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-Please feel free to add your own testimonial at the ''top'' of the list.
+Please feel free to add your own testimonial at the '''top''' of the list.
+===Mary Fenelli===
+* Date of Review: Saturday, September 5, 2015
+: Star Trek, a wonderful enterprise that entered my house before I was even born. I remember as I was growing up we used to watch it all the time, especially Star Trek: The Next Generation. I myself was not a fan of Star Trek, and I used to hide away in my room while my family watched. Years and years passed and I finally decided to try to watch it. I began with Star Trek: Voyager. I will never regret the decision I made that day, because to this day, I now consider myself a Trekkie.
+: About nine months ago, I was encouraged by my brother to join Starbase118. After much consideration, I decided to agree, but only because I love to write, and enjoy Star Trek. After being on the site I realized how Starbase118 is for more than writing and Star Trek. Starbase118 is a place you get to be expressive and creative, it's a place to meet new people with the same interests as you, and it's a safe haven. In the time that I have been here, I have made many friends and written many stories. My crew on the ship I write for is like my family, and Starbase118 is like my home away from home.
+: UFOP: Starbase-118 is a really easy site to use, and a great place to be. It is a simple Role play Game that you can access through email. Whether you have a Hotmail, a Gmail, a Yahoo, or an Outlook, this place will suit all your writing and Star Trek needs. Starbase118 has something for just about everyone, and anyone can join. Once in the Starbase118 community, you will also be able to join groups, like; Top Sims contest Judge, or The Image Collective. The most fun thing here though is, being able to rise through the ranks. I am very pleased with Starbase118, and I hope to stay here for a long time.
+===Cayden Dunn===
+* Date of Review: 17 January 2012‎
+: I have been watching Star Trek since I was a young boy hooked on Season 2 of TNG. Since then, I have dreamed of the stars and distant places. I also dreamed of piloting exotic space craft so much that I pursued a pilot’s license in real life. Another long time hobby of mine has always been fictional writing however, I found I sometimes lacked the inspiration needed to write consistently.
+: Approximately 6 months ago a friend invited me to check out the UFOP: Starbase-118 community.  I was extremely impressed with the step by step training system and the friendly mentorship I received right off the bat. As a result, I caught on to the format of the SIM a lot quicker than I anticipated and gained the confidence to add my own style and idea’s to the storylines without fear of rejection or ridicule. The people are always friendly and always willing to help, whether it be via email, yahoo groups, forums, wiki, or a hundred other means.
+: UFOP: Starbase-118 gives me a place to write consistently, while gaining inspiration from the wide variety of storylines and characters to SIM. It also allows me to interact with an extremely welcoming, and social group of like-minded writers. This has been a wonderful and extremely addictive experience so far! In the near future I'm looking forward to diving into aspects of the Starbase 118 world I have yet to try, such as the writing contests and Out of Character services. There really is something for just about everyone in this group!!
+===Darren Shan===
+:I’ve been a Star trek fan for years, and have always wanted it to be real. A year or so back my sister told me about this star trek website she had found, “UFOP Starbase 118” and applied to, unfortunately she wasn’t accepted, so I forgot about it completely until April 2010. I got a conformation e-mail in just 6 hours, and a group started the next day. My favourite thing about UFOP is that the staff give you an idea, but the crew decides where it goes, so if you gave every ship the same idea they would each have different results, and that means that every missions different. Also the wiki allows you to expand on your character, it’s friends, family, appearance, history, to make your character have real experiences.
+===Alleran Tan===
+:As a life-long Star Trek fan, I discovered to my abject horror at the end of 2009 that my partner had never seen a single episode! Accordingly, I took her to see the first of the J.J. Abrams reboots and she was hooked. We sat down and watched all the Trek I had onhand (which, of course, was everything). Rapidly exhausting my stockpile of episodes, and my own personal passion reinvigorated, I went looking for Play By Email communities to join- my search lead me directly to UFOP:Starbase-118.
