll run with it...

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    "memory of a goldfish"? Honestly, what an awful...

    wait....

    what was I about to type?


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    Hm. I don't remember anyone posting before me...

    I hope you appreciate that Nia spares her snark for no one. Kylah's been getting zinged plenty too.

    I do enjoy writing her.

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    Let your snark flow through you....

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    Quote Originally posted by Elendil's Heir View post
    Let your snark flow through you....
    Sounds like what happens when my allergies act up...

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