Is Timelines the phone game with crews from across the various series? Because my roommate plays a game like that, and all the VO is clips from the shows and movies. (One of his McCoys frequently says, "Maybe they're throwing us a retirement party." To which, of course, I always reply in my best Scotty, "Suits me - I already bought a boat.")
wasn't the line 'i JUST bought a boat'? i used to watch TUC a lot back in ye olde days when i still had a VCR (because we had it on VHS) and even though i haven't seen it recently, 'just' rings in my memory more than 'already' does
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch." "We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Passion and Serenity are one.
I gain power by understanding both.
In the chaos of their battle, I bring order.
I am a shadow, darkness born from light.
The Force is united within me.
Is Timelines the phone game with crews from across the various series? Because my roommate plays a game like that, and all the VO is clips from the shows and movies. (One of his McCoys frequently says, "Maybe they're throwing us a retirement party." To which, of course, I always reply in my best Scotty, "Suits me - I already bought a boat.")
Is Timelines the phone game with crews from across the various series? Because my roommate plays a game like that, and all the VO is clips from the shows and movies. (One of his McCoys frequently says, "Maybe they're throwing us a retirement party." To which, of course, I always reply in my best Scotty, "Suits me - I already bought a boat.")
It's even more than this. I think he gets royalties from it - or however you would describe that. He was very prominent in the marketing of the game during the first 2 years (It just turned 4). He hasn't done anything for the game recently. But I've suspected that he has an exclusivity clause with them for Trek games.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: "We think we've come so far. Torture of heretics, burning of witches, it's all ancient history. Then - before you can blink an eye - suddenly it threatens to start all over again."
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
I'm still thinking its someone connected with Discovery. Anson Mount or Sonequa Martin-Green perhaps.
Sonequa Martin-Green as a Legend for the 10th anniversary of Star Trek Online. No they cannot do this. Even bog-standard redshirt from a average TNG Episode would be better.....
I have no idea how she landed the lead role for Discovery. Shatner was quite hammy in TOS (which was quite amusing, and appropriate for the era it was filmed), but this lady doesn't even have a bit of ham going for her, shes just a poor actress (in my subjective opinion).
[cough] walking dead is more popular than anything on the old networks [/Cough]
Discovery possibilities aren't likely at this point with Picard debuting in mere days so it's either Spiner/Data; Frakes/Riker; Sirtis/Troi or perhaps the real legend Patrick Stewart.
Unless Cryptic pulled out the big budget to entice several of the other major Captain's (Shatner; Mulgrew; Bakula; Brooks) into some type of anniversary voice cameos?
Again, just speculating really, but in terms of 'unlikely' (but not impossible):
- Shatner would probably still cost too much. Probably.
- Brooks, I'd say is the least likely of them all; he doesn't seem do that sort of work anymore. He hasn't done anything Trek related since 'The Captains' back in 2011, unless you count him passing secondhand comments regarding the fact he'd viewed 'What We Leave Behind' (and it is notable that he wasn't involved in that in itself). He seems to have dropped off the radar in general.
I think the only way they will get Shatner is if it's part of some larger Trek deal he's doing. So it wouldn't be Cryptic footing his bill (entirely), it would be him agreeing to do some VO as part of a contract for something else.
IMHO, the reason Shatner hasn't done STO is he feels that Kirk should be the centerpiece and hero. kind of hard to do that in an MMO where the player has that honor.
You know, Patrick Stewart in the promos, sounds like an old man. Shatner, who is 9 years older does not.
'But to be logical is not to be right', and 'nothing' on God's earth could ever 'make it' right!'
Judge Dan Haywood
'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.'
Yeah, I noticed how old Patrick Stewart sounds now, especially compared to how he used to sound. Time is a vampire.
Picard himself was less grim about it: "Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe than time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again."
For a 'special' TV show like ST:Discovery, 'Captain' refers to the main/lead character. So until, ST: Pike becomes a reality, Captain Pike is in the same boat as Captain Lorca.
However Pike has more clout as he is an established Captain of the Enterprise. Lorca was created specifically for Discovery.
Aye, and I know that some people don't realize that there's about 10 years to go until the time of STO. A lot can happen in that time.
After all, we became admirals within a game year
To be fair... we got quite a few "battlefield promotions". Hell... the current tutorial has you starting as a Cadet and you jump all the way to Admiral in a year. The old one you were already an Ensign, then jumped up through the ranks to Admiral.
My money is on Q Mr John de Lancie. his Q has a strong tie to captain Jean-Luc Picard.
All I have to say is that Q's not just into Winter's Wonderland, but he's also the Anniversary Omega Project Man too. Which is coming around the corner....
