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jtoon74jtoon74 Member Posts: 409 Arc User
1. Why are Photon torpedos light blue and not red?.
2. Will there be a new temporal fleet holding?.
3. I would be interested in getting the TOS era pack from the c-store, if I knew if any of that stuff was or wasn't included in the Temporal Agent Pack, so is it or isn't it?

I'll add more as I remember them, I usually rememberwhilst in the middle of something in game. :P
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  • gpgtxgpgtx Member Posts: 1,579 Arc User
    Becuase the torpedoes where that color in TOS.


    Probably
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  • jtoon74jtoon74 Member Posts: 409 Arc User
    gpgtx wrote: »
    Becuase the torpedoes where that color in TOS.


    Probably
    Actually they are red Fedside, unless they changed them to red after teh release on TMP, My memories of the tv series are from the late 70's onwards.
  • badgerpants999badgerpants999 Member Posts: 241 Arc User
    edited May 2016
    The Original Series photon torpedoes are blue


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VRQ2G2uxVE


    Admittedly a purpley blue but still blue

    And again, this time from the Mirror episodes on Enterprise

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSSDqXGCREw
  • jtoon74jtoon74 Member Posts: 409 Arc User
    So when did they become red??. :confused:
  • teknesiateknesia Member Posts: 860 Arc User
    jtoon74 wrote: »
    So when did they become red??. :confused:
    Wrath of Kahn I believe. I know they are still blue from the single one fired in TMP.
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  • teknesiateknesia Member Posts: 860 Arc User
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  • teknesiateknesia Member Posts: 860 Arc User
    The Original Series photon torpedoes are blue


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VRQ2G2uxVE


    Admittedly a purpley blue but still blue

    And again, this time from the Mirror episodes on Enterprise

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSSDqXGCREw

    When my bro and I first saw that episode, I said, "TRIBBLE, Archer upgraded. Now he can finally get satellite."

    Sometimes, I feel like Canon gets in the way of Star Trek. It's really hard to rectify the TOS era with what we know about technology and space now, and it's not that it's out of date that bothers me. It's that Star Trek has a quasi sci fi background and the whole notion that people cling to how it must look from TOS is pretty distracting to me. I mean, we don't have to go full on Enterprise and meet the Borg early on, or even admit that we've seen the Romulans before now. But sometimes, it's a lot to ask to believe that we can't adjust some of these things to match up with modern times a bit. I mean.. the computer consoles... need I say more?

    /end rant. AoY will still be pretty fun though and I always try and keep a head canon to... try to explain some things.
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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    teknesia wrote: »
    The Original Series photon torpedoes are blue


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VRQ2G2uxVE


    Admittedly a purpley blue but still blue

    And again, this time from the Mirror episodes on Enterprise

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSSDqXGCREw

    When my bro and I first saw that episode, I said, "TRIBBLE, Archer upgraded. Now he can finally get satellite."

    Sometimes, I feel like Canon gets in the way of Star Trek. It's really hard to rectify the TOS era with what we know about technology and space now, and it's not that it's out of date that bothers me. It's that Star Trek has a quasi sci fi background and the whole notion that people cling to how it must look from TOS is pretty distracting to me. I mean, we don't have to go full on Enterprise and meet the Borg early on, or even admit that we've seen the Romulans before now. But sometimes, it's a lot to ask to believe that we can't adjust some of these things to match up with modern times a bit. I mean.. the computer consoles... need I say more?

    /end rant. AoY will still be pretty fun though and I always try and keep a head canon to... try to explain some things.

    Why do we need to bother with rectifying Star Trek with what we now know about technology and space? Different realities have different rules that they follow. So just because something works this way in our universe doesn't mean it will work our way in the Star Trek universe.
  • badgerpants999badgerpants999 Member Posts: 241 Arc User
    teknesia wrote: »

    Snip

    When my bro and I first saw that episode, I said, "TRIBBLE, Archer upgraded. Now he can finally get satellite."

