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Cadets, please take your seats.  Does everyone have enough refreshments?  Good, because our honoree is here... please welcome

ADMIRAL CHRISTOPHER PIKE


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All right, Cadets, hurry on up to class, it's time for your first lecture!

ENGINEERING 101: Introductory Starship Engineering Operations and Essential Physics
Professor: Lt. Cmdr. winged_mammal
Class Location:: Cochrane Hall, room 342

Course Description: Engineering 101 is broken into two separate units: Unit One, Introductory Starship ( Read more... )

Cadets, please welcome reknowned science fiction author Frederick Pohl as our guest lecturer for this session.  He is here to talk about a figure from Earth's history: Gene Roddenberry.

(This is from Mr. Pohl's blog, which is immensely entertaining/enlightening if you're interested in the history of science fiction, stories about science fiction ( Read more... )

BBs, welcome to Fix Club. If this is your first night, you HAVE to show your appreciation for the finest engineers in Starfleet.


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A few items of note:

1) Life has conspired to throw shit at no fewer than three members of your friendly neighborhood mod team this week, so please bear with us if posts take a little longer than usual to get approved.  Everything should be back to normal next week (or as normal as this place ever is :)).  In the meantime, we'd all appreciate ( Read more... )

Starfleet Academy week at ontd_startrek seeks guest lecturers to develop and post materials for discussion.  Topics include, but are not limited to:

• anthropology
• xenolinguistics - ditdatdo  and europa_kore (perhaps with assistance from heey_ohhh ?)
• astronomy/stellar cartography - lymanalpha 
• medicine
• tactical analysis