dunno, i've never seen the movie before; only ever heard scattered bits about it, mainly that it brought back some kind of demon-like entity from a hell-like dimension
Actually, the most likely twist is that the ship BECAME a mind-TRIBBLE demon-like entity itself. One scene has the sensor of another ship saying the whole ship is alive.
Actually, the most likely twist is that the ship BECAME a mind-TRIBBLE demon-like entity itself. One scene has the sensor of another ship saying the whole ship is alive.
You know, that gave me the idea. What if the Enterprise-B encountered the HurQ or the ones responsibile for the Feklhri? (Would've said the Iconians, but we never had a solid link other than them being the instigators).
What if we found another being like the one found at the center of the Galaxy? Maybe like one coming to check on that other being, or just one found sealed on another planet yet this time it got ahold of the ship. Another interesting idea is what about Armus or another being like Armus finding its way onto the ship. Than after your crew is lured to the ship by Armus allowing what few crew that remained alive contact star fleet getting thier attention. This could lead to alot of interesting stories, events, and situations leading up to an thru the vessal.
I agree no zombies... ffs puhleez no zombies... overdone genre much?
if we want a note of horror why not go and borrow a little from Event Horizon and the "enemy" in the episode is the ship itself... maybe have the corridors and stuff flicker as we move along and show hellish scenes kind of like how we get undine bits in mindscape while traversing voyager.
Something with actual "ghostly" things could be cool too, not dravidians, but out of phase or temporally locked crew
Theres a reason I avoid the hell out of the engineering decks on my warbirds.....
Otherwise, just keep the ship dead and just make good interior settings that makes the mission more interesting.
Who knows, might be a person who survived all this time and gone complete looney
Didn't Demora step down as captain before the virus thing, to take care of her ill grandmother? never mentioned her back on the ship, since she was a captain and wasn't the captain of Enterprise when she vanished.
Maybe the mystery of the E-B may have been a first contact situation gone wrong leading to a virus infecting the crew
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To be honest, this is definitely a story that could be elaborated upon beyond the brief reference in the Enterprise owners manual, which isn't much to go by and is, frankly, quite flawed (due in part to how very brief it is).
I mean, for one, it's a little contradictory. "Lost in Deep Space after the crew contracted some unknown infection".
Okay - so how did anyone know that the crew contracted some unknown infection? The only real explaination is that the crew managed to communicate that information. That presents a problem in itself because it forces us to beleive that the crew was able to get a message to someone regarding the infection but didn't bother communicating their position. Furthermore, if they did communicate, it should be possible to trace the point of origin of the message.
The other possibility is that the ship was deliberately scuttled and set adrift - but that contradicts how we saw Starfleet treat a 'diseased' ship (TNG; 'Unnatural Selection') memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/USS_Lantree.
Anyway - as I said, it would be great if they elaborated on this extremely vague fate for the ship.
Not the first time ships can't track down the location of another, not the last.
Or they sent a report saying some of the crew had contracted an unknown disease, another one saying it was spreading fast, and then no more reports and when other ships went to investigate the last known location, the doomed ship was long gone, or deliberately set to go through a fiery purge into a star.
Lots of good ideas here. Aside from the limitations of the game I would like to see a mission as this without alot of the "jump scares" seen so frequently in horror films of late (although "found footage" horror is regrettably even more of the rage these days in my opinion).
Maybe it's just my tastes but I liked horror more in the style of John Carpenter's "The Thing" (did you know they had a game in the early 90's from the movie that never saw the light of day? A shame really) or "The Shining". Ok there were undoubtedly jump scares in those movies but the focus to me was about the story and the sense of eeriness. Like the scene where Jack opens the door to Room 237 to see what exactly attacked his son in the Shining ,to the scene where those doomed men from the Arctic Base approach the dog kennel where one of the dogs becomes strange and lethal.
For something like this style to take place in a mission with the Enterprise B it would be nice to have these elements where there is just darkness and dead bodies. A mystery to be sure and one that could easily heighten the sense of desperation you get when you arrive with an away team of four (besides you) and over the course of the mission the number dwindles down one by one until you are the only one left.
I think not only it would be much easier to create a mission along those lines where the focus is the eerie mystery and visuals and going with the "less is more" than to have a ship full of zombies or monsters where it turns into a shooting gallery. Hell the story itself would be the strong point and probably one of the features that would keep us coming back again and again to this doomed ship.
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Augments. A group of unknown Augments managed to escape the events in Enterprise. They head out to deep space and start a colony on an uninhabited planet.
Fast forward to 2428. The augments world is about to be destroyed. A distress signal is sent. The Enterprise B responds. When they arrive at the Augment's world, they find the planet tearing itself apart. Most of the population is dead. The Enterprise B manages to beam up a small group of survivors. The group, realzing that they are on a Federation starship, are determined not to be taken back there. They take over the Enterprise killing the crew in the process. They set course further out into the unknown. They find a new world to tame and call home.
