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Is Cyptic going to revamp the Klingon missions "Second Star to the Right", "Keep Your Enemies Closer", and the Fek'lhri return series? If they do, they should change the names of the first two.
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What's wrong the the names of those missions??
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How about...
"Second Star To the Right" ---> "Mary Poppins Goes To Jail"
"Keep Your Enemy Closer" ---> "Snow White and the 13 Turds"
Al Rivera (I think) said they hoped to revamp a lot of the early missions (both Fed and KDF) including the Fek'Ihri and Romulan arcs. It was during a Priority One episode.
Maybe they're too Federation-inspired? "Second Star to the Right" doesn't sound very Klingon, and for that matter it doesn't match the tone of the mission either.
"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
Second Star to the right is a reference within a reference. At the end of ST VI: The Undiscovered Country, Kirk makes a statement as to their heading;
Chekov: Course heading, Captain?
Kirk: Second star to the right and straight on till morning.
That movie was based around the Klingons (destruction of Praxis, peace talks, etc, etc.) Which turns out that Chang wants to destroy the Federation.
There is also a point where Chang makes a comment;
Chang: I am constant as the Northern Star. (Shakespeare quote which Chang is infamous for)
Now for those who don't know Peter Pan too well, both references are how to get to Neverland. And that is from the original series. So the whole not going with the tone of the mission, I think that a brazen attack on the Federation in the mission goes quite well with Changs attack on the Enterprise.
Now with the mission Keep Your Enemies Closer, that is a partial quote from The Godfather. Now come on, The Godfather! What a better resource than a movie built up around brutality, deception, loyalty, family, and basically everything the Klingons stand for? *Those who want to argue it was from Sun Tzu/Machiavelli/Petrarch please do so as there is nothing historically written supporting it came before The Godfather Pt. II.* Now the whole mission is about saving your "brothers". Fellow warriors captured by the filthy Federation and who are being detained in a penal facility. So that there also fits the name.
But hey, just my personal opinion, don't hate on me for it, just sharing some knowledge that justifies the names of these missions.
No but that disparity is probably for effect.
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