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Time In A Bottle: SPOILERS
reginamala78
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So, the latest mission:
The Good:
-Liked the way Nog was used, and Aron Eisenberg did his VA work pretty well without hamming it up (Denise Crosby I'm looking at you).
-Good story driven stuff for the most part, felt like a significant plot-relevant episode.
The Conference was great, and I loved how each of the background attendees looked different.
The Bad:
-Qwen. Just Qwen. Why is he still breathing? Feds might JUST arrest him, any self-respecting Klingon would almost certainly gut him (Rule 192), and even nicer Romulans would probably come up with something fairly unpleasant for him.
-The space section seeming to forget that most all Romulans, most Klingons, and a fair number of Feds have cloaking devices now. It a rather significant plot hole in setting up the drama.
-The ground combat section, Nog doesn't know how to pick a defensive position does he? (Then again, I HATE ground combat so I'm biased)
-The grand reveal finale: ARE YOU ******* KIDDING ME???? Are we REALLY going to build that kind of doomsday weapon? The Feds might try and be careful with it, but they have elements fully willing to play nasty, and even playing nice the unintended consequences would probably be disastrous. The Klingons may find it dishonorable to use such a weapon, but the desperate and the less honorable would be trigger happy. The Romulan Republic has a long list of reasons to consider changing history to be less painful for them, and you know anything the Republic learns, RSE infiltrators will learn. And then there's what happens when third parties learn of the tech and start looking into it, the Dominion or the Voth or the Vaadwaur or the Borg. Its just going to trade one cataclysm for another. They can't be serious.
All in all I consider it relatively better than House Pegh, and yay for Nog and all, but the rest of the mission still just sloppy writing.
What do other people think?
The Good:
-Liked the way Nog was used, and Aron Eisenberg did his VA work pretty well without hamming it up (Denise Crosby I'm looking at you).
-Good story driven stuff for the most part, felt like a significant plot-relevant episode.
The Conference was great, and I loved how each of the background attendees looked different.
The Bad:
-Qwen. Just Qwen. Why is he still breathing? Feds might JUST arrest him, any self-respecting Klingon would almost certainly gut him (Rule 192), and even nicer Romulans would probably come up with something fairly unpleasant for him.
-The space section seeming to forget that most all Romulans, most Klingons, and a fair number of Feds have cloaking devices now. It a rather significant plot hole in setting up the drama.
-The ground combat section, Nog doesn't know how to pick a defensive position does he? (Then again, I HATE ground combat so I'm biased)
-The grand reveal finale: ARE YOU ******* KIDDING ME???? Are we REALLY going to build that kind of doomsday weapon? The Feds might try and be careful with it, but they have elements fully willing to play nasty, and even playing nice the unintended consequences would probably be disastrous. The Klingons may find it dishonorable to use such a weapon, but the desperate and the less honorable would be trigger happy. The Romulan Republic has a long list of reasons to consider changing history to be less painful for them, and you know anything the Republic learns, RSE infiltrators will learn. And then there's what happens when third parties learn of the tech and start looking into it, the Dominion or the Voth or the Vaadwaur or the Borg. Its just going to trade one cataclysm for another. They can't be serious.
All in all I consider it relatively better than House Pegh, and yay for Nog and all, but the rest of the mission still just sloppy writing.
What do other people think?
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I enjoyed the mission in general. More story and content than just pew pew pew.
I must admit my first thought about the new weapon re:Romulans was similar to OP. I played as my main Rommie, and the first thing she thought was "how many people I know would like to lay their hands on it to undo Hobus, and have their families and lives back?" And she is a Republican.
Very morally shady
And yes, it might seem weird that Starfleet is considering building Annorax's ship. But under the circumstances, I think they'd be crazy not to at least consider the possibilities.
"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
The Conference was AMAZING!
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The gun's icon definitely looks different so I'm hoping the gun model is just a placeholder.
