User:KevinSchram

Player Infoboxes

This player has a character instructing at the Starfleet Academy!

This player has a character stationed aboard USS Boudicca!

This player has a character stationed aboard USS Dennison!

This player has a character stationed aboard USS Nimitz!

This player has a character stationed aboard USS Spectre!

This player has a character serving as a Commanding Officer!

"It's been a long way, but we're here."

— Alan Shepard's first words on the surface of the Moon

Star Trek: Freedom Player.

Brief Overview

I'm only 16 years old, which explains my immaturatity (see quotes below). It seems at my birthday they raise the minium age for the game. Hopefully I won't get kicked out. ;) And, with all the controversy that 16 year olds have been causing in the game has of late, who knows how long my kind will last?

So, enough about me and more about... uh, me.

My Characters

• Lieutenant Brian Rogers - First Officer - USS Spectre - PC

• Lieutenant Khran - Chief Tactical/Security Chief - USS Dennison - SPC

• Lieutenant {JG} Francisco Mendez - Assistant Chief Engineering Officer - USS Nimitz - SPC

• Lieutenant {JG} Burt Stover - Instructor - Starfleet Academy - SPC

• Lieutenant {JG} David Taxia - Counselor - USS Spectre - SPC

• Lieutenant (JG) Chenoll - Assistant Chief Engineering Officer - USS Spectre - SPC

• Petty Officer {2nd} Jason Miller - Engineer - USS Boudicca - SPC

Goals

My goal is to have at least one SPC on every ship, but not for the sake of having an SPC, because I really like posting. I go through high-low phases in posting. High is where I post a lot and go crazy and get like 10 posts in one night. Low is where it could be a week when I only post once, and even then it is a sad, tiny little cut-and-paste post.

My other goal is to one day join the ranks of a command staff some where. I was Acting Third Officer for a while on Geneva, and I got to command Geneva for a while our fearless acting CO was away. I really liked it. Also, when I was playing a First Officer on the USS Raven submission, I really enjoyed that too. I'm also a trained compile artist, The Compile Centicore.

See my To Do List for other goals.

Sandbox

See my Sandbox to see what I am tinkering with for the STF Wiki.

Epigraphs

I'm also a big fan of Epigraphs. A Epigraph is a quotation that is placed at the start of a work or section that expresses in some succinct way an aspect or theme of what is to follow. (see above) I really like them for some reason, who knows why. I think its a classy touch.

How to Reach Me

E-mail: [1]

AIM: CaptainKenobi15

MSN: xboxguy15@sbcglobal.net

YIM: xboxguy15@sbcglobal.net

STF Message Board: brian_rogers

I'm also seen lurking around the STF Chatroom as Schrammie.

My STF Career

2005

My e-mails are a bit werid in the early days, not all dates exact.

• March 1st - Sent application to join.
• March 4th - Reported in to Academy
• March 11th - Graduated from Academy, reported to Starbase Geneva has Ensign Brian Rogers.
• March 15th - Started love plot with Kaitlyn Mackenzie. I have never lived it down since.
• April 5th - Jeff told me my romance plot was freaking people out. Thank god he did.
• April 6th (roughly) - My first CO, and instructor, Katherine Mazurok, goes on extended LOA because of RL problems (from what I was told) this kind of leaves Geneva in limbo regarding command. She came back a few times for like two days, but never really got back in command.)
• June - Geneva hits her stride, and we explode with posts. (I'm not taking credit for this, its just pretty cool).
• July - Another blockbuster month for the big ole' Starbase.
• July 14th - USS Raven submission starts. The single best mission I've ever played in, to date. I played a first officer. A bit of foreshadowing? ;-)
• July 28 - In the biggest plot twist ever, Paul Casely (Geneva's 2O, played by Jeff) makes Rogers Acting Third Officer to help him deal with his drug issues. After only four months, I'm put in the saddle.
• August 3rd - Jeff leaves for a very long (European-style) vacation, for practically the whole month, leaving me in command of Geneva. Talk about throwing me into the deep end. It wasn't that bad, has he set me up with my own little plot to command while he was gone. However, during this time, I almost had a neverous breakdown, since I felt I was doing horribly and my compiles were late.
• August 28th - Jeff returns, and I almost quit the game because I think I did such a horrible job, despite being told otherwise. Then, a few words from Alan Reading helped me decide to stay in the game. ("A pint cannot hold a quart, if it's holding a pint it's doing the best it can.")

(to be finished)

Quotes

Schramikins Note: just a bunch of quotes I like.

"Don't they teach you kids to swear in basic trainin' any more?"

— Sgt. Johnson, Halo 2

"A pint cannot hold a quart, if it's holding a pint it's doing the best it can."

— Alan Reading

"Damn fingers, they never coordinate when you`ve had a few to drink."

— Alan Reading

"Lake Superior, they said, never gives up her dead, when the gales of November come early."

— Gordon Lightfoot, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

"Soon there will be order again. A new age. Aquinas spoke of the mythical city on the hill, soon that city will be a reality and we will be crowned its kings. Or, better than kings... gods!"

— Bob Page, Deus Ex

"Again they ignore me. Again they think they have a better punishment for a traitor than a shotgun to the head."

— Gunther Hermann, Deus Ex

"Being a soldier isn't just following orders, it's following those orders in the service of a higher cause. When that cause is betrayed, we're not soldiers anymore - just pieces on a chess board dying for the wrong reason."

— General Sam Carter, Deus Ex

"It Is Better To Reign In Hell Than To Serve In Heaven"

— John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Yesterday We Obeyed Kings And Bent Our Necks To Emperors. Today We Kneel Only To Truth."

— Kahlil Gibran

"If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us we'd be millionaires."

— Abigail Van Baren, Stole this one from Jeremy's site. I'll probably jack more from his site soon.

"This is America...where you can do unmentionable things with an intern and cigar and still rule the free world."

— Kurt Angle

"To be the man, you've got to beat the man!"

— Ric Flair

"There's not a man in America who at one time or another hasn't had a secret desire to boot a child in the ass."

— W. C. Fields

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."

— Winston Churchill

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

— Winston Churchill

"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't."

— General George S. Patton

"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning."

— Erwin Rommel

"There's no such thing as miracles or the super-natural, only cutting-edge technology."

— Revolver Ocelot, Metal Gear Solid 2

"And like a thousand commanders on a thousand battlefields, I wait for the dawn."

— Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: Nemesis

"When I was young I knew everything"

— The Verne Pipe, "The Freshman"

"If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war."

— Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury

"The only difference between martyrdom and suicide is press coverage"

— Chuck Palahniuk

The rest

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