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Bringing Daniels to STO

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Matt Winston joins the Star Trek Online, reprising his role as the enigmatic temporal agent known as Daniels!

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  • cuchulainn74cuchulainn74 Member Posts: 831 Arc User
    Wow, quite the star-studded ensemble cast we're getting for this expansion, eh? Cannot wait to see the story that carries so many great characters.
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  • sharpie65sharpie65 Member Posts: 679 Arc User
    Next up (or somewhere along the line): Bringing Archer/Chekov to STO. I'm calling it now. :)

    I also wonder how Daniels and the others fit in..maybe Daniels is your C31st contact?
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  • kekvinkekvin Member Posts: 633 Arc User
    Bout time been wanting him in it since like forever lol
  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    That's it, I'm Officially Psychic.
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited May 2016
    This WORLD PRIMERE thingy in Germany this coming weekend is probably the announcement of Bakula and Shatner and Stewart and Brooks and Mulgrew all doing voice work for the game.

    (even I'm not that psychic, psychotic, maybe)
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  • captaind3captaind3 Member Posts: 2,449 Arc User
    I'm actually quite happy about this. It wouldn't be a Temporal War without Daniels. If we're gonna do it, might as well go all the way.
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  • tymerstotymersto Member Posts: 433 Arc User
    sharpie65 wrote: »
    Next up (or somewhere along the line): Bringing Archer/Chekov to STO. I'm calling it now. :)

    I also wonder how Daniels and the others fit in..maybe Daniels is your C31st contact?

    In the AoY Announcement, Checkov was one of the mentioned characters (along with Scotty).


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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited May 2016
    sharpie65 wrote: »
    Next up (or somewhere along the line): Bringing Archer/Chekov to STO. I'm calling it now. :)

    I also wonder how Daniels and the others fit in..maybe Daniels is your C31st contact?

    Chekov has already been announced and Koenig IS doing the voice.

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  • sheldonlcoopersheldonlcooper Member Posts: 4,042 Arc User
    Hurray! Very glad to hear this. Let's go break into his quarters and see what goodies he's left in there.
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    Archer took everything already.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    Hmm.. I bet Daniels is our primary quest giver. It's what he did in ENT. He showed Archer how to correct the imbalances in the time stream caused by other time travelers.
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  • antonine3258antonine3258 Member Posts: 2,391 Arc User
    Well, wasn't expecting this temporal agent at this point... These design blogs are pretty interesting.
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    I like it!
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,966 Arc User
    edited May 2016
    markhawkman wrote: »
    Hmm.. I bet Daniels is our primary quest giver. It's what he did in ENT. He showed Archer how to correct the imbalances in the time stream caused by other time travelers.

    Yep, he sucked too hard at his job to solve the problem himself so he had to rely on the biggest idiot ever to sit in a command chair to fix his problems for him.

    See, this is the inherent problem with the Future!Federation's approach to the entire Temporal Cr*p War. By making any contact whatsoever with the people in your past, especially in a manner by which they discover that you are from their future (let alone you outright telling them that), you are contaminating the timeline even further than it was already. The Temporal Prime Directive should be held as absolutely sacrosanct: only interfere in the smallest possible manner that allows a fix, and never let them know who you are.

    The Department of Temporal Investigations of the 24th century understood this principle. Hell, rank-and-file Starfleet personnel of the 23rd century understood this principle: if anyone knows what you did, you failed. So how is it that the timecops of six centuries further into the future cannot seem to wrap their heads around it and instead blithely wreck the timeline left and right while claiming to be safeguarding it?
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  • inferiorityinferiority Member Posts: 4,462 Arc User
    A pleasant surprise to see Daniels coming to STO.
    I didn't find him to be that memorable of a character, but his impact on the storyline for Enterprise was even felt in episodes he didn't appear in.
    A welcome addition, and makes me wonder who else might still appear that hasn't been announced yet...
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  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,014 Arc User
    edited May 2016
    starswordc wrote: »
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    The Department of Temporal Investigations of the 24th century understood this principle. Hell, rank-and-file Starfleet personnel of the 23rd century understood this principle: if anyone knows what you did, you failed. So how is it that the timecops of six centuries further into the future cannot seem to wrap their heads around it and instead blithely wreck the timeline left and right while claiming to be safeguarding it?

    Because they ran out of ideas and just writing regular war stories but add "temporal" to it to make it sound futuristic?

    Honestly, time travel and it's rules were never consistent throughout Star Trek. But the casual and nonsensical way STO does it right now and ENT started it really took the last good bit out of it. I'm excited we_'ll get a 23rd century expansion, even though it's all "temporal war" nonsense. But I personally would love to have a feature to "search and replace" everything temporal or time war related and every mention of the 26th, 29th or 31st century out of STO (and star trek in general?).​​
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  • keletteskelettes Member Posts: 488 Arc User
    About time he showed up! :smiley:

    They are assembling an impressive cast here :smile:

    Wonder what he's up to this time. Making sure that our character gets his/her raktajino in the morning, so that a diplomatic mission doesn't go south and our ship won't get shot to pieces? (kidding ^.^)

    Great addition, thumbs-up! Can't wait to hear/see what happens @ FedCon :smile:
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  • storulesstorules Member Posts: 3,286 Arc User
    Excellent...THIS is what I would love to have NOT the OLD ancient stuff from 50 years ago. I hope there is more Futuristic stories than the old kirk or old TRIBBLE TOS pig-30.gif​​
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  • dalolorndalolorn Member Posts: 3,655 Arc User
    Fantastic work, quite a bit better than Scotty.
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  • sharpie65sharpie65 Member Posts: 679 Arc User
    daveyny wrote: »
    sharpie65 wrote: »
    Next up (or somewhere along the line): Bringing Archer/Chekov to STO. I'm calling it now. :)

    I also wonder how Daniels and the others fit in..maybe Daniels is your C31st contact?

