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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.
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.
From Kirk's Heresy - Joy Eleven - USS Hawking
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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 Seven and Eleven are currently active on Celestial Prime Alliance's Federation Council and Spacefleet On Line's USS Hawking.
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 Star Trek Series, Data's emotion chip, Asimov's Laws of Robotics, and Holly Golightly from Audrey Hepburn's movie Breakfast at Tiffany's. In addition to the multi faceted Joy, there are also glimpses of artificial versions of James Kirk, Bruce Lee, and Fred Astaire.
These pages are still growing, if slowly. Each week, Joy has a few more adventures, and the best are still being updated to these pages. Alas, however, Joy is almost grown up. There is less territory which is truly new. These pages are becoming less a work in progress, and close to what might be termed "finished."
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...
While I have put in teasers on this page for a mix of my favorite logs, my most favored log, The Measure of a Woman, has no good teaser paragraph. Start there. ;-)
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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.
From Black Seven's Daughter - Joy Ten - USS Deliverance
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.
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.
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.
From Cry Havoc? - Joy Seven - The Federation Council
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.
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.
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.
From Joy's Law, Joy Ten, USS Defiant
Is this the only site ever rejected by the Locutus Assimilation Ring? Perhaps Locutus is correct. This site isn't about Star Trek. It is about Joy Mudd. Regardless, I figured An Android's Tale should belong to at least one Trek web ring, so I jumped to WebRing and entered a search, "star trek fan fiction rpg." One question resulted from the scan results. "What is a Mary Sue?" The first link on the first page of the Mary Sue Society answered this question. A Mary Sue is an avatar, an extension of the author, a character in a fan fiction story through which the author lives out adventures in alternate imaginary dimensions. "Oh," thinks I. "There is a name for the sort of thing I do with Joy?"
The Mary Sue Society then asked a question. What should a male Mary Sue be called? There is, of course, a proper answer. Gene Roddenberry created a male Mary Sue Star Trek : The Next Generation character, designed as a young version of himself. He viewed the early TNG shows from this character's perspective. Unfortunately, calling male Mary Sues "Wesleys" seems insulting and degrading to the fan fiction writers. Fans are too proud and dignified to write unbelievable stories where their point of view character goes out and saves the universe every week. Fan fiction characters wouldn't eventually enter training to become a god, would they? We know that if brilliant and beautiful Ensign Mary Sues kept dying on a regular basis in Commander Riker's arms, the poor man would get depressed. If Spock came into season, and every Ensign Mary Sue that had ever fell in love with him showed up at the same time to offer comfort...
Hmm, OK, so perhaps us there is a reason that some people shun Mary Sue stories. Perhaps a few plot lines are over used a wee little bit? However, there is a dirty little secret. All player characters are secretly Mary Sues...
William Shatner, addressing the many and numerous Star Trek fans, kindly offered a simple piece of advice. "Get a life!" Who needs a life when one has a Mary Sue?
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.
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.
From Proverbs, Joy Seven, The Federation Council
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