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Butterfly - Remarkably awful *spoiler warning*
lizwei
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The sheer level of incompetence in the writing for this episode was... most impressive.
I can forgive the predictability of it, of course, and I can forgive introducing a character just to immediately kill them off... but the sheer level of plot hole the story left behind is gigantic.
I would submit that if you write a story about butterfly effects you should actually understand butterfly effects.
I can buy the Iconian delay somehow suping up the Borg, fine. But how in the holy mother of frak did erasing a transwarp conduit restore everything the way it was?
Did they not double check their own writing? Is the Yamato still out there now?
Now yes, this might all be answered cleverly in the next episode. But I somehow doubt it.
The only thing that saves this poor showing is that for one brief moment I was in a timeline where the JJverse didn't exist. And that was glorious.
I can forgive the predictability of it, of course, and I can forgive introducing a character just to immediately kill them off... but the sheer level of plot hole the story left behind is gigantic.
I would submit that if you write a story about butterfly effects you should actually understand butterfly effects.
I can buy the Iconian delay somehow suping up the Borg, fine. But how in the holy mother of frak did erasing a transwarp conduit restore everything the way it was?
Did they not double check their own writing? Is the Yamato still out there now?
Now yes, this might all be answered cleverly in the next episode. But I somehow doubt it.
The only thing that saves this poor showing is that for one brief moment I was in a timeline where the JJverse didn't exist. And that was glorious.
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"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
Defending The Galaxy By Breaking One Starfleet Regulation After The Next.
You're speaking of mission structure, I'm talking anout the writing. They're two different thinga.
And honestly the episode was passable, mostly. But that ending was utterly silly.
Hold on... was the timeship destroyed?
Yeah, that episode was rather a mess.
By the way did Jarok's voice seem different to anyone else? To me she sounded a lot like Seska for some reason.
No, The time ship wasn't destroyed.
Yes, I don't understand or believe that removing a single Borg Transwarp Conduit (or even all of them) completely reset the timeline back to normal as it implied. Makes no sense. Nor does trusting those holodeck simulations which are full of unknown unknowns. One would have to be able to model the entire universe to even have a shot at a reasonable sim- and as far as we know that is still outside the knowledge (i.e. they don't know everything in order to plug the data in) as well as technical abilities of any except perhaps beings like the Q.
But the main thing is, it didn't make me angry like the last two FEs did.
Yes that's a low bar, but it was nice not to see this move it even lower. I can have alts replay this one which is good because the rewards look to be excellent.
Well Done Crptic.
It is giving me sweet consoles and DOFF missions... and that's all that left in this game. So let's not.
Its just so badly written, one has to wonder who writes those stories. They are almost as badly written as the code of the game. Almost...
Edit: I suppose I forgot a little something about how the Krenim tech works, I think I see now, but I'll go with Janeways opinion on all things temporal.... It's a headache....
I think we've found a use for that convenient temporal shielding fellas!
The problem with that idea is that the timeship wasn't destroyed and Romulus was back to being rubble even before the temporal shielding failed.
Also what janky shielding is this anyway? Annorax's shields lasted for 200 years and only failed due to internal sabotage.
Did they outsource to the lowest bidder or what?
We shot the weapon at Romulus ... correct? I'm going to assume I missed a line somewhere...
Why did Romulus come back? We just erased it from time.
It was never aimed at Romulus, first time an asteroid, second time at a borg gate.
Irrelevant, Romulus is drstroyed, which means the Iconians are back, which means somehow the Iconians returned by changing something that had absolutely nothing to do with them.
Which is the whole point of the Butterfly Effect. Causal connections that are so complex that you can't see them anymore.
Which nonetheless has a connection.
Go ahead and tell me what possible connection limiting the Borg's mobility would have with when the Iconians decided to invade the galaxy.
There. It's not rocket science.
Except for the whole thing about the Iconian space gateway network being down until recently.