GFC Celebrates TNG 25th Anniversary

The weekend of September 29th and 30th GalaxyFleetCommand celebrated the 25th anniversary of the premiere of the series Star Trek: The Next Generation. Our engineers built a set version of Ten Forward and placed it inside the Roddenberry Centre. Throughout the weekend, people partied, hung out and reminisced about the series, crew and cast.

Snapper serves up drinks from the Ten Forward bar

Everyone likes a bit of a dance including the rabbit1971, Koreeah, Lillian Aries & Admiral (shake a leg) Cobramax

There was a healthy stream of people coming through the bar door over the two days it was opened and actively manned.  It wasn’t just regulars either, as many new people attended and enjoyed themselves and joined the group. There are plans to re-use the Ten Forward Set in the future, perhaps placing it in a rezzer in a holodeck.

For the more adventurous, there was a little dare involved 🙂

Kudos to those that dare wear the man dress, Langy, Kal, Dustin and Snapper, we salute you.!

Jaielan Resident created a copy of the skant outform which was a skirted outfit which could be worn by both men and women, so it was interesting to see which male avatars dared show their legs to the world. A few took the challenge!

For those who attended the bar over the festivities they were given a free Geordi La Forge style visor built by Andy Ketterley.

Kal Aie models the free Geordi La Forge style visor

The weekend General Meeting (GM) took place in a specially made set  based on Q’s Courtroom from the first TNG episode “Encounter At Farpoint”. The meeting took the format of those reading their reports standing on a circular podium where a spotlight shines on them from above and they’d have to read their report in the manner of being interrogated by the Q. Once the reports were finished, the rest of the attendees would be asked to vote if they were satisfied with the report by stating “aye” or “nay”. It was a very different and fun way of holding a GM.

Sodak reading his report in the spotlight under the watchful eye of the GM chair

The rest of the crew were made to justify humanity’s existence by being teleported to Q’s court and one by one asked to exonerate their actions in the spotlight. Wrong answers could have them and the rest of the crew removed from existence in the universe, but fortunately the Q’s took pity on them, regarding the crew of the Enterprise as a backward mishmash of races who are likely to do more damage to themselves than others. The Q’s sent both Wesley and the Captain back to the nearest earth Starbase and allowed the rest of the crew to return to their ship. Quinn Serupta game mastered a special TNG roleplay, playing the role of  Jean-Luc Picard, the story had Wesley being kidnapped and the crew of the Enterprise went on a mission to find him. It was later found that the Q’s were involved and one of the continuum came to the ship and took their captain.

So many twists and turns to puzzle together in The Next Generation RP

Overall it was a fun weekend and congratulations to Star Trek: The Next Generation for standing the test of time.

Event credits:

Organizer: DebbyDo
Ten Forward set engineers: langy moorlord, Ebitsu Cliffhanger, Richmerk Resident
Q’s Court set engineers: Richardjrn Weatherwax, Noshoes Baran, Dave Fearguis, Songlord
TNG Game Master / players: Quinn Serupta (GM), snapper Desade (GM), hawaii lyre, ai kikuchiyo, Nathen Rexen, littleastro, Debbydo, Koreeah Resident (Kendra Mollsen), Banker Ibor, Lillian Aries,Nevertheless1 Resident, Jin Aonifall
Gifts: Andy Ketterley, Jaieden Resident, Koreeah Resident (Kendra Mollsen)
Bar Entertainment: Debbydo, snapper Desade