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ambassadorkael
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Now that you know of Torg's mysterious prison, learn about two of his prisoners in our latest fiction blog:
Full details here:
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10546093
Full details here:
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10546093
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Things I want in STO:
1) More character customization options such as more clothing options, letting the toon complexion affect the entire body, not just the head. Also a true RGB color picker applied to all costume and appearance options, which would allow for true appearance customization and homogenous colors instead of "this same exact color looks vastly different on two different pieces."
2) Bridge customization, not bridge packs. Let us pick a general layout and adjust the color palette, console appearance, and chair types, as well as more ready room layout options.
3) Customizable ground weapons, i.e. The aesthetic look of phaser dual pistols but they shoot antiproton bolts. For obvious reasons this would only apply to standard ground weapons.
4) For the love of Q please revamp Plasma Ground Weapons. They look like demented Supersoakers right now.
5) True Vanity Impulse and Deflector effects similar to Vanity Shields.
6) A greater payout for hitting T6 Reputations. Currently it takes more time and resources to get from T5 to T6 than it does to get from nothing to T5. Make that grind really pay out at the end.
7) Mirrorverse Refugee event similar to AoY/Delta/Gamma, complete with new Mirrorverse recruits for all factions.
8) Independent Faction, because yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me!
Honestly, he seems worse than B'vat was.
I will say that bringing in the Son'a will be nice. Their battlecruiser is rather impressive in terms of appearance. Hopefully the stats will back that up.
Torg was always the "poor man's" B'vat, for all his flaws (which there were many) B'vat seemed to honestly belive in what he preached.
Torg on the other hand seemed to be after only personal power and would do pretty much anything to get it, which is probably why he was so easily dealt with in the KDF storyline, where as B'vat seemed well connected and powerful, Torg came of as an empty uniform, powerful only because of his House and thus forced to use mercs and other assorted minions to be any threat to us.
They seem to be suggesting a storyline where we deal with Torg and some Son'a. I hope that's the case; the House of Martok never got full vengeance for M'ven and Alexander Rozhenko's deaths, and it would be nice to finally put one between Torg's eyes. Here's hoping for more VA work from Michael Dorn.
Your father was captain of a starship for twelve minutes. He saved 800 lives, including your mother's, and yours.
I dare you to do better.
Feels all a bit like a "retcon" to me... Of course, protagonists in TV show don't necessarily have perfect knowledge, but in the finale of DS9, they made a point of saying that the retreat of the Jem'Hadar after the surrender of the Founder did mark the first day in *so and so many years* of no Dominion Forces in the Alpha Quadrant. That doesn't really leave room for a Rogue Vorta and his crew running raids against the Klingons...
Though within STO, this is kinda consistent. The True Way alliance with the Alpha Jem'Hadar also only really works with ignoring that part of DS9. (And it doesn't work with the end of the war at all for me... I just can't see a scenario where the Cardassians would be willing to trust any Jem'Hadar, Founders or Vorta after what happened on Cardassia Prime. Certainly not the ones that want to bring Cardassia to its "former glory" - how are you going to make any headway with your plans if everyone sees that you're working with the soldiers that killed your friends and familiy members in cold blood with the express purpose of punishing Cardassians?).
My character Tsin'xing
and yet that one cardassian continued pledging his loyalty to the dominion right up until he got shot
not everyone has a functioning mind - even among the cardassians
#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!"
if Martok isn't the prisoner, i will be very surprised (i really want Martok back as Chancellor of the High Council, Jiffy Pop can stay around to serve the bloodwine, but we need Martok back)
also, Son'a in STO will be interesting, hope their ships are suitably awesome ^^
#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!"
I would say that he did that because he believed it was the only way to be safe. He was wrong. Revolting in his position however would have yielded the same results, except more predictably so.
Just a critique concerning the tlhIngan Hol (Klingon language) used in the story:
qablIj HI’ang! Heghlu’meH QaQ jajvam! - "Show me your face! Perhaps today is a good day to die!"
