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ambassadorkael#6946 ambassadorkael Member, Administrator Posts: 2,678 Community Manager
Mods, I love you, don't sticky this. :)

I haven't seen it yet, but apparently the most recent episode of Picard does *something* that invalidates STO canon pretty badly. (Don't spoil it here, please.) We've always known when the TV shows got this close to our timeline, stuff would happen that would step on us and our ten years of stories. Given how much we've all been enjoying Picard this season, we're fine with it. STO is it's own thing, and always will be, and we'll tell our own stories no matter what happens.
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  • spiritbornspiritborn Member Posts: 4,363 Arc User
    Mods, I love you, don't sticky this. :)

    I haven't seen it yet, but apparently the most recent episode of Picard does *something* that invalidates STO canon pretty badly. (Don't spoil it here, please.) We've always known when the TV shows got this close to our timeline, stuff would happen that would step on us and our ten years of stories. Given how much we've all been enjoying Picard this season, we're fine with it. STO is it's own thing, and always will be, and we'll tell our own stories no matter what happens.

    Honestly I could see a way to harmonize those *spoiler* things without too much issues for either, granted it demands certain things to happen a certain way though those things are not out of the realms of possibility (sorry being ultra vague but that's best way I can say it without spoiling).

    Though I'm fine with STO being its own thing too.
  • leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,458 Arc User
    Mods, I love you, don't sticky this. :)

    I haven't seen it yet, but apparently the most recent episode of Picard does *something* that invalidates STO canon pretty badly. (Don't spoil it here, please.) We've always known when the TV shows got this close to our timeline, stuff would happen that would step on us and our ten years of stories. Given how much we've all been enjoying Picard this season, we're fine with it. STO is it's own thing, and always will be, and we'll tell our own stories no matter what happens.

    Seen it (and it rocked btw) and yeah, STO is now in 'alternate timeline canon'. Certain things can be shoe-horned in as happening later in the STO timeline, but to be honest, I prefer our current Enterprise. :wink:

    However, at least we know the cast of Star Trek Legacy now. :smile:
    "You don't want to patrol!? You don't want to escort!? You don't want to defend the Federation's Starbases!? Then why are you flying my Starships!? If you were a Klingon you'd be killed on the spot, but lucky for you.....you WERE in Starfleet. Let's see how New Zealand Penal Colony suits you." Adm A. Necheyev.
  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,454 Arc User
    leemwatson wrote: »
    However, at least we know the cast of Star Trek Legacy now. :smile:
    Now we just have to harass Paramount until they greenlight the series, same way we got SNW... :smile:
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  • nightsistersnightsisters Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited April 2023
    One thing both Picard & STO share in common: our Galaxy is a hell of a dangerous place and everyone seem's to want us dead lol. Honestly if we ever create a Federation in the far future in real life....chance's are we are gonna pi$$ a bunch of alien's off & get ourself's into a couple of war's. :# OH man can you imagine seeing a realife Tzenkethi? like...honest to god walking Dinosaur with a BFG? sorry but no Starfleet Acadamy training gonna prepare anyone for *THAT*. >:) Another being the Gorn which are a scary combo of Alien's & Predator, bad enough they can hunt & kill with....borg like effiency, they can grow up & fly spaceship's....
  • saurializardsaurializard Member Posts: 4,404 Arc User
    edited April 2023
    Mods, I love you, don't sticky this. :)

    I haven't seen it yet, but apparently the most recent episode of Picard does *something* that invalidates STO canon pretty badly. (Don't spoil it here, please.) We've always known when the TV shows got this close to our timeline, stuff would happen that would step on us and our ten years of stories. Given how much we've all been enjoying Picard this season, we're fine with it. STO is it's own thing, and always will be, and we'll tell our own stories no matter what happens.
    Personally, I don't think what happens invalidates STO canon in a way that can't be fixed or retconned.

    Basically, without too much spoiler, replace a few assets with other ones and most of the continuity survives. The Path to 2409 would have to go, though, and a certain faction will be a problem.
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  • sudonamisudonami Member Posts: 143 Arc User
    Seen it and loved all the nestalga but that's really all it was. Kurtzmen never had any care for preexisting material and it shows not just in the end of Picard but all of Picard and disco. I'm glad STO is its own thing and to me it is the prime timeline over kurtzmen trek. Especially with how Picard ended now (also there is an mid credit scene that all but confirms star trek legacy to be a thing).
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  • philchapphilchap Member Posts: 269 Arc User
    As for Enterprise not how there going to Handle that. But I dont think it a conquident that the story arc deal with the Borg. I think it give a tehem reconnect somethings. Also Keal mentioning sto 2.0 was just saying what they talked bout for April fools.
  • crypticarmsmancrypticarmsman Member Posts: 4,115 Arc User
    Mods, I love you, don't sticky this. :)

