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Here's to you, Romulan-Elf Lady!

badname834854badname834854 Member Posts: 1,186 Arc User
edited March 2013 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Ok - Cryptic is getting better.

It first started with "Handsome Phaser Guy" then it went to "Tripping or Falling Over Boobtastic Phaser Chick"

Now we have "Romulan-Elf Lady"

In short, her ears are TOO big and the points to defined/high. I'm guessing that they wanted the ears to be noticeable, hence the oversize, but c'mon...this isn't LOTR Online!


Thoughts?
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  • umaekoumaeko Member Posts: 748 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    She looks fine to me. The 'flaw' never occured to me until you pointed it out... and really, it seems more an aesthetic quality to me than a flaw.
  • brigadooombrigadooom Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    I like to think she's T'Boob's estranged half-sister.
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  • daan2006daan2006 Member Posts: 5,346 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    hey I like her big ears :P
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  • brigadooombrigadooom Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Seriously, it's Tania Raymonde.
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  • sernonserculionsernonserculion Member Posts: 749 Arc User
    edited March 2013

    The Romulan Ale must flow, so if they need ears, then let them grow. But to drown all fears, not something to truly love. They are better downsized wherever we go!

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  • orangeitisorangeitis Member Posts: 5,222 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    This is an MMORPG. It should be expected.

    Next season, I'd bet we'll have a Tellarite guy representing STO's 'Drawf" race. ;)
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  • captsolcaptsol Member Posts: 921 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    brigadooom wrote: »
    I like to think she's T'Boob's estranged half-sister.

    Sublieutenant Ta'ears?
  • brigadooombrigadooom Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    captsol wrote: »
    Sublieutenant Ta'ears?

    Sublieutenant T'atas.
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  • lizweilizwei Member Posts: 936 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    You do realise Romulan/Vulcan ears have been extremely varied over the years, right?
    Hell look at Nero's.

    Personally I think she looks fine, and is a vast improvement over the "Oh look I'm skipping around and showing you my gigantic boobies, teehee!" lady.
  • redshirtthefirstredshirtthefirst Member Posts: 415 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Like I said in another thread, it's So'Hot, temporal daughter of T'TRIBBLE
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  • daan2006daan2006 Member Posts: 5,346 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    redshirtthefirst wrote: »
    Like I said in another thread, it's So'Hot, temporal daughter of T'TRIBBLE

    lmfao toooo funny :)
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    macronius wrote: »
    This! Their ability to outdo their own failures is quite impressive. If only this power could be harnessed for good.
  • daytonamaxdaytonamax Member Posts: 196 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    redshirtthefirst wrote: »
    Like I said in another thread, it's So'Hot, temporal daughter of T'TRIBBLE

    And So'Hot has been a popular name over in my thread. link in my siggy.
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  • redshirtthefirstredshirtthefirst Member Posts: 415 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    So I better get this done:

    So'Hot (tm)
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  • knuhteb5knuhteb5 Member Posts: 1,831 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Romuelfs? LOTR meets STO? Me thinks there's a conspiracy at play here with the goal of drawing LOTR players to STO.

    Edit: Rihannsu could be changed to Rielfsu. What do you think? Ri-elf-su sounds kind of catchy.
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  • catoblepasbetacatoblepasbeta Member Posts: 1,532 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    lizwei wrote: »
    You do realise Romulan/Vulcan ears have been extremely varied over the years, right?
    Hell look at Nero's.

    Personally I think she looks fine, and is a vast improvement over the "Oh look I'm skipping around and showing you my gigantic boobies, teehee!" lady.
    Nero was a Romulan? I never would have guessed, I thought he was a genetic fusion of Shinzon with a Klingon.

    On a more serious note, I agree in that I don't think that the Rommulan lady really has any problems. Her ears are big, and her hair is long for a rommulan, but I don't see it as being in 'elf territory' like was the case with the 'vulcan' we got previously.

    Hoestly, I'm more concerned with the fact that neither she, nor any of the Romulans in the trailer are wearing RSE uniforms, and that the little blurbs mention that we will be members of the "Romulan Republic' Instead of the Romulan Star Empire....
  • knuhteb5knuhteb5 Member Posts: 1,831 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    catoblepasbeta wrote: »
    Nero was a Romulan? I never would have guessed, I thought he was a genetic fusion of Shinzon with a Klingon.

    On a more serious note, I agree in that I don't think that the Rommulan lady really has any problems. Her ears are big, and her hair is long for a rommulan, but I don't see it as being in 'elf territory' like was the case with the 'vulcan' we got previously.

    Hoestly, I'm more concerned with the fact that neither she, nor any of the Romulans in the trailer are wearing RSE uniforms, and that the little blurbs mention that we will be members of the "Romulan Republic' Instead of the Romulan Star Empire....

    TBH, the Romuelf lady looks like she's wearing Romulan pajamas or civies. In either case, it's a cool looking uniform. I like the slender and tight fitting uniforms as opposed to the bulky TNG Rommie uniforms.
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  • catoblepasbetacatoblepasbeta Member Posts: 1,532 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    knuhteb5 wrote: »
    TBH, the Romuelf lady looks like she's wearing Romulan pajamas or civies. In either case, it's a cool looking uniform. I like the slender and tight fitting uniforms as opposed to the bulky TNG Rommie uniforms.
    I wouldn't mind that as much except that the emphasis on the uniform, the exclusion of the classic uniform, and the fact that we won't be playing as the RSE after all, and instead as freedom fighters could mean that we don't even have the *option* of the bulky TNG uniforms, or even the updated STO ones that we see romulan NPCs running around in.
  • darkelfofficerdarkelfofficer Member Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    catoblepasbeta wrote: »
    On a more serious note, I agree in that I don't think that the Rommulan lady really has any problems. Her ears are big, and her hair is long for a rommulan, but I don't see it as being in 'elf territory' like was the case with the 'vulcan' we got previously.

