Mrs. Pretty Vulcan Phaser Lady has just became my PC's background, and will stay that way until somebody can come up with something better. I even think my Vulcan toon had it put on the bridge!!!!!!!! :P
I am afraid i cannot agree with most of the people here.
I think the picture of a vulcan girl wearing a cleavage heavy Starfleet esque uniform and a Starfleet Phaser looks just childish and cheap. Appealing to the lowest instincts of a male teenage MMO player...
On the other hand Cryptic is doing everything in their powers to repel more mature Star Trek fans with their designs and politics since this game started, so i was not surprised to see the "handsome phaser guy" being replaced with a little girl.
(Btw. strangely, Cryptic likes to advertise with the cobra phaser, but in game this weapon is a joke...)
You're actually in agreement with a "large part" of the people posting in this thread. (I'd say majority, but it seems they gave up, or just left.)
Even the slight change in the direction she's looking in that someone made on photoshop worked wonders. At least her face then made some sense ... But no, they'll keep this abomination on the front page, add it to the launcher, ...:mad:
TOIVA, Toi Vaxx, Toia Vix, Toveg, T'vritha, To Vrax: Bring in the Allegiance class. Toi'Va, Ti'vath, Toivia, Ty'Vris, Tia Vex, Toi'Virth: Add Tier 6 KDF Carrier and Raider. Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them." -Thomas Marrone
A bit of both... honestly Phaser Guy was no better than her, just as sexist and unrealistic.
Really! Still can't tell if it's a joke.
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
Oh come on really... "Sexy Phaser Guy" has almost perfect chisled facial features, a wide "manly" chin, a messianic glow, shoulders so out of proportion they make T'Hooters TRIBBLE look normal and a stiff outstretched arm complete with phallic weapon.
The guy is a homoerotic wet dream of a purely fantasized sexist image of malehood based on some kind of Nietzschien superman complex.
I'm a short guy not very broad shoulders and this kind of stereotyping and sexism has created cultural memes within the female mind that discriminate against the average, not toned, not stupidly wide shoulders, not stupidly chiseled male majority. It stops me getting laid as often as I'd like .
If you're going to cast T'Bazookaz as a sexist image you'd be hypocrite to argue "Sexy Phaser Guy" is not.
If you really really are taking this whole sexism angle seriously then I put it to you that you should be asking for something more normal like the podgy tellerite engineer I posited as a the official face of STO.:cool:
Oh come on really... "Sexy Phaser Guy" has almost perfect chisled facial features, a wide "manly" chin, a messianic glow, shoulders so out of proportion they make T'Hooters TRIBBLE look normal and a stiff outstretched arm complete with phallic weapon.
The guy is a homoerotic wet dream of a purely fantasized sexist image of malehood based on some kind of Nietzschien superman complex.
I'm a short guy not very broad shoulders and this kind of stereotyping and sexism has created cultural memes within the female mind that discriminate against the average, not toned, not stupidly wide shoulders, not stupidly chiseled male majority. It stops me getting laid as often as I'd like .
If you're going to cast T'Bazookaz as a sexist image you'd be hypocrite to argue "Sexy Phaser Guy" is not.
If you really really are taking this whole sexism angle seriously then I put it to you that you should be asking for something more normal like the podgy tellerite engineer I posited as a the official face of STO.:cool:
Not really my point, he's much better than the current one, not perfect, but much better.
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
You know one way to fix this would be to rotate the background image so we have something different to look at each day of the week. Sticking with one image for the forseeable future naturally tends to draw criticism both for lack of new eye candy and the quality of what's on offer.
And from a purely beancounter point of view, you have more chance of attracting new players if you have a variety of attractive archetypes. You could even let a logged-in user pick their preferred image when arriving at the home page (preferred because well, if there's a new image you want to show it off, right?)
You know one way to fix this would be to rotate the background image so we have something different to look at each day of the week. Sticking with one image for the forseeable future naturally tends to draw criticism both for lack of new eye candy and the quality of what's on offer.
