As has been previously stated throughout this thread... this bundle has been a missed opportunity of disappointingly large proportions. When the 10th-anniversary bundle was announced, I started farming dilithium any way I could, playing the Dilithium Exchange, etc., just to scrounge up enough resources to get it. It was…
Owing to the modularity of the ship tailor, there are most likely other issues at work, too. (For a demonstration of one such issue, try fitting the Defiant pylons on the Gallant hull, and tell me they don't look weird. :tongue:)
The current state of the Exchange suggests that, unless you've got oodles of EC already, you will need to shell out $200 for the R&D ship either way. This way, you get it account-wide, along with 9 other ships. :tongue: While the former is plausible, the latter is highly unlikely.
To be honest, I'm not too fond of the new voicework for Kal Dano and Noye (I don't remember if I expressed that sentiment about the former before). For one, there seems to be a little less variety in the voices now. More importantly, though, the voice acting sounds seriously phoned in - a little less so with Noye, but…
You're on a roll these days, aren't you... :tongue: I have to admit, it's a little scary how much thought you've put into all this stuff over the years (while still making it all fit). Makes the things I've been cooking up (unrelated to Star Trek, or I'd probably have posted some of it already) feel like a kid playing…
Eh, a little control would still go a long way, IMO. Balance in all things and all that. :tongue: That being said, in principle I suspect I might agree with your preference. It takes HAMSTERs to do TRIBBLE. (I couldn't help myself, and actually have only the vaguest idea of what I 'censored', but the sentiment remains.)…
Hence my use of the word "arguably". There's two arguments that could be used here, either of which is sufficient for time travel, and neither of which we are currently capable of testing: * Time travel is possible with our physical laws, we just haven't figured it out yet * The laws of physics are not a multiversal…
It's infinite. In an infinite multiverse, time travel can be explained away as always having happened between those two time periods in those two (sets of) universes. You don't have to create anything on the fly, because it had already been created in anticipation of the time travel event. (Arguably, the concept of the…
Yeaaaaah. no. The science in Star Trek is mainly fictional with questionable self-consistency. They do sometimes make some token effort to connect it to real science, but more often than not this results in starships punching holes in the event horizons of singularities. Amusingly, Star Wars often makes more sense when it…
That being said, they could also be inertially launched if you assume a gravity-free form of dive-bombing. Disengage whatever's holding the bomb in place, then accelerate away - preferably in a direction that does not cause a collision with the bomb itself, which is usually 'up'.
I typically play an assortment of tracks from Star Trek: Legacy when playing STO (assuming I remember to play anything...), and Sompek is no exception. :tongue:
Although I share your dislike of Discovery (some aspects of it, anyways - I still find it tolerable once I stop thinking of it as Star Trek), I think you might have better luck if you focus your remarks on things that really are true about it, like the ridiculous resolution of the Klingon war arc. Simply repeating the same…
While I personally feel that they have remained relatively faithful to the original design (certainly much more so than the non-Prime Connies we've seen over the past decade), and it is a pretty nice look... He's still wrong. There's a distinction between "major in-universe overhaul" and "major out-of-universe overhaul" -…
Regardless, ten inches of duranium, tritanium or whatever new alloy Starfleet comes up is a hell of a lot stronger than ten inches of transparent aluminum. (You're also still ignoring the increased difficulty of filtering overwhelming amounts of light in time to protect the crew from potentially blinding or fatal effects.)
However, Starfleet bridges are a perfect example of how a "monitor bridge" can still be placed on the outside, where it is vulnerable to being smashed by incoming asteroids, particles, torpedoes, explosives, weapons fire, etc., etc., etc.. :tongue: That being said, Starfleet implementations of the "monitor bridge" concept…