    Chekov has already been announced and Koenig IS doing the voice.

    (ninja'd)
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    I'm referring to the respective blog releases (hopefully soon), but I should have made it more clear. :wink:
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  • sharpie65sharpie65 Member Posts: 679 Arc User
    starswordc wrote: »
    markhawkman wrote: »
    Hmm.. I bet Daniels is our primary quest giver. It's what he did in ENT. He showed Archer how to correct the imbalances in the time stream caused by other time travelers.

    Yep, he sucked too hard at his job to solve the problem himself so he had to rely on the biggest idiot ever to sit in a command chair to fix his problems for him.

    See, this is the inherent problem with the Future!Federation's approach to the entire Temporal Cr*p War. By making any contact whatsoever with the people in your past, especially in a manner by which they discover that you are from their future (let alone you outright telling them that), you are contaminating the timeline even further than it was already. The Temporal Prime Directive should be held as absolutely sacrosanct: only interfere in the smallest possible manner that allows a fix, and never let them know who you are.

    The Department of Temporal Investigations of the 24th century understood this principle. Hell, rank-and-file Starfleet personnel of the 23rd century understood this principle: if anyone knows what you did, you failed. So how is it that the timecops of six centuries further into the future cannot seem to wrap their heads around it and instead blithely wreck the timeline left and right while claiming to be safeguarding it?

    Here's a thought: what if Daniels' mission was to make contact with Archer?
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  • giliongilion Member Posts: 686 Arc User
    So, Im really glad that Daniels is finally coming to STO, but you know, for a char like his, I feel it would have been WAY better to release this blog after the expansion, and let his appearance be a surprise to players.
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  • dalolorndalolorn Member Posts: 3,655 Arc User
    gilion wrote: »
    So, Im really glad that Daniels is finally coming to STO, but you know, for a char like his, I feel it would have been WAY better to release this blog after the expansion, and let his appearance be a surprise to players.

    Quite probably. Oh well.
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,966 Arc User
    edited May 2016
    sharpie65 wrote: »
    starswordc wrote: »
    markhawkman wrote: »
    Hmm.. I bet Daniels is our primary quest giver. It's what he did in ENT. He showed Archer how to correct the imbalances in the time stream caused by other time travelers.

    Yep, he sucked too hard at his job to solve the problem himself so he had to rely on the biggest idiot ever to sit in a command chair to fix his problems for him.

    See, this is the inherent problem with the Future!Federation's approach to the entire Temporal Cr*p War. By making any contact whatsoever with the people in your past, especially in a manner by which they discover that you are from their future (let alone you outright telling them that), you are contaminating the timeline even further than it was already. The Temporal Prime Directive should be held as absolutely sacrosanct: only interfere in the smallest possible manner that allows a fix, and never let them know who you are.

    The Department of Temporal Investigations of the 24th century understood this principle. Hell, rank-and-file Starfleet personnel of the 23rd century understood this principle: if anyone knows what you did, you failed. So how is it that the timecops of six centuries further into the future cannot seem to wrap their heads around it and instead blithely wreck the timeline left and right while claiming to be safeguarding it?

    Here's a thought: what if Daniels' mission was to make contact with Archer?

    Then his masters are either malicious or incompetent and he should have disregarded the order. The point still stands that somehow, starting with VOY: "Relativity", the single consistent rule of behavior followed by Starfleet in the overwhelming majority of preceding time travel situations, that you should actively avoid tampering with the past, started getting tossed out the window in favor of intentional interference by Future!Starfleet.
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  • robeasomrobeasom Member Posts: 1,911 Arc User
    Is it just me or does the picture of his in game self look like a little like a shape-shifter are we sure this is the real Daniels
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  • nadiezjanadiezja Member Posts: 629 Arc User
    Scotty is cool. Daniels... I honestly don't care.
  • trillbuffettrillbuffet Member Posts: 861 Arc User
    So anything good coming with this expansion or we getting another DR?
  • farmallmfarmallm Member Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    Cool! Glad to see him back and in STO. Looking forward to the new expansion!
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  • phenomenaut01phenomenaut01 Member Posts: 714 Arc User
    angrytarg wrote: »
    starswordc wrote: »
    (...)
    The Department of Temporal Investigations of the 24th century understood this principle. Hell, rank-and-file Starfleet personnel of the 23rd century understood this principle: if anyone knows what you did, you failed. So how is it that the timecops of six centuries further into the future cannot seem to wrap their heads around it and instead blithely wreck the timeline left and right while claiming to be safeguarding it?

    Because they ran out of ideas and just writing regular war stories but add "temporal" to it to make it sound futuristic?

    Honestly, time travel and it's rules were never consistent throughout Star Trek. But the casual and nonsensical way STO does it right now and ENT started it really took the last good bit out of it. I'm excited we_'ll get a 23rd century expansion, even though it's all "temporal war" nonsense. But I personally would love to have a feature to "search and replace" everything temporal or time war related and every mention of the 26th, 29th or 31st century out of STO (and star trek in general?).​​

    There is a filter to "search and replace everything temporal or time war related...in STO".

    It's called playing another game. :p

    (apologies, I just couldn't help myself. No intention to offend)

  • phenomenaut01phenomenaut01 Member Posts: 714 Arc User
    I wonder if they're going to answer the question left hanging from Enterprise, regarding the identity of the mysterious figure bossing the Suliban around in season one.
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