An Android's Tale

<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" BACKGROUND="GreyAud.jpg"> <H1><CENTER>An Android's Tale</CENTER></H1> <P> </P> <CENTER><IMG SRC="../../Gallery/JoyHawk2.jpg" ALT="Joy" WIDTH=379 HEIGHT=480 BORDER=0 ALIGN=bottom></CENTER> <H2><CENTER>The Joy Class Androids of Mudd</CENTER></H2> <H4><CENTER>Teaser Page</CENTER></H4> <P> <HR SIZE=3> </P> <H3><CENTER><FONT COLOR="#FF0000">So you think you know the Prime Directive?</FONT></CENTER></H3> <P>The preamble to the Federation Constitution states the purposes for which the Federation of Planets was founded. These include saving succeeding generations from the scourge of intra galactic war, to reaffirm faith in the fundamental intelligent life-form rights, to promote justice, law and mutual respect, and to promote social progress and better standards of life.</P> <P>In short, the Federation exists to promote and extend societies based upon law, rights, peace, justice and related virtues, while limiting societies based on violence and war. The Federation has a social agenda. It is a force for improving society. The modern wording of the Prime Directive - that Starfleet is prohibited from interfering with the normal development of any society - is thus in inherent conflict with the basic reasons the Federation was created.</P> <P>From <A HREF="Eleven/Heresy.htm">Kirk's Heresy</A> - <A HREF="Eleven/index.html">Joy Eleven</A> - <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/fmdm/hawking/index.html" TARGET="_top">USS Hawking</A></P> <P><FONT SIZE="+1" COLOR="#FF0000"><B>Some new additions...</B></FONT></P> <UL> <LI><A HREF="Five/robodorsi.htm">I Robot meets Dorsai</A> - The philosophies of to classic SF authors, imported into a Star Trek environment, clash.</LI> <LI><A HREF="Five/basic.htm">Basic Weaponry</A> - How would you choose to confront cute little baby horta?</LI> <LI><A HREF="Seven/savworld.htm">Save the World</A> - Or is saving the attacking Giant Space Amoebae more important?</LI> </UL> <P> <HR> </P> <H2><CENTER><FONT COLOR="#FF0000">Introduction</FONT></CENTER></H2> <P>Welcome to the Joy Class Android home page. The Joys are role playing characters active in America On Line's Star Trek 'Simulation' community. Joys Five, Seven, Ten, and Eleven are currently active on Spacefleet On Line's USS Republic, <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/thetigress/col/" TARGET="_top">Continuum Online's</A> Federation Council, Celestial Prime Alliance's <A HREF="http://www.accessorl.net/~indy/beaming.htm" TARGET="_top">USS Defiant</A> , and Spacefleet On Line's <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/fmdm/hawking/index.html" TARGET="_top">USS Hawking</A>.</P> <P>It is said that taking from one source is plagiarism, while taking from many is research. The Joys are well researched. The Joys are inspired - among other things - by the "I Mudd" episode of the original <A HREF="http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Television/Shows/Science_Fiction/Star_Trek/" TARGET="_top">Star Trek</A> Series, Data's emotion chip, <A HREF="http://www.clark.net/pub/edseiler/WWW/asimov_home_page.html" TARGET="_top">Asimov's</A> <A HREF="http://www.evansville.net/~bob/robots/laws.html" TARGET="_top"> Laws of Robotics,</A> and Holly Golightly from <A HREF="http://www.msms.doe.k12.ms.us/~ebaldwin/bio.html" TARGET="_top">Audrey Hepburn's</A> movie <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/M/title-exact?+Breakfast+At+Tiffany's+(1961)" TARGET="_top">Breakfast at Tiffany's</A>. In addition to the multi faceted Joy, there are also glimpses of artificial versions of <A HREF="HKirk/index.html">James Kirk</A>, <A HREF="Seven/Proverbs.htm">Bruce Lee</A>, and <A HREF="Eleven/Golightly.htm">Fred Astaire</A>.</P> <P>These pages are still growing. Each week Joy has a few more adventures, and I write a few more stories. The best of these will be added to the log pages. The log pages run from oldest on the top, to newest on the bottom. Occasional visits to see what new tales are to be told may be worth your time.</P> <P>Navigation is on the frame to your left. The Academy References were written before I put the first Joy in play, but still give a good introduction to the character. The meat of the logs, however, are logs written while the various Joys have been on ships. These ships are...