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{{quote|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}}
Hi! I'm a player here on Star Trek: Freedom. I've played the game for four years. I've had various stints in command, and I was one of the first players here to really get into the STF wiki.


[[Star Trek: Freedom]] Player. I'm a teenager who spells horribly and can't tell the difference between ''as'' and ''has''. Thats my clam to fame in ST: Freedom, aside from being a wiki addict. Oh yeah, I'm also the king of Lieutenant (Junior Grade) characters.
=== About Me ===


=== Brief Overview ===
I'm 19 yeas old, and currently living in the suburbs outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I'm attending university at the moment. I learned to read at an early age, and haven't really stopped. I like to write, and probably have an overactive imagination. Outside of these sort of things, I enjoy watching sport (mainly baseball and auto racing, thought I love all forms), playing video games, flying light aircraft, and other lots of things. My favorite movie is Children of Men. My favorite book is Atlas Shrugged.


Hi. I play three junior lieutenants, [[Brian Rogers]], [[Francisco Mendez|Paco Mendez]] and [[Burt Stover]]. On top of that, I've got Petty Officer [[Jason Miller]]. Also, Anthony appointed me the "wiki expert", even though this isn't true. I now play 3 engineering characters (Stover has an engineering background).
=== Player History ===


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.
I joined the game in 2004 at the age of 14. About six months after I joined, they changed the minimum age to 16, hopefully, not thanks to me. I was assigned to Starbase Geneva with my slightly insane counselor, Brian Rogers. In the summer of 2005, I was given my first taste of command, as my character served as Acting Third Officer of Geneva. I thought I was talented, but it turned out that the guy in charge just wanted me to do the compiles and watch the place while he went on a month long holiday to Australia!


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 [[User:Jeff B|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'''''.
Geneva's crew was sent to the Boudicca, and I was stripped from my acting 3O position, which was barely a command position (if at all). The Boudicca and Geneva crews didn't merge well, and my old buds from Geneva were dropping from the game like flies. Going back to just writing a counselor seemed boring after being the A3O, and I fell into a slump and didn't feel like playing the game. During this time, I came across the Wiki here on STF. This was before the current Web 2.0 Wiki craze we have now, and this wiki was wildly under used. I think Tony had only added three or four articles at that point. I decided to start editing things and making all sorts of new things. I've had my hand in a lot of important projects here on the Wiki, and I'm proud of that.


Also, I'm only 16 years old, which explains my immaturatity (see funny images and quotes below). It seems at my birthday they raise the minium age for the game. Hopefully I won't get kicked out. ;)
Thankfully, a sign came from Alan Reading, who asked me to be his First Officer on the USS Spectre. This was in April of 2006, and at age 15, only 20 months of playing the game I had advanced to First Officer, a rather exciting proposition. I had a SPC on most other ships in the fleet, and I was writing like crazy. I taught in the Academy for a short while (seemingly a stop for all command staffers, or wannabe ones.)


See my [[User:KevinSchram\Sandbox|Sandbox]] to see what I am tinkering with for the STF Wiki. 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. I also like when people say "Et tu (insert name)?" I'm not a Shakespeare fan, but hey, its a nice little reference. I can't wait until my STF character is betrayed so I can use it.
However, this is where my Alex Rodriguez-like career took a sharp derailment.


Kevin Schram is my real name, by the way... a bully in school googled my name and it came to the STF site after a few other Kevins. Anyway, what a jerk. He made fun of me, but hey, being a nerd is going to be cool again in a few years. ;)
Thanks to my raging teenage hormones, my posts and interest in the Spectre started to drop. In the summer of 2007, Alan had to play 'bad cop' and told me he strongly suggested that I start posting more often. I agreed, but then, in the late fall of '07, I decided that I didn't want to drag Alan and the Spectre down with my low posting numbers, so I resigned from the game. Alan told me that I would lose all my characters, my rank, everything. I was worried, but, at the time, I had no intention to return the game. I deleted my extravagant wiki user page and replaced it with "All Good Things..."


=== How to Reach Me ===
Fast forward to March 2008. Something is digging at me, and I can't explain it. I'm sitting, watching Babylon 5 on DVD, thinking about science-fiction command, rank, orders, all sort of these issues. I started investigating the STF fleet rosters. Seeing who replaced me, who all the CO's were now, how the fleet was doing. But, just dallying around the rosters wasn't enough. I drop a line to Alan Reading. I ask a BIG favor. Even though he had told me previously I was surrendering my previous characters, rank and experience, and would have to start over at the ground level, I asked if I could come back with Rogers, at my previous rank. Alan being Alan, he agreed.


E-mail: [mailto:xboxguy15@sbcglobal.net]
That, as they say is that.


