USS Daystrom Stats

[Mikey]

I was going to have her comm traffic tapped, but very obviously so she would know I was doing it. Now that it's in Rochey's and Monroe's hands, I'll have to use a more direct method. I'm going to try to get it up tomorrow a.m. US EST.

[Monroe]

It also means I can report her for screwing with the comms, without stopping you from confronting her, too.
Wow, one day on the ship, and already she's in trouble.

Boush will want to turn off all comm systems except those that happen to the bridge and away from the bridge. That'll make the need for an operator to connect calls but it'd fix that security problem. He's going to recommend that to Rochey on my post. What's Rochey's response going to be so I can post accordingly.

Well, I don't know about Rochey, but both M'Real and the captain would have objections I'm sure. Starfleet does permit privacy on their ships.

They wouldn't be monitoring the calls. It would just have control over where calls go and keeps things from leaking off the ship into subspace.

[Monroe]

And besides, you could argue against the privacy thing anyway. How many telepaths are free to read other's minds? Star Trek has no privacy that I'm aware of.

[Blackstar the Chakat]

Boush will want to turn off all comm systems except those that happen to the bridge and away from the bridge. That'll make the need for an operator to connect calls but it'd fix that security problem. He's going to recommend that to Rochey on my post. What's Rochey's response going to be so I can post accordingly.

Well, I don't know about Rochey, but both M'Real and the captain would have objections I'm sure. Starfleet does permit privacy on their ships.

They wouldn't be monitoring the calls. It would just have control over where calls go and keeps things from leaking off the ship into subspace.

Yes, but that still invades privacy. What if someone wants to send a discrete message? Or to send or receive a classified message from Star Fleet Intelligence?

And besides, you could argue against the privacy thing anyway. How many telepaths are free to read other's minds? Star Trek has no privacy that I'm aware of.

There aren't that many telepaths, and most of them don't actively probe the minds of others as part of a cultural taboo. And those that do tend to be discrete. Of coarse there are exceptions that prove the rule.

[Mikey]

Starfleet is a voluntary position. If an invasion of your privacy is shown to be necessary for purposesof security , etc., so be it. If you enlist, are you going to tell your buck sergeant that he's not allowed to go through your fellow boots' gear because you don't want your privacy invaded? That don't fly.

[Blackstar the Chakat]

Starfleet doesn't have Sargent. And I think the intelligence officer might object to having her communications monitored.

[Mikey]

Starfleet doesn't have Sargent. And I think the intelligence officer might object to having her communications monitored.

I said "if you enlist" - that is, I was using a contemporary example. And it doesn't matter if the intelligence officer objects - if she didn't want to have her communications subjected to scrutiny, she shouldn't have made covert communiques a/o claimed to have intentionally sabotaged the comm system.

This is academic - Rochey and Monroe are behaving exactly how their characters SHOULD act, and I'm going to confront you (privately) on the issue of Blackstar hirself rather than the comm thing.[/b]

[Blackstar the Chakat]

This is academic - Rochey and Monroe are behaving exactly how their characters SHOULD act, and I'm going to confront you (privately) on the issue of Blackstar hirself rather than the comm thing.[/b]

Ya, I just hate it when they start treating Starfleet like it's a military.

[Mikey]

I'm done. Why would this need to happen?! This is exasperating.

BTW,

Ya, I just hate it when they start treating Starfleet like it's a military.

You mean like having a clearly organized chain of command and expecting its members to follow that chain? Having to follow orders from superior officers? Don't be dense. Call it military or not, but that's been a hallmark of Starfleet. Consistently finding excuses for not following it simply because you don't like it has made this RPG complete torture in which to participate.

[Blackstar the Chakat]

I'm done. Why would this need to happen?! This is exasperating.

I think you're overreacting just a tad, at least if you're refering to my post. I'm just being a little creative, and it seems to be perfectly in line with the characters involved.

[Mikey]

Why would there be ANY contact with Blackstar at all? It makes no sense. And then just making up a piece of friggin' jewelry that can magically negate anything that was done just because someone else did something you don't care for in their last post? It really sucks the fun out of it. Don't count on my post in the a.m like I had mentioned. Why would I bother? If you don't like what happens, you'll just seem to have found a time-travel device to go back and negate it.

[Blackstar the Chakat]

Why would there be ANY contact with Blackstar at all? It makes no sense. And then just making up a piece of friggin' jewelry that can magically negate anything that was done just because someone else did something you don't care for in their last post? It really sucks the fun out of it. Don't count on my post in the a.m like I had mentioned. Why would I bother? If you don't like what happens, you'll just seem to have found a time-travel device to go back and negate it.

Well, if you're going to have a hissy fit I guess I might as well explain some of it since you can't piece any of it together, but by pm since you're the only one complaining right now. I am hoping to have some sort of suprise effect

[Mikey]

I've hoped for a lot of things too; but when the situation was altered, I adapted rather than made up ways to negate everybody else's activities.

[Minnsky]

Aye, you may have a plot made up but it will change as this is a RPG, i never thought that Minnsky would have a brain disorder, but now he does. and becouse of it i have developed a new plot line based on it, not getting around it.

[Blackstar the Chakat]

I'd like to point out that the private communicator did make a spike in the background radiation and with as thorough as Monroe is he may have seen that trick before and may be monitoring for it. But he also wouldn't know to who or where the transmission was sent.