I mean yeah, people will complain about a lack of content, or about how the iconians have been a let down, and while all of that's true, my beef is with what makes up the content itself.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm personally just not that big of a fan of Voyager. Janeway never felt like she should have filled the center seat for a whole series. I mean, the woman admitted that she drew most of her inspiration from Kirk. If that wasn't a recipe for disaster I don't know what is.
All that said, and personal character beefs aside, Delta Rising was a sudden and drastic departure from what STO had been. We were squarely focussed on the Alpha quadrant. You know, the place where ALL the other Trek content was based? Where there's ample lore to explore and draw from for story content? Where the way things play out is actually of consequence? I liked seeing Talaxians again as much as the next guy, but does that justify a whole expansion? I mean honestly, we spent half a season protecting a species from extinction that showed up in an episode. The focus has just been too narrow. That would be fine if the game itself justified it's own existence, but in this case the IP and the story around it are the only reason the game still exists. When you depart so drastically from what I would argue most people care about with regard to the IP you're going to have a bad time. I know very few players who are here solely for the thrilling gameplay and refreshingly bug free atmosphere.
With all that in mind, I think once the Iconians are dead and buried we either need to start writing entirely new content based loosely on stuff mentioned in Trek, I choose Voth as the example for this because they barely got mentioned but the devs ran wild with them and I really enjoyed fighting them, or go back to basics and worry about consolidating the Romulan republic and really developing what the Alpha Quadrant looks like politically in 2410. If they don't start doing a Star Trek's greatest hits they're going to lose player interest fast. I can only muster the strength to pretend to care about species that got mentioned once who reside on the other side of the galaxy for so long. Hell, I'd even take more tropish, mirror universe space TRIBBLE at this point.
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I liked Voyager though. there isn't really a Star Trek Captain I dislike. except reboot Kirk.
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
I like the new positions like Pilot, Command and Intel though. I just wish there was more relevance to the skills being used. Like a proper introduction to new ships and skills by actually test-driving them or even being a helping hand in developing it.
Also, when are we going to get some episodes that actually plays on a ship and does some old school exploring? I'm quite done with the cheesy baddies.
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
It is not really hard to think a lot of captains will take Kirk example. LOL, all of em will be a disaster then. About Janeway, she was a bit inconsistent in her role, but she was an amazing captain. She filled the chair more than enough. If you cut off the 2 first seasons of voyager, it is a great show.
I like far more voyager than DS9, for example, this is a question of taste, but for me voyager was more fun and enjoyable than DS9, boring for moments and really plagued with a religoius ambience that honestly, doesnt fit star trek at all, and it was way too much for me. With the exception of the last episodes, some other spreaded ones and some characters (Sisko was the worst acting captain ever in an star trek show) DS9 was almost forgettable for me. Some others will think the opposite , and some others will think like me. But i dont think Janeway was a "bad" captain lol, not by far..
That's a third of the show though since there are only like seven seasons. By that logic I hear star wars is really bad if you ignore the original and Empire. And my whole point though is that the Malon, the Kazon, basically all of those first two seasons is what we played an excessive amount of in Delta Rising.
I dont use any pilot/command/watever boffs in my ships lol. I dont need em, and honestly just for having another slighty fancier skill that in the end is not better than the usual ones.. pff. Never use em and i dont think i ever will.
I will prefer cryptic to re-vamp the special ship abilities instead. Make em more powerful and interesting to use. If you need to increase the cooldown, so be it, but for god sake i hate the 3-pack console abilities -useless most of the time- that cryptic keeps poping up.
For the op.. dude, star trek is not only developed in the alpha quadrant.. the reason we are having a lot of content related to the delta quadrant is because it was about time. Not everything can be going on on the alpha quadrant. We need more stories, more villains, more ships, if you stick to the alpha quadrant.. you are screwed. You dont like the new delta quadrant writtin? join the club.
The IP is alpha quadrant, beta quadrant, gamma quadrant and delta quadrant. THAT is star trek. You dont like delta stuff? sorry, you need to live with it..
My main point, in case I hadn't made it clear, and rereading my original post I realize it isn't quite clear, isn't that I don't think we should be expanding the story into the Delta and Gamma Quadrants, but that if we're going to do it, we should go all in, not beat around the edges like we have. If what we'd had for the Delta Quadrant was a Beta Quadrant sized sector map, rife with planets and full of, dare I say it, stories that weren't entirely dependent on "Voyager was here! Voyager was here!", I wouldnt be complaining. If the attempt had been made entirely for the story I would've been down with it. They didn't introduce the sphere to sell Solanae related gimmicks for a year or two. They did it, it was cool, it was huge, it was new, it was full of cool, well developed back-story, and we moved on. If the Delta Quadrant had been introduced with the same intent I think it probably would've been received better.
And the Bajorans were just in a handful of TNG episodes. Guess what DS9 was mostly about? :P
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Erm.. do you realize that in almost EVERY show the two first seasons are always the worst ones, right? and in cases like DS9 the most boring ones ive ever seen. In TNG, until season 3 the show didnt start to show its real potential. Always happens. The problem is, maybe in the case of Voyager the 2 first seasons were even worst than the normal average. But thats all.
Had the Sector Space revamp happened pre-Solenae, you argument would act actually hold alot more sway, as now there is a ton of systems now available with nothing going on, but since everything leading up to the Iconian War started with the Sphere, then it was obvious that the galaxy was going to be opened up, and it needed it. You only have to look at the few asking 'we need Andromeda Galaxy' to see this is so, which by the way, there is still the rest of the Galaxy to explore yet, adding the Andromeda Galaxy would be overkill IMO.
I think it's great that we're seeing a view of what happened to whomever in the Delta Quadrant since Voyager's return, and I found the storylines refreshing, regardless of how long they were featured in the series.