The new version is a bit less inclined to take this Klingon business so seriously. One of the things that struck me early on, when I read about the relationship between the Klingon Empire and the Gorn Hegemony in the Star Trek Online setting, was that the Gorn as presented are basically what John M. Ford called kuve in The Final Reflection - conquered subjects, but held in sufficiently high regard by the Klingons that they're allowed to do things like join the armed forces and rise to quite high rank therein.

Bob is, perhaps, not fully on board with that interpretation, nor with the common perception of his people as dull-witted and slow...

... but if anything, his science officer is even more obstreperous about that latter part.

As for his chief engineer, well, you'll have figured out by now that Bob and his gang are another of my slightly pathological exercises in bucking the stereotypes. In much the same way that "Cosmonaut" Buchanan's ex-Borg engineering officer wears a boiler suit instead of the standard "wetsuit by H.R. Giger" outfit or the optional spray-on Mylar coating usually expected of female former Borg, you're not going to find Bob's chief engineer rocking the Slave Leia getup.

You are more than welcome to attempt recalibration of the ship's plasma injectors while wearing a tin bikini and some harem sandals if you like.

Anyway, the punch line here, and the reason this post is called what it is, is because of what happened at the end of character generation. See, I had no preference as to what his starter ship would be called; the way the introductory bit of the game is set up, he wouldn't have named it himself anyway, so I just clicked the "gimme a random ship name" button, and, well, this is what came back:

If you don't understand why that rendered me nearly paralytic with giggles and why I subsequently had to keep it no matter what, well, you probably weren't on USENET in the Elder Days of GweepCo, then.

(NOTE: Link not safe for work, if your work has a thing about plain text files involving explicit references to the sexual habits of consenting adults and/or jokes about gay cowboys.)

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

Warning. Link is most definitely Not Safe For Work in most employer environments.

-- Bob
If I get fired for clicking that link, Gryph...
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My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite.