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Glasses

tripwire690tripwire690 Member Posts: 178 Arc User
edited December 2012 in The Art of Star Trek Online
Yah. Glasses. I logged back in today and for whatever reason looked at my science captain and thought.....In three years and after I don't know how many "Jadzia Dresses" released for our captains wardrobe there has not ONCE been an option added to the Zen Store for glasses. Not that I feel we should pay for glasses either. But I could see a "standard" glasses option added for the tailor and cooler variants for the Zen Store. All the great scientists of our time wore glasses. Dr. Emmott Mc. Brown, Dr. Indiana Jones, Egon! Any chance of my Science Captain being able to sport a more stereotypically fly science look?:D
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  • aaronh42aaronh42 Member Posts: 291 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    tripwire690 wrote: »
    Yah. Glasses. I logged back in today and for whatever reason looked at my science captain and thought.....In three years and after I don't know how many "Jadzia Dresses" released for our captains wardrobe there has not ONCE been an option added to the Zen Store for glasses. Not that I feel we should pay for glasses either. But I could see a "standard" glasses option added for the tailor and cooler variants for the Zen Store. All the great scientists of our time wore glasses. Dr. Emmott Mc. Brown, Dr. Indiana Jones, Egon! Any chance of my Science Captain being able to sport a more stereotypically fly science look?:D

    They probably haven't added glasses because in canon they can cure most vision problems.
  • elandarkskyelandarksky Member Posts: 1,013 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    I thought of something similar a while back, but never voiced it

    Goggles/protective eye gear

    While like has been stated, most of our current illnesses and aliments are ancient history, people who would wear glasses would be the old school people who refuse to eat replicator trash :p

    But protective eye gear could be essential in certain planetary conditions e.g. dust storms, where and EV suit would be a bit too overprotective :p

    edit:
    the only drawback, getting glasses/eye gear that doesnt look ridiculous, i mean personally i think the current head/eye gear (the headset thingies) look a bit silly
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  • voyagerfan9751voyagerfan9751 Member Posts: 1,120 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    aaronh42 wrote: »
    They probably haven't added glasses because in canon they can cure most vision problems.

    Geordi was blind throughout the entirety of Next Generation and into the movies. So I don't know how canon it is to be able to fix vision problems.

    Granted, I don't remember any other references to vision problems, so not sure of the canon nature of glasses, but of all the suggested "Improvements" to this game by the fan base, I have to admit, this one doesn't bother me in the least. I would be fine with an eyeglass or googles option for any captain, science or otherwise.
  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited December 2012
    elandarksky wrote: »
    No orffence to people who are trying to roleplay as a geordie

    What! Role Playing as people from Newcastle:D.
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  • sollvaxsollvax Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Geordies vision problem was not treatable
    but he was not blind all the time (his vision returned several times for short periods)

    Kirk was allergic to Retinex the drug used to treat short sight
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  • ussboleynussboleyn Member Posts: 598 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    artan42 wrote: »
    What! Role Playing as people from Newcastle:D.


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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    There is the Dominion Visor thingy. But that only covers one eye. :(
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  • laetans1laetans1 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Did'nt Picard and co wear protective goggles in Star Trek Nemisis :D
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  • connectamabobconnectamabob Member Posts: 140 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    voyagerfan9751 wrote: »
    Geordi was blind throughout the entirety of Next Generation and into the movies. So I don't know how canon it is to be able to fix vision problems.

    Granted, I don't remember any other references to vision problems, so not sure of the canon nature of glasses, but of all the suggested "Improvements" to this game by the fan base, I have to admit, this one doesn't bother me in the least. I would be fine with an eyeglass or googles option for any captain, science or otherwise.

    In fairness to Geordie, it takes more than glasses to fix blindness. IIRC in his case, everything forward of the optic nerve was non functional, so it was more of a "needs entirely new eyeballs" problem than a "needs eyeballs slightly tweaked" problem.

    When McCoy gives Kirk a pair of antique reading glasses for his birthday in TWOK, he comments on how those sort of vision problems are usually treated with a chemical ("retinax 5", or something like that), but that Kirk is unusual in that he's allergic. It's kind of treated as if the glasses are special not just for being antique, but because they're functional, implying that you just don't see them anymore in that era.

    These days, looking as modern corrective laser eye surgery, I imagine that in the later Trek era getting one's vision permanently and perfectly corrected would be less complicated than having a wart removed in the modern era.

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