Personal Log: Rick Clogston

Boy, what a long, strange trip this is! I am barely computer literate, and I sure hope this works. I've been puttering around with this blasted glass-paged typewriter until I've gotten here. Maybe you will be reading this soon. Maybe you are now.

It would seem that I might just be the oldest person in Frontier Fleet. I can remember watching Star Trek when it was in prime time on NBC, right after Hollywood Squares. That's how far back I go! Trek was even instrumental in me and my wife getting together. We lived in different towns, and she could get Next Generation, so we'd get together at her place and watch it. By the time the cable company in my town carried that channel, we were married. I'm talking small towns!

I wanted with this first post to expose the evolution of X'ok PaRel. He began, as a middle-aged Vulcan/Klingon, as an idea I had for a DS9 episode. In my head, of course. The concept was that he was captain of a privately owned and operated starship, an old surplus Constellation class ship. Like Kirk's Enterprise. Except that is was kind of an unofficial research ship. Without being officially attached to Starfleet, they kind of had access to things, and allowed access in return. Kind of a "skunkworks." Anyway, some emergency happens that forces this ship to reveal some of its capabilities in order to save the station. And X'ok was the big, loud, slightly crazy leader of the extremely diverse and creative crew.

When I found FF, I decided to use Mr. PaRel for my character.

Well, I think I'll see if this will actually post. Wish me luck.