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.