Hear me out.
Now many players after a while are going to feel boxed in. They hit warp and they don't actually experience going into warp, they just strangely see their ship go off in the distance and then blam they are someplace new.
They join random strange missions with 4 other people they've never met and oddly they meet no one else there the entire time.
Sector space has weird blue lines and nothing is proportional, nor can anyone fight anything there without oddly transporting around and such.
Players wonder why there's no holodeck, one of the best features of the ST universe.
Players wonder why the Federation makes no sense, mass murdering civilians and baby eggs and whatnot.
I HAVE THE ANSWER
It's been staring us in the face the ENTIRE TIME.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Imperfect
You are trapped on a Romulan holodeck, which obviously can never quite get open space right, and is of course putting you in missions where you are a horrible mass murderer.
They can't put a holodeck in the game.... BECAUSE THE HOLODECK IS THE GAME.
dang I'm good... I need a cig.
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Sir, your modesty is inspiring.
You do deserve a smoke. Give 'er.
I remember in TNG there was an episode where they ran a holodeck program of the Enterprise which had a holodeck in it and worked like a regular holodeck. I believe it was the episode where they made the Sherlock Holmes program that was supposed to be able to beat Data.
You are indeed correct, good sir. Barclay was doing maintenance on the holodeck and accidentally reactivate the Hormes' program because it was in activate memory. Only way to trick Holmes was to recreate another Enterprise in the holodeck on the fake Enterprise so it make it seems like Holmes have been "teleported" as living matter. Then Holmes use the fake shuttlecraft to travel around and when he left the "Enterprise", Picard transfered the Homes' program to a small self-contained holodeck and deactivate both Enterprise's program, one at a time. Good times.
I have always hated the holodeck because it was yet another crutch for bad script writers, just a Data was a crutch.
That said, I do think that holodecks would provide STO with an opportunity to add player created missions much like the Architect system in CoH.
I thought I was really remotely piloting my Starship in the distant future.
I'm so confused now.
Maybe we're all just holo-people?
Maybe our entire lives and world are a holo-program run by Cryptic to evaluate STO and its not even in closed Beta yet in the real real world?
Maybe we... *gasp* dont exist at all!!!!
Actually Data was Holmes and his nemesis was Professor Moriarty which was the one that created the "ship in a bottle"(episode name worked into the explanation woohoo lol).
http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/4342/itsaconspiracyr.jpg
Data was a poor crutch, as he was too tall for anyone but Worf to use. Troye was the better choice as a crutch, or maybe Wesley when he was younger.
"Is that air you are breathing?"
Hmmm if that's the case then we must be evolving from our original programming. Holo-people don't usually know they are holograms unless programmed to do so, and that usually only happens when it is necessary for the hologram to interact with the real world like Vic Fontaine and the EMH.
There must be an error in our programming, I hope Cryptic doesn't correct it.... or is Cryptic part of the holo-program??
Just say "End Program"...if you disappear you're a (Blip!)
lol nope still here, unless i don't have permission to end my own program in which case I really need to speak with my creator