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2410: The Nexus Returns to Federation Space

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According to Star Trek Generations (I think, I read it elsewhere), the Nexus returns to Federation Space in 2410.

I think it would be pretty cool, as the game advances, to see the Nexus show up as a mission, perhaps as a series for the 1 year anniversary of STO.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Good idea. This brings up a question I often asked myself. Are they going to roll the time line to 2410 on the anniversary?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Memory Alpha:

    "The entrance to the Nexus was a violent temporal energy ribbon which crossed through the galaxy every 39.1 years."

    2371 (Generations) + 39.1 = 2410.1

    So this would be a nice weekly series - with an excuse do meet past characters in the nexus (which can appeal to new people to the game who enjoyed the previous weeklies).

    http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Nexus
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    that would be a way to throw possibly kirk, picard, or guinan into a story line....if they do it though, my money's on guinan being in it!!!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Rather than meeting someone INSIDE the Nexus, I think it would be cooler if they used the Nexus to write a couple of characters out.

    My prospective Nexus story is that Troi gets swept up inside the Nexus by mistake and Worf and Riker lead us to hunt it down. But in the end, Riker opts to stay inside the Nexus WITH Troi. Because if they leave, one of them will eventually get old and die. In there, they can stay together forever.

    So it has the appearance of the knight going to save his princess type story but, in the end, the man and woman decide they'd rather be trapped together than emerge and risk getting separated again.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Just to play devil's advocate here (personally I'm for a Nexus weekly series) but how do we know the Nexus will return on that time scale? I know Data said that in Generations but that was also said prior to calculating the Nexus' coarse after the destruction of the Amagosa Star. Could be that the new course of the Nexus takes it through Federations space earlier, later, or not at all now. Just saying.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    So what if the Nexus goes into a weekly. What reward could we bet out of it? :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    This is a perfect idea and I hope cryptic reads this and considers the positives that this offers.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Very valid point.

    Since Soren destroyed the Amagosa star the course was altered and in all possibility knocked enough on course to not bypass federation space at all. Imagine a Romulan plot to abuse the Nexus to make it a galactic superpower and you have to travel deep into Romulan space to get to the ribbon to alter time. Of course the consequences would mean the destruction of your ship as any ship caught in the Nexus was either severely damaged or destroyed. How would the devs handle that kind of thing? I don't know really.
    lcars wrote: »
    Just to play devil's advocate here (personally I'm for a Nexus weekly series) but how do we know the Nexus will return on that time scale? I know Data said that in Generations but that was also said prior to calculating the Nexus' coarse after the destruction of the Amagosa Star. Could be that the new course of the Nexus takes it through Federations space earlier, later, or not at all now. Just saying.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    This would be pretty epic!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Cryptic has an opportunity for a really powerful episode.

    IMHO, this would be a very powerful opportunity for players to encounter Kirk, Picard, even Guinan. And due to the quirks of the Nexus, it wouldn't change Generations.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Buuuuuutttt....

    As much as I am for this (and I really am, for people my age. TNG and Generations were our introductions to Trek in the first place!)

    Cryptic has to sweet talk CBS about using things dont they? And The Nexus and all of Generations belong to Paramount so I dont think we will see this happen. I would however love to see it in game. Or, at the very least have have the in game clock turn over to 2410 and not stay quantum locked in this year :rolleyes:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Azurian wrote: »
    Cryptic has an opportunity for a really powerful episode.

    IMHO, this would be a very powerful opportunity for players to encounter Kirk, Picard, even Guinan. And due to the quirks of the Nexus, it wouldn't change Generations.
    Please, not that arrogant French idiot Picard. Patrick Stewart may have been a Shakesperian actor but he should have stayed with Richard the Third or Hamlet in my opinion. His acting in STNG was lacking to say the least. Little wonder most people remember him best for the holodeck scenes on the HMS Pinafore, that was where he was most at home, either in a Shakesperian play or a Gilbert and Sullivan Opera.

    As for Guiynan, she should have remained in the style most know her from "Ghost" her acting in that movie was good. In STNG, her silly grin and "let's make the most of a bad situation" attitude made me want to strangle her... SLOWLY. My god, even the Nexus didn't want her.

    However STNG was killed off with all the Political Correctness and diplomatic solutions. The choice of not shooting back no matter how many away team crew they lose or how much damage the ship takes makes me wonder why Starfleet even bothered to arm those ships. The death of Tasha Yar killed off the entire series for me, it showed how weak the captain was. The first time we ever saw the ship fire it's lasers was to feed energy to a lifeform, I think the weapons rusted and fell off the ship before the end of the series. I used to enjoy the special effects of TOS even though they were archaic compared to the effects in modern films, I was looking forward to seeing more special effects in STNG but it was so boring after TOS.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    A Nexus episode would be really cool, I don't think it should be a mission that Starfleet or the KDF gives out. Instead when you go to the appropriate sector one of your BOffs pops up with the mission, kind of like you accidentially found it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Bolderine wrote:
    Please, not that arrogant French idiot Picard. Patrick Stewart may have been a Shakesperian actor but he should have stayed with Richard the Third or Hamlet in my opinion. His acting in STNG was lacking to say the least. Little wonder most people remember him best for the holodeck scenes on the HMS Pinafore, that was where he was most at home, either in a Shakesperian play or a Gilbert and Sullivan Opera.

    As for Guiynan, she should have remained in the style most know her from "Ghost" her acting in that movie was good. In STNG, her silly grin and "let's make the most of a bad situation" attitude made me want to strangle her... SLOWLY. My god, even the Nexus didn't want her.

