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The Making of Measure of Morality
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We sat down five of the minds behind our 10th Anniversary Episode, The Measure of Morality, to chat about what went into making the episode. You can see it on our Youtube channel right now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pvrgEP3NHA
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lol. Probably was before this all happened.
So GG Cryptic, this was a fun as heck mission. Only played it once before bowing out due to the extreme server lag timing, but it made for an intense run (maybe too much to regularly replay on the other toons, but we'll see.)
-Could just be a hazard of fans being fans, overhyping any sort of teaser, but I think, presuming there's no further surprises cast-wise, the "Big casting reveals" ended up being a bit of a deflated reality when it ended up being just getting Sonequa Martin-Green and recalling-in Jeri Ryan, alongside getting Noye's "authentic" actor (ala James Horan, Enterprise's actor for the future shadow guy). Not to downgrade the fun of their appearances, nor if there was difficulties in calling back some of the other characters (STO-original and not) for their new lines, and I can imagine there was some worth-it hassle for the rights of the TV captains' archive audio, too, but point is I wonder if it was a bit of a misstep to not perhaps say "how many" actors we'd get for this update, particularly the matter of newcomers to STO.
-Did anyone else wonder briefly if present!T'Ket was actually the modern T'ket, summoned by the tech signals or whatever from the facsimile of ancient Iconia? It did make me wonder if there was a dot to connect with our Captain noting her actions defied present Iconian time-travel limitations (which I don't think the simulation's context ever explained). By the end I doubted it was, though, considering I really wouldn't think Cryptic would go about making her Borgified cannon fodder as the mission wound-out concluding.
-Similarly, I kinda wondered if Shon and the Enterprise F were the present captain and ship summoned to the planet as opposed to just being part of the Excalbians' recreation of the hero ships (though on that note while I figure that was the obvious answer, part of me wondered if there was going to be a "wink wink" moment where Lincoln or someone said "actually they weren't quite just our creation, we can do some temporal extractions...")
-In the final firefight, is there (stock) audio for all the ships beyond who we hear in the preceeding cutscene? I was hoping to hear Pike or Kelvin Kirk throwing out a few lines during the fight, but I didn't seem to catch them in my run.
-If there's one thing I could say I wish the map could've included, it maybe could've been a "starter" battle that takes you back to an early setting/era unique to your current captain. Like Starfleet caps return to a Klingon fight relative to their eras, Klingons re-experience the Fel'kiri invasion, Romulans the Elachi colony invasions, and Jem'hadarr with early unseen Hur'q onslaughts.
-As I haven't replayed through any Delta Rising missions yet, can we confirm whether Seven's appearance is altered now to reflect her Picard-era look? I expect a model/swap swap and dialogue-box changes, but it might be a leap to expect rerecorded voice-lines. If not, maybe an extra scene somewhere where Seven decides to start "loosening up" by the time of this mission might be fitting.
-Between Stammets and Burnham, it's amusing how STO's timeline is "recreating" the Discovery's crew in the modern era. I wonder how much they'll get out of running with that, whether it ties into how J'ula's arc is concluded beyond To Hell With Honor.
Overall though, I wasn't sure what to expect, and while I wouldn't call it jaw-dropping, it was a fun, servicing mission duology that got me a bit chuffed at all the recollections and reflections. ON that note, I'd say it was a good job.