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Half-serious criticism of T6 Sovereigns
sirmayday
Member Posts: 535 Arc User
After that stunt in Insurrection (a joystick? on a cruiser?), shouldn't one of the variants have a Pilot specialist seat?
For the record, I think it's cool we finally got T6 Sovereigns, and I think it's cool there're a couple of variants and lots of continuity references to be found in the packages, but I still kinda think the Intel Sovereign should've been a Pilot Sovereign.
For the record, I think it's cool we finally got T6 Sovereigns, and I think it's cool there're a couple of variants and lots of continuity references to be found in the packages, but I still kinda think the Intel Sovereign should've been a Pilot Sovereign.
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Support 90 degree arc limitation on BFaW! Save our ships from looking like flying disco balls of dumb!
#LegalizeAwoo
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"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
For starters, the Excelsior cruiser and its variants are amongst the smallest Starfleet cruisers in the game. Hell, the pilot escorts make the Excelsior look tiny. That, combined with one of the Pilot abilities being named after a quote from Captain Sulu whilst commanding the U.S.S. Excelsior (fly her apart!) and a console that's focused on boosting the ship's speed, makes it obvious to me.
As it is now, the Resolute is easily the most underwhelming T6 Starfleet cruiser on the C-Store. Three Engineering stations, no universal stations, and Command specialist seating (something found on all except 3 T6 Starfleet cruisers) make it very lackluster. On top of all that, the Excelsior class didn't get a more screen-accurate remodel like all the other iconic ships got when their T6 variants came out.
It's honestly such a shame that one of the most popular canon ships in Star Trek got so little attention when it came time for a T6 variant... /endrant
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
These strawmen are getting old. In Insurrection, the Enterprise demonstrated a feature unknown in the canon before that (every other flight control in the series that came before is accomplished with a console) that is suitable to the Pilot specialization. I'm good with arguments to the contrary (alphahydri makes a couple of good points, for instance), but the quoted response is at least borderline insulting.
How cool it would have been if the ship made a 90° rotation to pass between the Son'a vessels while unloading the metreon gas and then throwing an aft torpedo while they're engulfed in it?
But well, after having the ship damaged, dumping the warp core (because it's not like it's useful or something) to seal a subspace rift (even if an episode of TNG (Force of Nature) showed having a core blown up could CAUSE a subspace rift) and piloting with a joystick, maybe Riker needed a break from the silliness.
and it's not like they could've persuaded the son'a to jettison THEIR core
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Man, I remember seeing that movie with a friend who wasn't a Trek fan. When that joystick came out of the deck, I couldn't get him to stop laughing in the theater.
I've been a Trek fan for 20 years (which, I know, isn't exactly a record on this board), and I had trouble stiffling my outrage. I agree with warmaker: it is the worst scene in the movie.
Still precendential, though. Maybe not enough for a Pilot seat, granted.