"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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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"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
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.
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.
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.
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:
Yeah, good idea.
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
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.
I agree.:D
That sound cool. :cool:
Kirk would not die on a bridge.
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.
Yes, it's hard enough to replay it on a dvd player.
I'd be soooo for this........
Hey Cryptic....weekly series.....?
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.
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.