26 August is STFF's official birthday (this has been decided once on the HQ list... the first post was sent 26 August 2000 or something like that), but a day earlier Jim Janssens was born when I filled in the Join form and clicked the Okay button.
This (short) article is about that Jim, and it's only about what Jim did in Star Trek: Frontier Fleet. I am not going to explain why I named him Jim Janssens, because I am not sure why I picked that name...
"How long until we reach the Academy?" Jim asked the pilot.
"We'll be there in about one and a half hour."
(SF Academy - Administration building - 2382.05.10 - 15:39 - Cadet Janssens)
~Luckily the computer knows the way to the commandants office~ Jim thought, who arrived 10 minutes ago at the academy. He went on his way and soon arrived at the office.
He pressed the chime and waited.
"Enter".
Jim entered the office.
"Cadet Jim Janssens reporting for duty, sir"
(Reply Commandant)
That was my first Star Trek: Frontier Fleet post. Written almost 2 years ago, on 26 August 2000, the day after Jim Janssens was 'born' (the commandant's (Sumek/Clare) reply to my first post had the subject "Re: Cadet Jim Janssens" BTW...)
Early September Jim was promoted to Ensign and assigned to the USS Arakov as ACSO. The Arakov's first mission was to go through a transportation device called a "T'Kon Ring" to the Delta Quadrant, to deliver some of the crew of the new Starbase Delta One. This first mission was never finished though, and for several reasons Clare (GM at that time) decided to abandon the Arakov and Delta One, to start over with a new ship.
That new ship was the USS Calhoun, launched in November 2000. Lieutenant (JG) Jim Janssens was the Chief Science Officer of this new ship. To be honest, this Jim is not the same Jim as the one from the Arakov, since all events on that ship never happened, and the Arakov never existed ;) The Calhoun's first mission would be to go to the Delta Quadrant and make new diplomatic relations. Of course several things went wrong, but this article is about Jim, not about the Calhoun's missions. One thing I am going to say is that during this time there was a period that nobody used headers in their posts, and the compiles are a bit hard to read that way ;) I don't know exactly when, but Jim also became Second Officer of the Calhoun and he was promoted to Lieutenant Commander (probably when Guido became CO of the Calhoun)
A CO & GM (Guido became CO & GM) and some time later, June 2001, a second ship was started. About half of the Calhoun crew transferred to the USS Odyssey, and Jim became the Odyssey's First Officer and promoted from Lieutenant Commander to Commander. During the Odyssey's first mission, the ship travelled to a parallel universe, and we also met the Jim Janssens from that universe.
A year later (June 2002) Pandora Station was started and Jim became the station's CO. After a party the first mission of this new station started, together with the Odyssey crew. If Pandora's CO has time to finish his status report, you can read more about that mission elsewhere in this newspaper :) Or you may be able to read something about it in the Odyssey report...
Now there is only one thing left to say:
Jim Janssens and Star Trek: Frontier Fleet,
I hope you have a happy second birthday :)
Note: this info is based on the old STFF compiles I got from Guido (some of them were also available on his website, but he is reconstructing his site at the moment) and I have not read them ALL, so if I missed some info about Jim, too bad :)
