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Is Path to 2409 still STO-canon?
kagasensei
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Although the Path to 2409 is referenced in-game via the Academy-lore missions, I sometimes wonder how much of it is still considered "hard-game-canon" by the Devs, especially Christine Thompson? After all, the creation of the timeline dates back to the very beginning of the game, or actually slightly before it, and STO evolved so much since then in every aspect, including storytelling and its general approach to TV-canon...
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Those logs just tell how sto's backstory developed until the point in time of the tutorial section of the character and after that there's pretty much no reference to any of that stuff.
As long as they pick up stuff that has close to no backstory in the sourcematerial and watch it to avoid any direct contradiction, as they've done with the sonlanae (1 ep of TNG), elachi (1 ep of ENT) and the bugs (couple episodes of TNG), whatever they come up with will be the game's "hard-canon".
Waaay too many licensing issues for that to happen, though they'd get my money too.
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That's an interesting question ... considering a certain Lead Dev's desire to replace every Year 1 content out there and the repeated references to said content being garbage ... .
The farthest-back retcon was the creation of the Romulan Republic prior to the attack on Vega (see subtitles and the lore NPC in the Romulan tutorial), but the founding of New Romulus seems to line up with the later Fed-KDF war missions for the other factions. At the start of the game, the republic is just a rebel flotilla, which fits just fine with the general chaos the timeline describes in the empire. They also inserted the Elachi at the same time, but everybody involved was confused by their appearance so it stands to reason "recorded" history didn't mention them before.
Not exactly contradictions... more so references which appear kinda outdated by now, e.g., Sela hiring the Hirogen (which were completely cut out of the Romulan story arc), or the mention of "fundamentally changing Starfleet's command structure" (which was supposed to kinda explain the events of the original STO tutorial, but now seems a little bit odd).
Furthermore, many of the canon characters who have been introduced to STO and are also mentioned in the Path to 2409 (e.g., Worf, Seven of Nine, The Doctor) do not reference ANY events from it (e.g., the fact that Seven left Starfleet in protest, Worf being married to Grilka and having a young son, The Doctor's dense history with the Soong Foundation etc.)... Although nothing of this contradicts anything, but it makes the Path to 2409 seem more and more disconnected from the current game.
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the game is based off the events of path to power 2409, however it isnt strictly 100% behind it though as you are eased into the storyline over the missions and episodic arcs. romulus is gone, hobus is gone, you can travel there, sela has leadership as is stated in the path to power, hirogen are allies of the tal-shiar as well, again as mentioned.
sto canon is not based much off tv canon these days, you think realism? that went out the window years ago, so did trek canon for some part.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Just sit back and enjoy the Star Trek-themed amusement park - your Nerd-Stress Levels will thank you for it.
Edit: Misread thread; latter statement still sums up my overall care level about the lore though.
Yeah, STO was never canon. The only thing it is canon to is itself. My opinion is that STO is the universe that appears in the first few minutes of Star Trek 2009. The Prime Universe is completely unrelated to Star Trek 2009 and only a TV series or movie that airs after Nemesis will be canon for the future of the Star Trek universe.
With the title of the thread I never intended to refer to TV-canon (i.e., "real" Trek canon), but the body of information that makes up the STO universe. I just think, the Path of 2409 seems more and more "outdated" and disconnected from the game (naturally, as the game progresses, but the Path remains unchanged since pre-Beta).
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But then later we see her with the Borg Cooperative where she's gone back to being called Seven of Nine.
But the two things aren't strictly contradictory since they don't occur at the same time.
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