+:The application process required me to write a 250 word story set in the Trek universe. This surprised me, but now looking back I think it's an way to get the writing juices flowing early, and to make you think about the character you're going to play before you play it! In short order I was placed into the Academy, and wow. What a ride. As they say, the rest is history!
+:The UFOP:Starbase-118 community maintains the highest quality of writing standards, but also fosters an atmosphere of tolerance and acceptance. If you're looking for a place to improve your writing, then this is the place- my writing has improved out of sight in the close-to-a-year I've been playing now. The command staff and the other writers here are, to put it simply, wonderful... collectively they will help you in every aspect of your writing and encourage you to reach for the stars.
+:The rest is up to you.
+===Tallis Rhul===
+:I joined UFOP:Starbase 118 a little over a year ago after searching the web for a top quality play-by-email roleplay. As a keen roleplayer offline and a former member of other SIM groups, I was keen to join a community that valued their players and could provide a high quality experience in terms of Star Trek roleplaying. I was not disappointed.
+:Starbase 118 is rich in resources relating to all aspects of Star Trek and SIMming. The SB118 wiki provides information on Star Trek aliens, ships and technology, as well as information on how to roleplay each duty post. In addition, the main website is home to writing guides and ideas for inspiration, as well as a professionally laid-out forum that provides access to writing competitions, and a chance for your character to interact with any other member of the fleet in an out-of-storyline context.
+:In order to maintain its high standards, the group offers a training program for all new members. At first I thought this would be a little intimidating, but right from the first email I felt like a valued part of a crew, and this continued into my current assignment aboard the USS Challenger. As Lieutenant Commander Tallis Rhul, I currently serve as Second Officer and Chief of Operations, with a number of other characters played by skilled writers who are friendly, and definitely know their Star Trek lore! I have frequently been surprised and entertained by the twists that the other writers have come up with for their characters, and appreciated the chance to interact with them.
+:I have been privileged enough to befriend other members of the fleet during my time here, as there are dozens of different ways to interact with your fellow group members, through the forums, or through various guilds and subcommittees. In fact, I recently started a second player character aboard another ship in the fleet, the USS Eagle, and have been received by the crew with open arms.
+:That's to be expected with SB118. Every member of the admin and command staff is accommodating and helpful. Their expertise and dedication make it a pleasure to be a member of a continually expanding corner of the Star Trek universe.
+===Sasak===
+*Date of Review: Thurs., 8 July 2010
+:I have been a member of Starbase 118 for one year with my current character, but I had originally joined back in 2004, and the group itself has been in existence since 1994! I originally joined, and have kept coming back when real life allows, because of the high level of sim quality in the group, the great sense of community in the group, the established and structured nature of the group, and because of the high level of Trek-realism the group provides.
+:Starbase 118 provides lots of support and assistance, but also allows you freedom to explore your character and duty post. It also has its own forums (which includes areas for each ship's crew, each duty post, guilds, and other out of character and in character areas), wiki (where you can maintain detailed pages on your character and contribute to articles about ships, aliens, etc), and main page, which acts as the main hub, directing you to the forums and wiki along with other interesting and helpful pages.
+:There are around ten different ships active in the group at any one particular time, with about eight to fifteen crewmembers on each ship. Once you finish training, you are assigned to the ship that best suits your needs and simming style! This includes, how often you can sim, what type of missions you enjoy the most (i.e. intrigue, action, adventure, scientific, diplomatic), what type of vessel you prefer (starbase or starship), and what duty post you want.
+:One of the best things about Starbase 118 is its training program for new recruits. All new recruits are required to go through a week long training mission to get acquainted with the rules and format of Starbase 118. This is very helpful before being thrown into the thick of the action and is led by competent senior officers.
+:If you enjoy writing and like Star Trek, why not join this epic play-by-email role playing game where you write for your own original character, and meet and make friends with people from across the country and across the world.
