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[Jul. 24th, 2009|01:52 am] |
Hi Guys,
I hope everyone had a good week, TGIF. I've spent a lot of time redoing the ship info page, so make sure and check it out. The other pages linked from there are a work in progress, however, the decks page is complete! No more guessing where everything is! =) (Thanks to the other Dan for helping me). So feel free to start using deck numbers in your posts or think about where your character may live. Reply here for comments or suggestions
As far as the plot, I know a lot of you are bored, so sometime within the next few days the ship will arrive at its destination and I assure you there will be plenty to write about. Also, Ranul, the second officer/chief science officer will now absorb the duties of the chief operations officer (like Data). So be prepared for that change.
One last thing, I'd like to remind all of you that there are posting requirements in this game that I tend to enforce. Please post at least once a week in IC or OOC. I don't like having to track people down, so please be proactive. There is always something to write about when you use your imagination, you just have to take the initiative. Okay I'm done being mean.
Have a good weekend guys.
-Dan |
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[Jun. 20th, 2009|08:34 pm] |
When First Contact was first released there were rumors floating around that one of the characters, Lieutenant Hawk, was meant to be Star Trek's first gay character. Paramount denied that this was the case, but whether or not it was meant to be, the writing partners Andy Mangels and Michael Martin took the idea and ran with it when they wrote the book Rogue for the Section 31 series. The book takes place 6 months before First Contact and Hawk (given the name Sean Liam) plays an important role in the plot. He also has a boyfriend of two years, Ranul.
I kind of latched onto the idea of Hawk being gay when I first heard about it, and when Dan decided he wanted to make a Star Trek game, I convinced him to let me play Ranul. As far as I knew at the time, Hawk was the first gay character in the extended universe literature (which turned out to be false. In fact there is a large population of queer characters in the books) and Ranul seemed to have been created especially for me since the Trill are my favorite Federation race.
I started role playing with Star Trek games way back in 1997 (PBeM represent, yo!). In that community, canon characters of any kind are strictly forbidden and it's generally frowned upon for the character you play to personally know any of the major series characters at all, so Ranul is a major departure for me. Not only did he serve on the Enterprise-E, but shares a war-forged bond with Picard and can call Ezri Dax a close friend (These details come from Rogue and the second book he appears in, Unjoined).
Dan (Not the Mama Mod) |
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