And from a purely beancounter point of view, you have more chance of attracting new players if you have a variety of attractive archetypes. You could even let a logged-in user pick their preferred image when arriving at the home page (preferred because well, if there's a new image you want to show it off, right?)
I think that's a great idea. That way both sides are satisfied.
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them." -Thomas Marrone
Rotate the backgrounds.
It's a good freaking idea.
And , seriously, to the poster whose only defense against people calling T'TRIBBLE sexist is to turn around and say that Phaser Guy was sexiest.
You make me laugh.
Deep, belly laughs.
Your insensitivity toward women and sexist issues is staggering.
To reply to you would be useless as you seem blinded by machismo.
Hey people. Regarding T'TRIBBLE.
IT'S A DRAWING !
and not a particularly good one at that.
All of you acting like Beavis and Butthead being all "Huh Huh TRIBBLE" .... (1) You realize how ridiculous you sound, right ? and (2) ITS THE INTERNET ! You realize how easy it is to find pictures of real TRIBBLE , don't you ?
At the end of the day. NO, T'TRIBBLE is no worse than many other sexiest, pandering marketing ploys on the internet. That's true. I would just like to think that a game whose player base is obviously older , middle aged , Star Trek fans in a lot of cases, didn't need to use cheap, pandering, sexiest imagery to appeal to drooling teen boys, and immature man children.
Rotate the backgrounds.
It's a good freaking idea.
And , seriously, to the poster whose only defense against people calling T'TRIBBLE sexist is to turn around and say that Phaser Guy was sexiest.
You make me laugh.
Deep, belly laughs.
Your insensitivity toward women and sexist issues is staggering.
To reply to you would be useless as you seem blinded by machismo.
LOL
Gender stereotypes only exist for women sure....:rolleyes:
Read my post again it's about as anti-machismo as it gets.
How you can misconstrue the short podgy dude criticizing an image for portraying the male in an unrealistic (and out of proportion, look at the size of those shoulders) way that panders to ideas Nietzschien machismo as being blinded by machismo I'll never understand.:D
Try again.
We should have Pudo and Bem on the front-page instead, doing some scanning and stuff.
Gender stereotypes only exist for women sure....:rolleyes:
Read my post again it's about as anti-machismo as it gets.
How you can misconstrue the short podgy dude criticizing an image for portraying the male in an unrealistic (and out of proportion, look at the size of those shoulders) way that panders to ideas Nietzschien machismo as being blinded by machismo I'll never understand.:D
Try again.
The insensitivity and machismo comes in that you are unable to simply say , Yes, the image of T'Booobs is kind of sexiest. Instead , you have to give another example , this time citing how OH the male image is also sexiest blah blah blah.
As if that fact somehow makes the objectifiying and sexist image on the front page less bad.
It's called deflection.
It's actually pretty common.
and insensitive.
The insensitivity and machismo comes in that you are unable to simply say , Yes, the image of T'Booobs is kind of sexiest. Instead , you have to give another example , this time citing how OH the male image is also sexiest blah blah blah.
As if that fact somehow makes the objectifiying and sexist image on the front page less bad.
It's called deflection.
It's actually pretty common.
and insensitive.
I never said T'TRIBBLE wasn't sexist I said that both were... your defence of Phaser Guy by creating a straw man (I.e. that I thought T'TRIBBLE wasn't sexist) is the only deflection going on here.
The truth is as your sig reveals is that you think Phaser Guy is somehow not sexist when he is the very embodiment of machismo, an over proportioned superman with perfect features, the ultimate in masculinity and superiority.
I don't sport any defence of T'TRIBBLE on my sig, because I don't defender. I see her as just a trashy Evony rip-off with grossly oversized ****.
I think we all know who is in the wrong here and it's not me.
By the way, I actually agree that putting a Tellarite Engineer scanning something on the front page would be awesome. It would sure as heck "feel" more Star Trek than what we have now.
By the way, I actually agree that putting a Tellarite Engineer scanning something on the front page would be awesome. It would sure as heck "feel" more Star Trek than what we have now.
Agreed thats why I'm not defending either T'Boob or Phaser guy both are clearly pretty awful gender stereotypes.
Sorry if I sounded a bit harsh in the above post but it grates me that people overlook the fact that society, media and the influential manipulate male form and gender as much as they do female form. We're all victims of it regardless of what genitals we have.
To be honest with you it doesn't overly bother me because I have like a cranial version of Ad-Block, it just blocks out the homogenizing bull**** that society and culture try to throw at us.
People, this is not a problem of sexism. The problem here is that the current drawing is just very bad.
The old phaser guy was not falling over looking with an empty face at us. All that while shooting only god knows where. That's the problem.
TOIVA, Toi Vaxx, Toia Vix, Toveg, T'vritha, To Vrax: Bring in the Allegiance class. Toi'Va, Ti'vath, Toivia, Ty'Vris, Tia Vex, Toi'Virth: Add Tier 6 KDF Carrier and Raider. Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.
Agreed thats why I'm not defending either T'Boob or Phaser guy both are clearly pretty awful gender stereotypes.
Sorry if I sounded a bit harsh in the above post but it grates me that people overlook the fact that society, media and the influential manipulate male form and gender as much as they do female form. We're all victims of it regardless of what genitals we have.
To be honest with you it doesn't overly bother me because I have like a cranial version of Ad-Block, it just blocks out the homogenizing bull**** that society and culture try to throw at us.
I hear your apology.
Sorry if I sound a bit harsh as well, but discrimination, gender stereotyping, and unasked for priviledge are both something that I care about, and am quite knowledgeable about.
I understand your position.
I really do.
I totally disagree with it, but I understand exactly where your line of thinking comes from in modern society.
I would actually love to discuss it, but this is not the right kind of forum to do so.
To prove that the images are not even close in their objectification and pandering sexual imagery, all you have to do (as I suggested pages ago, and spawned a funny piece of art jesmx now has as a sig) is this. Take the image of T'TRIBBLE and replace her with handsome phaser guy. Same Clothing, Same pose, same facial expression. Now take the image of Handsome Phaser Guy and replace him with T'TRIBBLE. His uniform, his pose, his expression.
I have tons more to say about gender priviledge, stereotypes, etc. But as I said, not the right place for it.
regardless, we seem to be in agreement that the current front page image is a cheap, pandering piece of sexist advertising. I can simply agree to disagree about other things.
Rotate the backgrounds.
It's a good freaking idea.
I like this idea. I'd also suggest including Helna, the Rigelian star of Havraha's Foundry missions, within the rotation. She is someone with a back history player's can actually become familiar with.
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People, this is not a problem of sexism. The problem here is that the current drawing is just very bad.
The old phaser guy was not falling over looking with an empty face at us. All that while shooting only god knows where. That's the problem.
^ This. Personally I don't care if we get phaser dude back, or a pudgy Tellarite, rotating images of in game NPCs, or a Tholian in a bikini. As long as SOMETHING is done with this horrible front page image.
It's "sexist" if you're the sort of person who lives such a sheltered, monotonous life that they have to go looking for things to get histrionic about.
Then I'll summon all the males and make a whine thread that will be way more powerful then this one!
Ha ha ha ha ha! Unlimited power... I mean... What was I talking about, the girl's face distracted me!
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"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them." -Thomas Marrone
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And most people really like the new launcher, and I think she should totally be the captain of the new Enterprise
You're actually in agreement with a "large part" of the people posting in this thread. (I'd say majority, but it seems they gave up, or just left.)
Even the slight change in the direction she's looking in that someone made on photoshop worked wonders. At least her face then made some sense ... But no, they'll keep this abomination on the front page, add it to the launcher, ...:mad:
Toi'Va, Ti'vath, Toivia, Ty'Vris, Tia Vex, Toi'Virth: Add Tier 6 KDF Carrier and Raider.
Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.
Don't make ARC mandatory! Keep it optional only!
Totally unrealistic depiction of the male sex, whats worse was the threatening phallic symbolism of his Phaser. Both of them are cliched trash.
Now what I want to see to fix this problem is a New version of T'Mammery.
I want her in that skirt crawling along a jeffries tube, I want the view and angle to be as if we were behind her.
Make it happen please
#2311#2700#2316#2500
Can't tell if you're joking or serious.
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
-Thomas Marrone
A bit of both... honestly Phaser Guy was no better than her, just as sexist and unrealistic.
Also, when has Star Trek not had sexy girls? come one guys.
the last bit I was joking... but still if someone wants to make it I will have no problem looking at it
#2311#2700#2316#2500
Yeah. His clueless expression. The falling over. The skin he was showing. What a degrading image he presented.
The idea that we're all musclebound douchebags with huge shoulders shooting up the galaxy is such a positive image of masculinity :rolleyes:
Let me ask you why isn't he a slightly overweight tellerite engineer?
Don't try and even argue that "sexy phaser" guy as people have been calling him owns the moral high-ground here, he's just another sexist cliche.
speaking of skin check out the ultimate alpha male...
#2311#2700#2316#2500
Really! Still can't tell if it's a joke.
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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There's still hope. :P
Oh come on really... "Sexy Phaser Guy" has almost perfect chisled facial features, a wide "manly" chin, a messianic glow, shoulders so out of proportion they make T'Hooters TRIBBLE look normal and a stiff outstretched arm complete with phallic weapon.
The guy is a homoerotic wet dream of a purely fantasized sexist image of malehood based on some kind of Nietzschien superman complex.
I'm a short guy not very broad shoulders and this kind of stereotyping and sexism has created cultural memes within the female mind that discriminate against the average, not toned, not stupidly wide shoulders, not stupidly chiseled male majority. It stops me getting laid as often as I'd like
If you're going to cast T'Bazookaz as a sexist image you'd be hypocrite to argue "Sexy Phaser Guy" is not.
If you really really are taking this whole sexism angle seriously then I put it to you that you should be asking for something more normal like the podgy tellerite engineer I posited as a the official face of STO.:cool:
#2311#2700#2316#2500
Not really my point, he's much better than the current one, not perfect, but much better.
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
Get the Forums Enhancement Extension!
And from a purely beancounter point of view, you have more chance of attracting new players if you have a variety of attractive archetypes. You could even let a logged-in user pick their preferred image when arriving at the home page (preferred because well, if there's a new image you want to show it off, right?)
I think that's a great idea. That way both sides are satisfied.
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
-Thomas Marrone
It's a good freaking idea.
And , seriously, to the poster whose only defense against people calling T'TRIBBLE sexist is to turn around and say that Phaser Guy was sexiest.
You make me laugh.
Deep, belly laughs.
Your insensitivity toward women and sexist issues is staggering.
To reply to you would be useless as you seem blinded by machismo.
Hey people. Regarding T'TRIBBLE.
IT'S A DRAWING !
and not a particularly good one at that.
All of you acting like Beavis and Butthead being all "Huh Huh TRIBBLE" .... (1) You realize how ridiculous you sound, right ? and (2) ITS THE INTERNET ! You realize how easy it is to find pictures of real TRIBBLE , don't you ?
At the end of the day. NO, T'TRIBBLE is no worse than many other sexiest, pandering marketing ploys on the internet. That's true. I would just like to think that a game whose player base is obviously older , middle aged , Star Trek fans in a lot of cases, didn't need to use cheap, pandering, sexiest imagery to appeal to drooling teen boys, and immature man children.
LOL
Gender stereotypes only exist for women sure....:rolleyes:
Read my post again it's about as anti-machismo as it gets.