+===Miles Unum===
+*Date of Review: Sun., 23 May 2010
+:I have been a Star Trek fan since I was a kid, which was just a "few" years ago. My fascination with Star Trek started with the original series, which was in re-runs, and continued with the Next Generation and the motion pictures. Right after I saw the 2009 Star Trek movie on opening day, I felt the desire to connect with other Star Trek fans in some form of gaming atmosphere, and so, I went to the Internet and began looking at what was available. Role playing through PBEM (Play By E-Mail) groups seemed to be the most prevalent way Star Trek fans were connecting and continuing Gene Roddenberry's dream. I found a few web sites that peaked my interest, and I spent some time looking at each one and checking reviews of those groups through other sites. I kept coming back to UFOP: StarBase 118 RPG's web site for several reasons. The home page was professional, there were links to tutorials, a thorough wiki site, forums, and there was a lot of information about the group, which had a history going back 15 years. I decided to apply, and I received a quick and friendly response that I was accepted and would immediately begin training, which consisted of learning how to participate in the group. I completed the training a week later, and I was assigned to a writing group which was writing a story on a starship near Romulan space. It didn't take long before I was participating in a story that allowed me to be involved in a new and evolving Star Trek episode true to Roddenberry's vision. I wasn't involved in writing much until I joined UFOP: StarBase 118 RPG. I never imagined that I would have this much fun writing and contributing to an ongoing story with others who love Star Trek. I have also met others in the group who knew very little about Star Trek at first but contributed as much as anyone else. I look forward to continuing the friendships I've made in this group and continuing to explore the final frontier.
+===Kali Nicholotti===
+*Date of Review: Thu., 11 June 2009
+:As a child with a vivid imagination, and the need to go above and beyond conventional life, I had the pleasure of getting into a variety of different RPG groups at a rather young age. One of these was a star trek play by email group, where I learned the basics of how the internet could be used to facilitate a role playing game. Like so many PBeM groups of its time, it eventually died out, and I had moved on.
+:Recently, I realized that I would really like to get back into a community that offered what this first email RPG offered, but it was difficult as so many of the trek based RPGs had long died and became pieces of dead space online. While the pages were there, the people were not. I had nearly given up in finding such a game when I stumbled upon Starbase 118.
+:It did not take long for me to become involved in the training classes, and to get posted aboard a vessel. The speed in which everything happened amazed me, and it was easy to see that there were some very dedicated leaders behind this group. Training was a wonderful intro into their world, pointing the way into the wiki that so many members had participated in over the long years that this group has been up and active.
+:Above all, however, I was deeply impressed by the feeling of community, and how welcoming all of the current members were. Though geographically separated around the globe, people from many different walks of life had gathered here, in this place, to continue the trek through the stars without fear of reprieve or discrimination. The dedication, attention to detail, and welcoming spirit of SB 118 is truly a credit to the image of what Star Trek was always meant to portray.
 ===Tal Tel-ar===
 *Date of Review: Thu., 21 May 2009
-:I have been playing all kinds of RPG's for many years. Well over 20 years in fact. Starting with the classic old style of getting together with your friends and sitting down together to play D&D. Over the years the group I played with experimented with almost every RPG game that had been created. Some became favourites, others we quickly got rid of as they just were not well developed. I still get together with them when I can but with most of us haveing families it's not as easy as it once was.
+:I have been playing all kinds of RPG's for many years. Well over 20 years in fact. Starting with the classic old style of getting together with your friends and sitting down together to play D&D. Over the years the group I played with experimented with almost every RPG game that had been created. Some became favourites, others we quickly got rid of as they just were not well developed. I still get together with them when I can but with most of us having families it's not as easy as it once was.
 :Sometime in the late 1990's I found a few interesting online e-mail RPG's that I joined and tried out. Most were short lived but a few were well lead and lasted for a few years. Of those I tried a number of them were Star Trek based. One of my favorite was a completely Cardassian RPG with 2 ships and a base. It was an excellent site with tons of data and background info on the Cardassians. Unfortunately interest slowly petered out and the game folded after about 2 years. About this time I became involved with a X-Man RPG and after about a year I took over the site and then continued to run it for just over 5 years.
