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Star Trek Online Announces In-Game Memorial For Leonard Nimoy
nickcastleton
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Just seen this. http://comicbook.com/2015/02/28/star-trek-online-announces-in-game-memorial-for-leonard-nimoy/
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This is a great idea. They should remove all restrictions on people going to the Captains Table and turn it into a memorial map where people can go and view in game statues and art of all the cast that have passed so far.
I don't think that is a likely issue here...there's a memorial at Starfleet Academy for a former Cryptic employee who passed away, that's been around for at least a few years.
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ALL the major stars of the shows who have passed away should have such a tribute.
Well :
- He did a lot of VO-Work & Promotion for STO etc
- reprised his role in several other TV-Shows, Commercials etc (probably more than Shatner)
- he is probably the only character who plays Spock in every incarnation of ST (including JJ)... [I know there is one TNG Episode with Bones & Scotty ...]
Besides ... Scotty & Bones are already in the Game ... just NPCs, but still ...
Also :
http://sto.gamepedia.com/U.S.S._Montgomery_Scott
http://sto.gamepedia.com/U.S.S._McCoy
=> they have such Tributes already ... maybe not as "flashy" as Spocks / Nimoys will be (hard to tell yet), but as said before, he was indeed "special" ...
I think this is a great idea and endorse it. You would get cross factional participation and areas could be tailored for each faction. Of course the Devs will need to be doing some planning for the size of the displays... and alot researching who has passed for inclusion.
The others I mentioned did not record anything on account of being dead. It's a fair sized disability. Spock is also in the game - We bump into him as we take our ship through the Gateway to rescue Paris.
He didn't appear in all iterations of Star Trek: He wasn't in DS9, Voyager or Enterprise.
But I reiterate, I'm not against a memorial to Nimoy (A memorial to Spock pushes it a bit - He was a fictional character after all, but this is in-universe (A universe he was missing, presumed dead for over 20 years) its fine)... But the other members of the cast whilst perhaps less iconic also deserve such a tribute.
Also :
http://sto.gamepedia.com/U.S.S._Montgomery_Scott
http://sto.gamepedia.com/U.S.S._McCoy
=> they have such Tributes already ... maybe not as "flashy" as Spocks / Nimoys will be (hard to tell yet), but as said before, he was indeed "special" ...
Hard to tell ... not really their fault ... but Shatner i.E. is still alive ... just saying they didn't have such an impact on STO in general (including Shatner, [even] George Takai, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols etc) ...
I would have a mini mission where Admiral Quinn was dedicating a new memorial / inspiration wing on the grounds of Starfleet Academy dedicated to the finest crew in Starfleet, the crew of the USS Enterprise 1701. It would be a small building on the campus, you would walk in the front door to a small lobby that had pictures of the Enterprise and clickable memorial plaques that opened popup text to describe some of the ship and crew's most memorable missions. The plaques would only have a faint outline glow to them, not that over the top firery glow STO uses now. Then a door in the center of the lobby that opened up to a scale TOS Bridge of the USS Enterprise. Inside, a holographic representation of Kirk, Spock, Scotty, Bones, Uhura, Chekov, and Sulu. They wouldnt flicker like obvious holograms either. They would be at their iconic stations with one or two canned animations each.
Kirk would mostly look at his view screen with that signature grin on his face. After a few seconds, he'd press the intercom button on his right arm console and lean over to mouth inaudible words into it where we see his mouth move. He'd sit back then a blonde generic yeoman with an obvious nod to Rand would appear out of thin air by the turbolift, walk down to Kirk, hand him a padd, he looks it over, signs it, hands it back to her, she walks back up to turbolift doors and disappears until the animation reloads in a few minutes.
Spock would be sitting at his station, ocasionally looking back at the viewscreen. He'd stand up and lean over to look into his viewer thingy. Then he'd stand straight up, turn to look at the viewscreen, raise an eyebrow. Then sit back down to start the loop over again. Each character would be on a 3 minute loop.
Uhura would look back and forth at her station and the viewscreen, holding her hand to her ear occasionally.
Sulu and Chekov would look lively at their stations always seated and looking at viewscreen. Scotty would be at station on the right. Mccoy would stand near Uhura, and be on a loop to walk down by the captain and stand and look at viewscreen with Jim, then walk back up, and walk over to stand near Spock during the loop minute Spock is standing up and looking at viewscreen too.
By each character would be a small readable plaque mounted into the console areas by the characters. It would also have a subtle glow around the plaque outline. Each plaque would say the characters full name, with starfleet service record year span 22XX - 22XX written below the character name. Each plaque would have the bottom half reserved for the actor's name if we already lost them. So Spock's gold plaque would say
Spock
Starfleet Service
22XX - 22XX
In Loving Memory of
Leonard Nimoy
19XX - 2015
When you click on the plaques, it had a long description of that characters most memorable moments of their service in Starfleet.
Kirk's plaque would be mounted standing up on the left arm of his chair. The others would be hard mounted into the stations right next to them, and Mccoys somewhere between Uhura and the turbolift where he'd stand next to. I dont want any glowy floaty things in there. I want the plaques to blend in, very subtle glows, and the viewscreen would have memorable mission moments as a slideshow on the viewscreen. We can take our toons onto the bridge and stand next to each character to take our printscreen picture with them.
Id want the best representation of each actor's face possible. As well as Picardo was drawn, not like Seven, the animated NPCs really need to look a LOT like Shatner, Nimoy, Kelly, etc. When the actor passes away, we fill in the death year under their name on the plaque. Starfleet academy would do this in their world, now that it seems Spock is not coming back, and Star Trek and STO owe a lot to the original crew that started it all. I would think each actor would be fine with using their young faces as a memorial with the rest of their cast.
Icing on the cake would be to have Patrick Stewart read each characters biography after you clicked on the plaques, but thats likely asking too much.
Anyways, thats how Id tastefully memorialize the original crew and the actors who played them.
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As for those who want memorials for the other cast member, well it would be nice too.
But, overall Nimoy and, quite a few as of lately other ST actor's/actresses, actually contributed some of their time to the game content so, it seem only fair they should technically be the first to commemorate, than maybe they can think of something for the other's as well possibly.
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Also, I sent a PM to Tacofangs with the idea of a simple loadscreen that looks like the intro obits that Paramount had inserted into the start of certainTrek episodes when people like Roddenberry and Doohan died at the time of the episode's airing, like when Roddenberry passed away just before TNG's "Unification Pt. 1" was broadcast.
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Precisely. The entire reason is because it's recent. He's not necessarily more or less valuable or special than any of the other Trek cast members who have died, it's just that his death has happened now, so now is when we're hurting the most and the majority will most want to do something for him.
I really don't understand why people are being children about this. A man who was greatly loved and admired has just died, but you're whining because the long-dead get nothing. Are you all so stupid as to think just because there isn't a giant bagpipe statue on ESD that somehow James Doohan was any less special?
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I know now it's a dark and sad time for a lot of us, myself included. But do you really think Mr. Nimoy would want us to be sad forever? I don't think so. I think he'd want us to smile, to pick ourselves up and not be so mopey. And if, for some people, that means launching a disco ball and partying down in memory of a lost legend... I say let them. People grieve in different ways, we can't let a few trolls abusing the freedom keep people from doing what they want to do to cope.
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Why is it no longer considered 'tacky' to have a memorial for a single character/actor? Whats changed since then?
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