Hi everyone,

Well, my name is Tim and i live in St Ives, Cambridgeshire in the UK. I'm a 43 year old gay man who has fostered two teenage boys. (They were my friends kids, parents got divorced, kids were going into care. So i stepped in).

Have just come to the end of a major battle in my life. I was diagnosed with cancer and have spent a year battling with it. Have just been given the all clear so as you can imagine, myself and my son's are over the moon. :)

Have been an avid star trek fan for as long as i can remember. Have played virtually all MMO's out there and worked for Sony Online Entertainment as a Server GM for Everquest until they relocated the UK office to India.

I'm single.....just not had time to find a partner, also makes it difficult as my son's take up a bit of my time and gaming takes up the other part....lol

Really looking forward to getting to meet some friends in STO. It's going to be a blast and I'm sure a hell of a lot of fun. I've already pre-ordered and am just awaiting for the 12th Jan and then its Open Beta and all systems go. :)

Hope to see you all in game and also on the forums and chat room more now that i have my life settled down.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hail Stonewall Fleet!

I just wanted to let your fleet know you have an ally over in Omega Fleet. I'm excited to get to playing Star Trek online, but equally as excited to know there is a fleet out there for LGBTQ community.

If you ever need a wingman, look up Tpox!

Aw sweetie... I had social anxiety for a long time too, and I still have mild general anxiety. I'm not a very outgoing person in public/social settings either. That has gotten much better though, and I think online communities help that to a degree. I had to be careful to not let them become a crutch for reality. Oddly enough I am a loner on MMOS, but IO think STO will be different :) Again, welcome.

I knew this was going to be a great place, but to come in and see the very first Getting to Know You post talking about panic issues just made my heart grow a billion sizes. I have spent most of my life dealing with depression and general/social anxiety, and only in the past three years or so has that dealing been anywhere near effective. Due to this, I've always struggled with the social aspect of online gaming, but I'm hoping that with STO I can turn over a new leaf.

I'm Chrissy, I'm 26, and I live in Michigan. I have a BA in English and Psychology and an MA in Education and with all that combined I am working as a substitute teacher because there are no jobs here in Michigan. When I was 11 and saw TNG for the first time, I decided that I wanted to be Beverly Crusher but alas, in high school I realized that while I may love reading about medicine, and while I may dye my hair various shades of red (what- if your childhood heroes were Crusher, Anne of Green Gables, and Alanna from Tamora Pierce's novels, you'd dye too!) it was never, ever going to give me the emotional capacity or the hand-eye coordination to be a doctor. Turns out that the only other thing I loved was teaching English.

I realized I was bi at age 17 and came out to my immediate family a year later. My parents and brother have always been very supportive of me. My social anxiety kept me from dating very often, but I had a girlfriend in college, and now I am that demon of the community that is a bisexual woman dating a man. I didn't intend it, it just sorta happened. He knows and accepts that I'm bi, and I adore him, and so I don't much agonize over it.

My primary hobby is reading. I read obsessively. It is my favorite thing in the world. I'm not a great video game player, but I do try very hard. I mostly play adventure games (Zelda, Okami, Point-and-Click PC games) and I played WOW for awhile but got stuck at level 15 because I was too shy to find people to quest with. As for Trek, I've been a fan (of various levels of obsession) since I was 11. I enjoy DS9 the most, but have the greatest amount of love for TNG.

I look forward to meeting everyone!

I'll throw mine out there too since we're all sharing =)

My name is Amanda, I'm 23, and I was born in, and currently still live in, Nebraska. Currently I have 2 semesters left before I get my bachelors in history/English with a minor in classics, and will go on for my masters in English after that. I also work full time in retail on the side. My life is rather uneventful and boring aside from that, single currently, but that leaves more time for STO right? :P

I wasn't a Star Trek fan until the age of around 13 or 14. I had seen Star Trek many times before then, my parents love both TOS and TNG so I saw quite a bit of it growing up but it wasn't until I was turned on the television a bit early for...I think it was Xena at the time and I caught the tail end of Dark Frontier part 2, right when Janeway busts into the Queen's chamber, I was hooked from then on.

MMOwise I've played most all of them. I started with Star Wars Galaxies, but left shortly after the NGE like a lot of people did lol. I dabble in WoW from time to time but have never gotten a character to endgame there. I spent the better part of 2 years playing LOTRO and have only recently let that game slide a little in favor of DDO, which aside from a lack of a lot of mmo features, is really fun mechanic wise in my opinion. I love the combat system there. In all my mmo games however I usually lean towards healer/medic roles. I just love em.

Probably still too much running around in FFXI lol didnt the choco breeding last like a month and you only got 30 charges of a chocobo? lol not sure i stopped playing after sea

yeah i agree with you. not sure about chrono break though. i think a remake of chrono trigger would be better

As a huge fan of Chrono Trigger (I also think its one of the best RPGs in history), I have a very complicated view of Chrono Cross While the battle system and music were fantastic, the characters were deplorably one-dimensional (probably because they had a billion of them) and they proceeded to destroy the story that started in Chrono Trigger. On top of that, they pretty much took nearly all of the original characters from Chrono Trigger and just beat them in front of you like an abusive father.

My fondest wish is that Square-Enix makes Chrono Break and they just retcon the ever-loving hell out of Chrono Cross.

lol i know what you meant by it.. and i agree they dont know when to stop. When they play a game they make it last, there are sociological reasons why I think but I wont get into that. I loved tactics. Crono cross was meh. Crono Trigger is one of the best RPGs in history. Ever. lol

"Japping it out"

Definition:

Crono Cross: you like lots of characters? We will give you 998739293793273 characters that can join your team and you will have to play our game 10 times just to get them all!!!!