-:Shortly after this I started looking around the internet for a new RPG for me to join and try out. I must have checked out over 20 different kinds of RPG's when I found Starbase 118. I was suprised by the complexity and devotion to detail. The amount of data that had been written for their own wiki site. For that matter by the number of active ships and the large number of active members. The more I read the more I liked about the site so I carefully considered what kind of character I wanted to play and submitted it for consideration.
+:Shortly after this I started looking around the internet for a new RPG for me to join and try out. I must have checked out over 20 different kinds of RPG's when I found Starbase 118. I was surprised by the complexity and devotion to detail. The amount of data that had been written for their own wiki site. For that matter by the number of active ships and the large number of active members. The more I read the more I liked about the site so I carefully considered what kind of character I wanted to play and submitted it for consideration.
 :I have been a happy member of this group for almost 4 years now. In that time I have served on 4 different vessels and have slowly been able to work my way up the ranks to Lt. Commander. I have also been a Security officer, Tactical officer, Helmsman, Mission Specialist, Chief of Security, Chief of Tactical and the 2nd Officer. It has been by far the best on line RPG that I have ever been involved with. The people have been very helpful. I am sure that if you love Star Trek, you will also enjoy playing and serveing aboard one of the Starbase 118 vessels. Till then take care and keep the dream alive.
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 === Iolo Llewelyn ===
 *Date of Review: Wed., 13 May 2009
-:While finishing up my undergrad degree in psychology in 1998 a friend of mine began telling me about this "new phenomenon" emerging on the internet with early text based MMORPG's and MUSHes (Massive multiplayer online role playing games and Multi-User Shared Hallucinations). Having been an avid role playing fan since 1982, I ventured out on the net in the hopes of finding one of these types of groups to see what the buzz was about. In the process I stumbled acrossed UFOP: Starbase 118 and was immediately drawn to it out of my passion for Star Trek. It didn't dissapoint. Within a few short days I had completed my training sims and was assigned to a ship; thrust into the middle of an adventure that evolved in ever new and exciting ways as each crewmate contributed to the ongoing scenario. One of the things that struck me as most interesting was the fact that, at least in cyberspace, Roddenberry's vision of the future was a bonafide reality. Our crew consisted of people from Europe, North America, Africa and Australia, a truly international effort united under the banner of Starfleet. This was unlike anything I'd ever experienced and I was hooked. The fact that many of us were playing roles reminiscent of our respective real life areas of expertise made the experience that much more immersive. These players were just as passionate about the genre as I was and I found myself growing as a writer in the process.
+:While finishing up my undergrad degree in psychology in 1998 a friend of mine began telling me about this "new phenomenon" emerging on the internet with early text based MMORPG's and MUSHes (Massive multiplayer online role playing games and Multi-User Shared Hallucinations). Having been an avid role playing fan since 1982, I ventured out on the net in the hopes of finding one of these types of groups to see what the buzz was about. In the process I stumbled acrossed UFOP: Starbase 118 and was immediately drawn to it out of my passion for Star Trek. It didn't disappoint. Within a few short days I had completed my training sims and was assigned to a ship; thrust into the middle of an adventure that evolved in ever new and exciting ways as each crewmate contributed to the ongoing scenario. One of the things that struck me as most interesting was the fact that, at least in cyberspace, Roddenberry's vision of the future was a bonafide reality. Our crew consisted of people from Europe, North America, Africa and Australia, a truly international effort united under the banner of Starfleet. This was unlike anything I'd ever experienced and I was hooked. The fact that many of us were playing roles reminiscent of our respective real life areas of expertise made the experience that much more immersive. These players were just as passionate about the genre as I was and I found myself growing as a writer in the process.
