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  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    I think Grazerites would come close to space cows even if they're more goat.

    The trick, I think, would be convincing CBS that the Grazerites we have seen are VERY OLD (and leaving that as an option) while introducing you, wrinkle-free, furrier Grazerites that are more in the vein of WoW's Taurens.

    CBS has signed off on RPG materials before that indicated that only the aged Grazerites are furless and that suggested cow fur patterns for younger ones.

    Similarly, you might be able to pull similar tricks with Anticans/Selay for dog and snake people if you suggest that much like real dogs and snakes very grealy by breed and much like Xindi had vast diversity, perhaps Anticans INCLUDE the ones we've seen but also a variety of dog people based on different breeds, with varying levels of dog-iness. Just keeping that ridge and a general concept of a dog style head as the defining characteristics.

    you may as well just add the esh'kha on sto, alien cow men, ruthless and mysterious all in one.

    not sure if there was ever a race that had dog features that i ever recall in star trek hard canon.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    jonsills wrote: »
    Kzinti aren't exactly feline - Larry Niven isn't quite that lazy. They resemble felines more than anything else from Earth, but then you add in the hairless, whiplike tail, the membranous ears that can fold up like a parasol, and the lattice-structure ribcage, and the resemblance begins to fade. (Add in the fact that kzinti can't climb - Louis discomfited Speaker-To-Animals quite a lot by climbing up a deflated airbag on his disabled flycycle in order to get to safety. Speaker, you see, was raised in the church founded by Kdapt-Preacher, which taught that God had made Man in his image, neatly explaining the outcomes of the various Man-Kzin Wars.)

    Yet another nonhumanoid species that could inspire a good template for STO...
    Ferasans, we haz them :P
    you may as well just add the esh'kha on sto, alien cow men, ruthless and mysterious all in one.

    not sure if there was ever a race that had dog features that i ever recall in star trek hard canon.
    Anticans were vaguely canine.
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  • historynerd1historynerd1 Member Posts: 100 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Might be funny for a PvP kind of thing where dogs get +10% damage against the cat species.
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  • lordmanzelotlordmanzelot Member Posts: 468 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    the dog-race is too easy to defeat. [Little-Stick Quantum Torpedo Mk XIV (FarAway)x4]
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  • leviathan99#2867 leviathan99 Member Posts: 7,747 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Ferasans, we haz them :PAnticans were vaguely canine.

    Yeah. And all I'm saying is, you take the existing Anticans and have them as the baseline, the "least canine" looking version of their species, and have varying levels of "more canine" looking Anticans with the canon ones being the least canine representative of the species.
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  • ovrkylovrkyl Member Posts: 309 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    There are playable cats in STO, why not playable dogs?

    They're always going on about "men are dogs" and it seems more players like to play female characters than male characters, so... :P

    And before you say anything, I'm guilty of it myself. I'd rather look at a female backside when I'm running around the game. :D
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  • shadoreshadore Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    You sure you want a dog race? The lead singer of the Dixie Chicks looked like a pug. You wanna play as her?
  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,965 Arc User
    edited February 2015

    I hope they don't put one in, just to spite you personally.
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  • moonshadowdarkmoonshadowdark Member Posts: 1,899 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    STO constantly expands from the canon, it would be a greatly beneficial thing.

    It doesn't expand FROM canon, it expands THE canon.

    It just expands it into a giant blob that no one really likes. :D
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  • antoniosalieriantoniosalieri Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Still haven't gotten my hippie out fix and your worried about dogs ?
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  • nimbullnimbull Member Posts: 1,566 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    I want an Australian Shepherd captain. That way I can herd other players ships and now and then drop my cloak next to a tactical cube while lifting my one nacelle at it. Anything else is barking up the wrong tree.
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  • gr8captaingr8captain Member Posts: 35 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    there is already a playable dog race in STO. They are called KLINGONS
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  • wombat140wombat140 Member Posts: 971 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    gr8captain wrote: »
    there is already a playable dog race in STO. They are called KLINGONS

    /wins

    Also, just for the laughs, let's see how close we can get to creating one of those hippies from Antoniosalieri's picture! Will post my attempt as soon as I next have time to log into the game.
  • equinox976equinox976 Member Posts: 2,305 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    The look of the Breen masks, which includes a "snout", was derived from the visual suggestion that they are a snouted species, like an arctic wolf.


    Erdmann, Terry J.; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion; Pocket Books; 2000; Page 277.

    Not playable but maybe one day will be.
  • wombat140wombat140 Member Posts: 971 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Urgh - I take that back about trying to replicate those hippie costumes. I see now what Antoniosalieri meant! Thought it would be easy to do something pretty close, in the Foundry I could do it. But the in-game costume editor just will not allow the mixing and matching necessary. Can't sem to get the Talaxian tops with the Tholian Robe's skirt, for instance, and can't find the Risian flowers anywhere even with "Show unowned parts" selected. That's what we really need in the costume editor more than anything, I'd say - the parts are all there for far more variety than we can currently do, we just need the restrictions lifted. The Foundry costume editor can do it.
  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,008 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    equinox976 wrote: »
    Erdmann, Terry J.; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion; Pocket Books; 2000; Page 277.

    Not playable but maybe one day will be.

    I doubt it. After all that's only a book's theory and in no way canon. Hence they had to purchase the rights for that book and I doubt they go through hassle like that again.

    Besides, why would they make helmetless breen? They just told us that they won't do Klingon stuff ever again,why should they do Breen stuff then? XD
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  • crusader2007crusader2007 Member Posts: 1,883 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    The dream is still alive.

    I hope one day I can have a shih tsu in a starfleet uinform.

    It is patently unfair that cat fanciers can be cats in the game but the many admirers of Mans Best Friend are left in...

    The doghouse.

    Really good one..Dev Designers are CAT and DINO lovers but dog Haters :eek:
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  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    ... shih tsu ...

    Thats a rat... not a dog.
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  • moonshadowdarkmoonshadowdark Member Posts: 1,899 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    gr8captain wrote: »
    there is already a playable dog race in STO. They are called KLINGONS

    That's racist.

    :D
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  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    It's an Asian dog.

    I have a good friend with a delightful shih tsu, and when I lived in China I had a very close friend in whose company I learned to love the charms of the Pekingese.

    If you're going to put a dogs head on a human body and not fall down to the level of the degenerates it should have a round head like an Asian dog and not a snout.

    It's a rat... That looks like a dog...
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  • nickodaemusnickodaemus Member Posts: 711 Arc User
    edited February 2015
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