Give them a drone ship, allow them to accessorize their rack loadings to their heart's content...

By Loren Knight (Loren) on Saturday, April 06, 2002 - 03:40 pm: Edit

Give them everything they have ever wanted, be financialy stable, vacation regularly, cuttle at night and then mention:" I wish you could take an interest in what I like." Then perhaps my wife would try.

By Kirk Spencer (Kspencer) on Saturday, April 06, 2002 - 07:25 pm: Edit

ummmm, you want me to "cuttle" with your wife?

(grin)

By Loren Knight (Loren) on Saturday, April 06, 2002 - 08:06 pm: Edit

Ahhh, no. But my Jack Russell needs a hug.

By Piotr Orbis Proszynski (Orbis) on Saturday, April 06, 2002 - 10:15 pm: Edit

Is your wife likes to cuttle? Maybe she could play a WYN? *thinks Loren needs to get a staff-member assigned to check his spelling for him on all the topics*

My Jack Daniels needs a kiss...

By Loren Knight (Loren) on Saturday, April 06, 2002 - 11:20 pm: Edit

I try to use word. Some times it's just miss- typing. Hay, I'm not the only one, though SVC just saved me some major embareassment earlier. Ya, I know, it's too late.

My spelling IS bad. MS Word often comes to the rescue, but darn it, it wont tell me how to spell cuttle. It thinks I'm trying to spell cattle. In 7th grade they tested me. High School level math. Collage level reading and comprehention. Third grade spelling. Did anybody EVER sit with me on it? NO! And I graduated HS 1 yr early. Went right to Ventura Collage for Comp Sci. Still no help on my spelling. Am I rambleing? Oh, sorry. Bye, bye.

By Piotr Orbis Proszynski (Orbis) on Saturday, April 06, 2002 - 11:32 pm: Edit

Sorry Loren, not trying to get your Goat! English spelling is notoriously difficult as with time and diffusion the relations of spelling to pronunciation are becoming as arbitrary as Chinese ideograms. The letter "e" can represent 22 different sounds. Everyone understands you no problem at least... Now when people hear me speaking, it's another story... Am I rambling too? It must be ctaching Er, catching. Ka-ching! Cat-chin? •••• Kzintis always trying to nuzzle me! I'll get fleas! *runs into the snow screaming*

By Andrew Dederer (Drew) on Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 12:04 am: Edit

Cuddle, cuttle is legit from cuttle-fish (a type of cephalopod, like an octopus).

One would not want to "cuddle" with a cuttle, be quite an armfull

By Loren Knight (Loren) on Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 12:19 am: Edit

Oh, I'm O.K. Math=always the same. One is always more than zero. English spelling? Ya (lets see how did he spell that?) arbitrary. Thats it.
Everyone understands what I'm trying to spell, but do they understand what I'm trying to say?(The big one everybody asks!)
Cuddle....hay MS Word knows that one!

By Scott Moellmer (Goofy) on Monday, April 08, 2002 - 05:32 pm: Edit

==
Spellcheckers are fun things. Like last week
our minister, while listing the
songs to be sung, wrote on the big screen:
"Lord, I lift your name on eye"...

and apparently I was first to start chuckling...
;)

By Captain Ebersole (George_Ebersole) on Tuesday, April 09, 2002 - 02:47 am: Edit

Come on guys.

I think maybe a Cap Log or two with some very attractive female ship's captain (note; not sexy, but alluring all the same. The kind of attractiveness that commands respect) would help spark interest. Entreat the aspect of immagination to your female friends, and let them know they too can kick Klingon butt

I'm still of the opinion that female command grade officers do not exist in TOS era Trek, and thus should not be in SFU simply for the sake of continuity, but perhaps Star Fleet, and certainly Romulans, and perhaps even Klingons could do with female captains.

By John de Michele (Johnd) on Tuesday, April 09, 2002 - 01:15 pm: Edit

Well, I seem to remember that in the last episode of TOS, the woamn who switches bodies with Kirk said that she could not be a starship captain because she was a woman.

John.

By Loren Knight (Loren) on Tuesday, April 09, 2002 - 01:29 pm: Edit

That was a self deliusion. There was a female Number One. (The Cage)And there was that female Romulan Commander(Equiv. to Capt. in Rom.) who got a little Spock while losing her cloak.

By John de Michele (Johnd) on Tuesday, April 09, 2002 - 05:35 pm: Edit

Yes, but the future Mrs. Roddenberry was pulled from the role because it was felt to be too unbelievable at the time for a woman to be in charge. And, yes, there was the Romulan Commander, but of course she was scripted as a potential love-interest for Spock. The episode I was thinking of was 'The Turnabout Intruder'. In it, Dr. Janice Lester (another of Kirk's flings) hates him because he can be captain of a starship, and she can't, because she's a woman. So, she switches bodies with him to try and become captain.

The first time a woman was shown as captain of a (Federation) starship was in Star Trek IV.

John.

By Loren Knight (Loren) on Tuesday, April 09, 2002 - 06:01 pm: Edit

Yes, but Dr. Lester probably had a sexist and overberring father and a wimpy mom that told her that her entire childhood. She WAS nuts you know, and that was only her word as to that fact. But you're right the studios didn't go for the women in power bit, but the creater of the ST universe saw it differently. And so the source matterial should be open to Female Captains. Admirals too!

By Scott Tenhoff (Scottt) on Tuesday, April 09, 2002 - 06:04 pm: Edit

And this gets women to play SFB how?

Take it to "Star Trek Drek" or whatever they call it now-a-days.

By Loren Knight (Loren) on Tuesday, April 09, 2002 - 06:47 pm: Edit

They seem to imply above that women are less motivated to play SFB because there are no female Captains in TOS. I was saying that you can argue a different story. I would do almost anything to get my wife to play SFB. But I married an artist, not a Trekker. I'm still working on it. Hay, at least theres more than one post in this topic now!

By Bret O'Neal (Fiverdown) on Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 08:31 am: Edit

I moved slow with my wife.
Started with Ogre and such.
She has played a little fleet but doesn't like it.
She loves DnD but I just can't seem to get her
into tatical war games. Such is:
So we DnD together.

By Dwight Lillibridge (Nostromo) on Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 08:59 am: Edit

my misses likes to play games and is shy of SFB because of in ability to understand the complexity's of the rules.

By John de Michele (Johnd) on Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 11:51 am: Edit

Loren:

I agree. I'd like to get my wife to play as well, but it was hard enough to get her to read some sci-fi/fantasy novels. Oh well, I still have time to work on her .

John.

By John Sickels (Johnsickels) on Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 12:58 pm: Edit

My wife enjoys SFB. She likes rolling for damage on the DAC. Gets the aggression out.

By Loren Knight (Loren) on Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 02:25 pm: Edit

I have an arguement or two that could have been settled on a hax grid!

By Scott Iles (Smrl) on Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 07:06 pm: Edit

My wife claims "she doesn't think tactically enough," which I disagree with. She does enjoy hitting me with overloads, however.

By Scott Moellmer (Goofy) on Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 07:29 pm: Edit

==
I can relate there.. ;)
If the Queen Fed of the house jackpots on me,
I get to listen to the gloating for WEEKS..

By Ken Burnside (Ken_Burnside) on Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 10:43 pm: Edit

So your daughter inherited your wife's luck genes, eh, Scott?

I think part of it is sociological. Women are generally socialized to compete cooperatively. They don't see the point in mock violence to prove dominance hierarchies. (Depending on who you ask, they don't even do dominance hierarchies, but that's a kettle of fish to boil another time.)

When I asked a friend of mine why "wargames are stupid", her response was "It's a bunch of guys who got picked on when they were 14 trying to be the alpha male of a pack. Tell me how it solves a problem, rather than give the thrill of the hunt and kill and I'll pay more attention to you."

Which was a fascinating bit of cogent reasoning, somewhat undermined by her shouting "Boo-yeah!" as she fragged someone in Quake III