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alternate universe and alternate timeline - why not alternate TV Series?

hugin1205hugin1205 Member Posts: 489 Arc User
in Star Trek Online General Discussion
What next for STO?

Will we be able to fly ships from Babylon 5, Firefly or Farscape?

Obviously I don't mean this serious. And while the mirror universe has featured a lot in this game in those last years that I have wasted my life on it I am a bit sceptical about the alternate timeline.
Whenever there were changes in timeline all previous Things ceased to exist. To now have characters with Access to ships from both timelines somehow doesn't make sense in the ST universe - pls correct me if I am wrong here.
Or make a good storyline (not just: Q interferes or temporal Agent brings back ship plans)

Yes, I do like the way the ships look. But I have the "Highlander Problem" - if there can be only one, so how come each of the 327 films Ends with the last and final confrontation?

I know there are Topics about new series already - but I hope that this will be the Comedy Version of it. Write what else can be introduced into the game, now that credibility has gone :naughty:
18 characters
KDF: 2 tacs, 2 engs, 3 scis
KDF Roms: 3 tacs, 1 eng, 1 scis
FED: 2 tacs, 1 eng, 2 scis
TOS: 1 tac
all on T5 rep (up to temporal)
all have mastered Intel tree (and some more specs Points)
highest DPS: 60.982

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  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    I think Babyon 5, Firefly and Farscape are not owned by the Star Trek Industrial Complex (CBS/Paramount/Viacom), and are almost certainly not covered in Cryptic's license.

    I am nt sure if there would be a chance for a Galaxy Quest spoof in this game. I think we can all agree that was one of the best Trek movies.


    Star Trek has been not realy all that consistent what time travel does or doesn't do. You have weird things like a Temporal Police Force or something, that somehow can "retain the integrity of the time line" - as if one coudl exist outside of this universe somehow.

    It seems that now the Kelvin Timeline and the Prime Universe are deemed as parallel universes/alternate dimensions, just like the Mirrorverse. Personally I dislike the excessive Mirrorverse focus (and how it "evolved"). The Kelvin Timeline seems will be limited to a single episode, I would probably enjoy a bit more.
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  • sheldonlcoopersheldonlcooper Member Posts: 4,042 Arc User
    it's fringe!
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  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    nixboox wrote: »
    When we were poking holes in time trying to find a way to stop the Iconians we punched a hole into the JJTrek universe and something came out. The other TV series are not contemporary with Star Trek. Even Andromeda, another Roddenberry property, is set at least 8000 years further in the future.

    So another alternate timeline we could visit?

    Won't happen, but it would kinda be cool. Well, as long as they keep Sorbo out of it. I was more a fan of his Nietzschean comrade and enemy. (What was his name again?)
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  • zarato4218zarato4218 Member Posts: 403 Arc User
    edited June 2016
    mustrumridcully0 wrote: »
    nixboox wrote: »
    When we were poking holes in time trying to find a way to stop the Iconians we punched a hole into the JJTrek universe and something came out. The other TV series are not contemporary with Star Trek. Even Andromeda, another Roddenberry property, is set at least 8000 years further in the future.

    So another alternate timeline we could visit?

    Won't happen, but it would kinda be cool. Well, as long as they keep Sorbo out of it. I was more a fan of his Nietzschean comrade and enemy. (What was his name again?)

    Tyr Anasazi... not that I'm still an avid fan of Andromeda ten years after it ended or anything. :) (*Sidesteps slowly away from High Guard avatar* :*)
    As Zephram Cochrane once said, "That'll do, pig. That'll do." - April 1st 2015. o:)
  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    zarato4218 wrote: »
    mustrumridcully0 wrote: »
    nixboox wrote: »
    When we were poking holes in time trying to find a way to stop the Iconians we punched a hole into the JJTrek universe and something came out. The other TV series are not contemporary with Star Trek. Even Andromeda, another Roddenberry property, is set at least 8000 years further in the future.

