User:Cleanse

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Cleanse is a huge Star Trek fan, and spends far too much time reading and editing Memory Alpha.

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"'With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged."

Jean-Luc Picard, (TNG: "The Drumhead")

The Cleanse Saga

Event	Date
First edit	17 July 2007
500 edits	2 December 2007
1000 edits	15 January 2008
2000 edits	10 April 2008
Voted administrator	28 April 2008
5000 edits	14 July 2009
5,662 edits	11 November 2009

Semi-Significant Things I Have Done

Projects

However, most of Cleanse's time is spent on somewhat random projects:

Writing up TNG Background Info
The War on (Bad) Background Information – "Never give up, never surrender!"
Adding external links to Memory Beta and Wikipedia as appropriate.
Lots of character sidebars updated and converted to the template. (Favourite: Spot)
Reckless proliferation of quotes across MA:
- Memorable Quotes added to Kira Nerys, Kira Nerys (mirror), Odo, Elim Garak etc.
- Header quotes added to time, James T. Kirk, temporal mechanics etc.
Improving all of MA's coverage of politics and history. Most prominent additions:
- Bajoran Provisional Government, Council of Ministers – greatly expanded
- United Federation of Planets – some cleanup and expansion; hopefully this will be an FA one day.
- Created and implemented sidebar template for interstellar states
Expanded coverage of friends and family on Miles O'Brien
Moved non-canon Rules of Acquisition to their own section – a lot more time-consuming than it looked!
Added many alien and human sayings to the proverb page.
Re-engineered core processes of Memory Alpha to ensure its commercial vitality into the 21st Century. Lifted stock price 200% in last two months.

Image Contributions

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"Bolian tonic water, calms the nerves!"

Cleaned up

"Vigilance, Mr. Worf – that is the price we have to continually pay."

Geordi's medical record

Best and Worst

My favourite and least favourite episodes:

Novels

Best:

Articles of the Federation by Keith R.A. DeCandido – A very unique take on Star Trek, by taking us into the centre of the Federation's political processes. Very witty and engaging. With the bad-ass President Nan Bacco at the helm, the Federation is in good hands.
The Star Trek: Vanguard series by David Mack (# 1,3) and Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore (# 2,4) – A truly epic Star Trek saga in the TOS era, with an incredible number of characters, places, starships and plot threads.
Star Trek: The Lost Era: The Art of the Impossible by Keith R.A. DeCandio – ties together pretty much every canon event between 2328 and 2346 in a very epic and wide-ranging story. Fleshes out the back story of the TNG era on both the political and personal level.
Star Trek: Titan: Orion's Hounds by Christopher L. Bennett – a fantastic novel on cosmozoans (space-borne lifeforms) and the alien society that has arisen around hunting them. In the best tradition of Star Trek, thoroughly explores issues of tradition and modernity with a sci-fi twist.
The Buried Age by Christopher L. Bennett – Hey, what did Picard do in the nine years between captaining the Stargazer and Ent-D? Read this novel and find out, as well as plenty of cool background for TNG.
Star Trek: Section 31: Cloak by S.D. Perry – Deals with the aftermath of "The Enterprise Incident" with Section 31 and omega particles. Great characterisation of the TOS crew, which makes it very enjoyable to read. And Kirk's quote on Section 31 at the end is great. A little short, though.

Worst:

Star Trek: The Lost Era: Well of Souls by Ilsa J. Bick – a meandering plot and weak characters. A pity, because Rachel Garrett deserved a better novel.
Hollow Men by Una McCormack – billed as a follow up to one of the best DS9 episodes, "In the Pale Moonlight". However, the plot is trivial, there is virtually no worthwhile dialogue/character development, and the narrative occasionally lapses into metaphoric crap. Avoid.

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"Hey, I can see my house from up here!"
User:	Cleanse
Location:	Brisbane, Australia
Occupation:	University Student
Favourite Series:	TNG/DS9 (tie)
Favourite Film:	Star Trek: First Contact
Favourite Regular Characters:	Kira, Picard
Favourite Recurring Characters:	Gowron, Bareil Antos

"Ha ha ha...Spock..."

Cleanse 5,662 edits since July 17, 2007

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