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Yeah, Spectrum Holobyte was the name of company. Basically now they've been eaten up and spun off several times. They were acquired by MicroProse (who did Civ 1 if I recall correctly). Then MicroProse was acquired and spun off several times into what is now Atari.

I honestly think STO could learn a lot from this 1995 game. There were more puzzles and things to figure out. It wasn't quite Myst-like in its level of figuring out things from scratch, but it required a lot of thought.

Oh I loved the musical one! I thought the Gregorian pods had a gorgeous sound. Sometimes I'd just play those as I was roaming throughout the world if they were still in my inventory.

That reminds me of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Harbinger

Yeah, Spectrum Holobyte was the name of company. Basically now they've been eaten up and spun off several times. They were acquired by MicroProse (who did Civ 1 if I recall correctly). Then MicroProse was acquired and spun off several times into what is now Atari.

I honestly think STO could learn a lot from this 1995 game. There were more puzzles and things to figure out. It wasn't quite Myst-like in its level of figuring out things from scratch, but it required a lot of thought.

Oh I loved the musical one! I thought the Gregorian pods had a gorgeous sound. Sometimes I'd just play those as I was roaming throughout the world if they were still in my inventory.

I want to upgrade, and soon, but right now the only thing that keeps me from it is the BSOD issue that I thought I fixed has started popping up again.

I had thought it was a memory issue, but then googled the error codes from the BSOD screen and it seemed to be a network driver issue, so I reinstalled the drivers from EVGA. I thought I had it licked, but then I tried logging into tribble and it started BSODing over and over again. It used to be mostly when I had a browser open and I was in a game, but then when it started again I had the browser closed (But I had recently installed rainmeter). So I am back to thinking it's a memory issue without any way of knowing if that's actually what it is. : /

So now I don't want to upgrade, because I feel like I might not be able to even play games because of this BSOD thing.

Really interesting to read everyone's answers here! Thanks for sharing everyone.

My toon settled on USS Blind Io for his second command, and has stuck with it ever since through every ship tier.

Blind Io is the chief of the gods of the Discworld, according to the great Terry Pratchett. Blind Io is not entirely accurately named; amongst many influences, he is primarily inspired by the Nordic legend of the god Odin, who gave up an eye in exchange for wisdom. Blind Io though seems to have given up both eyes, but like the Greek god Argus he sees through the many eyeballs that orbit in the air around his head.

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I'm curious: of those who responded here (or want to), who have obviously put a lot of thought into their ship names, how many have also entered a bio in-game for their captain(s)?

I do have a bio, though it was only a first-draft that I never got around to returning to. I posted it on our forums and then discovered how short the bios had to be to fit on the game's character bio sheet, got annoyed, and stopped. But he is gay. ;)

Aye, my overclocked 460 is more than enough for my needs at the moment; the only games on the horizon I'm particularly looking forward to are Portal 2 and Dragon Age 2.

I've got an eye on Crysis 2, but last time around they took a brilliant and simple concept for a game then made a pigs-ear of it with shoddy extra-terrestrial nonsense. If C2 is more like the first half of Crysis, than maybe I'll give it a go.

We've had EVGA before here and liked them. The Zotac I'm running on atm I bought mostly because of price to be honest, but it's actually more than powerful enough, has a great cooler and huge heatsink on it, runs much quieter than my old HD 5770.

IMO GFX card tech is the hardest thing to keep up with, since not only is it not possible to directly compare the two major manufacturers' architecture, it's equally impossible to compare successive generations of cards. And then there are all the factory-overclockers... I tend to find catching up when I need to every couple of years a tonne easier than trying to keep up to date all the time!

February's Roleplay event has also been added.

I'm a big fan of EVGA, meself, but it's more because I liked how they jumped up and acted when I felt that nvidia wasn't doing anything about the SLI crashes with Windows 7 x64.

So I was trying to decide between the 570 and 580 then I hear (from here and then shortly after from EVGA) that a 560 Ti came out. I thought that was odd for them to come out with a brand new card that's not quite as good as their other new cards. But then I considered that maybe they just wanted to make a new mid-grade card that gamers who didn't want to pay for a 570 or higher could have. :p

I need to keep up more. >.

After playing with the platoon thing, I was a bit disappointed that it wasn't permanent. If you have premium, you can create a platoon, invite others into it and then battle with them all on the same team. The platoon will stay active until you dismiss it or until you log out. After that, it appears to dissolve.

So no Stonewall Platoon. >.

The U.S.S. Star Hammer is my main toon's ship. Not a really interesting story about that; I used to play a game called Spore and I created a really nifty ship called the Star Hammer (and it's little brother called the Dwarf-Star Hammer. Both ships with a huge spinal mounted cannon) and when I started playing STO I wanted a spiffy sounding ship name so I grabbed that one. :3

My toon Angel Silhouette is a science officer (Unfortunately. I can't stand playing Sci.) and has a few ships with which I alternate:

U.S.S. Omega Point (DSSV: An omega point is the culmination of all knowledge in the universe.)
U.S.S Omniscience (RSSV: A bit like an omega point, really. :p I also like how it can look like omni-science to me sometimes :3)
U.S.S. Star Lion (My Star Cruiser. It looks a bit like a diving frigate bird, to me, but calling it the U.S.S. Frigate would have been silly. So I went from Frigate to Sea Lion, then from Sea Lion to Star Lion. :3 )
U.S.S. Entropy (Nebula Class Starship. I decided to go with the opposite of the culmination of knowledge, one of the generally accepted words for the eventual heat death of the universe.)