Thanks, @thegrandnagus1, I do appreciate the vocabulary lesson for the uninitiated. I do know the difference myself, though. My statement was more cautionary than accusatory. Yes, people are free to dislike any part of Trek they choose and express that in the forums. I'd rather head off it going to that other place before it gets there, though. 😉
Not Spiner. He wants nothing to do with anything that undoes Data's sacrifice in Nemesis. He has an interview about it on SyFy's site I linked already. Picard is about to put the final nail in Data's coffin. And I for one am glad because it was too many plotholes with that that B4 becomes Data mess.
It's hardly problematic to accommodate that though. The Data/B4 stuff in the Path to 2409 isn't used in any missions aside from that tiny cutscene at the very end of Survivor. Just change the text in the Academy lore missions and remove that cutscene and we're set to go.
Of course if Spiner is saying he will only do VO if his character is dead, then clearly we'd have yet another time travel adventure.
Actually there's a way for Spiner to do VO for an android character in STO that doesn't involve timetravel, said character is a "son" of Data, who would obviously look and sound similar to Data but still be their own person thus not undoing Data's death as this would be a new character not a resurrected Data.
Even biological parents and children resemble each other and with androids who are constructed that could at a "literal clone" level while still being a different character in the end.
So now Soong's work is done by anyone in Trek lore? There is a reason Data was no replicated and the episode Picard had to be attorney to not have Data handed over to Starfleet to be dissected. I'm sure CBS will sign off on that even if Brent would do such a thing. We couldn't even get John to do son of Q.
They literally show what looks like Soong type androids with the letter's F8 in their forehead in the Picard trailers, so it's highly likely that someone was able to replicate Soong's work.
Though there is one mission that was even longer ago... The one where you have to save Sisko at Wolf 359, involving him and Q.
But of course, neither I would consider a "smaller" part. So probably not them.
We never saw Sisko though.
We almost had Captain Lorka in a lifepod, but I'm grateful they were able to get Jason Isaacs (they had to deal with legal/contracts, as well as scheduling and financing) instead
Trip would be nice, but, although that particular finale was not the best, it did kinda establish Trip sacrificed himself to stop some enemy by blowing up an EPS Conduit on purpose if I recall correctly. That, unfortunately, was rather final for him. The only thing that really made the Finale interesting was how they kinda tied it into TNG, by having Riker use a holodeck to experience those particular events to try and help him with an issue he was facing during the events of The Pegasus.
That "holodeck" concept is exactly what ruined it for me (I mean, besides writing a script that made Trip look like an idiot for not knowing how to use the gravity plating aboard his own ship). On the other hand, since that entire episode was just a holodeck adventure for Riker, it may well have been wrong in one or more particulars; for instance, it's entirely possible that the historic record claiming Trip died there is inaccurate. (Heck, any and every incident in that episode can be retconned without breaking a sweat, because it's all just a holodeck adventure set some 150 years after the fact.)
Like Warship Voyager After so many years, tales and stories of Voyager were twisted and changed.
I wish that Cryptic would add that version of the ship, as well as the costume variants including Chakotay's tattoo from that episode.
Not Spiner. He wants nothing to do with anything that undoes Data's sacrifice in Nemesis. He has an interview about it on SyFy's site I linked already. Picard is about to put the final nail in Data's coffin. And I for one am glad because it was too many plotholes with that that B4 becomes Data mess.
It's hardly problematic to accommodate that though. The Data/B4 stuff in the Path to 2409 isn't used in any missions aside from that tiny cutscene at the very end of Survivor. Just change the text in the Academy lore missions and remove that cutscene and we're set to go.
Of course if Spiner is saying he will only do VO if his character is dead, then clearly we'd have yet another time travel adventure.
Actually there's a way for Spiner to do VO for an android character in STO that doesn't involve timetravel, said character is a "son" of Data, who would obviously look and sound similar to Data but still be their own person thus not undoing Data's death as this would be a new character not a resurrected Data.
Even biological parents and children resemble each other and with androids who are constructed that could at a "literal clone" level while still being a different character in the end.
So now Soong's work is done by anyone in Trek lore? There is a reason Data was no replicated and the episode Picard had to be attorney to not have Data handed over to Starfleet to be dissected. I'm sure CBS will sign off on that even if Brent would do such a thing. We couldn't even get John to do son of Q.
They literally show what looks like Soong type androids with the letter's F8 in their forehead in the Picard trailers, so it's highly likely that someone was able to replicate Soong's work.
One interesting thing to note with Soong-type androids is that the only part that is particularly difficult to reproduce is the brain. When Data built Lal, her matrix was flawed in some way and experience cascade failure. the method by which Soong avoided cascade failure is seemingly the main impediment to recreating an army of them.
Discovery possibilities aren't likely at this point with Picard debuting in mere days so it's either Spiner/Data; Frakes/Riker; Sirtis/Troi or perhaps the real legend Patrick Stewart.
