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Captain Taggart Deserves better
neoakiraii
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Why is this guy in command of a Miranda class ship, the way he is presented in the intro he should be in command of something a little more prestigious. I'm not saying brand state of the art ship, how bout something not really old, but not super new. Give the guy a Galaxy class ship, you have the guy sounding like Picard anyway.
So you start the game like normal, and just have the ship be a Galaxy class ship, calamity ensues he dies you're in command, finish the mission, and prove your worth. The ship is just a premade ship like the Enterprise C mission, so you don't get to keep it, and it's like a trial on how the game will be later on.
You get back to ESD Quinn likes what he sees in you, promotes you to Lieutenant, tells you that we need people like you in command of star ships, and gives you your own ship. You and your crew fly in the shuttle, Elisa Flores says maybe you will get an Odyssey class ship for what you did, you see the newly built U.S.S. Enterprise F, and fly towards her, only to fly over the Enterprise to reveal your new pride and joy the U.S.S. Redshirt. (what you're a bloody Lieutenant you think they are gonna give you a new ship like that:D)
All that needs to change is the ship, and maaaaybe the bridge and interior, becasue the Origin bridge looks way to nice for a Miranda class ship...You guys make a Galaxy interior for the Tutorial, and hey maybe sell it to players later (just saying). You guys spent time making the Galaxy class look nice, some good fly buy shots in theTutorial could show off your hard work.
But yeah I think Taggart should have soemthing that's not over a 100 years old.
So you start the game like normal, and just have the ship be a Galaxy class ship, calamity ensues he dies you're in command, finish the mission, and prove your worth. The ship is just a premade ship like the Enterprise C mission, so you don't get to keep it, and it's like a trial on how the game will be later on.
You get back to ESD Quinn likes what he sees in you, promotes you to Lieutenant, tells you that we need people like you in command of star ships, and gives you your own ship. You and your crew fly in the shuttle, Elisa Flores says maybe you will get an Odyssey class ship for what you did, you see the newly built U.S.S. Enterprise F, and fly towards her, only to fly over the Enterprise to reveal your new pride and joy the U.S.S. Redshirt. (what you're a bloody Lieutenant you think they are gonna give you a new ship like that:D)
All that needs to change is the ship, and maaaaybe the bridge and interior, becasue the Origin bridge looks way to nice for a Miranda class ship...You guys make a Galaxy interior for the Tutorial, and hey maybe sell it to players later (just saying). You guys spent time making the Galaxy class look nice, some good fly buy shots in theTutorial could show off your hard work.
But yeah I think Taggart should have soemthing that's not over a 100 years old.
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As to the Miranda this is basically a training cruiser allowing a class to be able to learn to handle a ship in the real world and outside of a training enviroment. The Miranda being smaller needs less crew... which is good because Star Fleet classes aren't exactly huge.. and it's presumably a lot easier to fix and learn to fly since it's older tech and not state of the art.
You want you best Captain to be able to deal with that kind of pressure... which is why it's probably seen as prestigious and not a punishment.
If we want to talk about whether he deserves "better," aren't we missing the obvious?
I would think he'd say it would be "better" to not be dead.
So a training Miranda seems logical still.
Your initial cadet/lieutenant missions are initially supposed to be milk runs. Look for an over due freighter near Earth. Taxi an ambassador from Vulcan to P'jem (Seriously a shuttle would work there.) To just look at some odd readings. You are never sent to the front lines till late in the Klingon war front. And even then they prefer you to look into what should be non-combat scenarios. (Temporal Ambassador)
So not seeing an issue for Taggart's ship. Though a little more mention of him would be good. I mean Temer is mentioned after his death. Even Jurlok is used later for the Klingons. So Taggart should get a role in a future mission. Alternate timeline like Temporal Ambassador, or a step back time travel mission so you see your first commanding officer before he is assigned to the academy.
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
Actually, THAT would be awesome to have a temporal mission to the past that has us help Taggart. And it could be that mission, that interaction which sets up a predestination paradox that gives Taggart the reason for making you his First Officer in the future.
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Starfleet must have a temporal investigations officer permanently aboard your vessel :P
Well, with as many times as I've time traveled now, I wouldn't be surprised. :P
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I mean, Captain Spock was in the same situation with the Enterprise. And as we all know, the Enterprise shouldn't be hauling garbage, it should be hauled away *as* garbage.
And more to the point, you have to remember that according do the story of the tutorial WE inherit Taggart's ship. So you can't have new players starting in a high level ship.
I thought the same thing myself. The Shikar would *look* much more appropriate based on STO's time period. But having said that, I have a feeling they wanted the iconic Miranda look.
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what do you think this is? bioware?
He should be on Garbage Skow duty
All true. And it makes sense to me that you'd put a green crew on an expendable ship, you don't want them destroying a ship the Federation needs with something like a warp core breach or firing a photon torpedo with a stuck launch door (oops!)
Video games have done that for years.
As for Spock and the Enterprise, The Enterprise was not over a 100 years old. The U.S Navy does not train people only on the U.S.S. Constitution, and then send them on active duty on a Ford class Carrier.
I said Galaxy Class cause it's around the same age the Enterprise was when Spock trained his crew.
The French do...
As does theU.S. Coast Guard...
50 some aught years, close enough right?
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10052253
Why are you not rejoicing?
Imagine the terror a Captain must feel who has just been assigned to a Miranda class vessel. He must think Starfleet wants to get rid of him.
At least you thought Star Trek. I thought Galaxy Quest when I saw the name. "Never give up! Never surrender!"
And that guy from the Academy is nothing but a red shirt standing in the way of taking command is how I look at him. So the Miranda fits.
Lifetime no longer gives a forum title. That should be updated on the Lifetime page that mentions what you get. PMing the CSR doesn't work neither.
I agree, Dragon age 2 let's you use a Maxed out Version of your character in the beginning of the game. You pretty much slaughter your way through an Army of Darkspawn, before you realize that your acting out a retelling of your exploits by one of your friends, long after the story is over.
Then you go to the beginning of your story, and your pretty much a low powered person, fleeing from that Army. Just an example of one of the games that do that.
I agree, if he was held in such high regard by starfleet, why was he in command of what was once a light crusier, now relegated to the role of ageing fleet tugboat?
I think it would be nice to give a new player a little taste of the power they could have at their disposal as they advance.
Because it wasn't assigned to him, he wasn't a fleet officer in command of a star ship, he was a teacher assigned to an academy post. The Miranda was a training vessel assigned to the Academy and used for live training runs by advanced students.
The Miranda, and the cadets crewing it, were drafted into active duty after the arrival of the Borg as an act of desperation. I suspect they may have also decided that live training exercises are too dangerous just based on how disastrously the players turned out. New cadets will do their training exercises in a nice safe holosuite where Klingon marauders and borg invasion fleets can't kill them and where their teachers won't have to sacrifice themselves by becoming a target beacon for a torpedo lock.
Disastously? The player character? Captain Invincible of the U.S.S. I Win? The one person who does everything remotely important? Cadet to Fleet Admiral in 18 months? A disaster? I think not.
Lets face it, if it had been the player character the Klingons captured in the tutorial, (s)he wouldn't have died.
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I think it hasn't been mentioned because people don't want to think about it.
As you can tell from my sig though, I actually like "JJ Trek."
Your father was captain of a starship for twelve minutes. He saved 800 lives, including your mother's, and yours.
I dare you to do better.
Aware of it. Just keeping it out of topic. Turns the threads into a pro/anti JJ thread.....and those usually end in fire , and tears.
But I forgot that neo likes to watch things burn, when he's drinking tears.;)