As my journey on the U.S.S. Radiance is about to begin, and I find it hard to sleep at night. As I toss and turn, I lie awake wondering what lies ahead. Being a Starfleet captain in this time of war will prove to provide many challenges for my crew and me.

At the Academy, we’re taught that a captain is expected to maintain a certain distance. Until now, I have always been comfortable with that distance. With their family and friends dying around them, I have a feeling that this crew may become more of a "family" than any other I will serve with.

Maybe more than ever now, they need me to be larger than life; I only wish I felt larger than life.

"Computer, delete last sentence."

Copy and paste?

so awesome! too bad the captain's logs we write in-game couldnt just post here

lol! Well, I was the one who requested the admins to make this section! I think I may start writing Captain's Logs or something to that effect once the game gets going.

of course I knew you were interested and would be the first to reply :P

Of course you know I'm interested, Brandon! I'd be all for this. And if anyone ever feels like doing something like this in-game and I'm online, just let me know. I'm always up for a good RP session.

I do not have much experience, other than my CO guild. I think that ST has more role-play potential and I would like to find out who else might be interested. If the leaders agreed, maybe we could create an in-game, chat channel to be used for "in character" RPing only. Those interested could join a channel called "RPStonewall". What do you think? :)

Yes there was pictionary and then they went to play poker after but I had to goto work.

STXBernprint wrote:

Thank you again for the fun time last time with pictionary on yahoo games. I hope to play this within our clan sometime.

What the WHAT? When was there Pictionary??? Hope all is well in your fleet and that you all are pumped for Open Beta!

Hello again I just saw that Terrapax was promoted to ambassador to your fleet. I want to send our a congratulations to the promotion and ask if he can please get in contact with me so we can set up some formal relations between our two fleets.

Msn: bernprint@hotmail.com
Email STX: diplomacy@startrekxtreme.com
Website: www.startrekxtreme.com

Thank you again for the fun time last time with pictionary on yahoo games. I hope to play this within our clan sometime.

Peace OUT!
STX Commander Bernprint
Chief Diplomat

Science Specific Skills


Tactical Specific Skills

Advanced Warfare
This skill improves ground advanced warfare abilities.
Includes:
Target Optics
Motion Accelerator

Close Combat
This skill improves ground close combat abilities.
Includes:
Security Escort
Overwatch

Squad Command
This skill improves ground squad command abilities.
Includes:
Rally Cry
Tactical Initiative


Engineering Specific Skills


Shared Skills

Advanced Escort Captain
This skill provides a slight improvement to accuracy, damage, speed, and maneuverability when captaining an advanced Escort Starship.

Assault Cruiser Captain
This skill provides a slight improvement to accuracy, damage, speed, and maneuverability when captaining an assault cruiser captain.

Astrometrics
This skill improves starship astrometrics abilities.
Includes:
Charged Particle Burst

Deep Space Science Vessel Captain
This skill provides a slight improvement to accuracy, damage, speed, and maneuverability when captaining a deep space science vessel.

Fleet Escort Captain
This skill provides a slight improvement to accuracy, damage, speed, and maneuverability when captaining a fleet escort starship.

Photonic Theory
This skill improves starship photonic abilities.
Includes:
Photonic Shock Wave
Photonic Fleet

Reconnaissance Science Vessel Captain
This skill provides a slight improvement to accuracy, damage, speed, and maneuverability when captaining a reconnaissance science vessel captain.

Spatial Anomaly
This skill improves starship abilities that create or resist spatial anomalies.
Includes:
Tyken's Rift
Gravity Well

Star Cruiser Captain
This skill provides a slight improvement to accuracy, damage, speed, and maneuverability when captaining a star cruiser captain.

Starship Antiproton Weapons
This skill improves starship antiproton weapons damage.

Starship Auxiliary Systems Performance
This skill improves starship auxiliary system abilities.
Includes:
Auxiliary Power to the Structural Integrity Field

Starship Chroniton Projectiles
This skill improves starship chroniton projectile weapons damage.

Starship Hull Repair
This skill improves starship hull repair and related abilities.

Starship Polaron Weapons
This skill improves starship polaron weapons damage

Starship Tricobalt Projectiles
This skill improves starship tricobalt projectile weapons damage.

