Dear Warriors:
This is the third installment in a multi-part series that goes through the entire KDF story arc, asking the question, "What is the story anyways?" Join me for the next few weeks as we experience the KDF story as both readers and players. In honor of Season 7 and all of the Romulan material coming out, I have decided to dedicate this entire entry to "The Romulan Mystery."
Qapla'!:
http://priorityonepodcast.com/wordpress/warriors-way-5-what-is-the-kdf-story-anyway-part-iii/
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To give just a short answer, Roach, I would say that the KDF "story" is a fun experience overall, but it is often fragmentary, and with many narrative "potholes" as it were. Let me give you the extremes. The best best missions so far are the Fekh'Iri Return and The Romulan Mystery. Both episodes, however, suffer from major bug issues which I deal with in the blogs. But they both have incredible stories to tell.
The absolute worst part of the KDF storyline is, not surprisingly, the beginning. The tutorial is a disaster, and if I had only one wish regarding the KDF storyline it would be that the tutorial is blasted to oblivion and replaced with a brand new tutorial--one that is perhaps like the one you suggested in the P1 KDF Q & A: you kill your own captain. Now this would be Klingon.
It was a good idea, though it was not mine. I merely was passing it on in a thread.
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The KDF-Fed war is a leitmotiv when it should be the main tune. It pops its head into the conversation every once in a while so that no one forgets it is there, but it is hardly the cohesive story arc that it should be.
As it stands, the STO story is a tapestry with great potential for beauty, if only all the loose threads would be woven together in a compelling way.
J'mpok wants the war. The Iconians surely want us at war. My question is, "Where is the war?"
My best answer: the underpopulated and underdeveloped PvP