Unless Cryptic pulled out the big budget to entice several of the other major Captain's (Shatner; Mulgrew; Bakula; Brooks) into some type of anniversary voice cameos?
Obviously not Spiner. He already on record saying he would only do Picard if they didn't undo Data's death. So all in-game stuff we have about Data is about to become OBSOLETE.
Why? - STO starts 10 years AFTER Picard. You may not get Brent Spiner to play (or voice) Data in any production or game; but if the STO Devs want to ressurect the character for STO (as was implied in a cutscene, from a story that was at the time approved by CBS <--- Cryptic runs all their proposed storylines past CBS for approval); but that doesn't mean they can't use the character IF they feel said character would work for a story.
And even IF Mr. Spiner was willing to do V.O (what he has said is that since Data is an android and wouldn't show his age - Spiner felt he was getting too old to play the character on screen); Cryptic probably couldn't afford him (the ROI would be too low) as he charges a mint for anything where he's doing a gig as 'Data'.)
Formerly known as Armsman from June 2008 to June 20, 2012 PWE ARC Drone says: "Your STO forum community as you have known it is ended...Display names are irrelevant...Any further sense of community is irrelevant...Resistance is futile...You will be assimilated..."
But, do you remember why Spock avoids direct physical contact with people? It's because touching people directly causes him to feel their thoughts. Mind meld is deeper than that, but if he was holding a Vulcan woman like that he would be able to hear her thoughts...
But, do you remember why Spock avoids direct physical contact with people? It's because touching people directly causes him to feel their thoughts. Mind meld is deeper than that, but if he was holding a Vulcan woman like that he would be able to hear her thoughts...
Per S1 TOS Ep. "Dagger of the Mind" - Vulcan Mind Melding requires more than just simple touch contact.
Formerly known as Armsman from June 2008 to June 20, 2012 PWE ARC Drone says: "Your STO forum community as you have known it is ended...Display names are irrelevant...Any further sense of community is irrelevant...Resistance is futile...You will be assimilated..."
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#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
I think De Lancie is the only actor that was actually hired to do custom VO for the game.
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It's even more than this. I think he gets royalties from it - or however you would describe that. He was very prominent in the marketing of the game during the first 2 years (It just turned 4). He hasn't done anything for the game recently. But I've suspected that he has an exclusivity clause with them for Trek games.
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
[cough] walking dead is more popular than anything on the old networks [/Cough]
IMHO, the reason Shatner hasn't done STO is he feels that Kirk should be the centerpiece and hero. kind of hard to do that in an MMO where the player has that honor.
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.'
> You know, Patrick Stewart in the promos, sounds like an old man. Shatner, who is 9 years older does not.
Yeah, I noticed how old Patrick Stewart sounds now, especially compared to how he used to sound. Time is a vampire.
Picard himself was less grim about it: "Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe than time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again."
In TOS, you're a lieutenant
All I have to say is that Q's not just into Winter's Wonderland, but he's also the Anniversary Omega Project Man too. Which is coming around the corner....
I'd like to see what the third season brings....
Feight? Aka Fate?
We almost had Captain Lorka in a lifepod, but I'm grateful they were able to get Jason Isaacs (they had to deal with legal/contracts, as well as scheduling and financing) instead
So who knows?
Like Warship Voyager
I wish that Cryptic would add that version of the ship, as well as the costume variants including Chakotay's tattoo from that episode.
My character Tsin'xing
Was not aware of dat rule, will edit out.
There, I made it my opinion. :P
Why? - STO starts 10 years AFTER Picard. You may not get Brent Spiner to play (or voice) Data in any production or game; but if the STO Devs want to ressurect the character for STO (as was implied in a cutscene, from a story that was at the time approved by CBS <--- Cryptic runs all their proposed storylines past CBS for approval); but that doesn't mean they can't use the character IF they feel said character would work for a story.
And even IF Mr. Spiner was willing to do V.O (what he has said is that since Data is an android and wouldn't show his age - Spiner felt he was getting too old to play the character on screen); Cryptic probably couldn't afford him (the ROI would be too low) as he charges a mint for anything where he's doing a gig as 'Data'.)
PWE ARC Drone says: "Your STO forum community as you have known it is ended...Display names are irrelevant...Any further sense of community is irrelevant...Resistance is futile...You will be assimilated..."
he just posted that, seems he has prepared something special with the team
My character Tsin'xing
My character Tsin'xing
Per S1 TOS Ep. "Dagger of the Mind" - Vulcan Mind Melding requires more than just simple touch contact.
PWE ARC Drone says: "Your STO forum community as you have known it is ended...Display names are irrelevant...Any further sense of community is irrelevant...Resistance is futile...You will be assimilated..."