There is this thing bothering me. I am a member of a ST fan group in my country, which is Poland (where the LGBTs don't have it nice at all).
Some of my fellow ST fans are extremely (for my standards) conservative. It goes not only with women's rights (which drives me, a feminist, pretty crazy) but also with the elementary respect for LGBT people.
I truly don't understand how one can be both disrespectful towards gays and love the series that teaches respect, tolerance and stuff like that. One of the members is really making me mad with her constant homophobic and islamophobic comments she shares whenever she can. When I pointed out that it's not what ST teaches us, she just posted something like "Well, apparently I'm no true Trekkie, I was excommunicated". Oh gosh. One time I was at a con in my city and on one occasion she said something like "Shatner is doing good stuff for animals and deserves much more applause than Takei taking care f those fags". I was aghast not only by this comment but also the fact that two or more guys started clapping in agreement. Dafuq? On a ST convention??
I don't know, I seriously can't cope with it anymore and just wanted to share this. I thought the ST community is a place where I will not have to endure homophobic comments :/ Maybe you have similar experiences?

I think I can make this one woot.

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soooo stiff would make a wonderful Vulcan

That is exactly what I was thinking.

I've flipped it off and on the past year or so.

1) Everyone's OP as shit, so it's got that going for it.

2) They've taken the F2P,P2W model to its logical extension.

3) Story content is threeeeadbare. Be prepared for it to feel extra-grindy after a month or so.

I've been playing Marvel Heroes Online 2015 for a little over a week now and it's a freakin awsome MMO if your a comic book collector like me. I'd like to get permission to start a Guild or Super Group as they are called. The name will be Heroes of Stonewall and can be affiliated with this Stonewall if you want. My chars name is MountainX so if ya decide to play send me a tell and be careful this MMO is very addictive. Oh yeah it's free to play with a game store. :woohoo:

Awesome! I just leveled an altMesmer to 80, but was at a loss for builds and whatnot. I'll definitely try it out. :)

See, Kate and Kathryn make better television.

But frankly, Genevieve's Nicole is a more honest, truthful representation of a thoughtful, introspective scientist.

What's the joke we keep making? Kathryn does science with her phasers.

I suppose it's the logical 24th century extrapolation of the CSI effect:


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From what I had read on the subject Geneviève Bujold was uncomfortable with the media circus surrounding the role, and disdained the interviews that would subsequently come with it, refusing to do them. There's an article about it on Memory Alpha as well, for anyone who is interested.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Genevi%C3%A8ve_Bujold

I only remembered Kate Mulgrew through guest spots on Matlock and Murder, She Wrote. I don't think I would have watched Voyager at all if they had stuck with Bujold.

And the work she is doing on Orange is the New Black only reaffirms it for me. Kate Mulgrew ROCKS!

I love her in OITNB!

Spit. I guess I should buy con tix, too.

Yay! See you when you get in! Too bad you can't stay longer but I know you'll have a blast!

Booked. Getting in Thursday night, leaving Sunday on a redeye.

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Chapter XXV: Thinking Clearly

From behind the cloak of the Vaq'ghol, it was hard for Semil to believe that the Empire's nominal 'allies' in the Syndicate weren't able to see through it. In two hours they had closed the gap, and were trailing behind the Marauder at short range at high warp. Surely, the Marauder must have a contigency for having been followed by a cloaked ship.

K'vot sat lazily in the captain's seat, unimpressed by Semil's mounting anxiety and worry. "If we mount an at-warp beam over of a boarding party..."

"It won't be possible to match both the subspace frequencies of the warp field and their shields without dissipating the transporter beam. And certainly not without decloaking. Patience."

Semil could hardly stem his overwhelming urge to take immediate, decisive action. A restlessness K'vot could recognize, if not sympathize with.

"We're closing to within thirty minutes of the Verex system. If we don't stop them now..."

"If we don't stop them, they'll what? What is it you think they'll do exactly?"
"I can't be sure. Beam the cargo down to the planet. Hand it off to a second, faster courier. Any number of options out of our control."