My Ferengi has had the U.S.S. Tsar Bomba (The largest nuclear bomb ever detonated on earth) the U.S.S War Machine and now the U.S.S. Tannhauser Gate (Named after a battle in which Roy Batty fought before the events of Blade Runner.)

My borg had:

U.S.S. Bonny Anne (Saber Class Escort Named after one of the most famous woman pirates, Anne Bonny.)
U.S.S. Queen Emeraldas (Akira Class named for the... Queen Emeraldas pirate ship from the anime of the same name. xD)
U.S.S. Scarab (Gallant mish-mash named because it looks like a Scarab Beetle)
I kind of pretend she's a mirror universe Terran Empire captain who practices piracy to both hurt Starfleet and to fund the maintenance on her ships.

Those are the only ones worth mentioning Starfleet side.
My KDF officer had:

The I.K.S. K'argentivas (named after a large, the largest flying bird ever discovered, the argentivas magnificens)
The I.K.S. Blood Bath
The I.K.S. Beast
The appropriately named I.K.S. Can't remember the name just now. Either Behemoth, Juggernaut or Goliath.
and the I.K.S. Warbird (Because it looks very Romulan-esque ^.^ )
Most of the names are just.. sort of klingony sounding except they're in English. :3

My ship's the USS Stonewall. :D

I named it after my favorite historical event which you can read about here: http://www.stonewallfleet.com/stonewall-riots

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Great answers, all!

I'm curious: of those who responded here (or want to), who have obviously put a lot of thought into their ship names, how many have also entered a bio in-game for their captain(s)?

Sometimes I'll see an interesting looking toon and right click on him (or her, but usually him, cuz I'm gay, duh) only to find nothing in the way of back story. But my captains (and some of my BOs) have their own stories.

What about you? And are your captains usually glbtq?

I do have one, I just need to post it. I also set one up for one of my BOs. Yes, because my toon is an extension of me I did make him gay, I'm not sure about my alt yet hes a Betazoid(a race that always hit me as gay or bi, the males at least)

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Great answers, all!

I'm curious: of those who responded here (or want to), who have obviously put a lot of thought into their ship names, how many have also entered a bio in-game for their captain(s)?

Sometimes I'll see an interesting looking toon and right click on him (or her, but usually him, cuz I'm gay, duh) only to find nothing in the way of back story. But my captains (and some of my BOs) have their own stories.

What about you? And are your captains usually glbtq?

U.S.S. Navajo was the name of the very first and only RPG I played for many years. I used it for my ship in hopes that an old friend from the RPG would recognise the toon/ship name and say hi. Guess he's not playing STO (knobhead).
Also I never did make it to captain in the game, only chief science officer/second officer. So I thought it was time I had my turn. lol

U.S.S. Samhain. Samhain is the best (IMO) Sabbat.

Segedunum is the Roman name for a part of North Tyneside.

U.S.S. Warlock. My Class in WoW. I was going to name it the U.S.S. Bludrot but...

I'm going to have to refresh my memory on Klingon to go into my Klink ship name, but I can't be arsed hehe.

I love this topic!! And reading how people have come to make the names of there Vessels..

For me Iroesay, my main, Captains the USS Dreamweaver. This is actually a homage to one of my favorite bands Styx.

My Alt Nrreow Captains the USS Pendulum. This is a play on the fact that a Science Captain can make the difference between a successful mission and complete death of all. The Pendulum can swing both ways after all :)

And as for Vira my newest, and only female toon, Captains the USS Geisha which is named after one of my favorite book/movie Memories of a Geisha.

Philip

Denil's Ships (Cruisers) are all named after places that mean something to me. U.S.S. Northumberland (NX-91412) was his Light Cruiser, and his Cruiser was the U.S.S. Northumberland (NCC-93610) as Northumberland is a place I spent a lot of time as a child and where my boyfriend (alimac) comes from too. His Excelsior is the U.S.S. Cambridge after my hometown, and his Stargazer is the U.S.S. Oxford after where I went to Uni. My Exploration Cruiser will likely be the U.S.S. Elgin after the street my Grandparents live on. The Assault Cruiser and Star Cruiser will differ from this pattern though. The Assault Cruiser will be the U.S.S. Alistair and the Star Cruiser will be the U.S.S. Benjamin, after my bf and myself (and Sisko) respectively.

Bast (my tac officer) is going to have all his ships named after Egyptian Cat Deities, He is a Caitian after all. It's also fitting as most Egyptian god deities have a war-god aspect to them.

His current ship (an NX) is the Sekhmet, and his Escort will be Pasht (a different translation of the goddess Bastet he was named after).

Episode 171 - The Next Generation - "Sins of the Father" - 03/19/1990



Parts 2-5:

Found from the above link in the related videos section

Worf goes on trial to prove his father's innocence after the Klingon High Council declares that Worf's father is a traitor, and worked with the Romulans all along.

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I don't know,part of me wants to trust this guy the other part is saying he's playing us. Trek has always been cuting edge. If the cast and crew wanted it done if they forced the issue it would have been

When the game comes out im going to want to join Knights of Stonewall

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