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When do we get to visit the Galactic barrier and the Great Barrier in STO.
bwleon7
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I would love to visit these locations in the game.
Galactic Barrier surrounds the Milky Way galaxy and was visited by NCC 1701
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Galactic_barrier
Great Barrier surrounds the center of the Milky Way galaxy and was visited by NCC 1701 A
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Barrier
Earth is pretty much in the middle and sits about 25,000 to 28,000 light years from either. However the Barrier is about 7000 light years from the center.
Also fun note: Kirk and his crew traveled to both in their adventures. So somehow they had to have traveled at least 43,000 light years just to get to the two locations plus all the missions they have had along they way surely added quite a few more light years onto their total. They certainly are moving at a much faster speed then Voyager could since it would have needed 75 years to get 70,000 light years.
Galactic Barrier surrounds the Milky Way galaxy and was visited by NCC 1701
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Galactic_barrier
Great Barrier surrounds the center of the Milky Way galaxy and was visited by NCC 1701 A
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Barrier
Earth is pretty much in the middle and sits about 25,000 to 28,000 light years from either. However the Barrier is about 7000 light years from the center.
Also fun note: Kirk and his crew traveled to both in their adventures. So somehow they had to have traveled at least 43,000 light years just to get to the two locations plus all the missions they have had along they way surely added quite a few more light years onto their total. They certainly are moving at a much faster speed then Voyager could since it would have needed 75 years to get 70,000 light years.
Dr. Miranda Jones: I understand, Mr. Spock. The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.
Mr. Spock: And the ways our differences combine, to create meaning and beauty.
-Star Trek: Is There in Truth No Beauty? (1968)
Mr. Spock: And the ways our differences combine, to create meaning and beauty.
-Star Trek: Is There in Truth No Beauty? (1968)
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and why are there modified humans running around controlling everything and everyone with those shiny gray eyes?
better off sticking to the known enemies in the galaxy.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
The Great Barrier? Not likely to appear any time soon, as Star Trek 5 does not and never will exist.
Not even for a Mk-14 Legendary Marsh Mellon Dispenser?
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Those folks over at http://www.startrekcontinues.com/ did a fantastic job.
Mr. Spock: And the ways our differences combine, to create meaning and beauty.
-Star Trek: Is There in Truth No Beauty? (1968)
These events remind me of the theory that each series takes place in an altered timeline, due to the time travel of the previous shows.
See: https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/7p0sj8/theory_multiple_timelines/
tl;dr
TOS, TAS timeline 1 - Faster ships, Impulse Drive Faster than Light, History after 1968 is radically differant
TOS Movies - California still exists, they leave tech behind, remove a biologist.
TNG - Subtly changed by TOS Crews time travel. Biggest change, Impulse is sublight, Zefram Cochrane no longer born on Alpha Centauri, Lunar Colonies are founded much later, Los Angeles is not sunk by the 90's.
Enterprise: Better Technology all around other than ship speeds. Huge time war.
Kelvin: Culminate changes to the past lead to better computers, better weapons, lots of holographic displays, and Kirk being born in Space and not Iowa.
And now Disco which has strange mutated Klingons... who knows what Timetravel event caused them all to loose their hair.
It gets even worse when you compare it to all the other series, save the glorious "GLOWY SPACE FUNGUS WHEEEEEEEE" from TRIBBLE.
Well... we do have access to the Iconian Gates, and apparently there may be some in the Andromeda Galaxy.
And... if Star Trek V doesn't exist... explain the existance of Nimbus III in game.
This is true. TOS was not consistant. Hell... there was apparently an episode where they were able to set SHIP based phasers to stun and stun a whole city block! Back then the tech was as powerful as the Plot demanded. Warp speed was wonky, having a Constitution Class going beyond Warp 10 in a couple instances. It wasn't until TNG that we started getting more consistancy in tech capabilities, not to mention the revamped Warp scale that I believe has been kept ever since.
And for the most part I believe the Warp Scale has been honored in everything since, including Enterprise. Other than Star Trek Into Darkness, it took time to travel places. Took the NX-01 time to travel from Earth to Qo'nos, and that's including the sidetrip to actually recover Klang. Into Darkness... had some wonky travel involved. Didn't take long to reach Klingon space, had long range torps that could apparently hit Qo'nos with pinpoint accuracy from the Federation/Klingon Border, AND... apparently Earth's Gravity caught both the Vengeance and Enterprise in Lunar Orbit.
But... that is beside the point.
Hell... there are things that were brought up in TOS that never came back in later shows, like Dilithium jewelry and the previously mentioned Starship Orbital Stun Blast.
One wonders why, if the Klingons were a star-traveling species as early as the 1700s on our calendar and Qo'noS was only five days from Earth at warp 5, we hadn't become a satrapy of the Klingon Empire around the time of the American Revolution.
You'd also think the Klingons would be a lot more advanced that Humans by the 22nd Century than just shields, Transporters, and Photon Torpedos. Yet an NX class Starship was more than a match for a BoP.
Also... weren't the Romulans also space faring for quite some time? At least on par with the Vulcans? And a little blue upstart planet with illogical, courageous, sometimes too daring for their own good Humans beat them in a full on war.
Although it is implied that "God" was a prisoner on that planet in the center of the Galaxy. Now the question is... why is there a barrier around the outside of the Galaxy as well?
some books said it was an attempt to keep folks like the Borg or the Doomsday machines out. one novel even said the Q did that.
Well, it was set up to keep that jerk locked away. http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/The_One
That is true, though in some books the god within the Great Barrier around the center of the milky way was a being that was brought into the universe thru the Guardian of Forever by Q, and the barrier around the galaxy was created to keep another being brought thru it outside the galaxy after being expelled. I found the books that went this route interesting an actually made some sense. It is like with the being the skin of evil that killed Tasha Yar, and was supposedly cast off by a race of titans (I think) as their negative side an imprisoned on the world. I think looking into that character's background an history would have been really interesting too like as a Halloween type episode.
The center of the galaxy, on the other hand, isn't a place you're going to want to go - it's intensely radioactive, what with the close-packed stars and the supermassive black hole at the core. If there's a barrier there, it was probably erected by some Elder Race or other that wanted to keep any new starfaring species from repeating their mistake.
"WE have to investigate why the Galactic Barrier is bleaching..." or something like that?
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
I can see it now....
UNLIMITED POWER!
Roll an alien and set eyes to 'reflective' and pick up the Sompek lightning kit modual.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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