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Tzenkethi and Talarian

patcrowpatcrow Member Posts: 89 Arc User
edited March 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I would like to see some missions or stories involving these races. Federation has fought them both in wars. Would like to see them in the game. Or even add them to foundry.
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  • rahmkota19rahmkota19 Member Posts: 1,929 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Meh.

    The Tzenkethi were mentioned once in DS9. Never heard of 'em again.

    Talarian doesn't even ring a bell here.

    I don't read novels or watch anything that is not canon. (except for STO, obviously).


    So yeah, why not throw us the Xindi if you want something that has been fought in the game? I mean, Xindi are just as worked out as Klingon, Romulan and Cardassian.
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  • quistraquistra Member Posts: 214 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Talarian missions? I'm sure there'd be a lot of challenge fighting ships armed with merculite rockets and laaaaaaaaasers.
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  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    quistra wrote: »
    Talarian missions? I'm sure there'd be a lot of challenge fighting ships armed with merculite rockets and laaaaaaaaasers.

    Hey... I can imagine alot of "target practice" missions based on these.
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  • jockey1979jockey1979 Member Posts: 1,005 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    rahmkota19 wrote: »
    Meh.

    The Tzenkethi were mentioned once in DS9. Never heard of 'em again.

    Talarian doesn't even ring a bell here.

    I don't read novels or watch anything that is not canon. (except for STO, obviously).


    So yeah, why not throw us the Xindi if you want something that has been fought in the game? I mean, Xindi are just as worked out as Klingon, Romulan and Cardassian.

    TNG episode, with a human male being raised by the mentioned alien race. Nearly ends up in a shoot while Picard and crew try to convince the young man to return to earth and not to his "captors".

    The lad also tries to kill Picard in his sleep.
  • plummyg33gplummyg33g Member Posts: 82 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    These would be epic episodes in STO. I am hoping that Cryptic will add them :rolleyes:
  • rahmkota19rahmkota19 Member Posts: 1,929 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Ah, those were the Talarians. When they said Lasers, I knew enough. Thanks for the bell.


    Also, still voting Xindi. Or anything, really.
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  • the1tiggletthe1tigglet Member Posts: 1,421 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    quistra wrote: »
    Talarian missions? I'm sure there'd be a lot of challenge fighting ships armed with merculite rockets and laaaaaaaaasers.

    LOL I recall something mentioned where they wouldn't even get past sensor shielding...
  • misterde3misterde3 Member Posts: 4,195 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    the1tigglet wrote: »
    LOL I recall something mentioned where they wouldn't even get past sensor shielding...

    close: "navigational shields".:)
    And yeah it's kinda like threating to stone someone with tiny bits of cotton wool.
  • jockey1979jockey1979 Member Posts: 1,005 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    the1tigglet wrote: »
    LOL I recall something mentioned where they wouldn't even get past sensor shielding...
    misterde3 wrote: »
    close: "navigational shields".:)
    And yeah it's kinda like threating to stone someone with tiny bits of cotton wool.

    Different enemy / episode

    That was 2 factions chasing after an escaped convict to allegedly got one of the leaders daughter pregnant - turn out to be the son of the other leader.

    But that scene was funny about the lasers.
  • misterde3misterde3 Member Posts: 4,195 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    jockey1979 wrote: »
    Different enemy / episode

    That was 2 factions chasing after an escaped convict to allegedly got one of the leaders daughter pregnant - turn out to be the son of the other leader.

    But that scene was funny about the lasers.

    Lasers stay lasers no matter who uses them.;)
    And I don't think the X-Ray lasers the Talarians had would've been any more menacing than the lasers of those grumpy old men from "The Outrageous Okona".
  • jockey1979jockey1979 Member Posts: 1,005 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    misterde3 wrote: »
    Lasers stay lasers no matter who uses them.;)
    And I don't think the X-Ray lasers the Talarians had would've been any more menacing than the lasers of those grumpy old men from "The Outrageous Okona".

    I've not watched the episode in ages, but as the question was about the people not the tech.... :P

    But yes, X-Ray lasers.. how many x-rays does it take to become lethal lol.
    Just break out those lead aprons like the techs in hospital have on when they fire at us with X-ray based tech ;)
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Nah.... hospitals don't have high enough power to do damage. But high power will kill you.
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  • killdozer9211killdozer9211 Member Posts: 919 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    +1 for the talarians. They've had some decades to develop away from the lasers and trade tech with other races for some development.

    Conversely, the KDF could've given/sold them weapons tech and training to complicate the Fed's war effort at the beginning of this big war we're supposedly in.
    The Undine would also probably recognize them as pretty malleable and easy to assimilate.
    If not the Undine, maybe the Iconians.

    I'm sure there's other modes of implementation too.

    -1 for the Xindi, who are at best members of the Federation by now, and at worse still a backwards rogue state run by the legion of doom.
  • aloishammeraloishammer Member Posts: 3,294 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    So, two one-shot enemies who vanished into obscurity after their close-up.

    Why does the wind reek of "Voth and dinosaurs with frikkin' laser beams on their heads, take two?" Perhaps one of these races could give us bio-engineered vorpal bunnies. :rolleyes:
  • killdozer9211killdozer9211 Member Posts: 919 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    aloishammer wrote: »
    So, two one-shot enemies who vanished into obscurity after their close-up.

    Why does the wind reek of "Voth and dinosaurs with frikkin' laser beams on their heads, take two?" Perhaps one of these races could give us bio-engineered vorpal bunnies. :rolleyes:

    To be fair, Talarians were recurring small time baddies. They weren't klingons or the Borg, but the mention of them gave the feds pause in more than one episode.

    The t..zen..ts..tsar...tvaro...the Tsoschickens, on the other hand, were only mentioned, never seen. Somewhat less influential than the dinosaurs who looked up from the watering hole one day, saw a second moon in the sky, decided to skip the bronze age and build an ARK to the delta quadrant, and then spend the next 65 million years contently twiddling their tumbs and not advancing into any advanced evolutionary state, happy just cracking matter/energy conversion and FTL travel only to stay ignorant and controlled by a fascist oligarchy.
  • sorairodayzsorairodayz Member Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    The Tzenkethi are expanded upon in the EU novels. Apparently they luminescence and are pretty awesome to look at.

    Too bad they're a bunch of Xenophobic clods
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    aloishammer wrote: »
    So, two one-shot enemies who vanished into obscurity after their close-up.
    Yes, like the Voth and Acamarians. :P Actually there have been a lot of one-off races in Star Trek. A lot fo them were cool, and several are already in the game.
    sorairodayz wrote: »
    The Tzenkethi are expanded upon in the EU novels. Apparently they luminescence and are pretty awesome to look at.

    Too bad they're a bunch of Xenophobic clods
    In the Typhon pact. But the original creator of the race invisioned the Tzenkethi as something similar to the Gorn.
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  • sorairodayzsorairodayz Member Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    markhawkman wrote: »
    Yes, like the Voth and Acamarians. :P Actually there have been a lot of one-off races in Star Trek. A lot fo them were cool, and several are already in the game.In the Typhon pact. But the original creator of the race invisioned the Tzenkethi as something similar to the Gorn.

    Ah yes. That's correct. Brinkmanship is one of the novels that features them pretty heavily? A really good read!

    I don't see the Tzenkethi coming to ST:O. They get mentioned in one episode of DS9 and that's it.

    Talarians on the other hand I can see.
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