That Guy From That Thing: Rainn Wilson

Rising to fame through the US version off The Office, Rainn Wilson's ability to lean into the weird and quirky was a perfect fit for paper salesman and beet farmer Dwight Schrute. Taking on the role of the by the book suck up, originally portayed in the UK version by Mackenzie Crook, Wilson's take on the role was straight faced repressed anger in a beige suit. As time went on, and the US version deviated from the original scripts, Dwight Schrute became one of the most insane characters while still being one of the most popular for his wit, complete lack of charm and near psychotic loyalty to his associates. Having studied theatre and the arts at the University of Washington, Wilson came from a creative background and would often cite his father, author and painter Robert Wilson, for his […]

SFCQ2 Comms August 12, 2025

A Fistful Of

A Fistful of Holodeck Adventures

Whether indulging in a murder mystery, visiting the beach or letting you drop into an Irish town to delete people who might annoy you, the Holodeck was one of the creature comforts of the Next Generation era that let the crew train, relax, vent frustrations and all with the very real risk that it might malfunction and kill everyone. Technically introduced in the Animated Series, the Holodeck becam,e a main feature on board starships from Encounter At Farpoint onwards and become a popular setting for an adventure that brought it's own trop[es and traditions. Looking back through the Next Generation era, the Holodeck was an excuse for wild west adventures, sacred rituals and things that would likely make the architects of the Online Safety Act faint if they looked at Quark's commercial offerings. With so many to watch through, here's […]

ADM JT Marczynka, DoFA August 5, 2025

Who Is

Who is Roger Korby?

During the second season of Strange New Worlds, Christine Chapel spends a big chunk of her time advancing her career with studies and opportunities. One of which gets her away from the Enterprise to spend time working with one of the Federations greatest minds. In season three, we come face to face with that mentor – Roger Korby. And with all their charm and the beginnings of a new story, the original series has already told us how this will end... Roger Korby coming home to the Enterprise was a surprise to Spock. It wasn't a surprise to anyone else. Not just for the first episode of seasons three emphasising that Chapel was pretty much done with the drama and ready to move on, but those who've seen the original series would know the legacy characters have a bit of […]

SFCQ2 Comms July 24, 2025

Q2&A

[Q2&A] Talking Ship.

Since the dawn of time, well, around 1974, SFC's overall presentation as a fleet has been fairly simple and straight forward. The Fleet is the overall structure, the Administration are the Admirals and the heart of it all – our individual groups and regions – are the Starships, each with their own Captain, command crew and optional know it all teenage genius. All units within Q2 base themselves on the ships of the line we've seen over the decades on TV, from the original Enterprise right through to, well, the new original Enterprise. Partly down to the logic that every group needs someone in charge (the Captain), and partly because, well, star ships are cool. Even God wanted one for himself. And with so much variety, especially now with decades of design input, all new and prospective CO's have a […]

Admiral Zero July 18, 2025

Ships of the Line

[Ships of the Line] The Excelsior II

When it comes to exploring the final frontier, Starfleet has been widely experimental in it's design philosophy and thanks to a galaxy rich with resources – and possibly, yeah, overcoming capitalist ideals – is never shy on supplies to try out new ideas or unload a whole new line of ships for specific mission types or general experimentation. Still, while designs and ideas rotate on a regular basis to bring the specialist ships such as the Protostar or Defiant Classes, the core fleet is always held together with standard builds that can last for decades. In approaching a rebuild of the fleet to incorporate new ideas, new technologies, and new lessons learned from an ever increasing range of new and more powerful enemies to Federation ideals, Starfleet's engineers sometimes go back to the well and lean on old classics that […]

ADM JT Marczynka, DoFA July 10, 2025

A Fistful Of

A Fistful of SNW Episodes to Rewatch Before Season 3.

In just a matter of weeks we'll be off to venture more Strange New Worlds as Captain Pike and the Enterprise crew return for their third season. Last we left them, the crew were in the middle of a Gorn crisis as a personal mission that could risk all out war resulted in the crew being split in two with half safe and sound on the Enterprise with the others in enemy hands with Pike left to decide what happens next as all odds are against them. It's been a long wait since seeing Pikee staring into space trying to decide on the next move. Especially with writers strikes pushing back filming. But now we're almost there, we've picked out some key episodes to rewatch ahead of the launch! Hegemony (S2E10) May be an obvious one, but with Season 3 […]

ADM JT Marczynka, DoFA July 1, 2025

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