How you can misconstrue the short podgy dude criticizing an image for portraying the male in an unrealistic (and out of proportion, look at the size of those shoulders) way that panders to ideas Nietzschien machismo as being blinded by machismo I'll never understand.:D
Try again.
We should have Pudo and Bem on the front-page instead, doing some scanning and stuff.
#2311#2700#2316#2500
The insensitivity and machismo comes in that you are unable to simply say , Yes, the image of T'Booobs is kind of sexiest. Instead , you have to give another example , this time citing how OH the male image is also sexiest blah blah blah.
As if that fact somehow makes the objectifiying and sexist image on the front page less bad.
It's called deflection.
It's actually pretty common.
and insensitive.
I never said T'TRIBBLE wasn't sexist I said that both were... your defence of Phaser Guy by creating a straw man (I.e. that I thought T'TRIBBLE wasn't sexist) is the only deflection going on here.
The truth is as your sig reveals is that you think Phaser Guy is somehow not sexist when he is the very embodiment of machismo, an over proportioned superman with perfect features, the ultimate in masculinity and superiority.
I don't sport any defence of T'TRIBBLE on my sig, because I don't defender. I see her as just a trashy Evony rip-off with grossly oversized ****.
I think we all know who is in the wrong here and it's not me.
Deflection,
It's pretty common,
and insensitive.
#2311#2700#2316#2500
Agreed thats why I'm not defending either T'Boob or Phaser guy both are clearly pretty awful gender stereotypes.
Sorry if I sounded a bit harsh in the above post but it grates me that people overlook the fact that society, media and the influential manipulate male form and gender as much as they do female form. We're all victims of it regardless of what genitals we have.
To be honest with you it doesn't overly bother me because I have like a cranial version of Ad-Block, it just blocks out the homogenizing bull**** that society and culture try to throw at us.
#2311#2700#2316#2500
False equivalency is idiotic.
The old phaser guy was not falling over looking with an empty face at us. All that while shooting only god knows where. That's the problem.
Toi'Va, Ti'vath, Toivia, Ty'Vris, Tia Vex, Toi'Virth: Add Tier 6 KDF Carrier and Raider.
Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.
Don't make ARC mandatory! Keep it optional only!
I hear your apology.
Sorry if I sound a bit harsh as well, but discrimination, gender stereotyping, and unasked for priviledge are both something that I care about, and am quite knowledgeable about.
I understand your position.
I really do.
I totally disagree with it, but I understand exactly where your line of thinking comes from in modern society.
I would actually love to discuss it, but this is not the right kind of forum to do so.
To prove that the images are not even close in their objectification and pandering sexual imagery, all you have to do (as I suggested pages ago, and spawned a funny piece of art jesmx now has as a sig) is this. Take the image of T'TRIBBLE and replace her with handsome phaser guy. Same Clothing, Same pose, same facial expression. Now take the image of Handsome Phaser Guy and replace him with T'TRIBBLE. His uniform, his pose, his expression.
I have tons more to say about gender priviledge, stereotypes, etc. But as I said, not the right place for it.
regardless, we seem to be in agreement that the current front page image is a cheap, pandering piece of sexist advertising. I can simply agree to disagree about other things.
I like this idea. I'd also suggest including Helna, the Rigelian star of Havraha's Foundry missions, within the rotation. She is someone with a back history player's can actually become familiar with.
^ This. Personally I don't care if we get phaser dude back, or a pudgy Tellarite, rotating images of in game NPCs, or a Tholian in a bikini. As long as SOMETHING is done with this horrible front page image.
Ha ha ha ha ha! Unlimited power... I mean... What was I talking about, the girl's face distracted me!
It's "sexist" if you're the sort of person who lives such a sheltered, monotonous life that they have to go looking for things to get histrionic about.
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-Thomas Marrone
Problem is, said art dept is only good for bossomy elves.
So we got a stupid space elfcan.
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