    It's better design than the fugly, "we sprouted forehead ridges even though we're just exiled, xenophobic Vulcans, oh and we're only allowed haircuts inspired by the Three Stooges" look of The Next Generation.
  • catoblepasbetacatoblepasbeta Member Posts: 1,532 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    darkelfofficer wrote: »
    It's better design than the fugly, "we sprouted forehead ridges even though we're just exiled, xenophobic Vulcans, oh and we're only allowed haircuts inspired by the Three Stooges" look of The Next Generation.
    You seem pretty hostile to the idea of romulans in general-you had the same complaint about them in at least one of the other romulan topics. Do you really want to play as Romulans?

    I think giving them their own distinctive clothing and hairstyle, along with the forehead ridges went a long way to making them distinct. Also odd that you would have a problem with their hairstyle beign different from the vulcans, considering their hairstyles are not that much different anyways.

    More on topic: I think she looks fine, a bit different from the Romulan norm, but still recognizably romulan. And more importantly not tarted up to the ridiculous extent the Vulcan lady was, which was ridiculous.
  • ursusmorologusursusmorologus Member Posts: 5,328 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    It's a faaaaaaaake!
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  • mimey2mimey2 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Devs, I'd just like to state that I'd gladly spend Zen on the 'bulky TNG' Romulan uniform, and that the opinions of other players that don't like it doesn't reflect my own POV. :)
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  • darkelfofficerdarkelfofficer Member Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    catoblepasbeta wrote: »
    You seem pretty hostile to the idea of romulans in general-you had the same complaint about them in at least one of the other romulan topics. Do you really want to play as Romulans?

    I've been waiting for a playable Romulan faction since around launch. What's not to like about the Roman Empire in space? And the Warbird is probably the best starship design to come out of all Star Trek. What I'm hostile to is the godawful make-up and costume design they suffered in TNG.

    I don't expect the TNG concepts to not be present, I'd just like to have the TOS character design available too.
    I think giving them their own distinctive clothing and hairstyle, along with the forehead ridges went a long way to making them distinct. Also odd that you would have a problem with their hairstyle beign different from the vulcans, considering their hairstyles are not that much different anyways.

    They're not supposed to be distinct. They're supposed to be Vulcans that rejected the notion that logic is the end-all-be-all. In fact, one of the key story points in "Balance of Terror" is that they and Vulcans are indistinguishable.
  • tsurutafan01tsurutafan01 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    The original series has a lot of really dumb plot holes the other series needed 20 years to plug.

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  • macroniusmacronius Member Posts: 2,526
    edited March 2013
    Why are all the avatars portrayed as juveniles or near juveniles? How about a mature female Romulan instead for the mature Trekkers! "Damn your condescension Cryptic!" ;)
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  • catoblepasbetacatoblepasbeta Member Posts: 1,532 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    darkelfofficer wrote: »
    I've been waiting for a playable Romulan faction since around launch. What's not to like about the Roman Empire in space? And the Warbird is probably the best starship design to come out of all Star Trek. What I'm hostile to is the godawful make-up and costume design they suffered in TNG.

    I don't expect the TNG concepts to not be present, I'd just like to have the TOS character design available too.



    They're not supposed to be distinct. They're supposed to be Vulcans that rejected the notion that logic is the end-all-be-all. In fact, one of the key story points in "Balance of Terror" is that they and Vulcans are indistinguishable.
    I'd just like to point out that Pretty much everything got overhauled from TOS to the TOS movies to the TNG-era, rommulans included, you remember what Klingons used to look like before the TOS movies, right? If there's a TOS helmet available, you can cover up the ridges anyhow, and who knows? perhaps there wil lbe a vulcan zen store unlock, so you can look exactly like a TOS rommulan. I think there is a lot more valid concern for them shying away from the TNG/DS9/VOY era of Rommies to be honest, what with none of the Rommies shown so far (even the faction select screen one) showing either the TNG-era uniforms, or the rather high quality slimmer STO updated ones, despite them existing in-game already and widely displayed by NPCs.
  • taergontaergon Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Much more tasteful looking elf. Just can't wait for it to replace the ridiculous background image on the current website.
  • daroskadaroska Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    It looks more like she has Vulcan ears than Romulan, maybe she's a Romulan-Vulcan hybrid?
    Anyway! I like this Romulan-Elf Lady. She looks dark, tough and sort of semi-tom boy.
    To me, that makes her quite great. Especially since Cryptic haven't made her over sexualised.
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  • crusader2007crusader2007 Member Posts: 1,883 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    daroska wrote: »
    It looks more like she has Vulcan ears than Romulan, maybe she's a Romulan-Vulcan hybrid?
    Anyway! I like this Romulan-Elf Lady. She looks dark, tough and sort of semi-tom boy.
    To me, that makes her quite great. Especially since Cryptic haven't made her over sexualised.

    would be nice for her to be in pair with the FED chick and augment the TRIBBLE :cool:
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  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    ursusmorologus wrote: »
    It's a faaaaaaaake!

    The're real, and the're spectacular.....oh you mean her ears....yeah they are cool too.:eek:
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  • johngazmanjohngazman Member Posts: 2,826 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    badname834854 wrote: »
    Ok - Cryptic is getting better.

    It first started with "Handsome Phaser Guy" then it went to "Tripping or Falling Over Boobtastic Phaser Chick"

    Now we have "Romulan-Elf Lady"

    In short, her ears are TOO big and the points to defined/high. I'm guessing that they wanted the ears to be noticeable, hence the oversize, but c'mon...this isn't LOTR Online!


    Thoughts?

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