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therealblackkaos
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I’m sitting here watching TNG and I’m wondering: why hasn’t STO broached a story about Guinan and her people? It would be nice to have a few El-Aurian’s pop up. They’ve been around for a long time in the shadows. I can imagine there’s some that’s benevolent like Guinan and others that may be of the more rebellious. Maybe one gets his hands on a warship and wages a one man war against the Borg for example? Or one is in league with some rogue Founders to bring back the Dominion? Pretty sure there’s some ideas to flesh out.
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I think the OP is talking about more than a background character in a single mission.
> I think the OP is talking about more than a background character in a single mission.
Exactly. Who’s to say that they haven’t banded together and strengthened their numbers? Maybe pulling the strings behind the scenes to manipulate power? Wouldn’t be the first time someone did it. Just think that there’s a story somewhere. There’s a lot of lore and history that gets skipped over because the focus is always on Feddie. There’s a lot of races and people that get lost in the proverbial sauce. Hell, expand in their fight against the Q!
> Most likely because they cannot afford getting Woopie Goldberg to do the voice overs.
As much as I’d love to have Guinan herself, she has alluded that there’s more of her people, even though they’re small in number. I’m thinking that we could get introduced to more of them and learn more about them. Same thing with Morn. What if his people have technology that is light years ahead of the others. They could be time traveling behind the scenes. I jus think that a game like STO (and CBS) are missing out on potential plots. I’m sick of Fed(human) vs Klingons (only the Disco ones-Martok and Gowron and the Duras Sisters are still my favorites!). Romulans don’t even exist as a true force anymore. Taking the Dominion out the picture means that there’s no real “big baddie” around. Mows the time to get creative in my opinion. Pretty sure Cryptic can create storylines that won’t TRIBBLE up CBS plans.
I take exception to that! The Republic is a growing power in the galaxy controlling some of the most advanced technology (the iconian space gate).
Idon't blame Guinan for that. After all her people were decimated by them so its not an easy subject for her to talk about.
> Idon't blame Guinan for that. After all her people were decimated by them so its not an easy subject for her to talk about.
So imagine a storyline plot where they were massing weapons and/or breaking the Temporal Accords to take the fight to the Borg as payback? That would bring back my man Daniels (who reminds me of Phil Coulson for some reason) for a few missions as you investigate yet another disturbance. Maybe a chance to add in a few new ships and ground sets focused on time displacement? I’d like to see more 32c Temporal Warships added in.
Anything but more time travel.
I agree. I like my temporally-displaced Starfleet crews as much as the next guy, but not everything has to be khest'n time travel. We've had two entire expansions with that as a backstory. They said we were supposed to go after Leeta and the Terran Empire after the jaunt on DS9, then Discovery threw the wrench in the works and they "had" to do the new-Trek content... which has gone on for near three years now, I think we can give THAT a break too...
Also... there are probably even fewer El-Aurians than there are Romulans. Romulans had an empire. El-Auria was one planet. (And this is speaking as a guy who roleplayed an El-Aurian in Starfleet who recognized he was part of a very endangered species, but still went "New Romulus... New Talax... New Kentar... where's New El-Auria?")
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Well, the answer to this is always the same. How does the idea tie into ship/lock box/promo ship sales? If it doesn't in some way help to push monetization, Cryptic has no interest in it.
To be fair, time travel is still slightly better than HoLoDeCk SiMuLaTiOnS oF HiStoRiCaL eVeNtS.
Touche. Let me correct myself.
Anything but time travel or historical simulations.
and because of her there was no glorious Klingon/fed war. so, NO guinan backstories
aut vincere aut mori pro imperio
either to conquer or to die for the Empire
The only bit from the Kelvans we're likely to see is the kit module you get from K-13 that turns people into jumbo-sized D20s.
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If they wanted to get clever with it the devs could use the conflict to foreshadow the next major campaign in a way that does not spoiler it but is recognizable in hindsight. It could also be used to breathe new life into the Gamma quadrant from an unexpected angle (if the devs ever wanted to expand the Dominion "faction" to include the Dominion itself instead of just Odo's expeditionary force) by having the villains actually originate from Gamma.
They could also take advantage of the extreme territorial paranoia to say the Fesarians are hiding something in that fortress of a star cluster they occupy. Maybe they have their own stable wormhole, but one leading to an alternate universe, like perhaps the Kelvin one or some other one they might want to bring into STO from the new CBS stuff or official comics or whatever.
As long as they don't involve time travel or historical holos for at least another decade
> As long as they don't involve time travel or historical holos for at least another decade
😂😂😂 You got it!!!