Fast forward to the present. The Augment colony has thrived and is now a successful civilization. Their leader decides the Augments were genetically engineered for conquest. They take the Enterprise B (which ha been in orbit all this time) and set out to conquer the sector and establish an Augment empire.
Word has gotten back to the Federation that one of their starships is wreaking havoc in some far corner of unexplored space. You are sent to investigate. When you arrive you find the Enterprise B in orbit around a planet that they are currently bombarding. A battle between your ship and the Enterprise B ensues. Augments transport to your ship. You manage to defeat the boarding party and destroy the Enterprise B. But before the ship is destroyed, a transmission is sent to the Augment's homeworld appraising them as to what's happened.
The Augments are now furious upon learning that their plans have been thwarted. They swear that they will have their empire as promised by destiny. And vow to destroy the Federation.
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Perhaps they could write it as the virus which COULD belong to the T'Kon and is less a virus then a way of turning whomever comes in contact with it into drones with one task to restore the T'Kon empire.
The Ent-B crashes during the nanite infestation of the crew but not all the drones died in the crash and the planet it crashed on was a far off federation colony which in turn becomes infested the player is set to go investigate when all contact is lost with the colony.
Yeah, appartenly the captain was Thomas Johnson Jr at the time of it's disappearance.
AH yep that was his name...you think it would be easy to remember the idiot who lost a ship named Enterprise.
Ummm.. Kirk lost a ship named Enterprise too. As did Rachel Garrett. As did Will Riker.
Besides, we don't know the full story with the Enterprise-B; all we have is a short sentence in the 'USS Enterprise Owners' Workshop Manual'.
Nope Kirk blew up the Enterprise to kill those Klingon TRIBBLE that killed his son
Rachel Garret didn't lose her ship, it was damaged beyond hope
Riker didn't lose the D, they know exactly which planet it is on, besides that was TRIBBLE poor writing on continuity sake as usual, Riker was declared the best pilot on the D and he tells Deana years later to man the helm of the saucer section...brilliant writing and background research...
Losing a ship is you know...disappearing without a trace..contracted a virus and poof gone, no clue where it went.
Starfleet knows exactly were the 1701, 1701-C and 1701-D are or were, could have moved the remaining parts to some museum for all we know.
This would be a great mission for the game, motion pictures interiors and gear for everyone along with a free t6 epic quality ship for the admiralty system. Halloween might be a little too soon for the ship, but Christmas or new years could be very cool for this.
I can't say that I have 100% of the details, but from what I have read; Enterprise-B was lost after a deadly infection caught the crew and then it was never heard of again.
So Enterprise-B is still out there, drifting in space. It's a great premise for a great story line, and since none of the tv shows and movies touched the subjects, perhaps STO can.
I would like to see what happened to the Enterprise B, I think it would be a great episode arc or event.
Players may even find the Enterprise B while they are exploring, would be a cool mission.
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I am fan of the Galaxy class and Sovereign class. I like Federation cruisers.
maybe the E-B finds LV-426 and beams down to investigate the distress signal and gets zapped with alien facehuggers, beams up and ship is turned into a hive with the E-B crew being used as alien hosts.......
Some great ideas here, I really like most of them.
A strange infection takes control of the bodies of the crew, led by two opposing entities that divide the infected into two warring factions. With the Enterprise B too damaged to fly anywhere it drifts through space with an endless war inside it. That is until, we discover it..,
Who says they all died to the infection though, maybe it was some kind of infection that changed the host an maybe altered them, or what about a sentient infection of some kind that wanted to delieved an have starfleet find the ship. As such the remaining non-infected crew if they found out might have relayed thier situation, facts about the infection, and then had starfleet purge/seal the records for the safty of the rest of the galaxy. This could work even with the Bluegil/nerual-parasites getting onto the ship as a early maybe attempt of getting a hold in starfleet, maybe they did an that is how the ones we see in next gen got into starfleet in this timeline (as opposed to the series explanation.) with starfleet sending a rescue party that got infected when they got on bopard, but then afterwards they quarntined the ship an sealed the records. Now with what we know of them we might be sent on a mission to purge an save what remained on the enterprise B, but what might be on the ship now after so long an maybe the Iconians/Herald/Servators used the ship as a labratory even too.
and in keeping with the theme, there would need to be a portal to hell somewhere in the lower decks of the ship, preferably something well-shaped that barfs black sludge all over the place when disturbed
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The crew got a weird alien version of E-Bola.
