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Looking far far into the future of Star Trek Online
zateron
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I'm just curious if other people have interesting ideas about where STO could go looking far into the future. I'm talking about the future, long after Victory is Life. The direction, what parts of Star Trek should be looked into for the future.
Myself, I've always felt as if there hasn't been enough Data, neither any movie or TV about Data officially since the the movie ST:Nemesis, even though apparently in books Data is currently alive in the Star Trek timeline. According to some books, Data's duplicate found in Nemesis had Data's memories copied onto him, and one day awoke as Data.
Given that STO takes place thirty years after Voyager, I've always thought it might be interesting to see what Data has been doing since, perhaps building a fleet of androids for the Federation? Perhaps to explore beyond?
Anyways, it's an idea. Anyone else?
Myself, I've always felt as if there hasn't been enough Data, neither any movie or TV about Data officially since the the movie ST:Nemesis, even though apparently in books Data is currently alive in the Star Trek timeline. According to some books, Data's duplicate found in Nemesis had Data's memories copied onto him, and one day awoke as Data.
Given that STO takes place thirty years after Voyager, I've always thought it might be interesting to see what Data has been doing since, perhaps building a fleet of androids for the Federation? Perhaps to explore beyond?
Anyways, it's an idea. Anyone else?
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I believe that would be a very unpopular opinion with most Star Trek fans.
I'd like to see Data. Of all the crew he's the only one that SHOULD still be running around 60+yrs later!
Also if they just updated the inside of the ships period. I mean I know it would be too much to ask to navigate your ship from the inside but it would nice to have a little more functionality and immersion :tongue: (they're just so darn big on the inside...)
Yes, I would hope that the "powers that be" see the potential landscape of fertile ground storywise. Data could be the prototype from what would later become the Federation's look beyond our Milky Way with newer advanced android fleets. Advanced android bodies with built in super strength, high jumps, built in expanded technology based on as seen in TNG. New traits, new abilities while securing Data's role with the future of Starfleet.
It wouldn't just be about Data, but also where Star Trek goes into the future. In ST:TOS episodes like By Any Other Name, ST hints to other galaxies such as Andromeda being completely different forms of reality. Again, this is all fertile ground with lots of room for creativity pointing in the direction that Star Trek always seemed to be pointing to anyway. It could be a way to look to the future while being consistent with the story, Data, and not changing too much.
I'm just an idea man and a loyal Star Trek fan. If anyone else has better ideas, you're more than welcome to share. I'm curious.
Uh... wut? Galaxies being different forms of reality? That honestly makes no sense. So basically... the laws of reality as we know them in the Milky Way Galaxy only apply to the Milky Way Galaxy? If we go to Andromeda, do we have to develop a brand new FTL technology to get around because subspace doesn't exist in Andromeda at all, thus preventing Warp Drive from functioning?
So... he is Enterprise?
This is canonical to STO, and Data is specifically mentioned as having been the captain of the Enterprise E in game, prior to whatever happened to the E anyway. It looked like Cryptic were hinting that they were looking to sign Brent Spiner, or otherwise bring back Data, as at the end of the Iconian arc there's a cut scene with Sela, where a person you can't see puts down a hologram of Tasha Yar (like the one Data had as a keepsake), and Sela asks that person to tell her about her mother. However, nothing seems to have come from that...
I have it on the authority of internet chatter that Spiner isn't interested in reprising the role of data. Considering how long its been since Survivors, I think the subtle cameo at the end of that mission should be taken as "the maximum extent Cryptic can take the character of Data in STO without either the actor's voice or likeness permissions" (similar to Kirk in the reprise of Journey to Babel in AOY) rather than foreshadowing.
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That's truly a shame. I mean I understood Brent Spiner not wanting to dress as Data for Enterprise since he has aged quite noticeably, but in the gaming world aging doesn't matter at all.
I've always considered Star Trek's vision of reaching beyond needing androids (a such as Data and others) to do so, and the borg being an example of going too far to abandon human qualities.
Lots of stories in TOS were open ended, and more experimental. Many stories were left open. Specifically in the episode "By Any Other Name" aliens from the Andromeda inhabited human bodies to be in our galaxy holding the Enterprise hostage, but the leader mentions desperately wanting to go back to their world (with thousands of tentacles) in their comfortable walls, and controlled environment. Mainly it was a plot driven device to demonstrate that they lived completely different from us detached from their senses. It makes sense, but like many stories of that era you sort of have to use your own imagination to fill in the gaps. It wasn't the greatest Star Trek episode, but it was one of the funniest in which the characters are at their most well known character traits, like Scotty trying to out drink an alien.
Really most if not all TOS episodes where open ended, ditto TNG with a few notable exceptions, it was only in DS9 where the concept of serialization really took off.
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> Why presume age has anything to do with this?
Because one of the reasons he gave for wanting Data killed off in Nemesis was because he didn't think he could convincingly continue to play a non-aging character.
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Which is moot in the context of STO. Maybe he's worried about his voice but I think the thing to highlight there is "one of the reasons." He's admitted to some fatigue with doing more Star Trek (Data being the obvious focual point to that) even while exploring the possibility of a cameo for Discovery (San Diego comic con 2016 interview.)
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Hey, go too far beyond the Galactic Barrier, and it just gets weird.