The Energon Pub

by **ScorpoMax** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 4:21 am

After spending months of floating at sea on the USS Enterprise, I finally get a chance to drop in and see how everyone's doing. Internet doesn't come easy on a ship kids. Never realized how much I missed this place.

News Credits: 26 · by **Wheeljack35** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 10:50 am

ScorpoMax wrote:After spending months of floating at sea on the USS Enterprise, I finally get a chance to drop in and see how everyone's doing. Internet doesn't come easy on a ship kids. Never realized how much I missed this place.

Space the final fronteir ......ooops :oops:

I thought they retired her

I bet you get alot of Star Trek jokes about you serving aboard the Enterprise

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 10:59 am

There is a actual ship called the Enterprise!?

Wow, don't know you but, hey hang around, and thanks for missing me

News Credits: 26 · by **Wheeljack35** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 11:02 am

Gene Roddenberry served aboard it during WW2 thats why he uses that name for his famous Starship

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 11:13 am

Oh newer knew that, damn that ship must be ooooooooooooooooold.

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 12:09 pm

So...

How's Spock doing?

by **ScorpoMax** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 1:29 pm

Wheeljack35 wrote:
ScorpoMax wrote:After spending months of floating at sea on the USS Enterprise, I finally get a chance to drop in and see how everyone's doing. Internet doesn't come easy on a ship kids. Never realized how much I missed this place.

Space the final fronteir ......ooops

I thought they retired her

I bet you get alot of Star Trek jokes about you serving aboard the Enterprise

Actually I don't. You'd almost think we were totally oblivious to our connection with Star Treck. Tell you what though: I knew it was only a matter of time before some Star Treck references came out in this place.

No, they haven't retired her yet. Kitty Hawk is the next carrier to retire (America's last non-nuclear carrier, she retires next year), but Enterprise is set to be decommissioned next. That probably won't happen until the next decade though.

Can't tell you about Spock, but our own XO is pretty cool. Every Saturday, he has movie nights for everyone on board. In fact, we were even treated to a free showing of.....Transformers.

by **Cyber-Kun** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 1:32 pm

Sorry, I know nothing of this sort of thing... do you have any jet fighters on the carrier? If so, what do have there?

by **Night Raid** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 2:18 pm

You're on an aircraft carrier? Awesome! You seen Starscream around? (F-22 Raptors FTW.)

News Credits: 26 · by **Wheeljack35** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 2:39 pm

ScorpoMax wrote:
Wheeljack35 wrote:
ScorpoMax wrote:After spending months of floating at sea on the USS Enterprise, I finally get a chance to drop in and see how everyone's doing. Internet doesn't come easy on a ship kids. Never realized how much I missed this place.

Space the final fronteir ......ooops

I thought they retired her

I bet you get alot of Star Trek jokes about you serving aboard the Enterprise

Actually I don't. You'd almost think we were totally oblivious to our connection with Star Treck. Tell you what though: I knew it was only a matter of time before some Star Treck references came out in this place.

No, they haven't retired her yet. Kitty Hawk is the next carrier to retire (America's last non-nuclear carrier, she retires next year), but Enterprise is set to be decommissioned next. That probably won't happen until the next decade though.

Can't tell you about Spock, but our own XO is pretty cool. Every Saturday, he has movie nights for everyone on board. In fact, we were even treated to a free showing of.....Transformers.

Oh that was cool of him

So are you in the pacific?

by **ScorpoMax** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:53 am

No F-22s. The F-22 isn't even a carrier-capable aircraft. But we do operate several squadrons of F/A-18 Hornets and Super Hornets. That's just about all that the Navy has on their flight decks now that the F-14s have been retired. As far as I know the F/A-18 has never been used as the alt mode for a Transformer, but I'd be cool to see one as the Super Hornet someday IMHO.

Actually, we're part of the Atlantic fleet. Afraid I can't tell you exactly where we are (security reasons you understand), but we've spent most of our time in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea.

by **Tweezy** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:35 am

sounds like a rip roarin' good time. but being stationed on a carrier with little to no internet must be something akin to jungle fever.

by **OptimusN1701** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:49 am

Dead Metal wrote:Oh newer knew that, damn that ship must be ooooooooooooooooold.

The one he's on was commissioned in the 60s and is the first nuclear carrier created

The one from WW2 was scrapped before this one was built

Its sad that they are gonna retire her, as a Trekkie the name Enterprise keeps a soft spot in my heart :cry:

Hopefully she gets made into a museum ship and doesnt just get scrapped

Like Evolution Prime on Facebook · by **Evolution Prime** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 2:53 pm

Well at least you are on a ship with internet capability. I was on a submarine. No internet there. We could send "emails" but nothing more than that.

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 3:19 pm

Tweezy wrote:sounds like a rip roarin' good time. but being stationed on a carrier with little to no internet must be something akin to jungle fever.

He's on an Aircraft Carrier. With JETS.

You ever see the movie "Behind Enemy Lines"? Dude kicks a football using the catapult they use to launch jets.

Lost a football, but DAMN if it wasn't cool!

News Credits: 2 · by **Insurgent** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 6:44 am

Shadowman wrote:
Tweezy wrote:sounds like a rip roarin' good time. but being stationed on a carrier with little to no internet must be something akin to jungle fever.

He's on an Aircraft Carrier. With JETS.

You ever see the movie "Behind Enemy Lines"? Dude kicks a football using the catapult they use to launch jets.

Lost a football, but DAMN if it wasn't cool!

Ever seen Top Gear? They raced a car with a jet on the flight deck. Didn't quite stop in time though. They loose more Stig's that way.

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:16 am

EDIT: whoops, pushed the wrong button. Delete this posts, mods? Thanks.

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 1:36 pm

Insurgent wrote:
Shadowman wrote:
Tweezy wrote:sounds like a rip roarin' good time. but being stationed on a carrier with little to no internet must be something akin to jungle fever.

He's on an Aircraft Carrier. With JETS.

You ever see the movie "Behind Enemy Lines"? Dude kicks a football using the catapult they use to launch jets.

Lost a football, but DAMN if it wasn't cool!

Ever seen Top Gear? They raced a car with a jet on the flight deck. Didn't quite stop in time though. They loose more Stig's that way.

That sounds awesome, I sure hope my uncle taped it for me!
Oh I think the best Stig moment was the race with the self made car!

News Credits: 3 · by **Barricade** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 1:47 pm

i vote thundercracker as a super hornet in TF2

News Credits: 2 · by **Insurgent** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 2:11 pm

Dead Metal wrote:
Insurgent wrote:
Shadowman wrote:
Tweezy wrote:sounds like a rip roarin' good time. but being stationed on a carrier with little to no internet must be something akin to jungle fever.

He's on an Aircraft Carrier. With JETS.

You ever see the movie "Behind Enemy Lines"? Dude kicks a football using the catapult they use to launch jets.

Lost a football, but DAMN if it wasn't cool!

Ever seen Top Gear? They raced a car with a jet on the flight deck. Didn't quite stop in time though. They loose more Stig's that way.

That sounds awesome, I sure hope my uncle taped it for me!
Oh I think the best Stig moment was the race with the self made car!

And the Stig got arrested. Classic!

The aircraft carrier was a few years back, when they changed Black Stig to White Stig due to some 'unpleasantness', but I don't know the full details. Fear not though, Youtube to the rescue! :grin: