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{{quote|It's been a long way, but we're here.|Alan Shepard's first words on the surface of the Moon}}
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.
=== 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.


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?
=== Player History ===


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


* Lieutenant [[Brian Rogers]] - First Officer - [[USS Spectre]] - PC
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.)


* Lieutenant [[Khran]] - Chief Tactical/Security Chief - [[USS Dennison]] - SPC
However, this is where my Alex Rodriguez-like career took a sharp derailment.


* Lieutenant {JG} [[Francisco Mendez]] - Assistant Chief Engineering Officer - [[USS Nimitz]] - SPC
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..."


* Lieutenant {JG} [[Burt Stover]] - Instructor - [[Starfleet Academy]] - SPC
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.


* Lieutenant {JG} [[David Taxia]] - Counselor - [[USS Spectre]] - SPC
That, as they say is that.


* Lieutenant (JG) [[Chenoll]] - Assistant Chief Engineering Officer - [[USS Spectre]] - SPC
=== Active Characters ===


* Petty Officer {2nd} [[Jason Miller]] - Engineer - [[USS Boudicca]] - SPC
*[[Brian Rogers]]


=== Goals ===
*[[Chenoll]]


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.
*[[Khran]]


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'''''.
=== Inactive Characters ===


''See my [[User:KevinSchram\To Do List|To Do List]] for other goals.''
*[[David Taxia]]


=== Sandbox ===
*[[Charles Buckland]]


See my [[User:KevinSchram\Sandbox|Sandbox]] to see what I am tinkering with for the STF Wiki.
*[[Francisco Mendez]]


=== Epigraphs ===
*[[Jason Miller]]


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.
*[[John Armstrong]]


=== How to Reach Me ===
*[[Scott Bowie]]


E-mail: [mailto:xboxguy15@sbcglobal.net]
*[[Rellie Dezlar]]


AIM: CaptainKenobi15
*[[Burt Stover]]


MSN: xboxguy15@sbcglobal.net
*[[Robert Verhoven]]


YIM: xboxguy15@sbcglobal.net
== Infoboxes ==


STF Message Board: brian_rogers
{{Infobox USS Spectre Player}}
 
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.''
 
{{quote|Don't they teach you kids to swear in basic trainin' any more?|Sgt. Johnson, Halo 2}}
 
{{quote|A pint cannot hold a quart, if it's holding a pint it's doing the best it can.|Alan Reading}}
 
{{quote|Damn fingers, they never coordinate when you`ve had a few to drink.|Alan Reading}}
 
{{quote|Lake Superior, they said, never gives up her dead, when the gales of November come early.|Gordon Lightfoot, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"}}
 
{{quote|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}}
 
{{quote|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}}
 
{{quote|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}}
 
{{quote|It Is Better To Reign In Hell Than To Serve In Heaven|John Milton, Paradise Lost}}
 
{{quote|Yesterday We Obeyed Kings And Bent Our Necks To Emperors. Today We Kneel Only To Truth.|Kahlil Gibran}}
 
{{quote|If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us we'd be millionaires.|Abigail Van Baren, Stole this one from [[User:Papatrouter|Jeremy's]] site. I'll probably jack more from his site soon.}}
 
{{quote|This is America...where you can do unmentionable things with an intern and cigar and still rule the free world.|Kurt Angle}}
 
{{quote|To be the man, you've got to beat the man!|Ric Flair}}
 
{{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}}
 
{{quote|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}}
 
{{quote|You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.|Winston Churchill}}
 
{{quote|May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.|General George S. Patton}}
 
{{quote|Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.|Erwin Rommel}}
 
{{quote|There's no such thing as miracles or the super-natural, only cutting-edge technology.|Revolver Ocelot, Metal Gear Solid 2}}
 
{{quote|And like a thousand commanders on a thousand battlefields, I wait for the dawn.|Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: Nemesis}}
 
{{quote|When I was young I knew everything|The Verne Pipe, "The Freshman"}}
 
{{quote|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}}
 
{{quote|The only difference between martyrdom and suicide is press coverage|Chuck Palahniuk}}
 
=== The rest ===
 
http://www.memory-alpha.org/graphics/banner_468x60_3.gif
 
The Star Trek RPG'er bible, a wiki like ours, but contains all canon trek. [http://www.memory-alpha.org]
 
Songs I'm listing to.
http://imagegen.last.fm/asimpleblue5/recenttracks/XboxGuy14.gif
 
''The name Agent 47 is just a whisper on the lips of the dead...
<br>
Because if he comes calling for yoy...
<br>
You'll never even know, until its too late...
<br>
Then like a ghost he'll disappear, a phantom, a legend...
<br>
But what would happen if the legend was exposed has fact...
<br>
And the cold sights of death were finally aimed at him?'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DednCq2d-bA]

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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USSSpectreSmall50px.jpg This player has a character stationed aboard USS Spectre!