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Can we get the Picard Manuver as a space ability?
Picard ordered the Stargazer to make a short warp jump toward the attacking ship, outrunning the light of its own image coming from its previous location. The Ferengi were momentarily distracted by what appeared to be a second ship coming out of warp, providing the Stargazer with enough time to destroy them.[1] The crippled Stargazer's crew abandoned ship in lifeboats and shuttlecraft and were recovered ten weeks later. Picard was court-martialed but cleared blame for loss of his ship.
The "Picard Maneuver" became required reading for Starfleet Academy students.
And this would make a great emote...
Off-camera, the name has also become applied to a motion used by the actors during photography, wherein they would tug down the upper part of their spandex costumes to straighten out wrinkles. As Patrick Stewart originated the habit, cast and crew began calling it the "Picard Maneuver".
Picard ordered the Stargazer to make a short warp jump toward the attacking ship, outrunning the light of its own image coming from its previous location. The Ferengi were momentarily distracted by what appeared to be a second ship coming out of warp, providing the Stargazer with enough time to destroy them.[1] The crippled Stargazer's crew abandoned ship in lifeboats and shuttlecraft and were recovered ten weeks later. Picard was court-martialed but cleared blame for loss of his ship.
The "Picard Maneuver" became required reading for Starfleet Academy students.
And this would make a great emote...
Off-camera, the name has also become applied to a motion used by the actors during photography, wherein they would tug down the upper part of their spandex costumes to straighten out wrinkles. As Patrick Stewart originated the habit, cast and crew began calling it the "Picard Maneuver".
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The ships we fight use similar subspace arrays to the Fed's, so I'd greatly doubt this maneuver is more than a historical footnote by this age.
IT would be for the time STO is set in, as Data calculated the only known defense to the maneuver when Picard attempted to use the same tactic against the Enterprise-D (whilst under the Ferengi thought maker).
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:USS_Enterprise-D_tractors_USS_Stargazer.jpg
Incidentally it was noticed in a patch log file way back in beta that a power tray icon for the engineer BO's was named the Picard Maneuver. The log file still exists in the Cryptic folder and is called patchxfer.log - the following is taken from there.
091201 19:46:04 40844 MasterControlProgram[1]: xferStart: get=data/texture_library/ui/Icons/powers/Space_Boff_Engineering_Picardmaeuver.timestamp write=texture_library/ui/Icons/powers/Space_Boff_Engineering_Picardmaeuver.timestamp
It's all in the lobes!!!
But that's just baseless speculation for now. I figure if it was true, it would create another uproar among Klingon-focused players.
What I know is that it definitely is not in the skill set up to Vice Admiral 1.
I find it rather doubtful that a Combat Maneuver would be the reward for Non-Combat content.
The only power we know of for certain (that I am aware of) is Diplomatic Immunity, which gives an ally immunity to constantly being pulled into DSEs.... and good god I wish it were self targeted.
WE'RE the Diplomats, why is our power to grant OTHERS immunity?
I personally lay blame on the Romulan lawyers. They are tricky ones lol.
As far as new power go in Season 2, some people have found "slip stream". One down, many more abilities to be found.
I guess it could be a class only ability. Picard himself being SCI, it could be for that class. The act itself, we seem to be more tactical. It could all depend on what the Stargazer falls under. My guess would be a Long Range Science Vessel due to its long exportation mission that it was on when the menuver was used. By STO standards, the Stargazer would be a T3 Cruiser due to it having 4 engines, its size, and power of its weapons.
To the OP,
I'm up for all sorts of new Attack Patterns being added to the game over time.
> It's technically in the game already as point jump.
But it wasn’t in July 2010 when this thread was originally made. You are awaking really old discussions that are no longer relevant to the current game.
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