    So another alternate timeline we could visit?

    Won't happen, but it would kinda be cool. Well, as long as they keep Sorbo out of it. I was more a fan of his Nietzschean comrade and enemy. (What was his name again?)

    Tyr Anasazi... not that I'm still an avid fan of Andromeda ten years after it ended or anything. :) (*Sidesteps slowly away from High Guard avatar* :*)

    That's the one. I can't remember that I've seen the actor again in any shows. Unlike for example Lexa Doig (which admittedly is a bit more welcome sight for me. ;) )
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  • hugin1205hugin1205 Member Posts: 489 Arc User
    somtaawkhar wrote: »
    How does it not make sense to access the alternate unvierse when there was an episode of TNG were Enterprises from like 1,000+ alternate universes appeared?

    they all disappeared again, didn't they? Once Things went back to normal. LEft no traces, did they?

    but pls - this was supposed to be a Comedy thread, not discussing what is feasable/ which Company owns the rights of a certain series. I thought I had written that in the original post.

    Actually, yes I did write that. I also pointed out there were plenty of Topics about that as well - but None that took the wee out of that.

    18 characters
    KDF: 2 tacs, 2 engs, 3 scis
    KDF Roms: 3 tacs, 1 eng, 1 scis
    FED: 2 tacs, 1 eng, 2 scis
    TOS: 1 tac
    all on T5 rep (up to temporal)
    all have mastered Intel tree (and some more specs Points)
    highest DPS: 60.982
  • zarato4218zarato4218 Member Posts: 403 Arc User
    mustrumridcully0 wrote: »
    That's the one. I can't remember that I've seen the actor again in any shows. Unlike for example Lexa Doig (which admittedly is a bit more welcome sight for me. ;) )

    I think I heard he got into acting in soap operas, but since you couldn't even pay me to watch one I can't say for sure. And yes, imho, Lexa Doig is reason enough to watch almost any show. :) Though I wish she hadn't been one of the "villains" in Continuum. I hated having root against her. :'( Anyway, sorry for derailing a bit OP, I'll be signing off now.
    As Zephram Cochrane once said, "That'll do, pig. That'll do." - April 1st 2015. o:)
  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,490 Arc User
    hugin1205 wrote: »
    somtaawkhar wrote: »
    How does it not make sense to access the alternate unvierse when there was an episode of TNG were Enterprises from like 1,000+ alternate universes appeared?

    they all disappeared again, didn't they? Once Things went back to normal. LEft no traces, did they?

    but pls - this was supposed to be a Comedy thread, not discussing what is feasable/ which Company owns the rights of a certain series. I thought I had written that in the original post.

    Actually, yes I did write that. I also pointed out there were plenty of Topics about that as well - but None that took the wee out of that.
    Not precisely. Once Worf went through the phenomenon again, transiting back to his correct universe, the breach that permitted the multicrossover no longer existed - although he did retain his memories of the event (hence checking his trophy to make sure he was in the right timeline). The other ships presumably went back where they belonged, save for the Enterprise from the Borg Win timeline, which was destroyed by a number of other Enterprises when that Riker started shooting (they didn't want to go back, and who could blame them really). The universe Worf stopped in at the end presumably then had the remains of one excess Galaxy-class to dispose of, along with the ionic residue of over 1000 impulse drives...​​
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  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,572 Arc User
    Unless we travel to 802,701 we are just penny-ante Time Travelers.
    'But to be logical is not to be right', and 'nothing' on God's earth could ever 'make it' right!'
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    'As l speak now, the words are forming in my head.
    l don't know.
    l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
    That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
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  • darakossdarakoss Member Posts: 850 Arc User
    ltminns wrote: »
    Unless we travel to 802,701 we are just penny-ante Time Travelers.

    Who you callin' penny-ante?
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  • warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    The mirror universe is an alternate timeline.
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