Nuchpu’! Ha’Dibahpu’! - "Cowards! Dogs!"
taHqeq - possibly, "liar/one who cannot be trusted" (the strongest insult of all in Klingon)
Nice use of expressions for Grella ambushing her opponents - and in referring to the treacherous/lecherous Torg, and also Paul made correct use of curled apostrophes (straight ASCII apostrophes are never used).
The second phrase, however, should have been written as "nuchpu’! Ha’DIbaHpu’!"
While the words were spelled with the correct Latinized letters in the second quote, it was technically misspelled.
"H" and "ch" are two distinct alphabetical sounds. "H" and "I" are always capitalized when written in Latinized format, while "ch" and "n" never are.
Capitalization is never used to show beginnings of sentences (that's generally a human thing) in pIqaD, symbolic Klingon char, so it is never used in transliterated Latin script.
Why Paul wrote the first and third Klingon expressions correctly and not the second? Can't know for certainty. Maybe it was a copy paste/thing that went wrong or a transcription error from information being giving from one source to another.
There is a strong historical precedant for nations and armies using "the enemy of my enemy is my ally, at least for now." History during the time of empire has nations constantly swapping sides. For instance, Britain fights France with Russia during the Napoleonic wars, then is allied with France against Russia during the Crimean War, then competes with France over African and Asian colonies, then is allied with France during WWI, then both allied and fighting different French governments in WWII... and this with several preceding centuries of mutual attempts from both nations to conquer the other. The Federation played a canonically indispensible role in the defeat of the Dominion invasion force, and without Federation support, the Cardassian resistance would have floundered and the orbital assault on Cardassia might not have happened (although the female Changeling basically threatened to do it eventually for the attempted Obsidian Order-Tal Shiar assault on the Great Link, so who knows if the Founders would have tried exterminating the Cardassians in revenge). I could easily see the Cardassians and Dominion remnants holding the Federation solely responsible for the war's impact while ignoring their own role (a sort of "why did you make me hit you" kind of philosophy). STO, and Star Trek in general, has a long tradition of bad guys turning out to have some sympathetic reasons behind their actions, but inevitably taking those to a horrific and unjustifiable extreme (Noye/Sphere Builders/Temporal Liberation Front, the Iconians, the Cardassians in DS9, the Maqui, the Son'a, Nero/Sela and the Romulans, the Founders, Shinzon and the Remans, B'Vat, Species 8472, the Octanti, various Temporal Cold War factions... a bit of a running theme in the later shows).
Additionally, the Jem'Hadar have always been a kind of biological weapon, as mass-produced super soldiers with an in-built control mechanism, so it is possible that Cardassians could have created their own controlled Jem'Hadar armies (though the ships are another matter - unless the instructions to make those are encoded in Jem'Hadar DNA). I do agree that STO is not terribly consistent on the Jem'Hadar presence ingame, with at least one other in-game changeling (Movan) who like Laas is hostile to the Federation, though said changeling is only mentioned in the optional mission "Standoff." In any event, somehow the New Link acquired the means to make Jem'Hadar without any apparent contact with the Great Link (Since they initially believe the Great Link has been exterminated, and why would the Great Link not try to recover them if they knew of the New Link, given the effort to recover Odo?), and the Cardassian separatists are one of the more likely candidates.
My character Tsin'xing
just look at dreadnought - it misfired because of the computer used in it and enabled the maquis to capture and reprogram it
#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!"
I don't recall any line to that effect. They signed the treaty and Odo went back to the Gamma Quadrant, but that was the last we heard of the Dominion.
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
-Thomas Marrone
Oh, and voice Data if the Enterprize J warps into STO.
Also with Patrick Steward the problem is probably that he's too expensive for the STO team then that he's doing a VA gig (most voice actor I know of aren't 100% bound to single project and can do more then 1 voice acting gig at once).
Brent Spiner might be too expensive as well, I dunno.