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Don't laugh. Ok, well, go on and laugh a little, then come back and read the rest of this thing. I assure you I'm not wasting your time or the devs time.
You see it a lot. Stand around on Earth Spacedock for a while and someone who is really good with the alien generator will walk by with a Na'vi character. For those who don't know, the Na'vi are the blue aliens from the Avatar movie.
They got me to wondering, what would it take to make them an official, playable race?
You might be prompted to say to yourself, "But they're not a Star Trek race!" Normally I would agree with you, but then again, I didn't think the aliens from E.T. were a Star Wars race either. Then, suddenly, watching The Phantom Menace (I think), there they were on the senate floor!
So, there is precedent for this. The term is Crossover. It depends heavily on the relationships of everybody involved of course, but it has been and can be done.
What are your thoughts on this? What other types of Crossover would you want to see, in your weirdest pipe dreams, if you could have it? Discuss.
You see it a lot. Stand around on Earth Spacedock for a while and someone who is really good with the alien generator will walk by with a Na'vi character. For those who don't know, the Na'vi are the blue aliens from the Avatar movie.
They got me to wondering, what would it take to make them an official, playable race?
You might be prompted to say to yourself, "But they're not a Star Trek race!" Normally I would agree with you, but then again, I didn't think the aliens from E.T. were a Star Wars race either. Then, suddenly, watching The Phantom Menace (I think), there they were on the senate floor!
So, there is precedent for this. The term is Crossover. It depends heavily on the relationships of everybody involved of course, but it has been and can be done.
What are your thoughts on this? What other types of Crossover would you want to see, in your weirdest pipe dreams, if you could have it? Discuss.
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Ok? Let's say they could. Let's say they called up the Avatar people and said, "Hey, what do you think?" and the reply was, "Sure, let's go for it!"
Oh, and the odds are a billion to one of anything like that happening, I know. I could get struck by lightning five or six times before it actually became reality. I get that. The point of this thread is, "What if?" and "What else?" not "Why not?"
it ended.....not well
Cryptic might have to restrict people from creating/publishing copyrighted material (like if someone made a "Na'vi" and published it) just from a legal standpoint. And it's something the players had to sign as part of the EULA anyway. But people could always publish an alien that happened to look like a Na'vi and call it "TallBlueAlienStyle3".
Besides, I hear the planet Melmac is pretty rad.
I am usually a fan of crossovers, but in this case not so much.
Aside from being a movie and universe with a **very** different feel, Avatar also breaks any sense of Star Trek continuity if you try and reconcile its history with Trek history.
In short: no thanks, not the best of combinations.
this.
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At least the story would be the same as what the OP wants.
Pre-warp, pre-rocket, pre-nuclear, pre-industrial....
Hell, I think the Amish are closer to Federation membership than these blue aliens.
Two things:
only if our captain can mate with one of them to save the crew. I'm sure Scotty could drink one of them things under the table to distract.
Nah, that depends on how prejudiced and knowledgeable they actually are in the SW setting, as opposed to just believing to have spotted a flaw (the old feud between many ST and SW fans). Just yesterday I had a talk with someone who didn't know that turbolasers are actually plasma cannons, wrongfully thinking they made no sense.
Yes, I'm a nerd.
As for E.T., that was actually the fulfillment of a promise Lucas had made to Spielberg many, many years ago: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/E.T.
Or R2D2? We saw him as part of the debris above Vulcan in JJ's Star Trek.
"Never" happening, 100% guaranteed.
If they can be created with the alien creator options, leave it at that.
I would, however, like to see more episodes involving pre-warp cultures. Working to resolve a story involving primitive cultures while protecting the Prime Directive is very Star Trek.
Lastly, just because a culture is not technically advanced should it automatically be labeled primitive. There is more the one way to explore the Galaxy and any society can develop intelligence and wisdom light years beyond the present Federation without ever leaving the planet they evolved on.
Haha this.....hell their main "base" was a big tree..... :rolleyes:
Realistic? Really?
A place with FLOATING mountains. A near entire jungle ecosystem. A planet filed almost entirely with giant carnivores. Hard for an ecosystem to be beliveable when its entire population is filled with apex level predators. A planet with a soul and every creature coming pre-equiped with magic "feeling" connectors with with to talk to the planet or each other.
Yea, its the most realistic world ever!:rolleyes:
I would like an gender neutral option so I could do something like the Talosians, or something that really allows a giant veiny brain head, like Morbo. Truth be told, I'd love to add Decapodians, Omicronians, Amphibiosan, or even the Yarn People of Nylar 4.
Not to mention the floating mountains with waterfalls--where's the water coming from?
Cept one ion engine and one cometary mass and its bye bye enlightened ones.
Yup, I sure am