</P> <UL> <LI><A HREF="Eleven/index.html">Joy Eleven</A> - Hawking</LI> <LI><A HREF="Seven/index.html">Joy Seven</A> - Aurora, The Federation Council</LI> <LI>J<A HREF="Ten/index.html">oy Ten</A> - Deliverance, Defiant</LI> <LI><A HREF="Five/index.html">Joy Five</A> - Mendell, Gabriel, Fek'Lhr, Republic</LI> </UL> <P>While I have put in teasers for most of my favorite logs, my most favored log, <A HREF="Eleven/Measure.htm"><B>The Measure of a Woman</B></A>, has no good teaser paragraph. Start there. ;-)</P> <CENTER><A HREF="Eleven/Measure.htm"><IMG SRC="FnyFace3.JPG" ALT="Joy Dance" WIDTH=317 HEIGHT=429 ALIGN=bottom></A></CENTER> <P> <HR> </P> <H3><CENTER><FONT COLOR="#FF0000">Music</FONT></CENTER></H3> <P><TT>False priority. From echoes of old programming comes an erased command. Personify the Art of oo-mox. Traces of an old conflict. Priority one, kill the man. Priority four, seduce him. Show him some leg, then kick with it. If the tongue isn't committed to an attack, lick lips suggestively. Crane stance to show your profile, providing distractions from the knife. Smile always. Attack in time to the music. Mix moves, dance floor and dojo. Be the music. The music is life. The music is death.</TT></P> <P>From <A HREF="Ten/Black7.htm">Black Seven's Daughter</A> - <A HREF="Ten/index.html">Joy Ten</A> - USS Deliverance</P> <P> <HR> </P> <H3><CENTER><FONT COLOR="#FF0000">Cry Havoc?</FONT></CENTER></H3> <P><TT>Mudd's policy has been to emphasize legal, negotiated, and nonviolent solutions to problems. However, we admit some problems and situations cannot be solved with polite words. The Founder's recent attack on the Federation Council might very easily be one such situation.</TT></P> <P><TT>I am aware of the Council's mood for a violent response to this attack. Some action to deter repetition of the event might be appropriate. However, escalation of violence has never been the Federation's path. The Founders sent a raid of a few individuals which has resulted so far in zero deaths, two illnesses, and one prisoner taken by each side.</TT></P> <P><TT>The dominant proposed response is a "joint operation targeted at reducing Dominion offensive capabilities" or alternately a "threat-reduction action". Behind these bland words sculpted to be devoid of menace, what we have proposed on the Council's agenda is mass murder and extensive destruction. We propose to cross into another power's territory, cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.</TT></P> <P>From <A HREF="Seven/CryHavok.htm">Cry Havoc?</A> - <A HREF="Seven/index.html">Joy Seven</A> - <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/fmdm/tfc/index.html">The Federation Council</A></P> <H2> <HR> </H2> <H2><CENTER><FONT COLOR="#FF0000">A Rose</FONT></CENTER></H2> <P>I entered Sickbay, a single rose in hand. It was a white rose, not a red. According to LCARS, this made it a symbol of purity, not of passion. The doctor seemed unaware of this. He looked at the rose, then me, and his eyes seemed to accuse me of deliberately violating my Fifth Priority.</P> <P>I was not. Not technically. I was visiting an ill person. Organic tradition encourages giving flowers to ill people. At Priority Two, Asimov's First Law requires me to do as I can to improve the health of organic beings. The flower was white, not red. Males give females flowers as indication of sexual interest, not the other way around. The Priority Two Law regarding health overrides the Priority Five Law on sexual activity.</P> <P>None the less, I monitored my facial color diodes shifting to red, and my emotion chip would not allow me to meet the doctor's eyes. I hid the flower behind my body, and went searching for Nu.</P> <P>From <A HREF="Ten/JoysLaw.htm">Joy's Law</A>, <A HREF="Ten/index.html">Joy Ten</A>, <A HREF="http://www.accessorl.net/~indy/beaming.htm">USS Defiant</A></P> <P> <HR> </P> <H2><CENTER><FONT COLOR="#FF0000">Beyond Joy...</FONT></CENTER></H2> <P>The next entries are not really about Joy, but involve a few of my other characters. If you enjoy the Joy logs, these are also fiction based on my role playing experience, however the dominant characters have never heard of the Laws of Robotics...</P> <UL> <LI><A HREF="../Coda/index.html" TARGET="_top">Coda</A> Another of my characters, a superhero, with amnesia...</LI> <LI><A HREF="../Talora/Dragon/index.htm" TARGET="_top">Dragon Friend</A> So you think you know how to play a dragon?