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Utopia Planitia Report - One Big Ship

pwlaughingtrendypwlaughingtrendy Member Posts: 2,966 Arc User
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“That’s… Lieutenant Commander O’Brien,” she stammered. Elyos said, “So it is. Why are you surprised? He’s the chief engineer.”

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  • mmps1mmps1 Member Posts: 381 Arc User
    aaaah! this ties in with that awesome article about the new ody's. See, we love stuff like this, I totes done an excited geek flap. More of this plz!!!!
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  • dalolorndalolorn Member Posts: 3,655 Arc User
    edited February 2016
    I see the Nagus' hand in some of Kirayoshi's dialogue... :grin:

    Edit: Am I the only one whose mind kept jumping back and forth between "they're refitting the Enterprise" and "they're joining the Enterprise's engineering crew'?
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    Deltans are sooo sexual... <3o:)<3
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    When ya stop to think about it, what did all the characters of TOS think about Kirk...

    We're essentially supposed to be in his caliber as starship Captains.

    Curiouser and Curiouser...

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  • ktyrrellktyrrell Member Posts: 261 Arc User
    nice read, please more of it. <3

  • velquavelqua Member Posts: 1,220 Arc User
    O'Brien is going to get some! Happy Valentine's Day!
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  • dschehutidschehuti Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited February 2016
    Wait. UPSCALING the Enterprise? Are you guys kidding me? Isn't the lady already huge enough?
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    dschehuti wrote: »
    Wait. UPSCALING the Enterprise? Are you guys kidding me? Isn't the lady already huge enough?
    It needs to be large enough that shuttles can orbit it. :p
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  • sheldonlcoopersheldonlcooper Member Posts: 4,042 Arc User
    I bet O'Brien was instrumental in getting Memory Alpha closed down. It was a tomb!
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  • captaind3captaind3 Member Posts: 2,449 Arc User
    Huh. So Jayce's is official? Fascinating. I was surprised to see it linked on Memory Beta.

    Whetu and O'Brien aw, alright. She's all flustered. Kirayoshi very smooth. B)
    dschehuti wrote: »
    Wait. UPSCALING the Enterprise? Are you guys kidding me? Isn't the lady already huge enough?

    Taking it up to one of the new blocks I suppose.
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  • lazarxlazarx Member Posts: 115 Arc User
    agoogleuser wrote: »
    I wonder what she, Watu, thinks about us, I mean aren't we (the players) supposed to be famous in Starfleet or something? ...I mean we only stopped the Iconina War, Bavot, Borg attack on Vega and made first contact with the Lukari...
    Nothing little... I mean its not like we're the Triola Scott of the 25th century.

    EDIT: For that matter I wonder what all the other characters think about us, (Shon, Quinn, the rommy dude at Dyson etc.)

    But we're not canon save in our own private storylines.
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  • hypodemicushypodemicus Member Posts: 14 Arc User
    I like this storyline, protagonists seem to be quite nice :)
  • keletteskelettes Member Posts: 488 Arc User
    edited February 2016
    "If you break it, you bought it."

    Reading that, a scene popped into my mind out of nowhere. XXD


    That night, a random ensign technician, Mike, gets a call from his wife, Miley, who lives in one of the Mars colonies down on the surface.

    - Mike, something got transported to our backyard a few hours ago. Did something get mixed up on your end?
    - Hi dear! Uh... are there cracks on it?
    - Uhm... now that you mention it, yes there are. Why?
    - Oh! That's just the main deflector dish of the USS Enterprise. I... I may have bonked into it accidentally with a shuttle; and no, they're not going to pick it up later.
    - WHAT?!
    - It was Chief O'Brien's idea! But, I think I can modify it to look like a tennis court.
    - MIKE!
    - Sorry!


    So the blogs about the new flagships were supposed to be from the latest edition of Jayce's Navy Interstellar? Nice touch! :smiley:
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  • giliongilion Member Posts: 686 Arc User
    Lol, that was an interesting read. Though I really hope the Enterprise isnt going to change visually too much. I love the original Odyssey look and while the new series also look good (minus the Sojourner IMO) I think the original Odyssey looks perfect as the Federation flagship.
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  • cuchulainn74cuchulainn74 Member Posts: 831 Arc User
    But which of the three classes is she?! I've got a screenshot that must now be updated! LOL
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  • risian4risian4 Member Posts: 3,711 Arc User
    When I read the title, I thought it was about a new feature that lets us merge all our ships together and make them one big ship...
  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    Yorktown would be the closest to the original look, I think.

