"B'Eler, call up the charts. Find me a target that will to draw the Heralds away from the gateways to the Delta Quadrant. As soon as this ship is operational, our next battle begins."
Umm, what?
Simple enough. The captain wants to find something to attack so that the Heralds will pay attention to him instead of to the gateways.
lol, my comment was pointing out the wordage not the meaning, almost Shakespearian.
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And what does the Bortasqu captain do? I'm not actually sure. I recall her getting all huffy at least twice. And thats about it. When they decided to have an episode where the empire got to do something unexpected (fail) in a novel way (lost their emperor), the Bortasqu didn't even make an appearance. The got sub-mooks wielding romulan handbooks to charge into the fray.
This is WAR.
Klingons are WAR.
Can we at least have some offhand comments from the glamorised fed and rom celebrities about the Klingons doing something useful?
I was glad NOT to be dealing with Koren, myself. She's the worst of what Klingons are--posturing, mindless aggression, personal glory above subordination to service. If I'd had the opportunity to destroy her ship in "Surface Tension" to shut her up, I would have, with pleasure.
The new captain we're dealing with as our main contact in the Iconian War is more reasonable, and more forward-looking instead of a combo of living in the past and focusing on personal glory-seeking. House Pegh wasn't intelligent at all, but our main contact does come across as credible and less of an embarrassment than the usual TNG-era Klingon.
Kagran should definitely be a General, he's like a Martok clone in a good way.
Koren...well, Starsword and I humiliated her already in our "Blood of Ancients" fic (that was my idea, he just wanted to smack down the Klingons but I said "why not have Koren be a demonstration of why glory hounding does not work against hammy morons?", and we rolled with it), but she needs to be told to lay off the WAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH in-game. I liked her at first, but now she's starting to sound like an Ork.
The new captain we're dealing with as our main contact in the Iconian War is more reasonable, and more forward-looking instead of a combo of living in the past and focusing on personal glory-seeking. House Pegh wasn't intelligent at all, but our main contact does come across as credible and less of an embarrassment than the usual TNG-era Klingon.
+1 to that, Koren is at best a bad stereotype of Klingons.
Tiaru Jarok comes off as a far more thought out, and a far better character, than Koren does. I was glad to see more of her in DR. Koren's TRIBBLE in Surface Tension especially was bellicose and idiotic. WHERE were the more ships going to come from? She expect me to pull them out of my TRIBBLE or something? The ones around Spacedock were already too damaged to fight, only the four ships that showed up from the Jenolan sphere conference were in fight worthy condition. Getting ships from other sectors contacted and brought in takes time which they hadn't had at that point.
There's a good reason I dubbed that bratty little girl Captain Whiny B*tch of the IKS Whineatyou'...
So, in sum, the Klingon chancellor is an honorless warmonger of questionable legitimacy, the Klingon player character is a war criminal, their flagship captain is an entitled brat, their emperor is dead because he was stupid, and their best black ops commander has the bravery of Sir Robin and the mission planning ability of the Three Stooges.
The quality is on par with what other seasons have been; I think the culmination of 5-years of story needs much more content and a uniqueness that it currently does not have.
There's a good reason I dubbed that bratty little girl Captain Whiny B*tch of the IKS Whineatyou'...
So, in sum, the Klingon chancellor is an honorless warmonger of questionable legitimacy, the Klingon player character is a war criminal, their flagship captain is an entitled brat, their emperor is dead because he was stupid, and their best black ops commander has the bravery of Sir Robin and the mission planning ability of the Three Stooges.
Clearly the Klingon Empire has some staff issues.
You go to the Iconian War with the Klingons you have, not the Klingons you wish you had.
You go to the Iconian War with the Klingons you have, not the Klingons you wish you had.
True, but considering that a good portion of this debacle can be laid at the Klingons' feet for going off half-cocked against the Undine to begin with...
You go to the Iconian War with the Klingons you have, not the Klingons you wish you had.
True, but considering that a good portion of this debacle can be laid at the Klingons' feet for going off half-cocked against the Undine to begin with...
Also true. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. The Gorn baseball team were packing disruptors and managed to take out an undine infiltrator -- unfortunately carrying disruptors into a baseball game meant they were disqualified.
There's a good reason I dubbed that bratty little girl Captain Whiny B*tch of the IKS Whineatyou'...
So, in sum, the Klingon chancellor is an honorless warmonger of questionable legitimacy, the Klingon player character is a war criminal, their flagship captain is an entitled brat, their emperor is dead because he was stupid, and their best black ops commander has the bravery of Sir Robin and the mission planning ability of the Three Stooges.
You go to the Iconian War with the Klingons you have, not the Klingons you wish you had.
True, but considering that a good portion of this debacle can be laid at the Klingons' feet for going off half-cocked against the Undine to begin with...
Yep. And now you see why I refuse to play KDF and gladly deleted mine even with the dilithium advantages it could confer on me.
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lol, my comment was pointing out the wordage not the meaning, almost Shakespearian.
Kagran should definitely be a General, he's like a Martok clone in a good way.
Koren...well, Starsword and I humiliated her already in our "Blood of Ancients" fic (that was my idea, he just wanted to smack down the Klingons but I said "why not have Koren be a demonstration of why glory hounding does not work against hammy morons?", and we rolled with it), but she needs to be told to lay off the WAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH in-game. I liked her at first, but now she's starting to sound like an Ork.
+1 to that, Koren is at best a bad stereotype of Klingons.
Tiaru Jarok comes off as a far more thought out, and a far better character, than Koren does. I was glad to see more of her in DR. Koren's TRIBBLE in Surface Tension especially was bellicose and idiotic. WHERE were the more ships going to come from? She expect me to pull them out of my TRIBBLE or something? The ones around Spacedock were already too damaged to fight, only the four ships that showed up from the Jenolan sphere conference were in fight worthy condition. Getting ships from other sectors contacted and brought in takes time which they hadn't had at that point.
So, in sum, the Klingon chancellor is an honorless warmonger of questionable legitimacy, the Klingon player character is a war criminal, their flagship captain is an entitled brat, their emperor is dead because he was stupid, and their best black ops commander has the bravery of Sir Robin and the mission planning ability of the Three Stooges.
Clearly the Klingon Empire has some staff issues.
You go to the Iconian War with the Klingons you have, not the Klingons you wish you had.
True, but considering that a good portion of this debacle can be laid at the Klingons' feet for going off half-cocked against the Undine to begin with...
Also true. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. The Gorn baseball team were packing disruptors and managed to take out an undine infiltrator -- unfortunately carrying disruptors into a baseball game meant they were disqualified.
Yep. And now you see why I refuse to play KDF and gladly deleted mine even with the dilithium advantages it could confer on me.
Christian Gaming Community Fleets--Faith, Fun, and Fellowship! See the website and PM for more. :-)
Proudly F2P. Signature image by gulberat. Avatar image by balsavor.deviantart.com.
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