In the latest episode of "On Screen" Brandon and Whitney (love you guys) announced that Season 8 will feature a new enemy first encountered by Voyager.
As you will see from my link, there is alot to choose from. But who would you hope it will be?
It has to be a hostile race like The Kazon. But has there is already The Malon Sector in The Beta Ursae Sector Block is this a clue.
http://www.bigmeathammer.com/Delta%20Quadrant%20Alien%20Database.htm
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Voth - possible as a villain, but more likely an ally. As a Villian, they'd clean our clocks. City ship off the port bow captain...
Kazon - I hope not. Not much of a threat to 1 Federation ship, let alone a fleet.
Krenim - standout potential; originators of the chrontion torpedo, likely have timeship access, or even more likely, Annorax has built his ship again.
Pralor - the Star Trek version of the Cylons
Not my list just one that I found that had the best detail to help players decide.
I agree about what you say in regards to The Kazon, but the thing to consider too is it has been a number of years since Voyager first encountered them, so therefore they could be more technically advanced.
I can see an invasion by the "doctrine" Voth to attack Earth and Gornar to eliminate any proof that they originated in the Alpha Quadrant. A splinter group of Voth would help the Alpha Quadrant races.
While the Kazon might be more advanced at that point...they'd probably hever developed far less further than the player's faction (whichever that might be) because the Kazon did not develop one tiny bit of the technology they had...and because they're stupid.
Let's face it, most of us would shoot them on sight.
Hey, if the Borg can't defeat us, it will not be the Voth to do it... :P
but I would like to see them back and up to there old tricks
My money is on the Voth, or one of the other dangling threads Voyager left hanging. The Voth is an easy fit because it's one of the more enticing loose ends the show left, plus there are a few hints in the game that point in the direction of the Voth* and Christine Thompson is too much of a Trek fan to have done things like that by random.
* The Gorn backstory seems ripe for this kind of villain, and I agree with one of the posters in this thread that if it is the Voth there might also be some kind of Gorn connection too. And there was one of those random 'investigate base' missions you can get where you find the crew of space lab who were working on artificial wormhole tech vanished and signs that reptilian DNA left at the scene.
Or
THE BORG! :cool::):D
I hope STO get's better ...
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Yeah... no... sorry... I am well able to suspend my disbelief but this was just way over anything I'd imagined...
I sincerely hope that it'd be Viidians (Think Tank they had a cure... but would they provide it to the Viidians or would the cured Viidians, driven mad by the Phage, actually share it?) or Vaadwaur...
Anything else would be too much...
the voth idea is merely a recycle of the silurian idea from doctor who.
I would love to see the Dominion brought in as a faction
You get:
Vorta, Jem'Hadar, Breen, Cardassian and the shape shifters
You already a have the ship models
They are bad TRIBBLE to boot
You can intro other races and give access via the ds9 wormhole
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Krenim would be a welcome sight. As to how they managed to get to the Alpha/Beta quadrants is a peculiar problem, however.
Missing the good ol' days of PvP: Legacy of Romulus to Season 9
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Snarfffffffffff!!!! I don't think I could stand the talaxians as a main plot. No thanks.
Maybe the devs could resurrect Tuvix for us!? Rofl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XTQLsIoao
Actually it makes a lot of sense when you factor in other aspects of the Universe. The Voth consider themselves to be the first intelligent species in the Galaxy and they are certainly one of the oldest if we are to believe they became space faring 60 million years ago. We know this belief is technically untrue however because the Preservers are actually the first real civilization. Feeling lonely, they began seeding their DNA around the Galaxy, manipulating life so that it would evolve along a certain path.
Suppose this means the Voth are somewhat correct that they were the first because in actuality they may have been the first Preserver creation to evolve and rise to the stars.
As for the Gorn connection, I don't think they would end up being related to each other because that would mean the Gorn are related to us as well and you would think someone would have picked up on that. I mean just a handful of scans of a Voth pointed out that they are undeniably related to us, so you would think the same would be said for the Gorn. Instead I think the Gorn connection stems from the fact they are a Saurian species. The Voth look down on Mammalian life and the Klingons had conquered the Gorn not to long ago. They may simply want to free a fellow Saurian race who fell to a nasty bunch of filthy Mammalians.
All just speculation of course. I'm very excited to see the Voth in action. This is also supposed to be endgame content so how exactly do they fit into the return of the Iconians? So fascinating!