Zone of Enders: you like explosions and robots? We will give you robots moving so fast you really dont see what you are doing and there will be so many flashing lights on the screen that you will probably get a seizure!!!!!

Final Fantasy Tactics: You like building diffrent jobs? We will give you 40 jobs and 10,000 skills and endless characters to build up that you can literally spend years on jobs alone!!!

All games i love i just don't think the japanese know the meaning of the word moderation, I guess it comes with being superior in creativity than other places in the world

lol Garbage Shitadel.. I never heard that one before. Jap it out?! lol What a terrible thing to say.. though I totally understand what you mean. Lets hope its good.

http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/090605.html ...lol hilarious

I agree im curious about FFXIV, the story for XI was just amazing and endgame sky and sea were just epic, only drwback and what eventually made me quit was that everything took forever, a hour to get to where you wanna go, a hour to set up, then 2 hours fighiting one boss, everything in FFXi that you did , well you were in for the night lol. If they can fix that and make the game more soloable it could top wow, but alas the japanese just dont know when to stop, if they dont jap it out the game has potential :cheer:

I played 11 for a few years and sadly.....will never get those years back. But I did sign up for the XIV beta just out of pure curiosity. I have a feeling I'll be playing STO endlessly at launch. :P

When trying to unsubscribe to a thread from the "forum" section of "My Profile," I get the following message:

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-Tim

Well, i guess its my turn. Live in tampa, fl. I go to the univ of south florida studying biochemistry. i want to work in pharmacuetical labs making new drugs. I live with a roomate, my friend Tim (TampaFl here in the fleet). Been a sci fi and science geek for as long as i can remember, and I knew i was gay when i was 7. Been a gamer since I was 5 lol my father got me an atari. Painfully single lol Hm.. what else. I am a very open book and brutally honest so feel free to ask me anything here or in chat. Not really sure what else to say in here right now.. oh and yeah I had a crapy family too lol I think we all have that in common as well.

I actually bought a new 360 so that I could play XIII when it drops

HaHa,
Going through some of the previous posts I realize that the late 70s early 80s was a very popular time for Josh's to be born. So I will start using a nickname that I have had since college and go by Jae. I was raised for the most part in California, but at the age of 12 my parents decided to move to Oklahoma so that my brother and I could know my mom's side of the family. I have been fortunate to have known and loved 6 sets of grandparents and great grandparents. Family is one of the most important things in my life and mine is incredible. I have friends who when they came out to their family they were either disowned or taken to counseling to be "fixed". My family welcomed me with open arms and most of them stated that they had known since I was 7. I once asked my ex what exactly it was that caused him to break up with me, and he stated that it was my family. The one thing he wanted more then anything else in life was a family such as mine, but when it was in his grasp he didn't think he could handle it. That has stuck with me. Many people state that they want something out of life, but when the Fates hand it to them they get scared and walk away from it. I make it a point to keep an open mind about wanting something and that it is truly what I do want. I can type for hours on things I like or dislike but that will just bore you to tears. So I will keep it on the shorter side and say that I love SciFi/Fantasy and haven't been this excited about a new MMO launch...Jan 12 can't get here quick enough!!!

I am sorry to hear about that Joshua. That is so great to hear that you found your sister, and you are completely right when you say that it is your mother's family's loss in choosing to cut off contact.

My grandma has a somewhat similar story because she chose to join another religion instead of Protestantism. I think her family members were hardcore Orangemen. You cannot control whether or not other people choose to be consumed by hatred.

My Turn

Hi, I'm Joshua. I'm 30, born in Brasil but I grew up in the small tourist resort of Portrush in Northern Ireland. Went to a posh school but chose to do my senior year at a local college as I wanted to study psychology (and be Deanna Troi). Went on to study psychology at university in Edinburgh and then moved to New York for a year, before moving to England and staying there for 8 years. I recently moved back to Belfast in Northern Ireland for my job, and regretting it so far.

Loved Star Trek since about 1990 when I first saw TNG and wanted to be Miles O'Brien (before wanting to be Deanna Troi, lol). I got so into Star Trek that at one stage every present I got was Star Trek related. I was like one of those dads whose kids buy him nothing but golfing tees. I've always been into computer games and am just old enough to remember having to wait for the cassette to load before being able to play on my old ZX81. The only MMO I've really played much before was Pirate Galaxy, but loved the group dynamic and am now even more excited to find a LGBT group to play STO with.

Grew up during the troubles in Northern Ireland but I wasn't really aware of it even though my parents divorced and my Mum got remarried to a man of the opposite religion when I was 5. It wasn't until I was 10 that I got a glimpse of all that. I found out one day that my big brother wasn't my Mum's first child, and that my Stepdad and my Mum had had a baby girl in 1969. But because of how things were back then in Ireland, the baby was taken away. When I was 10 I was told about my sister and that my parents had been trying to find her for 5 years so they had contacted a national TV show as they did personal appeals for lost relatives. We went on the show hoping my sis was watching, but it turned out they had already found her and she was waiting for us. We've been very close ever since, but my Mum's family were not happy that we had exposed their dirty little secret and we never saw them again. Thats their loss though and it did teach me not to tolerate intolerant people.

Taking a break from relationships at the moment as the last one ended badly, so STO came along at the right time to keep me occupied for the forseeable future.