    However STNG was killed off with all the Political Correctness and diplomatic solutions. The choice of not shooting back no matter how many away team crew they lose or how much damage the ship takes makes me wonder why Starfleet even bothered to arm those ships. The death of Tasha Yar killed off the entire series for me, it showed how weak the captain was. The first time we ever saw the ship fire it's lasers was to feed energy to a lifeform, I think the weapons rusted and fell off the ship before the end of the series. I used to enjoy the special effects of TOS even though they were archaic compared to the effects in modern films, I was looking forward to seeing more special effects in STNG but it was so boring after TOS.

    umadbro?

    Seriously though, a Nexus event or weekly would open the door to potential legendary greatness.

    I wouldnt mind seeing Kirk again :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    great idea, I hope the devs have noticed that this event is approaching
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Bolderine wrote:
    Please, not that arrogant French idiot Picard. Patrick Stewart may have been a Shakesperian actor but he should have stayed with Richard the Third or Hamlet in my opinion. His acting in STNG was lacking to say the least. Little wonder most people remember him best for the holodeck scenes on the HMS Pinafore, that was where he was most at home, either in a Shakesperian play or a Gilbert and Sullivan Opera.

    As for Guiynan, she should have remained in the style most know her from "Ghost" her acting in that movie was good. In STNG, her silly grin and "let's make the most of a bad situation" attitude made me want to strangle her... SLOWLY. My god, even the Nexus didn't want her.

    However STNG was killed off with all the Political Correctness and diplomatic solutions. The choice of not shooting back no matter how many away team crew they lose or how much damage the ship takes makes me wonder why Starfleet even bothered to arm those ships. The death of Tasha Yar killed off the entire series for me, it showed how weak the captain was. The first time we ever saw the ship fire it's lasers was to feed energy to a lifeform, I think the weapons rusted and fell off the ship before the end of the series. I used to enjoy the special effects of TOS even though they were archaic compared to the effects in modern films, I was looking forward to seeing more special effects in STNG but it was so boring after TOS.

    I guess it wasn't for your generation
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Well whoever they do get, they need to do voiceover work. And how they can play out ship destruction could be something like, if u do the mission and destroy your ship, u have the option to change class if u wish without charge of energy credits. Just a thought.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    kaighless wrote:
    I guess it wasn't for your generation

    I think he had an extra bottle of his haterade when he wrote that.

    I personally don't like the idea of destroying my ship, so maybe we can find some other way to get inside of the nexus, maybe we can go veridian 3 and get in there some way, and while we are there, we can explore what's left of the Enterprise D, or instead of using our ship, maybe we can use a shuttle craft or a runabout or something.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    KazumaKat wrote:
    umadbro?

    Seriously though, a Nexus event or weekly would open the door to potential legendary greatness.

    I wouldnt mind seeing Kirk again :D

    I agree.:D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Rather than meeting someone INSIDE the Nexus, I think it would be cooler if they used the Nexus to write a couple of characters out.

    My prospective Nexus story is that Troi gets swept up inside the Nexus by mistake and Worf and Riker lead us to hunt it down. But in the end, Riker opts to stay inside the Nexus WITH Troi. Because if they leave, one of them will eventually get old and die. In there, they can stay together forever.

    So it has the appearance of the knight going to save his princess type story but, in the end, the man and woman decide they'd rather be trapped together than emerge and risk getting separated again.

    That sound cool. :cool:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Can we use the nexus to do something that Picard was too stupid to do? Use the nexus to go back in time and put Soren in the brig when he was on the Enterprise, not try to fight him after he destroys a star.

    Kirk would not die on a bridge.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    id love to see the nexus flying through sector space.

    you could also do some cool foundry stuff with that.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    id love to see the nexus flying through sector space.

    you could also do some cool foundry stuff with that.

    Yes that would be awesome if the nexus could be a door. We could use it for dream sequences, memories, etc. Good ideas.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    I like the concept but definatly needs to be fleshed out cause I don't want to replay generations.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Tragamite wrote: »
    I like the concept but definatly needs to be fleshed out cause I don't want to replay generations.

    Yes, it's hard enough to replay it on a dvd player.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Tason wrote:
    According to Star Trek Generations (I think, I read it elsewhere), the Nexus returns to Federation Space in 2410.

    I think it would be pretty cool, as the game advances, to see the Nexus show up as a mission, perhaps as a series for the 1 year anniversary of STO.

    I'd be soooo for this........

    Hey Cryptic....weekly series.....?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Kirkfat wrote: »
    Yes, it's hard enough to replay it on a dvd player.

    LOL! But yeah maybe this time it is on the path to destroy a plant, sun, station and we have to find a way to divert it's course again hopefully putting back on it's original path.

    Maybe the place being threatened is an enemy place and deciding the fate of another friendly place to save the enemy is the dilemma. This would probably work the fed side but not for a Klingon variant.

    I do like the threat that the ribbon presents though just need a good story to it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Tragamite wrote: »
    I like the concept but definatly needs to be fleshed out cause I don't want to replay generations.
    Kirkfat wrote: »
    Yes, it's hard enough to replay it on a dvd player.


    LOL! I'll trade you Star Trek V: Final Frontier for Generations any day of the week. ;)

    Ack, back on topic.... Sign me up for some Nexus storytelling. Loads of potential there.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Oooh a Nexus episode would be lovely..
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