Shed light on Enterprise-B Cryptic and CBS

apulse · October 2015

I can't say that I have 100% of the details, but from what I have read; Enterprise-B was lost after a deadly infection caught the crew and then it was never heard of again.
So Enterprise-B is still out there, drifting in space. It's a great premise for a great story line, and since none of the tv shows and movies touched the subjects, perhaps STO can.

stofsk · October 2015

Y'know, that actually would make a neat anniversary event.

kodachikuno · October 2015

stofsk wrote: »

Y'know, that actually would make a neat anniversary event.

.... that actually WOULD be really awesome

duncanidaho11 · October 2015

New "scarey" mission?

Would be a swell way to wrap up October.

seriousxeno · October 2015

So that would make 2 Enterprises that are MIA. The Enterprise E is gone as well. My gut tells me that we won't see her again until Cryptic can get Brent Spiner to do VO for Data (B4).

I don't remember anything about the B in canon though. Aside from its maiden voyage, there is nothing on her in canon.

duncanidaho11 · October 2015

seriousxeno wrote: »

I don't remember anything about the B in canon though. Aside from its maiden voyage, there is nothing on her in canon.

No, but doubtless there's something in the extended universe that cryptic could take up as their version of events.

eldarion79 · October 2015

This is exactly a story perfect for STO and these type of stories only make the game better helping to expand the lore of Trek history.

k20vtec · October 2015

seriousxeno wrote: »

So that would make 2 Enterprises that are MIA. The Enterprise E is gone as well. My gut tells me that we won't see her again until Cryptic can get Brent Spiner to do VO for Data (B4).

I don't remember anything about the B in canon though. Aside from its maiden voyage, there is nothing on her in canon.

The E is MIA? I thought it was retired eventually in STO-lore? Replaced by Odyessey.

thibash · October 2015

k20vtec wrote: »

The E is MIA? I thought it was retired eventually in STO-lore? Replaced by Odyessey.

Could be, but lorewise that wouldn't make much sense. Miranda's are refitted to remain on actiuve duty, yet a fairly modern ship is retired?

seriousxeno · October 2015

thibash wrote: »

k20vtec wrote: »

The E is MIA? I thought it was retired eventually in STO-lore? Replaced by Odyessey.

Could be, but lorewise that wouldn't make much sense. Miranda's are refitted to remain on actiuve duty, yet a fairly modern ship is retired?

Actually I was wrong. Apparently the E was destroyed in 2408 by Undine forces. Data is alive though.

Source: http://sto.gamepedia.com/U.S.S._Enterprise_(NCC-1701-E)

nostalgiaman · October 2015

Soooo, you want them to answer the immortal question "Where's (Demora) Sulu?"

dd1m · October 2015

stofsk wrote: »

Y'know, that actually would make a neat anniversary event.

That would be very cool indeed

highlord83 · October 2015

Make it a Halloween event. Contaminated by some strange virus that claimed the crew, left drifting in space, only to crash on near some far-flung colony over a century later. The colony sends people to investigate, and shortly afterward, all contact with the colony is lost. Because the virus isn't gone, and the crew isn't completely dead.

Cue zombies.

asuran14 · October 2015

Kinda would find that really interesting as either a ghost ship like mission where we get hints on long range sensors that are finding a seemingly drifting Enterprise-B that is drifting in an out of sensor range, but than we are sent in to investigate the ship maybe fiunding it was a senient virus that attacked the ship (or a red queen computer ala Resident evil that attacked the crew maybe a new advanced Ai was used on it.). Might be interesting if we found Undine/human hybrids on the ship like somehow a virus or dying Undine escaped/left fluidic space, then the crew brought it on board to study it, but the virusundine than began to infect them turning them into hybrids, could even be some now long extinct creature/being/race of fluidic space instead of the undine.

chiyoumiku · October 2015

For once I agree, that would bea fantastic story idea. Captain Geko if you're reading this "Make it so!"

Edit: I just thought of a great idea surrounding this idea, Command decides to send a ship out, after all these years the Enterprise-B had been found, but they send the player instead of Shon choose to NOT risk the loss of yet another Enterprise. We get sent in and find the derilect ship floating in space and aas we board it, the crew is dead, and the infection gone....or so we think..... perhaps it's mutated into some odd being.