    I haven't seen it yet, but apparently the most recent episode of Picard does *something* that invalidates STO canon pretty badly. (Don't spoil it here, please.) We've always known when the TV shows got this close to our timeline, stuff would happen that would step on us and our ten years of stories. Given how much we've all been enjoying Picard this season, we're fine with it. STO is it's own thing, and always will be, and we'll tell our own stories no matter what happens.
    So...I guess we WON'T see the Constitution III Class Enterprise 1701-G in a Lock Box anytime within the next year?🤣
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  • philchapphilchap Member Posts: 269 Arc User
    Why I trust Kael, I'm also taking it with a gain salt.
  • novapolaris#2925 novapolaris Member Posts: 805 Arc User
    edited April 2023
    You know, given all of this, I wouldn't mind another timeline rejunction at all.

    Personally, I enjoyed the story so far, through all its twists, turns, and changes. I enjoyed the change with the previous "rejunction" of the timeline in the Iconian War. I'd be more than okay with another.

    Thank you for everything so far, Cryptic, and to everything yet to come.
  • paradox#7391 paradox Member Posts: 1,800 Arc User
    So it's simple we decommission PIC spoilers and give STO spoilers the next one, H and/or I is still available,

    I already know about the PIC finale spoilers and I haven't even started PIC season 3, on youtube I've seen a couple of clips of a certain android, some of Worf, but nothing too much.
  • haurianthauriant Member Posts: 145 Arc User
    I don't agree that what happened in PIC S3 makes what happens in STO impossible (the actual game, not the backstory). At least not yet. But, if more shows are added, especially if Star Trek—Legacy is commissioned, it may become impossible, later.

    I see two things that were added in PIC's last episode that would have to be dealt with to keep things in accord, for now.

    See this link for open discussion of what those are: https://reddit.com/r/sto/comments/12t0e5m/captains_just_let_sto_be_its_own_thing_and_stop/jh40gm6/?context=3

    STO un-destroyed the Tax Uthot. It's changed the lore it received to let its story happen. It is different when there is an active series. Unreconcilable differences could come relatively soon. (In which case, there are a lot of ships with Red Matter Capacitors in 2411; one accident, and we could have a timeline split.) But I don't think we're there, yet. If there has to be a split, I hope it is made part of the story.

    But, we'll see. Karl definitely knows more of what the rest of the devs are thinking than any of the rest of us; I acknowledge that.
  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,540 Community Moderator
    STO was never Prime Timeline. Yea we had things adopted into Canon, but STO itself was never Canon. There's really no need to reconcile differences between Canon and STO because we're in our own timeline. And the Devs have said that if things deviate too far from STO... then its just a branchoff timeline, which allows for both to continue to exist.

    At this point I think its safe to say that STO is a separate timeline, as everything they'd have to do to line up with Prime Timeline... might as well make a new game as it would probably require the removal of the Romulan Republic and a LOT of other things. Doens't mean we won't have things from Canon make their way into STO, but STO is not Canon itself.
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  • crypticarmsmancrypticarmsman Member Posts: 4,115 Arc User
    hauriant wrote: »
    I don't agree that what happened in PIC S3 makes what happens in STO impossible (the actual game, not the backstory). At least not yet. But, if more shows are added, especially if Star Trek—Legacy is commissioned, it may become impossible, later.

    I see two things that were added in PIC's last episode that would have to be dealt with to keep things in accord, for now.

    See this link for open discussion of what those are: https://reddit.com/r/sto/comments/12t0e5m/captains_just_let_sto_be_its_own_thing_and_stop/jh40gm6/?context=3

    STO un-destroyed the Tax Uthot. It's changed the lore it received to let its story happen. It is different when there is an active series. Unreconcilable differences could come relatively soon. (In which case, there are a lot of ships with Red Matter Capacitors in 2411; one accident, and we could have a timeline split.) But I don't think we're there, yet. If there has to be a split, I hope it is made part of the story.

    But, we'll see. Karl definitely knows more of what the rest of the devs are thinking than any of the rest of us; I acknowledge that.

    You're kidding right? In STO:
    - Geordi is a Captain (not Commodore) and in command of the USS Challenger (What you think he took a demotion to command a ship 10 years PAST Picard S3)?

    - Beverly Crusher NEVER was Captain of the USS Pasteur (Again, you think she took a demotion from Head of Starfleet Medical and Admiral to command a ship 10 years later?)