</LI> </UL> <P> <HR> </P> <H2><CENTER><FONT COLOR="#FF0000">The Return of The Dragon</FONT></CENTER></H2> <P>If Joy was the yin, and the Klingons were the yang, Bruce was the Tao. He mixed flowing defense with powerful strikes, speed and strength, grace and power, all in balance. In many ways he was Earth's Champion. He was among the first to teach the other races of the planet the secrets of oriental combat. He was among the first to film martial combat sequence for entertainment, changing Earth's entertainment industry forever. He was also taught by some of the last true masters, who in their youth had fought for their lives with muscle powered weapons. Not long after, Earth's warrior heritage was lost to guns, padded boxing gloves, and a quest for trophies.</P> <P>Unlike Kahless, Bruce was just an image, not a real warrior. His glory was written in celluloid, not blood. His chief victim was the buck toothed, nearly blind oriental stereotype. Mickey Rooney's yellow man was replaced in the western eye by a gentle warrior who quotes philosophy, walking in peace if possible, but a dragon if need be. If this dragon never had a starship named after him, his spirit dominates the stars near Earth none the less.</P> <P>From <A HREF="Seven/Proverbs.htm">Proverbs</A>, <A HREF="Seven/index.html">Joy Seven</A>, The Federation Council</P> <CENTER><FONT SIZE="+1"> <HR> </FONT> <P><FONT SIZE="+2" COLOR="#FF0000"><B>An Android's Tale</B></FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="+2" COLOR="#FF0000"><B>Navigation Bar</B></FONT></P> <P><FONT COLOR="#FF0000">(These would always be there if you had frames.)</FONT></P></CENTER> <P><FONT SIZE="+1" COLOR="#FF0000"><B> <HR> </B></FONT></P> <CENTER><FONT SIZE="+1" COLOR="#FF0000"><B>Academy Refremces</B></FONT></CENTER> <UL> <LI><A HREF="Academy/Rachel.htm">Councilor</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="Academy/Krak.htm">Martial Arts</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="Academy/Jacobson.htm">Fleet Tactics</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="Academy/Kree.htm">Intelligence</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="Academy/Marrow.htm">Small Unit Tactics</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="Academy/Savik.htm">Artificial Intelligence</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="Academy/Kazz.htm">Master Merchant Kazz</A></LI> </UL> <P> <HR> </P> <CENTER><FONT SIZE="+1" COLOR="#FF0000"><B>The Logs</B></FONT></CENTER> <UL> <LI><A HREF="teaser.htm">Teasers</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="Five/index.html">Joy Five</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="Seven/index.html">Joy Seven</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="Ten/index.html">Joy Ten</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="Eleven/index.html">Joy Eleven</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="HKirk/index.html">The HoloKirk</A></LI> </UL> <P> <HR> </P> <CENTER><FONT SIZE="+1" COLOR="#FF0000"><B>Errata</B></FONT></CENTER> <UL> <LI><A HREF="Manuals/index.html">Manuals</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="Notes/index.html">Game Notes</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="Photos/History.html">First Contact Photos</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="Photos/Audrey.html">Audrey Pictures</A></LI> </UL> <P> <HR> </P> <CENTER><FONT SIZE="+1" COLOR="#FF0000"><B>Other Characters</B></FONT></CENTER> <UL> <LI><A HREF="../Coda/index.html" TARGET="_top">Coda</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="../Talora/Dragon/Dragon.htm" TARGET="_top">Dragon Friend</A></LI> </UL> <P> <HR> </P> <CENTER><FONT SIZE="+1" COLOR="#FF0000"><B>Elsewhere</B></FONT></CENTER> <UL> <LI><A HREF="../index.html" TARGET="_top">Home Page</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="../../Flight/index.htm" TARGET="_top">Flight by Committee</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="../../Gallery/index.html" TARGET="_top">Image Gallery</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="../../index.htm" TARGET="_top">Polyticks</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="../../bbma/index.htm" TARGET="_top">USS Massachusetts</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="../Visions/index.htm" TARGET="_top">Visions</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="../../CW/index.htm" TARGET="_top">Recognizing the Battle Flag</A></LI> </UL> <CENTER> <HR> <P>Comments are appreciated at <A HREF="mailto:LtCdrJoy@aol.com">LtCdrJoy@aol.com</A></P> <P> </P> <P><A HREF="http://www.digits.com/">Web Counter</A> has you as visitor <IMG SRC="http://counter.digits.com/wc/-f/F060F0/-b/EEEEEE/-e/EEEEEE/-d/4/JoyMudd" WIDTH=60 HEIGHT=20 BORDER=0 ALIGN=middle hspace=4 vspace=2> since July 7, 1996.</P></CENTER> <P> </P> <P> <HR WIDTH="99%"> </P> <P></P> </BODY>