It's crazy but that kind of thing has worked in Trek Before, it would be an awesome idea.

apulse · October 2015

Can you imagine if you travel in a shuttle with a big size Enterprise-B rotating slowly in space with no lights in the widows.. get inside in zero-gravity and just access the database and try to find out what happend before the last crew man died.

I don't wanna any zombie things, just a derelict spaceship with dark walkways and bodies floating around.

Makes me all giggle of excitement.

With that said, I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't happen. Ideas like these must come from Cryptic, not the fanbase. It will give the fans to much control... just my 2 cents..
But I hope I'm wrong.

asuran14 · October 2015

Issue with a completely combat-less mission i don't think it would go over well with the playerbase at large, as interesting an a nice idea to get away from teh hugely combat focused missions we have been getting. I agree though not sure i would want to see zombies exactly, but maybe more of a "hills have eyes" kinda concept in which after the Enterprise-B had been lost to the mysterious infection (could be something even somewhat mundane that just mutated somehow) that did not exactly kill the crew, but merely the infection causing a riot onboard that damaged the control systems leaving it drifting in space with barely self sustaining systems intact along with limited rations as the replacators either were damaged or the limited power researse caused them to ration thier use. After awhile the replicators/food rations run out, and slowly some of the crew begin to become canablistic attacking other crew members to stay alive as the ship keeps drifting maybe they capture scavengers that come on board so you could litter the halls with bodies that way. (I loved the idea of this kind of concept in the Firefly series with the Reavers.)

captz1pp · October 2015

They should have had us find it back when they introduced the Excelsior class to the game, but it would make a good Halloween setting.

asuran14 · October 2015

Almost wish they would make one that deals with the Enterprise-B, and then another dealing with the Fek'Ihri poping up again maybe in temples, or at a star base once again. Maybe some of the tissue taken from them during Klingon arc dealing with them might have been being studied by a group in the empire an accidently brought them back. Where the idea i had for the "hills have eyes" version mission with a Enterprise-B maybe they would actually be the descendents of the origanal crew.

darleath · October 2015

I would go as follows:
Dead ship in the middle of nowhere, the only lights coming from the player's ship while the shuttle approaches with the boarding party. First thing in the to-do list is to feed some power to the ship, and for that we are carrying a couple redshirts with a pocket reactor that should provide enough energy for the lights, computers and gravity... but the system is not completely "empty", having enough to restart the Warp Drive with the pocket reactor, inmediately going to warp.
Your ship, of course, follows, while you and the boarding party looks for a way to stop this. Leaving the engineering redshirts where they are (since they can access more stuff) you go with your boffs to the bridge (where all answers always are). But when you finish reading the captain's log, you lose contact with the redshirts. Dead.

Turns out the ship was the last "man" alive of the crew, programmed by the last living member to integrate him in the computer, trying to cheat the death that claimed all the other shipmates and left him stranded in the middle of nowhere. Now he is awakened (barely) and tries to get home and purge the "infection" inside his "body" (the ship!)...

The last part of the mission is, undoubtely, to make the computer to stop the madness and return to your ship. And hopefully, the ship to Earth. Earning a new photonic Doff along the way, since it would be quite cruel to leave the man trapped inside a relic which will be used as a musem!

shrimphead2015 · October 2015

Damn these are great ideas for a mission. I have been dying to do a mission like this where things go bump in the night. I would like to see it more on the eerie side like in the episode "Night Terrors" from STNG. Hell cue in the same music from that episode would I have me looking over my shoulder!

potasssium · October 2015

Or he set the shop on a suicide star collision to prevent the spread of the infection. After ejecting a signal pod with records.

Ship is however disabled by infected crew. Turns out whole thing was an early attempt with the Iconian Parasytes, but they proved uncontrollable.

You find some Infected crew members placed in stasis pods, hooked up to power sources from a shuttle craft. They initially seem fine, help you disable the suicide course the ship is on, then turn on the player.

Attempting to infect you and your ship.

You eventually escape, then fight the repaired Enterprise-B, and return it to Fed space under Quarenteen, and bring the prior remaining infected crew to Facility 4028 (or whatever) for evaluation.

Mission is assigned by Franklin Drake.

starswordc · October 2015

potasssium wrote: »

Mission is assigned by Franklin Drake.