    - There was an Enterprise 1701-G commissioned in 2402. The 1701-F was either decommissioned/destryed that same year (the Odyssey Class was also launched in 2385 - not 2409, and is considered obsolete.)

    - 7of9 JOINED Starfleet and Captainmed the 1701-G. (In Delta Rising she has VO that claims she never stayed in Starfleet and only agreed to serve as a Consultant because of the Delta Rising situation and Iconian War. Her personality in that arc seems to have regressed to an older version of herself from Star Trek: Voyager. In the arc she speaks like she did when she was on Voyager.

    - Did you see ANY Galaxy-X ships in the Federation Fleet in Picard? Looks like in the ACTUAL Prime Timeline, that Class never existed.

    STO tried to maintain cannon parity and did a pretty good job; but PICARD showed STO is now a Distinct and separate Timeline onto itself (There is too large a diversion now to handwave away.). And that's okay :)
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  • baddmoonrizinbaddmoonrizin Member Posts: 10,857 Community Moderator
    It was nice thinking that STO could be part of the Prime Universe/Timeline, but Picard has made that pretty much impossible now. 🤷‍♀️
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  • vetteguy904vetteguy904 Member Posts: 3,919 Arc User
    all I know is there is definitely the basis for a new Borg TFO, though I think it would be more fun with a small craft
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  • saurializardsaurializard Member Posts: 4,404 Arc User
    edited April 2023

    You're kidding right? In STO:
    - Geordi is a Captain (not Commodore) and in command of the USS Challenger (What you think he took a demotion to command a ship 10 years PAST Picard S3)?

    - Beverly Crusher NEVER was Captain of the USS Pasteur (Again, you think she took a demotion from Head of Starfleet Medical and Admiral to command a ship 10 years later?)

    - There was an Enterprise 1701-G commissioned in 2402. The 1701-F was either decommissioned/destryed that same year (the Odyssey Class was also launched in 2385 - not 2409, and is considered obsolete.)

    - 7of9 JOINED Starfleet and Captainmed the 1701-G. (In Delta Rising she has VO that claims she never stayed in Starfleet and only agreed to serve as a Consultant because of the Delta Rising situation and Iconian War. Her personality in that arc seems to have regressed to an older version of herself from Star Trek: Voyager. In the arc she speaks like she did when she was on Voyager.

    - Did you see ANY Galaxy-X ships in the Federation Fleet in Picard? Looks like in the ACTUAL Prime Timeline, that Class never existed.
    Add a few pips here and there, switch a few ship and station models, delete a couple of audio lines, get rid of the Path to 2409, some paint on the walls, a coffee and tada, the transition to canon is mostly complete.
    Then, say the Borg we fight are severely weakened splinter remains of the collective, for the icing on the cake.
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  • paradox#7391 paradox Member Posts: 1,800 Arc User
    Cool STO is now Deviation Alternate Timeline from Canon now, Can we now Get an Arc where Romulus and Remus are finally restored and without the Borg this time too please, STO No Longer being Canon means we can also ignore JJ's Contribution to Star Trek.
  • nrobbiecnrobbiec Member Posts: 959 Arc User
    In the nicest possible way to everyone who feels this way, declaring STO an alternate timeline is defeatist and creatively bankrupt. It's very easily reconciled as the other thread explains.
  • phoenixc#0738 phoenixc Member Posts: 5,817 Arc User
    edited April 2023
    Any game based on a currently running show (or novel series for that matter) is going to get canon-shafted sometime. Currently, STO and CBS's "prime" are not totally incompatible though it takes some heavy-duty explanation gymnastics to reconcile them.

    On the other hand, STO has always had a slight distance from any particular Trek because of having to cover all the different series and movies at once, similar to the way a Storyteller (GM in D&D terms) had to do with the various World of Darkness games because while the setting was shared between those games they were not completely synched (often the same historical figures were secretly either werewolves, mages, or changelings depending on which game history you looked at for instance) and the systems did not exactly match up perfectly either.
    Cool STO is now Deviation Alternate Timeline from Canon now, Can we now Get an Arc where Romulus and Remus are finally restored and without the Borg this time too please, STO No Longer being Canon means we can also ignore JJ's Contribution to Star Trek.

    Actually, no we cannot "ignore JJ's Contribution to Star Trek" since those events are too tightly integrated into the game. And besides, the friction between Romulan factions makes for a lot more interesting plot possibilities than the old monolithic RSE would have. Societies in flux have the most conflict and therefore make the most fertile ground for stories, that is where the Chinese curse "may you live in Interesting times" comes from.
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  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,454 Arc User
    Val, your hatred for anything you didn't know in your youth grows tiresome.
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  • theboxisredtheboxisred Member Posts: 476 Arc User
    Clearly STO will continue incorporate aspects from Whatever Trek and not everyone is going to like it.