    But the Odyssey original model also got a visual overhaul. It's probably too subtle for most of us without the direct comparision.

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  • antonine3258antonine3258 Member Posts: 2,391 Arc User
    So - the Big E going Yorktown or just the visual updates? And you referenced the Jayce article!

    Love to get all these 'lore' blogs into game somewhere, it'd be really cool, we could always use another tab somewhere in the UI.


    (Also, I really love Whetu and Elyos - their dialog is gold)
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  • freakiumfreakium Member Posts: 439 Arc User
    I think the Enterprise would be keeping its current look. The refits they're talking about in the story is probably all internal. Besides, it didn't take any serious damage during the Iconian War and it hasn't been commissioned all that long. It wouldn't make sense for them to make any structural changes so quickly.
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  • captaincelestialcaptaincelestial Member Posts: 1,925 Arc User
    I never thought of the Oddyssey as a big ship. I almost thought there was going to be another on the same scale as the Jupiter :open_mouth:
  • toivatoiva Member Posts: 3,276 Arc User
    That Jayce's article mentioned the Entreprise-F to be the science Odyssey. So if they're officially refitting it, it would make sense to become the Yorktown.
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  • captainhunter1captainhunter1 Member Posts: 1,632 Arc User
    antonine3258 wrote: »

    Love to get all these 'lore' blogs into game somewhere, it'd be really cool, we could always use another tab somewhere in the UI.

    How about if they collected them all in one place...somewhere you could read about all the lore and history in STO...someplace like a sort of galactic library....

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  • whamhammer1whamhammer1 Member Posts: 2,290 Arc User
    Or LTCMDR O'Brien was just having them meet for dinner, as two officers, in a less formal setting. It's the Enterprise F, not the Love Boat!
  • starsider32485starsider32485 Member Posts: 57 Arc User
    O'Brien's speech about being careful about non-standard parts sounds like what my Chief Engineer would have to say to people working on my Sci Oddy, only he'd probably have to add stuff like:

    -Use caution around the Borg nodes. Let's keep our work space assimilation free!
    -Always wear mag boots when near the Zero point module. Gravity tends to fluctuate in that area.
    -In case of plasma fires, industrial strength fire extinguishers are located in the torpedo bays.
    -Anyone experiencing a shift in phase variance should report to the science lab.
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  • willdojinnwilldojinn Member Posts: 57 Arc User
    My Chief Engineer Two of Twenty would probably add drlyly that 'just because this is a Republic ship non-romulans are still barred from obtaining or consuming romulan ale for any reason, ESPECIALLY during their shift.
  • qziqzaqziqza Member Posts: 1,044 Arc User
    edited February 2016
    very nice piece of writing! O'Brien's introduction was great.. with such a familiar sense of recognition that it put a warm smile on my face. the trio were well padded to give a real sense of character, and of course, the entire thing just fits in so well with the release of the new ships, as intended.

    would love to see more of this story.. hopefully with something from the Romulans and KDF too.​​
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    captainhunter1 wrote: »
    antonine3258 wrote: »

    Love to get all these 'lore' blogs into game somewhere, it'd be really cool, we could always use another tab somewhere in the UI.

    How about if they collected them all in one place...somewhere you could read about all the lore and history in STO...someplace like a sort of galactic library....

    arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline/#/discussion/1208604/time-to-re-open-memory-alpha-as-a-true-repository-of-knowledge

    ;)

    Or let us re-watch episodes on the bridge viewscreen. :D
  • hfmuddhfmudd Member Posts: 881 Arc User
    I loved this, every bit.

    captaincelestial: Oh, it's a space whale. Just because the Jupiter is even more ridonkulously yooge doesn't make the Oddy less cetacean.

    starsider32485: I think most of our ships have a list of "special instructions" like that, yes.
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  • megawolf0megawolf0 Member Posts: 114 Arc User
    Well, interesting read. Those two I think are fun and I won't mind meeting them just once.
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