But otherwise, I liked it. Anyone else notice that L'Miren (the blue Iconian) doesn't appear to have legs?
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.
THE WHOLE MUST BE AS ONE!
ps... I am using spoilers cause I like too...
Is some kind of metaphor for the reunification of the iconians?
Or is an independent entity, presumably more powerful than the iconians, and, probably a bigger fish for future expansions?
Also... WTF with the vessel? there is a lot of potential backstabbing with this, especially if the Krenim want to rebuild their empire. My guess is; IF the alliance is going to build it, it will be conveniently destroyed after use it.
I liked the episode more than The house of Pegh, and it made a bit more of sense
In every place,
The deeds of men remain the same..."
Anyway, this might not belong here, but I gotta say, the forums might be one big flamin trollfest, but it's damned good to be back !
Talkin about Trek, playin the game, it keeps it all alive. I love it, even when I hate it !
Also the episode gives you a Ferengi trader duty officer with a special active duty ground ability.
You so funny Cryptic. Me likey new doff.
Yeah, I made a little latinum while shooting Tholians for marks
If you're a Federation Starfleet Officer, you have to get used to people shooting you, and not shooting back.
And that ship we see the plans for?
To rob a line: [quote: Mariemaia Kushrenada] Forum Posting is much like an endless waltz. The three beats of war, peace and revolution continue on forever. However, opinions will change upon the reading of my post.[/quote]
Not sure why I had to hide in an asteroid though when I could just cloak my ship?!?!
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.
iirc the Preservers called it the Other First...
My Money is that once we build this Ship. Annorax will come back and take over and be the Big Baddie for X3
Although I really want X3 to be DS9 Related. Due to Gekos Statement in G&T that this episode would have repercussion up and through X3
My speculation (based on the story so far and what's been leaked): the player is the other. Notice it is always singular never otherS plural. This rules out a race, the prophets, etc.
I predict that the delta alliance is the group that ends the iconian empire 200,000 years ago and the player steps in to ensure its not a total genocide and save the timeline. Then we step in again to keep the few of them left from being exterminated in the present, but lock them away, maybe back in their galaxy.
I predict the heralds blow up the shipyard after we finish the time ship so only one exists.
I'm guessing (but less confident hence not "predicting") that annorax's ship creates a combo krenim/dominion ruling alternate timeline or a threat only the dominion can help solve and that's our lead into the post iconian story depending if the cardassian arc revamp gecko has talked about makes the dominion more of an ally or more of an enemy.
Other than that, it was a great mission, I particularly liked the RP element on Drozana.
At the moment all my boffs are Human (Vrare) using integrated targeting fleet armour, their shields and weapons are fleet as well although I haven't upgraded anything to Mk 14. Three are using full autos and one has a high density beam.
Boff powers:
Quick fix 1+3 (On different boffs), Shield recharge 2x2, Weapon malfunction 1, Equipment Diagnostics 1, Support Drone 3, Fuse armour 1, Electro grav field 1, Med tricorder 2, Tricorder scan 2, Hyperonic radiation 2, Photon grenade 1, Target optics 1, FOMM1, Overwatch 2.
My kit: (Tactical kit mk 11 [Armor] [Shield] [Tactics])
Supressing fire mk 13, Battle strats mk 11, Rally cry mk 11, Motivation mk 11, Plasma grenade mk 13
I'm currently using the weapon and shield from the "Nukara Strikeforce Elite" set and the MACO armour and sniper. My current skill spec can be found here.
Good question. I hadn't considered that it may be a limited time reward. There was no mention of it in any of the dev blogs about the mission so it was a nice surprise.
EDIT
As I recall, it's in the dialogue box which starts with "Think I'm getting something ."
In my opinion, we are not going to build the temporal ship, at least, the federation. the federation can't use a weapon like this temporal ship, it would be agaisnt all the rules even the prime directive. klingons have a strange sense of honor thus i think that they could use it. romulans are only fed or kdf pets, they will follow their masters