 :Over the years I drifted in and out of simming and even ran my own Star Trek sim organization at one time, but I can honestly say that nowhere have I ever found a better example of excellence in the field that could match the UFOP, and that included my own. Recently I, quite by accident, again stumbled acrossed the UFOP:Starbase 118 group and I was amazed at just how much the group had grown; how professional and comprehensive their site had become. While the UFOP of my early days was very, very good, this newer, updated version had evolved over the years of my absence into something orders of magnatude above and beyond what I would have even thought possible. Unlike the past where a person would have to check out every Trek manual in the library to provide technical information, the UFOP of today has its own massive Wiki with hundreds of interesting and helpful articles. In addition, the member's forum provides an endless array of fun with engaging discussions, activities such as the bi-monthly ceative writing challenges, word games and even access to dedicated chat rooms where the players could meet in real time and hang out. Having returned to the fold after so many years I was concerned that I might have difficulties, however the training process remains a fun and easy way to acclimate to the sim experience and I can honestly say that the training staff are supportive and top notch people. I rejoined 8 months ago and can attest to the fact that the UFOP is bigger and better than ever before. It doesn't matter if you are new to Star Trek, new to role playing, or are a veteran/ expert in both. The UFOP:Starbase 118 PBEM RPG will be one of the most rewarding and fun times you will ever have. You owe it to yourself to check it out, because I am confident that once you try it, you wil love it as much as the rest of us do!
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 ===Toni Turner===
 * Date of Review: Wed, 16 Apr 2008
-: Being first attracted by a well-organized website, and a comprehensive Wiki presence, I became a member of UFOP SB118 2 ½ years ago, but soon found the group had many more facets that have proved to be both enjoyable and challenging.
+: Being first attracted by a well-organized website, and a comprehensive Wiki presence, I became a member of UFOP SB118 five years ago, but soon found the group had many more facets that have proved to be both enjoyable and challenging.
 : From the week long Academy class that engagingly gave me my first taste of writing with other writers, I have cultivated friendships with people hailing from all over the World who share the same interest in writing as I do. The exposure allows us to learn from each other. The crews I've served with, and the SB118 Staff, have been never ending sources of information and support.
 : On the SB118 forums we share a portion of our real lives with pictures, good natured banter and thought provoking commentary. Additionally, we are afforded the opportunity to compete with each other in writing competitions.
 : When I joined I knew very little about Star Trek or futuristic space travel, but through reading the sims of others, and independent research, I can honestly say that the more I learn the more I want to learn.
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 * Source Link: [http://www.pbem-portal.com/games_review_show.php?type_id=1877 PBeM-Portal.com]
 * "I joined SB118 in Jan/Feb of this year (2007). I had no previous experience of simming or PBEM but the website and the sense of history enticed me to give it a go. I had done tabletop role-playing before and I found the training period very helpful in terms on understanding some of the basic concepts (such as email format) that the group uses. The trainers all proved very helpful, informative & accommodating, the website and wiki are full of useful and interesting information and the game itself is very friendly with a good mix of adventure and mystery and plenty of opportunity for role-playing. What I like the most about SB118, however, is the sense of community you get through the message boards with plenty of folks happy to chat on any subject, not just star trek."
+===Allen Diaz===
+*Date of Review August 15th 2011
+*I joined the fleet a little over 3 years ago. I have served in four different fleets full time over the past 13 years.  By far The Starbase 118 Fleet is the best I have served with.  They have been the best at helping and shaping me into a better writer growing daily.  I still have a long way to go, but I have come a long way from day one.  I went back and read all my 1st months post a few weeks ago and I was like “WOW” they should have tossed me out the air lock and warped away.  But the Command Crew and Mentors helped develop me more and more. Not only have I had a great time IC, but I have just as much fun with OOC work as well working with the Image Team, or on the Wiki, and playing on the Forums.  I have come to feel like this 118 community is a large extended family.  I have made some great friends on my ship and even some on other ships.
+The Command staff in the fleet is some of the best I have ever seen.  Not many fleets out there can you chat and brainstorm with the Fleet Adm. or other Commanding officers so freely.  So I guess I am a Cheerleader or a groupie for the 118 fleet.  I look forward to many more years of great simming and growing in this community.
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