OTF's Blue Publication June 2010
In our continuing quest to get to know our new members a little better, we at the Blue Report take 10 Questions to someone of interest. This month the lucky person is Poison62.
BR: Tell us a little about yourself.
Poison62: I'm an unmarried 48 year old male. I fell in love, real love, once. She broke my heart! I'm shy, so I have a hard time opening up to people. My parents divorced, when I was very young. I was born in the Brockton, Massachusetts. I moved to Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 1977. I have high school education. I have a cat named Bailey; she has a human named Jeff. I'm not sure which of us is in charge! She has me trained pretty well. I drive a tow truck. I stay fit by riding a bicycle everywhere, within reason. I enjoy the beaches around here. (Who wouldn’t?) I think I have a sense of humor. You be the judge. I'm not religious, I'm not political.
BR: How did you find Outpost 10f?
Poison62: I was interested in pointing out some of the inconsistencies between episodes of Star Trek, and the flaws within some individual episodes. The "net" connected me with “Outpost Ten Forward"
BR: Where did poison62 come from? Any special meaning?
Poison62: I wanted poison as my user name, on Verizon, but someone had it already. I had to add a number to make it work. I was born in 1962, so poison62 seems as good as any. I chose poison, because I seem to poison every relationship I ever had. I think it's my venomous personality, and brutal honesty.
BR: What do you like the most about the Outpost?
Poison62: I don't know fortune cookies? I like the fact that I can say whatever I want, whenever I want.
BR: If you could choose to do anything in Outpost, what would you do?
Poison62: I'd like to go streaking, if Guinan would let me... but seriously, I could contribute to some trivia, maybe. I have three loose leaf binders filled with Star Trek trading cards loaded with facts. I have so very little computer experience; I could only give some of the trivia facts and questions to the experts that run the site.
BR: What kind of things are you interested in?
Poison62: I like magic, massage, bicycle riding, beach watching, and a good steak cooked just right! (Not in that order) I have other interests that may not be appropriate for this family oriented chat room!
BR: There's a throw down brawl between Lobot and Vic, who win and why?
Poison62: Who? If you meant Vic Fontaine, I think the hologram would feel no pain, and if we removed the safety features, I think he would be unbeatable! Even against a robot, the hologram would have the advantage. Especially if he could dematerialize at will, like the doctor on VOYAGER does, when people throw things at him! Who could fight against someone that you can't hit. Unless Lobot could mess with the holomatrix, or holo-projectors, I don't see how he could even defeat a holographic baby! So would Lobot be fighting Vic, or Vic’s programming, that is the real question.
BR: Have you thought about what you might like to do when you get more involved in the Outpost?
Poison62: I still haven't figured out what people are supposed to do on this site. Every time I try to ask trivia questions, I bore the other genres. If I talk about real life things, I bore the fantasy people, and then they sign off! I don't know if it's my problem, or theirs! If I tell jokes, it takes forever to type them, and people think I am ignoring them because I don't "receive" often enough to follow the conversations. I have only been affiliated with Ten Forward for a few weeks. I don't know what is expected of me. I see a lot of abbreviations, which only the experts can relate to. Maybe I don't fit in after all. I'm staying on, only to see if I get promoted. Like I said in the beginning, I only logged on to rag about the flaws with the shows in the first place! Some people think that I don't like Star Trek because I criticize it a lot! The exact opposite is true. I enjoy it because it is so believable that I think of things they do in one episode, that would solve the problems in another one, but they don't. Remember when Kirk was in the building with the mobsters and had Scotty stun everyone within a two block radius? Why don't they just stun everyone and sort it out later in every episode? I don't know enough about the format of the site to give an informed answer, and my towing job would not allow me to give any serious time to the site, to benefit the rest of you with any real commitment. I just don't know if I can get more involved than I am right now, so I don't want to make any promises to com it to anything else right now! Ask me later.
BR: If you could choose one thing that would make the Outpost better, what would it be?
Poison62: On a technical note, I would make the last message we transmit, automatically erase after being transmitted. That way, we wouldn't have to press so many buttons. I have accidentally repeated my own message, way too many times by pressing the wrong button. (Sorry people)
BR: Anything else you want to add for the good of the order?
Poison62: Don't assume that everyone understands the "specialized terminology." I wouldn't ask very specific questions, or use abbreviations that people would have no chance of understanding. I was taught to use the term, then the abbreviation immediately after, this way, the reader can relate to the shortened version, knowing that it was explained earlier in the text, if they get confused. For instance, if I told you that the S.P.D. and B.P.D. won't let me tow unless I have my T.R.A.A. certificate, you would be lost until you can read elsewhere that S.P.D means State police department, and B.P.D means Barnstable police department, and T.R.A.A. means Towing and Recovery Association of America. See what I mean? We share the room with two other groups after all. We could bore the other genres to death when we get hyper-technical that way!
BR: Thanks for telling us more about you!