AIM: CaptainKenobi15
=== Active Characters ===


MSN: CaptainKenobi15@hotmail.com
*[[Brian Rogers]]


YIM: CaptainKenobi15@sbcglobal.net
*[[Chenoll]]


STF Message Board: brian_rogers
*[[Khran]]


I'm also seen lurking around the STF Chatroom as KevinSchram.
=== Inactive Characters ===


''If it is dire, e-mail me. If you want to chat, AIM. I almost never use MSN or YIM.''
*[[David Taxia]]


'''''Sandbox is at the top now.'''''
*[[Charles Buckland]]


=== Funny Images ===
*[[Francisco Mendez]]


[[Image:Votingbluescreen.png|200px]]
*[[Jason Miller]]


=== Quotes ===
*[[John Armstrong]]


{{quote|Don't they teach you kids to swear in basic trainin' any more?|Sgt. Johnson, from Halo 2}}
*[[Scott Bowie]]


{{quote|I'm not rude. I'm sarcastic. You just can't handle it.|RL Friend of Mine}}
*[[Rellie Dezlar]]


{{quote|You need to learn the difference between '''as''' and '''has''', Mr. Schram|My 9th Grade English Teacher}} ''She must be talking to my dad... he's the only "Mr. Schram" I know ;)''
*[[Burt Stover]]


{{quote|Just a drop of water in an endless sea|Dust in the Wind, by Kansas}}
*[[Robert Verhoven]]


{{quote|A pint cannot hold a quart, if it's holding a pint it's doing the best it can.|Alan Reading}} ''This single line stopped me from leaving STF, but thats a long story. Maybe if I'm not lazy I'll add it here sometime.''
== Infoboxes ==


{{quote|Lake Superior, they said, never gives up her dead, when the gales of November come early.|The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, by Gordon Lightfoot}}
{{Infobox USS Spectre Player}}

Latest revision as of 06:59, 23 May 2009

"When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful. A miracle, oh it was so beautiful, magical. But then, they send me away to teach me how to sensible."
— Supertramp's The Logical Song

Hi! I'm a player here on Star Trek: Freedom. I've played the game for four years. I've had various stints in command, and I was one of the first players here to really get into the STF wiki.

About Me[edit]

I'm 19 yeas old, and currently living in the suburbs outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I'm attending university at the moment. I learned to read at an early age, and haven't really stopped. I like to write, and probably have an overactive imagination. Outside of these sort of things, I enjoy watching sport (mainly baseball and auto racing, thought I love all forms), playing video games, flying light aircraft, and other lots of things. My favorite movie is Children of Men. My favorite book is Atlas Shrugged.

Player History[edit]

I joined the game in 2004 at the age of 14. About six months after I joined, they changed the minimum age to 16, hopefully, not thanks to me. I was assigned to Starbase Geneva with my slightly insane counselor, Brian Rogers. In the summer of 2005, I was given my first taste of command, as my character served as Acting Third Officer of Geneva. I thought I was talented, but it turned out that the guy in charge just wanted me to do the compiles and watch the place while he went on a month long holiday to Australia!

Geneva's crew was sent to the Boudicca, and I was stripped from my acting 3O position, which was barely a command position (if at all). The Boudicca and Geneva crews didn't merge well, and my old buds from Geneva were dropping from the game like flies. Going back to just writing a counselor seemed boring after being the A3O, and I fell into a slump and didn't feel like playing the game. During this time, I came across the Wiki here on STF. This was before the current Web 2.0 Wiki craze we have now, and this wiki was wildly under used. I think Tony had only added three or four articles at that point. I decided to start editing things and making all sorts of new things. I've had my hand in a lot of important projects here on the Wiki, and I'm proud of that.

Thankfully, a sign came from Alan Reading, who asked me to be his First Officer on the USS Spectre. This was in April of 2006, and at age 15, only 20 months of playing the game I had advanced to First Officer, a rather exciting proposition. I had a SPC on most other ships in the fleet, and I was writing like crazy. I taught in the Academy for a short while (seemingly a stop for all command staffers, or wannabe ones.)

However, this is where my Alex Rodriguez-like career took a sharp derailment.

Thanks to my raging teenage hormones, my posts and interest in the Spectre started to drop. In the summer of 2007, Alan had to play 'bad cop' and told me he strongly suggested that I start posting more often. I agreed, but then, in the late fall of '07, I decided that I didn't want to drag Alan and the Spectre down with my low posting numbers, so I resigned from the game. Alan told me that I would lose all my characters, my rank, everything. I was worried, but, at the time, I had no intention to return the game. I deleted my extravagant wiki user page and replaced it with "All Good Things..."

Fast forward to March 2008. Something is digging at me, and I can't explain it. I'm sitting, watching Babylon 5 on DVD, thinking about science-fiction command, rank, orders, all sort of these issues. I started investigating the STF fleet rosters. Seeing who replaced me, who all the CO's were now, how the fleet was doing. But, just dallying around the rosters wasn't enough. I drop a line to Alan Reading. I ask a BIG favor. Even though he had told me previously I was surrendering my previous characters, rank and experience, and would have to start over at the ground level, I asked if I could come back with Rogers, at my previous rank. Alan being Alan, he agreed.

That, as they say is that.

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