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I don't mean for this to become a long list of filth, but there are names and words that are censored in the game, but I was wondering if there was a list of them?
There are so many people who play, just so they can create a toon called Sisko and fly a Defiant Class called "Defiant", but of course, those are banned.
I know that Picard, Enterprise, Voyager, Janeway and so on aren't allowed (although if everyone in the game wanted a Captain Kirk, what would be the harm?) but is there a list?
A decade ago and when I first started to play, I was gutted not to be able to call my Intrepid Voyager and once for a friend, I wanted to make an entirely cheeky (and okay, a little bit filthy) toon, with shall I say risqué ship and BOFF names, but they got slammed. Actually, even some colloquialisms which aren't filthy, got refused.
So, is there is a list of banned names and also, or naughty words that we're not allowed to use in STO?
There are so many people who play, just so they can create a toon called Sisko and fly a Defiant Class called "Defiant", but of course, those are banned.
I know that Picard, Enterprise, Voyager, Janeway and so on aren't allowed (although if everyone in the game wanted a Captain Kirk, what would be the harm?) but is there a list?
A decade ago and when I first started to play, I was gutted not to be able to call my Intrepid Voyager and once for a friend, I wanted to make an entirely cheeky (and okay, a little bit filthy) toon, with shall I say risqué ship and BOFF names, but they got slammed. Actually, even some colloquialisms which aren't filthy, got refused.
So, is there is a list of banned names and also, or naughty words that we're not allowed to use in STO?
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This is probably a case of CBS protecting their brand.
For example some anti-Discovery troll creates a Tilly that goes around harassing people and trying to ruin the TFOs they are in while spewing garbage in chat.
The only hero ship name that hasn't been blocked is Discovery. Mostly because the game had been out for years before DSC came out.
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A lot of things aren't listed out right. There'd be an internal list for Star Trek related names that are outright disallowed (won't accept the name) but there's also a lot of other things you shouldn't do (i.e. with the naming of characters) that have come up as examples over the years in the various STO forums that you could potentially use in error initially that are still disallowed but would result in a suspension when reported.
The last report of this sort of thing I can recall was from a longer term player who'd named his character after an obscure religious deity who got reported many years later. As far as I know they just had to change the name and all was well.
KDF ship names allow for a lot of naughty adaptations of colorful phrases
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This is true but for some reason Kirk isn't banned same with Pike.
Why do I imagine that Pike is going to join the banned list shortly?
Only reason I can think of that is because Venture was the name of a ship in a story mission.
Which is kinda countered by the fact we can name ships Challenger, despite the fact that is the name of Geordi's ship.
Some censored words don't make sense, while others... kinda do.
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if one of the arguments was that it was an obscure vulgar word in some other language at this point...
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> Which is kinda countered by the fact we can name ships Challenger, despite the fact that is the name of Geordi's ship.
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Geordi’s ship wasn’t added until at least Season 11. The Venture is from “Fluid Dynamics”—one of the early missions.
My guess is the restriction on ship and character names is no longer updated. It is harder to retroactively add something like Challenger and Discovery— which were NASA shuttle names and probably common choices— when there are already 100s or 1000s of ships in game with those names...
If they don’t update the list I wonder if you could make a Boimler or Mariner—
But would you want to?
Becket Mariner is a Lower Decks character so that might be reason it might be banned but honestly it's generic enough that it might not end up on that list.
Right on. I haven't been prompted to change my ship's name so having it there doesn't appear problematic. Thank you.
I'd say the only sensible reason is so that if you see a USS Enterprise in game, you know its actually an important NPC ship, never a player ship, thus it might be important for a mission or story.
At least originally, the game was set up so that if you're doing a mission, someone might randomly join you in a team because they were doing the same mission. Thus, if the Enterprise shows up you'd know its not a player but the game, and if you're talking to Spock, its not actually a player.
However they pretty much abandoned that entirely, and there is no reason to care what someone's ship or player name is now.
Considering "mariner" is a more formal way of saying "sailor" Cryptic would probably unlikely to ban it anyway (too many ships and thus too many upset people for it to be worth) at least by their own accord now CBS could command them to do so but that seems unlikely too and that's even assuming that banned names list is updated at all.
In terms of characters its more than likely they don't want to deal with any legal headaches over likeness. Some people would probably see something that looks like them and demand money for using their likeness. Its one of the reasons why we don't actually see Kirk during one of the AoY missions. He's face down. Also why we never actually see Data's face at the end of the mission we actually bring in Sela, and she talks to him about Tasha. I mean we know its Data because no one else has that hair or skin color, but we never actually see his face.
Ship names are trickier because the IP holder would probably like to maintain the image of those ships or something, but people always find ways to circumvent that with creative spelling. Or in the case of Enterprise, going with the older British spelling with a Z rather than an S.
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yeah you really dont even know what you are talking about.
Context is also important - they can trademark starships named Enterprise because TOS was the first show to have a starship by that name, and there aren't any in the real world. Since there's no starship called Mariner in Trek lore, it can't be trademarked as a ship name. (Note that copyright is different from trademark; copyrights have legal protections when used elsewhere that trademarks don't, so if a trademark violation goes unchallenged the trademark itself can be lost. Perhaps the most famous case of that was Bayer Pharmaceutical's Aspirin-brand salicylic acid tablets, now just called aspirin no matter who makes them. It's also why nobody but Kimberly-Clark is allowed to call their paper facial tissues Kleenex, no matter how commonly we mere humans use the term.)
http://startrekmariner.blogspot.com/2018/08/these-are-voyages-star-trek-mariner.html?m=1
I don't think any of the last names are blocked just the full name. James T Kirk, no. Jimmy T Kirk.. ok. Actor names are blocked too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_program
To put this into historical context for those who are unaware, the names Merrimack and Virginia can be used, with the later name adorning the ironclad rebuild of the scuttled Merrimack during it's service with the Conferderate States Navy; where it fought the U.S.S. Monitor at the Battle of Hampton Roads in 1862.
Now, I'm not suggesting the developers are secret Confederate spys working to bring down the Union,
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/USS_Monitor
Virginia and Merrimack aren't restricted because there isn't any ship with the name of the former in Star Trek, and the latter also doesn't exist - but the Merrimac DOES exist, so that spelling of the name is probably restricted too.
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