Starship Weapon System Performance
This skill improves starship weapon functionality abilities.
Includes:
Nadion Inversion
Directed Energy Modulation

Science Specific Skills


Tactical Specific Skills

Stealth
This skill improves ground stealth abilities.
Includes:
Stealth Module
Ambush

Tactics
This skill improves ground tactics abilities.
Includes:
Fire on my Mark
Smoke Grenade

Threat Control
This Skill Improves ground tactics abilities.
Includes:
Stun Grenade
Draw Fire


Engineering Specific Skills


Shared Skills

Exploration Cruiser Captain
This skill provides a slight improvement to accuracy, damage, speed, and maneuverability when captaining an exploration cruiser starship.

Long Range Science Vessel Captain
This skill provides a slight improvement to accuracy, damage, speed, and maneuverability when captaining long range science vessel.

Starship Deflector Field
This skill improves starship deflector field abilities.
Includes:
Dampening Field
Transfer Shield Strength

Starship Engine Performance
This skill improves starship engine functionality abilities.
Includes:
Eject Warp Plasma

Starship Hazard System
This skill improves starship hazard system abilities.
Includes:
Polarize Hull
Hazard Emitters

Starship Plasma Energy Weapons
This skill improves starship plasma energy weapons damage.

Starship Plasma Projectiles
This skill improves starship plasma projectile weapons damage.

Starship Sensor Probes
This skill improves starship sensor probe abilities.
Includes:
Viral Matrix
Scramble Sensors

Starship Shield Performance


Starship Subsystem Repair
This skill improves starship subsystem repair speed and related abilities.
Includes:
Engineering Team
Miracle Worker

Starship Tetryon Weapons
This skill improves starship tetryon weapons damage.

Starship Transphasic Projectiles
This skill improves starship transphasic projectile weapons damage.

Tactical Escort Captain
This skill provides a slight improvement to accuracy, damage, speed, and maneuverability when captaining a tactical escort ship.

Tpox... thank you so much for your post! I too can't wait to get into the STO universe, and I'm thrilled to know we other allies out there.

I'm looking forward to joining you in one big, happy Star Fleet. :cheer:

Such wonderful stories! It brings such joy to my heart knowing there is such a open, honest and worldwide community of LGBTQ folks who are passionate about Star Trek and MMOs.

I'm James. 26 going on 40. I say that because most peoples' first impressions are I'm older than I am. My behavior is generally professional and mature for my age, and thanks to my father's/grandfather's German genes, I'm working on the full Picard hairdo at 26. My mother is Native American and still lives back in Montana, both on and off the reservations depending on how the winds blow. I had a very deep, connected relationship with my father, and one of our favorite past times was watching Star Trek: The Next Generation together. Between the age of 7 and 10, I soaked up every possible Star Trek episode made. It was sadly at this time my father was diagnosed, fought, and ultimately lost his fight to colon cancer. Even though its 16 years later, my love for him and Star Trek are one and the same and both will live on in my heart and memory forever.

My love of MMOs grew from playing with my friends in World of Warcraft. I'm working on my MD/PhD which is the combined medical and graduate school education. Its a very long, difficult but fun career path. Nevertheless, it has taken me from university to university, far from my friends in both Montana and Washington. It was through WoW we kept in touch and enjoyed the online world together. I'm a pretty competitive and comprehensive person when it comes to computer games in general, so it should be no surprise I had a level 80 (max level) of every class (10 classes) in Wow. This dedication took a lot of time and ultimately hurt my relationship with my partner Kyle. I'm taking a break from WoW at the moment and focusing on working though our relationship bumps.

As to my sexuality, I was deep in the closet for most of my life. I consider myself a pretty keen observer of behavior, but as so many in the closet, I was blind to my own needs and identity. Much of this I'm sure was growing up in a pretty conservative home where the script to life was girlfriend then marriage then sex then kids in that order. Oh Christian conservatism, how blind we are to our own failings as a doctrine. Nevertheless, I decided when I went away from home to college at Washington State University that I knew I wasn't straight and should explore my options. As things go, I had one of those tragic glitz-crag coming out stories where I felt I needed to tell my family before I was emotionally ready. I have no doubt in my heart my family loves me, but our relationship has obviously changed. Even after seven years, I watch them struggle with who I am and how that affects them, just as I struggled seven years ago. I found my current partner Kyle when I was a junior in college (2003) and we've been together ever since. We have a dog (Daisy) and cat (Neela) whom we both love. We currently live near Chapel Hill, North Carolina where I attend school for the MD/PhD.

Thank you to each of you for sharing your stories. I look forward to meeting so many of you in Star Trek Online at Tpox, Vulcan medical captain of the science ship USS Caduceus.

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.