"All reasonable speculation. But I think you forget one key..."

"So you don't think Fennaz is expecting us? No more than you're trying to anticipate him?"

"I would have thought that in your time as a Dominion operative, you would have learned that second guessing onesself is the most certain means of ensuring defeat."

Semil shook his head in disagreement. "It's not second guessing - too much of this smells more and more like a trap."

"When confronted with a trap, you intend to just walk away? Or spring it unprepared?"

"I imagine you're intending to beam over boarding parties to search for the cargo. Onto that massive ship, with Founders know how many Orion toughs just waiting to intercept you?" Semil belated winced at his habituated, unconsidered reference. One K'vot was polite or hard-headed enough to ignore.

"Our only other option is to attack with torpedoes at warp. Which risks damaging the cargo, since we're unable to determine its location without actively scanning. Again, that means decloaking."

That last point stung. It should have occurred to Semil. He wasn't thinking clearly. It would take him weeks more to parse out the feeling, but the vague din of a bloodlust was just starting to cloud his judgment. There was no real precedent for such experiences in his downloaded Vorta memories - only the foggy haze of his previous escape...

"Very well then, we let them arrive at their destination. I have an idea."



The Marauder entered the Verex system, dropping out of warp beyond the gas giant fourth planet.

It had started an impulse turn for Verex III, when the Vaq'ghol dropped her cloak and opened fire on the aft quarter of the bulbous, more sizeable Orion ship. Being smaller and more maneuverable, the Bird of Prey brought her wing disruptor cannons to bear with a gracile swiftness the lumbering Marauder would never have been capable of.

The Vaq'ghol held her spray of cannon fire briefly, then unleashed a blinding fury of disruptor bolts, trained on a particular point on the Marauder's bulbous rear.



From his seat on the Bridge, K'vot swiveled to face his Tactical Officer. "Report."

"Direct hit to their portside aft power coupling. Their aft shields are down to forty percent; fluctuating..." The Tactical Officer paused, watching her status displays intently. "Their aft shields are intermittently cutting out."

K'vot tapped the comm system. "Transporter Room. Team One, standby to energize."

The Colonel raised his hand to ready the signal. "Now." His hand lowered, commanding the Operations Officer to trigger the transport cycle.



Aboard the Marauder, in an otherwise non-descript stretch of corridor, the red pulse of alert klaxons partly disguised the telltale orange glow of the Klingon transporter beam. Five Bekks pulled their disruptors, and readied their holstered bat'leths as soon as the beam-in cycle completed. Nodding to each other their readiness, they started down the hallway at a brisk light jog.

They had made it several dozen meters along the corridor by the time the first Orion security response teams engaged them. Disruptor bolts volleyed in each direction of the corridor. A particularly stout Orion guard stumbled down face-first onto the deck plating from his cover position, a freshly blasted scorch mark having seared straight through his midsection.

Meanwhile, down the hall and around the corner, well out of sight of either the boarding party or the Orion security response team, a second transporter beam alit the empty corridor intersection. A lone, pale Vorta craned his neck around in all directions, verifying that he was unseen before starting up a nearby ladder.

From what I had read on the subject Geneviève Bujold was uncomfortable with the media circus surrounding the role, and disdained the interviews that would subsequently come with it, refusing to do them. There's an article about it on Memory Alpha as well, for anyone who is interested.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Genevi%C3%A8ve_Bujold

I only remembered Kate Mulgrew through guest spots on Matlock and Murder, She Wrote. I don't think I would have watched Voyager at all if they had stuck with Bujold.

And the work she is doing on Orange is the New Black only reaffirms it for me. Kate Mulgrew ROCKS!

I wish I could say I was going but actually hadn't planned on it this year. I will try for next year :)

Glad that deal didn't work out. Geneviève Bujold never could have portrayed Kathryn "Spitfire" Janeway the same way that Kate Mulgrew did. Yikes.

Any stiffer she would be a plank of wood

soooo stiff would make a wonderful Vulcan

I had no idea there was another Captain Janeway.

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