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J.G. Hertzler Joins the Cast of Star Trek Online
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We're extremely excited to announce that J.G. Hertzler, Martok from Deep Space Nine, has joined the cast of Star Trek Online!
Full details here:
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10552414
Full details here:
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10552414
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SUPER excited for Martok to be back, AND voiced by JG Hertzler...seriously one of the greatest character actors in ST history right there
Things I want in STO:
1) More character customization options such as more clothing options, letting the toon complexion affect the entire body, not just the head. Also a true RGB color picker applied to all costume and appearance options, which would allow for true appearance customization and homogenous colors instead of "this same exact color looks vastly different on two different pieces."
2) Bridge customization, not bridge packs. Let us pick a general layout and adjust the color palette, console appearance, and chair types, as well as more ready room layout options.
3) Customizable ground weapons, i.e. The aesthetic look of phaser dual pistols but they shoot antiproton bolts. For obvious reasons this would only apply to standard ground weapons.
4) For the love of Q please revamp Plasma Ground Weapons. They look like demented Supersoakers right now.
5) True Vanity Impulse and Deflector effects similar to Vanity Shields.
6) A greater payout for hitting T6 Reputations. Currently it takes more time and resources to get from T5 to T6 than it does to get from nothing to T5. Make that grind really pay out at the end.
7) Mirrorverse Refugee event similar to AoY/Delta/Gamma, complete with new Mirrorverse recruits for all factions.
8) Independent Faction, because yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me!
Anyone want to give me a Temporal Heavy Dreadnought pack? I'll be your friend
Martok certainly was one of the coolest Klingons in the Star Trek franchise, if not the coolest. He seemed to represent the Klingon culture* in the best possible way, without being conflicted with his Federation upbringing or being a two-faced politician.
And man, I kinda get envious seeing that he was actually at Crpytic Studios and interacted with the team.
Imagine working at a computer game studio.
Imagine working at a computer game studio that's working on a Star Trek game.
Imagine working at a computer game studio that's working on a Star Trek game and an actual Star Trek actor is visiting.
Imagine working at a computer game studio that's working on a Star Trek game, an actual Star Trek actor is visiting, and you get to show off what you're working on.
Imagine working at a computer game studio that's working on a Star Trek game, an actual Star Trek actor is visiting, and you get to show off what you're working on and he is impressed.
The likeness looks great, too. I wonder if any ZBrush was involved in making it.
Surprisingly young looking, though.
*) as envisioned during the TNG/DS9 era. Personally I'd prefer more of the John M. Ford Klingons than Ronald Moore Klingons.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
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'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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Uh hmm, anyway, you can't just kill off one of the best Star Trek characters ever "off screen" without a darn good reason behind it. And it seems that even though it took 7+ years to get that reason, we the players are finally going to get that.
With all this said, I actually like J'Mpok. I have always thought though that it was extremely suspicious how he came to power though, according to the official lore. From a game perspective I see why they changed the guard, and hopefully with the story they have in store for us, I wonder just how much longer J'Mpok will be around. Could they be playing twist upon twist upon twist?
Add in that J.G. Hertzler is returning to voice the role, and this goes from being pretty dang sweet to friggin' EPIC! For me at least. Maybe this is a sign of things to come and there's hope we can get Jeffrey Combs to do some voice work for the game as well. *fingers crossed*
Considering he's being held in the same prison as the other prisoners of Torg (BOO!) which is apparently at least partially run by the Son'a, I imagine he's been experimented on with metaphasic radiation, just like Kavat’kara from the "A First's Tale".
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#NotMyChancellor #NeverJ'mpok
Ohh that makes sense!
As Martok's legend grew, peace settled across the galaxy. On planet Earth, a galaxy alliance was formed. Together with the good planets of the sector they maintained peace throughout the universe - until a new, horrible menace threatened the galaxy.
Martok was needed once more.
This is the story of a super force of space explorers. Specially trained, and sent by the Alliance, to bring back...
Martok, Defender of the Universe.
[synthesized voice] Martok, Defender of the Universe
"No Klingons stay dead unless they're Worf's direct family."
I'm curious how this ties into Tzenkethi, though.
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We will free Martok, he will release the blood from Torg's throat...and then we will deal with J'mpok.
I will not rest until we take this baktag here! Put him in that Torpedo There! And launch him into that star THERE!
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Actually I think that Martok's best attribute was that he was the best normal Klingon society had to offer. But the emphasis on the normal. Martok was like the Sarek to Worf's Spock. Worf is a book Klingon, which in many ways made him the most pure philosophical Klingon. Martok always had the lived in experience that Worf lacked, but he still had all of Worf's true nobility. Also unlike a lot of Klingons Martok could see just how great Worf's purity was and how great it made him. But Martok grew up in all of it, the muck, the grime, the downside of Klingon Society and persevered and succeeded in spite of it. Because of that he was well rounded, hungry, but since he wasn't born a noble, he also had the respect and understood the things that didn't make the empire great. He knew the downside.
As for the interview, more like O.G. Hertzler amirite guys?
And to echo everyone here, this is legitimately, actually, literally epic news on a video game scale. You guys won't be able to top this unless you get Jeffrey Combs, Andrew Robinson, or any of the captains in here. For the time being, you've basically peaked, congratulations.
Like I said, twist upon twist upon twist? I guess we'll see where this is all going (not) Soon™ enough.
I've always had that fan theory in the back of my head since I first ran the Doomsday Device mission AFTER finding out about the Iconian involvement later on in the story line. When B'Vat says essentially that "there are only the strong and the weak", that sounds an awful lot like the Undine mentality. So yeah, I could buy that at some point B'Vat was replaced by a "foul shape-shifter".
It would even fit in with this story of Martok's return considering that B'Vat was the arbiter of succession for J'mpok. Perhaps not only is/was B'Vat an Undine, but perhaps even J'mpok? Torg? Who knows just how far this has spread.
If true.
It's all speculation, of course, but my mind does like to travel along the side paths, the choices not taken. Go figure, some of my favorite comics growing up were the What If...?! books from Marvel and the Elseworld stories from DC.
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