Please, god, no. Franklin Drake just gets Starfleet personnel killed needlessly and there is no good reason why this mission shouldn't come from the legitimate chain of command.

I can see my officers' response now:

Tess Phohl: Section 31 doesn't exist.
Kanril Eleya: That's right, and I don't take orders from people who don't exist.

omegasprime · October 2015

This would be a great idea.

sle1989 · October 2015

This sounds like a cool mission idea.

Of course, the story idea of the Enterprise B being infected and lost in space did not originate with Cryptic so they may not be able to do it. Creator of that story may want royalties.

kodachikuno · October 2015

apulse wrote: »

Can you imagine if you travel in a shuttle with a big size Enterprise-B rotating slowly in space with no lights in the widows.. get inside in zero-gravity and just access the database and try to find out what happend before the last crew man died.

I don't wanna any zombie things, just a derelict spaceship with dark walkways and bodies floating around.

Makes me all giggle of excitement.

I agree no zombies... ffs puhleez no zombies... overdone genre much?

if we want a note of horror why not go and borrow a little from Event Horizon and the "enemy" in the episode is the ship itself... maybe have the corridors and stuff flicker as we move along and show hellish scenes kind of like how we get undine bits in mindscape while traversing voyager.
Something with actual "ghostly" things could be cool too, not dravidians, but out of phase or temporally locked crew

kamiyama317 · October 2015

How about that Barclay retrovirus? The one that turned everyone into spiders and lizards and things. The Enterprise-D only barely survived that with their level of medical technology. Imagine the same thing happening to a previous ship without that level of tech?

Maybe not the actual Barclay retrovirus, but perhaps they encountered something similar on their travels?

We find the Enterprise-B, beam down, and immediately get swarmed by hook spiders. The inside of the ship has become a jungle inhabited by generations of creepy crawlies. And skeletons. Lots of skeletons. Maybe crazed phrases drawn on the walls? A malfunctioning ship computer that is replaying the last logs of the crew, where they are all going insane? It would be fun.

azmodeas · October 2015

I like the premise for that to be a special mission or even a stand alone feature Episode. The details of the mission I think we could trust cryptic enough to do a proper scary spooky mission with a chance to adding there own stamp into Trek lore. It's a win win for all.

apulse · October 2015

sle1989 wrote: »

This sounds like a cool mission idea.

Of course, the story idea of the Enterprise B being infected and lost in space did not originate with Cryptic so they may not be able to do it. Creator of that story may want royalties.

Think Everything is under CBS control

asuran14 · October 2015

If we went somethign like Undine being involved kinda think seeing something along the lines of a damaged or prototype Undine Bio-ship attempting to merge with or destroy the Enterprise (seen some concept art of a starfleet ship being attacked or absorbed by a Undine-like ship around the internet awhile back), though this could even be done without them like a strange space distortion altered a existing virus on the ship, or just merely thru traveling thru the distortions the crew were merged with the ship turning the Enterprise-B into a literal hybrid-bio ship. Than make the reward of the mission the organic bio-hybrid Enterprise-B ship.

Just the idea of seeing a biological technological hybrid of the Enterprise-B would be interesting, but to then get hailed by the ship hearing the echoing combined voices of the crew cry out to your own ship. After disabling the ship an beaming over seeing the Bio-logically altered an merged corridors with shapes an forms of the crew in the walls an such, with maybe the ship launching defenses that look like the crew but act like white blood cells trying to eradicate the forgien indiviguals.

shrimphead2015 · October 2015

apulse wrote: »

Can you imagine if you travel in a shuttle with a big size Enterprise-B rotating slowly in space with no lights in the widows.. get inside in zero-gravity and just access the database and try to find out what happend before the last crew man died.

I don't wanna any zombie things, just a derelict spaceship with dark walkways and bodies floating around.

Makes me all giggle of excitement.

I share this sentiment as well . The whole zombie thing has been overdone way too much, besides the Borg to me have always been just a high tech version of zombies anyway. I would prefer an eerier setting as the one described above where you float around the darkened hallways with a bunch of corpses with a mystery to solve and all the while you hear a muffled step from the dark, strange shadows and spooky music. Oh yeah, I would play the hell out of that mission!

Shed light on Enterprise-B Cryptic and CBS

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