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In the upcoming TFO, Operation: Wolf, you'll participate in a holodeck simulation of the Mirror Universe's Earth Spacedock, and battle to survive!
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11496633
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11496633
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The thing is, Mirror Tilly was only pretending to request asylum- and then used it as cover to take over Pahvo (Para Pacem, and Illusion of Communication). Considering what she tried to do risked literally billions of lives, I'm skeptical of anyone granting her asylum now, regardless if she were serious or not.
Admiral Leeta makes a bit more sense in that case- even if just because she hasn't tried the same trap previously. I agree though- it does seem out of character for mirror Leeta, but it may in the end be a trap. I am excited for the TFO though!
In the Star Trek universe I am beyond certain that Starfleet Intelligence and Section 31 would already have assetts in play in that realm and the continued aggression from that quarter would provoke a Federation response to curtail that aggression and secure the Federation. Questions that could be explored is who would your allies be? How would you employ them? What strategic and tactical targets would need to be attacked? Would the future intervene as they did with the Iconians? Who are the Borg in that reality? Of course, there would also be new ships, new weapons, new traits, and new Doffs and Boffs.
I have been itching for such an experience to be added to STO and I think that others are as well. Just my .02.
There is no way in Gre'Thor she'd even be allowed to talk to Quinn without being in a brig way away from Earth and Bajor, with a whole ship-worth of security officers, capital-class turrets, a Pah-Wraith expert, technicians screening for temporal and dimensional anomalies, temporal agents and the player character themselves.
This doesn't even imply it's an holo version of her.
What's with the recent trend of suddenly turning die-hard evil people who gloat about how they're gonna kill you and destroy the Federation and then making them "just a bit evil, but they'll get better after a few days at your side and trust you with their life".
That's like Marvel had just released Guardians of the Galaxy, then immediately after decided to directly release Endgame and you're left wondering why Nebula is with the Guardians AND the Avengers now.
I'm certain there will be other blog posts giving story background to this, but I still say, this was posted out of order.
I mean, and I suppose I should post this as a spoiler for those that haven't watched Picard or looked up how the first season went,
Losing faith in humanity, one person at a time.
It sounds fun, and I'm assuming this is what the attacks on Tribble were testing, but we seriously need a lot of IN-GAME story to clarify things.
Anyone want to give me a Temporal Heavy Dreadnought pack? I'll be your friend
Second, adding a new STF means one of two things:
One, a new rep system, but that's not likely.
Two...An event.
Which of the two is it and what's the prize if it's the second?
Whose going to be the next evil monster we forgive and become friends with? The Borg Queen?
Unfortunately, things end up on the website in the wrong order quite often, and this post would make more sense to appear a little after that episode release...
The final lines of said blog (which is the one I was talking about in my previous reply) make it clear she's not talking about finding allies in the Prime universe:
We are already friends with one Borg queen (though she prefers to stay out of collectives for now), Seven of Nine.
As for Leeta being like J'Ula, I seriously doubt it. J'Ula was an odd case where she always hovered on the line between anti-villain and anti-hero (we just didn't have all the information up front to know that right off the bat). And weird as it sounds, she was a screwup to some extent (mostly where communication and diplomacy were concerned) who kept losing her temper and saying stupid things, and worse yet fell for the manipulation tricks of the real villain.
It was good writing though it needed more substance in a few parts to make it less abrupt and support believability (especially during the "hide" phase where the players were essentially underground heroes while "off camera") though that would have delayed the end phase of the story past the date they wanted it to end.
Leeta on the other hand is the classic "rebellious underdog villain" who is dumped on by her villain liege for not being one of the preferred demographic (Terran) and has a massive chip on her shoulder because of it. Then she tapped into a massive source of power that went to her head long enough to make her go off the rails and get branded a traitor by the emperor, but since then she has probably come off of that power intoxication gotten a handle on her wraith stuff and now looks towards the Alliance as the "ablative armor" she needs if she is to take on the emperor.
I hope you are right and it blows up into another major arc like the Iconian one,
Kiba - Wolf's Rain
The problem is the skip between that older blog and this one.
Once again, I'll go with the analogy of GoTG and Endgame. Sure, the story between the two works well to show why Nebula would join the heroes in the end, but we had whole movies progressively showing that development in between.
You may tease a character having seemingly switched sides or assisting the heroes/villains, but, unless it happens at the very end of the first game/movie and used as a sequel hook, you better deliver on the explanation in the story that teased that, not just "oh she's allied with us now, enjoy her simulation the whole Alliance approved, just roll with it for the duration of that story, we'll explain eventually".
And I'm pretty sure many players would go "No way I'm gonna enter an holodeck simulation she made, Quinn. Especially after Killy's obvious betrayal I was railroaded into, the Excalbian screwup, and J'mpok trying to frame me for terrorism."
Personally I wouldn't feel safe unless she were encased in a block of transparent aluminum behind an onion's worth of forcefield layers inside a temporally shielded vault that is set to implode into a gravitational sinkhole if the power fails for any reason.
She is not to be trusted. At All. So I expect the simulation to go off the rails.
But i hope it will be the beginning of an expansion or story arc. Just another TFO is the least STO needs
Where you get your rump kicked by Mirror Borg.
Woopsie, wrong Wolf.
Beat me to it, that was the first time that came to my head.
Memory Beta references a short story 'black mirror' which seemingly could set this up, but doesn't mention anything other than the name. I am wondering if it was a story in the Star Trek magazine...
And yes, hfmudd, that classic title came to mind, too.