Can anyone tell me which real Star Fleet captain would let any crew member sacrifice themselves for his own safety, let alone cower in a cave while three officers under his command, valiantly, purposefully, give their lives for his? Lorca's conduct was reprehensible and he should never wear a Star Fleet uniform again.
Would Kirk? Would Picard? Would Archer? We all know the answer to that. Janeway might, but certainly The Sisko would rather lose his life before seeing a crew member take his disruptor blast.
The next episode in the Age of Discovery story line must be Lorca's Court Martial. If there is any justice left in Star Fleet, this man should be prosecuted.
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There are reasons why he was able to manipulate himself into Starfleet.
Unfortunately, since you don't watch the show you are not familiar with the entire story. You are bashing the writing and the story without having the full understanding of what is happening.
If you don't like DISCO or don't wish to watch it, then ok.. fair enough. But please understand that aspects of the story are not going to make sense to you and you have to be prepared for that.
You're not the only one.. I have no idea what that is either.
Admiral Quinn has no idea.
The only people that knew are either dead or presumed dead.
Normally yes, you're right.. the story should be given in the episode in case the player does not watch the show. This case however is a little different because it's simply not possible to reveal this information in a simulation since the people that made the simulation would not have the information.
As far as Starfleet History is concerned, Captain Gabriel Lorca was the same person the entire time. He served Starfleet valiantly and was killed in the line of duty. The simulation is made from that standpoint as that would be how it's remembered.
In this particular case, yes.. you need to watch the show to really know what's going on. There really is no other way it could have been written outside of time travel where you witness it.
With all due respect, that is not true.
If you watched the show you would know why.. but Starfleet does not know that at one point Lorca swapped with a mirror counterpart. They cannot put information into the simulation that they do not have. It doesn't matter how far in the past it was, the information does not exist.
I am not sure how far I can/should go in explanation as I am sure there are people that are not current on Discovery and I don't want to go full 'spoiler mode.'
All I can tell you is that it makes sense. It's actually quite well written.
That being said, Mirror Lorca posing as his prime universe counterpart even to people who have intimate knowledge of him is indeed not very plausible. Yes you need the show to know this, but don't think it's really elaborately planned out there as it's suggested here. It's not.
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This is very true. Cryptic/CBS can't always collaboratively plan exactly what's going to happen in the show/game.
Different venues, different writers. "Defiance" this is certainly not, and STO existed long before Discovery was introduced.
Being critical doesn't take skill. Being constructively critical- which is providing alternative solutions or suggestions to a demonstrated problem, however, does.
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Conceptually, it's not a bad show... problem is it's all over the map in terms of plot holes and devices. I don't mind the "progressive agenda" thing as much, as I think this world actually needs to wake the hell up and be more like the Star Trek Universe in terms of inclusion (perhaps those who disagree may become the future "archnemesis" types) but rather it's oftentimes very confusing or just outright tries too hard to be "different" from prior ST shows.
Then there's a lot of character backstories and such that have yet to be revealed, even among some of the more featured ones. They need to spend a bit more time in between "shock and awe" episodes to fill in some gaps and do character development, even if it seems unimportant in regard to shock value. Well, at least if they hope it to survive as many seasons as prior shows and not just be another "Michael Baysplosions" flavor of TV show.
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Being critical doesn't take skill. Being constructively critical- which is providing alternative solutions or suggestions to a demonstrated problem, however, does.
One of the Starfleet Command tests is about whether you're willing to send one of your officers to certain death to save the rest of the team. So Starfleet commanding officers are definitely trained to be willing to sacrifice others.
His conduct is not uncommon, and it could have happened under any Captain.
He also isn't cowering - he's injured and in need of more medical attention than available.
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Was about to point that out.
It is not the game's fault you can't be bothered to watch the show to understand a tie in episode, it is your fault.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
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'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
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As for the writers of the simulation surely knowing about the mirroricity of Lorca: it doesn't really matter. A simulation of a situation should give you said situation as it unfolded at the time, otherwise it would be something different. Now those partaking in the simulation may have additional knowledge, but if nobody knew Lorca was switched at the time then nobody in the simulation should know.
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