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Maybe there was someone on the ship that section 31 wanted dead or out of the way, so they put some kind of altered infection. Yet the infection had a undoctumented or known effect on the person or creature, and turning it into some kind of monster or altering the ship connecting the two into a single being. Might be fun to deal with the secont again an see how they have messed up, or caused atrosities before.
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Actually, the most likely twist is that the ship BECAME a mind-TRIBBLE demon-like entity itself. One scene has the sensor of another ship saying the whole ship is alive.
You know, that gave me the idea. What if the Enterprise-B encountered the HurQ or the ones responsibile for the Feklhri? (Would've said the Iconians, but we never had a solid link other than them being the instigators).
Theres a reason I avoid the hell out of the engineering decks on my warbirds.....
Who knows, might be a person who survived all this time and gone complete looney
AH yep that was his name...you think it would be easy to remember the idiot who lost a ship named Enterprise.
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Or they sent a report saying some of the crew had contracted an unknown disease, another one saying it was spreading fast, and then no more reports and when other ships went to investigate the last known location, the doomed ship was long gone, or deliberately set to go through a fiery purge into a star.
Maybe it's just my tastes but I liked horror more in the style of John Carpenter's "The Thing" (did you know they had a game in the early 90's from the movie that never saw the light of day? A shame really) or "The Shining". Ok there were undoubtedly jump scares in those movies but the focus to me was about the story and the sense of eeriness. Like the scene where Jack opens the door to Room 237 to see what exactly attacked his son in the Shining ,to the scene where those doomed men from the Arctic Base approach the dog kennel where one of the dogs becomes strange and lethal.
For something like this style to take place in a mission with the Enterprise B it would be nice to have these elements where there is just darkness and dead bodies. A mystery to be sure and one that could easily heighten the sense of desperation you get when you arrive with an away team of four (besides you) and over the course of the mission the number dwindles down one by one until you are the only one left.
I think not only it would be much easier to create a mission along those lines where the focus is the eerie mystery and visuals and going with the "less is more" than to have a ship full of zombies or monsters where it turns into a shooting gallery. Hell the story itself would be the strong point and probably one of the features that would keep us coming back again and again to this doomed ship.
Fast forward to 2428. The augments world is about to be destroyed. A distress signal is sent. The Enterprise B responds. When they arrive at the Augment's world, they find the planet tearing itself apart. Most of the population is dead. The Enterprise B manages to beam up a small group of survivors. The group, realzing that they are on a Federation starship, are determined not to be taken back there. They take over the Enterprise killing the crew in the process. They set course further out into the unknown. They find a new world to tame and call home.
Fast forward to the present. The Augment colony has thrived and is now a successful civilization. Their leader decides the Augments were genetically engineered for conquest. They take the Enterprise B (which ha been in orbit all this time) and set out to conquer the sector and establish an Augment empire.
Word has gotten back to the Federation that one of their starships is wreaking havoc in some far corner of unexplored space. You are sent to investigate. When you arrive you find the Enterprise B in orbit around a planet that they are currently bombarding. A battle between your ship and the Enterprise B ensues. Augments transport to your ship. You manage to defeat the boarding party and destroy the Enterprise B. But before the ship is destroyed, a transmission is sent to the Augment's homeworld appraising them as to what's happened.
The Augments are now furious upon learning that their plans have been thwarted. They swear that they will have their empire as promised by destiny. And vow to destroy the Federation.
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The Ent-B crashes during the nanite infestation of the crew but not all the drones died in the crash and the planet it crashed on was a far off federation colony which in turn becomes infested the player is set to go investigate when all contact is lost with the colony.
Nope Kirk blew up the Enterprise to kill those Klingon TRIBBLE that killed his son
Rachel Garret didn't lose her ship, it was damaged beyond hope
Riker didn't lose the D, they know exactly which planet it is on, besides that was TRIBBLE poor writing on continuity sake as usual, Riker was declared the best pilot on the D and he tells Deana years later to man the helm of the saucer section...brilliant writing and background research...
Losing a ship is you know...disappearing without a trace..contracted a virus and poof gone, no clue where it went.
Starfleet knows exactly were the 1701, 1701-C and 1701-D are or were, could have moved the remaining parts to some museum for all we know.
Might be because he's the only full captain of an Enterprise (to my knowledge anyway) that you've never seen in a Canon production.
Players may even find the Enterprise B while they are exploring, would be a cool mission.
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A strange infection takes control of the bodies of the crew, led by two opposing entities that divide the infected into two warring factions. With the Enterprise B too damaged to fly anywhere it drifts through space with an endless war inside it. That is until, we discover it..,
eh... not a fan of this one
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That's not exactly what I was thinking... I mean, what does a Q need with a starship? But then again, what does a Q need crew?
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But it didn't show up till the Third Tuesday after they left the Starbase.
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