So my klingon friends and I were doing our expanse dailies and today we decided to do them together.
We get diff. kinds of missions (oh please oh please fix it so we can easily enter missions together? it's a real PITA for everyone to have to manually find and select the proper mission!) including several "defend the base" space missions. This is a blast because it's a lot more fun with friends and the enemies are of course that much bigger. We get federation battleships and dreadnoughts and all kinds of big things to blow up.
Then on our last space mission we get to the end and have to fight the last two big ships, typically a battleship and dreadnought. They spawn about 25km away so we can't quite see but... hmm, why is there damage numbers going up?? What are they fighting. As we get closer, we see it's a Typhoon class battleship and... an exploration cruiser named the "U.S.S. Asgard". And the Typhoon's just sitting there and the Asgard is beating the living TRIBBLE out of it!
I took several screen shots before we blew them both out of the sky but I did think it pretty hilarious not only to see a named ship in a mission but one that was blowing up its ally.
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It's pretty silly. It's bad enough that this game doesn't feel like Trek at times. Do they have to bring in Stargate references?
Unless this is satire that I'm not recognizing (and if it is, bravo)...
In Norse mythology, Asgard (Old Norse:
I have seen a few odd combos pulled out of those missions too. sad thing is, i think they had slightly better text parsers and random events generators back in the early 80s.
either they can't write one, or they just don't care enough to use it to enforce a smidgen of 'reality'.
umm.. sorry..
Hey, at least they had names in your mission.
I've had to fight Mapvar.Antagonist1 a few times :rolleyes:
thats so great!
Exactly my thought. I know player side I have seen the General Hammond, the Jack O'Neill, the Sam Carter, and the Daniel Jackson. I reckon it has something to do with the people who were waiting so eagerly for Stargate Worlds which will probably never happen. I have also seen The White Star (Babylon 5 flown by Sheridan Starkiller .. which is awesome)
In missions I have not seen anything along these lines but that's all good. I know it's not a Stargate reference but I can live in denial and be plenty happy.
rofl!
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You will probably see that more.....as the concept they are making into missions lately is adding a wild card element...i love using that phrase by the way(wild card element).
What i mean is.....they are trying to make the misisons a bit more realistic instead of only place holders.....so you might see a federation ship show up and start fighting things....
I started noticing these added elements to a few missions i have done before....very noticable...
It's a mythological place. The U.S.S. Valhalla or U.S.S. Elysium would be just as much at home, I'd think. Heck, I think I've seen all three of these as options when you click "random".
You all fail at Norse mythology. Mighty Thor shall judge you with Mjolnir.
http://stargate.neoseeker.com/wiki/Asgard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asgard
Stargate totally flunks Norse mythology too by the way.
Asgard isn't a race. It's a place. Aesir is the race of gods who inhabited Asgard.
Funny thing is Stargate uses Midgard, the human realm, in it's proper context.
The problem is that the Stargate writes where
1) unimaginative and could not come up with a name for the greys So they said
2) "Hey lets just use one of the names from one of earths own mythos. The reason we can do this is because the original Movie played into the who Egyptian Mythos and we can write it as if the Ancient Earth people "knew" them and took their stuff for their mythology!"
So people are going to see what they want. SG fans will see SG references and The rest of us wont. Who knows they may be right but then again they may not be.
With the way people constantly stick things into movies that have no bearing on the world they represent they may be right.
Star Trek first contact had the Millennium Falcon
Maybe its just me but when any body does this it makes me mad.
I dont want Star Wars in my Star Trek anymore than i want Star Trek in my Star Wars. If i was paramount i would have sued his pants off. heck if i was Lucas i would have sued his pants off.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asgard
Time for the kiddies to go back to school.
It's a spaceship. It's called the 'Asgard'. No one is failing at Norse mythology. That has to be about the most rude and wantonly arrogant comment on these forums.
Yes, Stargate writers named the Greys as was stated "the Asgard". Not because they were unimaginative like the obviously biased poster suggested but because they were keeping with the already existing Stargate theme that aliens had been posing as Gods on Earth for centuries. In the case of the Goa'uld to breed slaves and eventual hosts. In the case of the Asgard to protect and maintain a level of distance between them and humans until they were ready to learn more.
Lazy writing? No, lazy writing is recalibrating/directing/modifying the warp core deflector thingamijiggy to solve every single plot complication for months. THAT is lazy writing. Developing characters just to hit the reset button at the beginning of the next episode, THAT is lazy writing. Stargate may have suffered from Science Fiction cliche but the writers were far more inventive than Trek writers had gotten midway through the Next Gen series and that GAWD AWFUL Voyager p.o.s.
I'll take TOS and early Next Gen anyday over the later series. Actually, I'd take Babylon 5 over all of them, Stargate included. No lazy writing there. A complete 5 year arc with dynamic characters and ships that actually fly around like they are in a Zero G environment. Go figure a Science Fiction show where the developers actually understood the SCIENCE part of it.
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In my opinion, Babylon 5 is probably some of the best sci-fi produced for television. But, dang.. that show had more than its share of stupid episodes. "TKO".. really? I think there was maybe all of 10 seconds of meaningful dialogue to the story arc in that entire episode, and the rest of it was pure garbage.
I must admit, it's funny just how different tastes can be. You like early TNG the best, while I think early TNG is some of the worst Star Trek ever made. But eventually they hit their stride and ended up being my favorite Trek series.
They also wanted to subvert our preconceptions of the Norse gods. Thor, when we first meet him, is this giant axe-wielding stereotype, exactly as one would expect. Then we find out it's a hologram, and hey, here's this little guy. He's Thor.