    The pretense of canon no longer matters in Star Trek so STO really would be best served by focusing on its own universe.

    Another good reason for STO to do so is that modern Whatever Trek is just a long Freudian Slip admitting that even they (not STO) know that everything prior to 2009 is a superior product.

    Here is where STO can distinguish itself through solid escapist science fiction with just enough verisimilitude to be thought provoking without being overbearing.



  • captainrc1captainrc1 Member Posts: 106 Arc User
    sudonami wrote: »
    I'm glad STO is its own thing and to me it is the prime timeline over kurtzmen trek.

    Agreed.

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  • nrobbiecnrobbiec Member Posts: 959 Arc User
    Currently, STO and CBS's "prime" are not totally incompatible though it takes some heavy-duty explanation gymnastics to reconcile them.

    Very light gymnastics actually, about as much as is required to make a cup of tea.
  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,540 Community Moderator
    nrobbiec wrote: »
    Very light gymnastics actually, about as much as is required to make a cup of tea.

    Not really. We have two versions of Seven of Nine, both of which are NOT in Starfleet, Tuvok is an Admiral, Geordi is a Captain, the Enterprise-F is a much newer ship...

    There's a LOT of things that would have to be altered, requiring at LEAST Butterfly level Temporal Manipulation to keep anything that came before. And then we have the added issue of making new stories that could very well conflict with Canon as any content in the 25th Century will ultimately clash with STO.

    The easiest way to "reconcile" them is honestly branch the two off from each other and proceed as we have for the last... what? 13 years or so? We can integrate things from the new shows, but the hoops that would have to be jumped through to keep STO in the realm of "canon" while we have new content coming out is far too much.

    We know alternate realities exist. And since the game itself was never declared Canon by the Powers That Be... I don't see why anything MUST change to conform wholesale. You're asking the Devs to make an entirely new game at this point.

    Both can coexist just fine.
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  • spiritbornspiritborn Member Posts: 4,363 Arc User
    ENT-F is probably easiest, just say it's a recommissioning date and not the original commissioning date.
  • nrobbiecnrobbiec Member Posts: 959 Arc User
    rattler2 wrote: »
    nrobbiec wrote: »
    Very light gymnastics actually, about as much as is required to make a cup of tea.

    Not really. We have two versions of Seven of Nine, both of which are NOT in Starfleet, Tuvok is an Admiral, Geordi is a Captain, the Enterprise-F is a much newer ship...

    There's a LOT of things that would have to be altered, requiring at LEAST Butterfly level Temporal Manipulation to keep anything that came before. And then we have the added issue of making new stories that could very well conflict with Canon as any content in the 25th Century will ultimately clash with STO.

    The easiest way to "reconcile" them is honestly branch the two off from each other and proceed as we have for the last... what? 13 years or so? We can integrate things from the new shows, but the hoops that would have to be jumped through to keep STO in the realm of "canon" while we have new content coming out is far too much.

    We know alternate realities exist. And since the game itself was never declared Canon by the Powers That Be... I don't see why anything MUST change to conform wholesale. You're asking the Devs to make an entirely new game at this point.

    Both can coexist just fine.

    A lot can happen in 10 years. Granted we've had the two different portrayals of Seven of Nine for a while that's just a character inconsistency but tell me they don't happen in the shows. Tuvok got promoted by one rank, he's only a commodore, compared to how long it took him to reach captain it's a fast leap but hardly unrealistic. Geordi could just get his uniform updated in game, commanding officers are always referred to as captain anyway, or maybe he took a field comission back down to captain. Picard proposed a similar kind of demotion in season 1.

    The old F we've discussed.

    It's very easy to sort out if you're just willing to try.

    Don't get me wrong the multiverse is a joyous thing but it's also becoming a crutch for lazy writing and pointless reboots in recent years. I mean that as a general term not about Star Trek. I was bitterly disappointed by Superman and Lois which I was hoodwinked into believing was a spin-off in the established continuity its characters came from but the writers decided against it and immediately lost me as a viewer for all future seasons. That's neither here nor there but the venting is therapeutic.

    I know any non TV or movie thing is a soft canon deal, maybe it is maybe it isn't until the alpha says otherwise. And sure I'm being precious about it but STO was all we had for a while there, back when the Prime Universe for all we knew wasn't coming back. And with how much the game has done to keep itself aligned sure it's a bit irritating when someone disregards it in a show but I don't see how it's so easily relegated to a sideverse when it only takes minimal effort to reshuffle it.

    I have imparted all I can to make my case, if anyone needs me I'll be sat on my own in the corner over there.
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