- "'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, ("The Drumhead")
Help: About
Hi, I'm Cleanse, and I'm a Trekkie. My favourite Star Trek series is either Star Trek: The Next Generation or Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, depending on which I'm watching at the time. Other science fiction series I enjoy are Firefly, Babylon 5 and Farscape.
In real life, I'm a university student, studying Law/Arts at the University of Queensland. My (non-fictional) interests include politics and history.
Most of the time on Memory Alpha you'll see me working on background information. Apart from contributing new material, I also keep tabs on existing information and recent contributions to ensure that they have proper citations. Unfortunately, a lot of potentially interesting information has to be removed because no citation was provided. If in doubt, please cite it.
In addition, I've undertaken some quite random side projects and contributions of in-universe articles. See below if you're interested.
If you'd like any assistance or clarification regarding Memory Alpha policies, or to comment on any of my edits, please leave me a message on my talk page.
The Cleanse Saga
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| 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 |
| 9,772 edits | 19 June 2013 |
Semi-Significant Things I Have Done
- New articles
- Stubs expanded
- Templates created
The Menagerie
I've done quite a lot of random side projects over the years. Some of the more notable ones include:
- 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.
- Official Bottler of bottle shows.
- 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
- Adding external links to Memory Beta and Wikipedia as appropriate.
- Lots of character sidebars updated and converted to the template. (Favourite: Spot)
- 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
"Vigilance, Mr. Worf – that is the price we have to continually pay."
Geordi's medical record
{{Incite}} Busters - Cleanse's Top Star Trek Web Resources
- Star Trek scripts at Star Trek Minutiae - All TNG and DS9 scripts, a handful of others.
- Archive of AOL chats - Chats with Ronald D. Moore including heaps of info up to the end of Deep Space Nine. You too can spread the word of RON across MA!
- Google Books - you'd be amazed how much stuff you can find in old magazines and books.
- Chrissie's Transcript Site - transcripts of every Star Trek episode. Not 100% accurate, particularly regarding spellings.
Best and Worst
My favourite and least favourite episodes.
Star Trek: The Original Series
- Best
- "The Naked Time" (Season One)
- "The Enemy Within"
- "Balance of Terror"
- "Tomorrow is Yesterday"
- "Space Seed"
- "The Devil in the Dark"
- "The City on the Edge of Forever"
- "Mirror, Mirror" (Season Two)
- "The Doomsday Machine"
- "Journey to Babel"
- "The Trouble with Tribbles"
- "The Ultimate Computer"
- "The Enterprise Incident" (Season Three)
- "The Tholian Web"
- "All Our Yesterdays"
- Worst
Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Best
- "The Big Goodbye" (Season One)
- "Conspiracy"
- "The Measure Of A Man" (Season Two)
- "Q Who"
- "Yesterday's Enterprise" (Season Three)
- "The Best of Both Worlds"
- "Remember Me" (Season Four)
- "Data's Day"
- "The Drumhead"
- "Darmok" (Season Five)
- "Disaster"
- "Cause and Effect"
- "I Borg"
- "The Inner Light"
- "Relics" (Season Six)
- "Chain of Command, Part I"/"Part II"
- "Face of the Enemy"
- "Tapestry"
- "The Chase"
- "Timescape"
- "Frame of Mind"
- "Parallels" (Season Seven)
- "The Pegasus"
- "Lower Decks"
- "All Good Things..."
- Worst
Star Trek:Deep Space Nine
- Best
- "Emissary" (Season One)
- "Duet"
- "In the Hands of the Prophets"
- "The Circle", "The Siege" (Season Two)
- "Necessary Evil"
- "Whispers"
- "The Wire"
- "The House of Quark" (Season Three)
- "Civil Defense"
- "Visionary"
- "Past Tense, Part I"/"Part II"
- "Improbable Cause"/"The Die is Cast"
- "The Visitor" (Season Four)
- "Little Green Men"
- "Our Man Bashir"
- "Homefront"/"Paradise Lost"
- "Apocalypse Rising" (Season Five)
- "Trials and Tribble-ations"
- "For the Uniform"
- "In Purgatory's Shadow"/"By Inferno's Light"
- "A Time to Stand"(Season Six)
- "Rocks and Shoals"
- "Behind the Lines"
- "Favor the Bold"/"Sacrifice of Angels"
- "Statistical Probabilities"
- "Far Beyond the Stars"
- "In the Pale Moonlight"
- "The Siege of AR-558" (Season Seven)
- "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"
- "Tacking Into the Wind"
- Worst
Star Trek: Enterprise
- Best
- "Broken Bow" (Season One)
- "Shockwave"
- "Cogenitor" (Season Two)
- "Twilight" (Season Three)
- "Proving Ground"
- "Stratagem"
- "Azati Prime"
- "Damage"
- "Home" (Season Four)
- "The Forge"/"Awakening"/"Kir'Shara"
- "Babel One"/"United"
- "In a Mirror, Darkly"/"Part II"
- "Demons"/"Terra Prime"
- Worst
Novels
- Recommended
- The Star Trek: Vanguard series by David Mack, Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore, Marco Palmieri and James Swallow (MU version) – A truly epic Star Trek saga in the TOS era, with an incredible number of characters, places, starships and plot threads.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Sorrows of Empire by David Mack – Hands down the most intelligent use of the Mirror Universe since "Mirror, Mirror". A grand tragedy and Spock is just plain awesome.
- 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: 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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