    Sometimes, I feel like Canon gets in the way of Star Trek. It's really hard to rectify the TOS era with what we know about technology and space now, and it's not that it's out of date that bothers me. It's that Star Trek has a quasi sci fi background and the whole notion that people cling to how it must look from TOS is pretty distracting to me. I mean, we don't have to go full on Enterprise and meet the Borg early on, or even admit that we've seen the Romulans before now. But sometimes, it's a lot to ask to believe that we can't adjust some of these things to match up with modern times a bit. I mean.. the computer consoles... need I say more?

    /end rant. AoY will still be pretty fun though and I always try and keep a head canon to... try to explain some things.

    The word you're looking for is Zeerust

    With an explanation

    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Zeerust

    And a warning...

    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife
  • jtoon74jtoon74 Member Posts: 409 Arc User
    cheers, really couldn't remember.
  • jaturnleyjaturnley Member Posts: 1,218 Arc User
    jtoon74 wrote: »
    1. Why are Photon torpedos light blue and not red?.
    2. Will there be a new temporal fleet holding?.
    3. I would be interested in getting the TOS era pack from the c-store, if I knew if any of that stuff was or wasn't included in the Temporal Agent Pack, so is it or isn't it?

    I'll add more as I remember them, I usually rememberwhilst in the middle of something in game. :P

    For #3: in previous expansions, almost everything in the packs was released on the C-Store individually at the launch of the expansion. For this one, I am assuming that the stuff under the "Temporal Extras" section will be exclusive to the pack this time. It's pretty weak stuff for the most part, the only really useful thing being the Temporal Operative Specialization Qualifications, which will be the only way to get temporal boff powers until you can level up the new Specialization enough to make your own - which if you have been banking spec points might be at launch anyway. The advantage of the packs is the discounted price, but that's really only a good deal if you were going to buy all of the ships anyway.

    There are likely going to be a couple more things added to the big pack before launch, and there's almost certainly going to be a new highly sought after ship added to the C-Store that's not in the pack but tied to AoY a month or so after launch (for DR it was the Pathfinder, for LoR is was the Scimitar).
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,231 Arc User
    "which if you have been banking spec points might be at launch anyway." It will. If I bother spending them. :)
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  • jtoon74jtoon74 Member Posts: 409 Arc User
    Thanks for the replies. :)
  • teknesiateknesia Member Posts: 860 Arc User
    teknesia wrote: »

    Snip

    When my bro and I first saw that episode, I said, "TRIBBLE, Archer upgraded. Now he can finally get satellite."

    Sometimes, I feel like Canon gets in the way of Star Trek. It's really hard to rectify the TOS era with what we know about technology and space now, and it's not that it's out of date that bothers me. It's that Star Trek has a quasi sci fi background and the whole notion that people cling to how it must look from TOS is pretty distracting to me. I mean, we don't have to go full on Enterprise and meet the Borg early on, or even admit that we've seen the Romulans before now. But sometimes, it's a lot to ask to believe that we can't adjust some of these things to match up with modern times a bit. I mean.. the computer consoles... need I say more?

    /end rant. AoY will still be pretty fun though and I always try and keep a head canon to... try to explain some things.

    The word you're looking for is Zeerust

    With an explanation

    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Zeerust

    And a warning...

    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife

    Thanks for the links.

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  • captkelly31#5645 captkelly31 Member Posts: 392 Arc User
    edited June 2016
    I wonder if AOY should include alien bits from ENT, or from the Kirk films, like the Zaranite, or Xelatian breathing mask, or Arcadian, Arkenite, stuff like that?

    Another point is how many would agree for AOY captains to have first contact missions with species like the Saurians and Bolians?

    Third is if they should add "new" ground weapons, ones slightly different in shape to the phasers from show: pulsewave, compression pistol, minigun, phaser howitzer from "The Cage" as ENG kit power?
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